Epic have announced the arrival of their first patch for Gears of War 2 and believes it ”should help with the current matchmaking issues.” Some still report woes.
Single-player and four-player parties were experiencing the worst of the matchmaking problems as the system struggled to cope. These issues may still last ”several days”.
It’ll take some time before their adjustments and the advantages of them are fully felt explained Senior Producer Rod Fergusson, saying, ”Some of these adjustments should be felt immediately and some will play out over several days as our update enables us to reduce player segmentation by reducing the number of servers required to do matchmaking.”
He also detailed a ”tweak that should prevent us from losing some of our additional detailed stats data that we gather for gearsofwar.com.”
”Due to the large number of concurrent matches, our stats gathering servers were not able to collect data for every single match played. The Xbox LIVE leaderboards are 100% accurate but our existing stats web pages may have some missing data prior to the update.”
Updates to gameplay itself were not the concern here as the dev team just wanted to get a fix for the matchmaking problems as soon as possible. ”We’re hopeful that the matchmaking issues we’ve seen up till now are a thing of the past.”
”In order to get the update out as quickly as possible, we focused just on immediate infrastructure issues and have left any potential gameplay issues for a future update.”
Source: Eurogamer
