What should they fix for Gears 2?

 I know Gears 2 is still a long way off, and I posted this on the Gears of War 2 forum, but that place is dead,sooo....

Gears IMO is a very good game, but it still has some major flaws. In this thread just post what needs to be fixed or what you want fixed.

1. A less random shotgun, sometimes ill shoot someone from a foot away and he'll take some serious damage but not die, other times ill shoot someone from a foot away and they'll explode into a million pieces. Sometimes it will take 2 shots to down someone other times like 4, and this is just normal shotgun no active or perfect reloads on it.

2. NO HOST ADVANTAGE, I dont know if this is even possible to remove this without having dedicated server, but if it is removable it better be.

 Anyone else have some annoyances with this game?

I can't wait for this game!!  I want more bosses!!

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Bullet lag, Put a scope on the lancer and give it more range. Make rolling a little less fluid. Spawn with nades. Less devasting Melee imo this game is a mess but tis fun so yeah.

What they need to do for Gears 2 is work on the ranked matches.  What would be awesome would be if they made it possible to play 1 on 1 or 2 on 2.   With all of these new games comming out all the time, it takes 20 min some times to get all 6, just to play.  With all of the millions playing the game it cant take FOREVER and can be upsetting when you have a few people there who want to play but cant play and get there achievements due to the fact we only have 4 people there and cant start the ranked game untill we get atleast 6.  I hope that they can do something soon with the game now but who know's.

Having the ability to fly a helicopter and blow up people on the ground just like in Destroy All Humans 1 (xbox), whould be really awesome as well for Gears 2.

Mutliplayer: Everything

Campaign: Nothing

1. When someone is running towards you with the grenades you should be able to shoot it our their hands. Either stuns them or explodes them

2. When you run out of boomshot bullets you should be able to put grenades in there and shoot those. Put in one grenade and you shoots a linear shoot toward an enemy. Put in two and the grenades get tied together and spins whens its shoot. Giving it more range.

Maybe take some pressure off the A Button, so that it doesn't control running, rolling AND covering.

Also, make chainsawing a little more fair. It would be cool if they could intergrate some kind of button-bashing system so that you could counter it or something.

And, maybe make some slightly bigger maps with vehicles, although I wouldn't want them to recieve TOO much emphasis.

Then there's the obvious Glitches and Host advant.

Other than this GoW is a great game.

single player:

- longer.  around 12-15 hours

- better boss fights.  instead of just using the hammer of dawn, make bossfights where other weapons are needed to kill them.  have a boss fight where the enemy is far away and you have to rely on your sniper.  and then have another boss fight where you have to hit the weak spots with the torque bow.  it would be pretty cool to have a boss fight where your opponent can somehow get around cover really easy (by flight or by going underground), and you have to constantly have to find new cover to defeat them.

- make the delta squad be speacialized in different things.  have one be a sniper, another be the demolition man... that sort of thing.

weapons:

- just make more of them.  some weapon ideas could be guns that can shoot through thin cover but does less damage, or a sentry gun that you can throw over cover.

multiplayer:

- use client side hit detection (get rid of host advantage).

- make more assymetrical maps.

*** things that SHOULD be done so that MP will actually have people PLAYING LIKE THE SINGLE PLAYER COMPONENT (I.E. have people take cover, no huge reliance on the shotgun):

- boost the damage and range of the lancer.  have people actually fear its damage when running out in the open from mid range.

- have splash damage of grenades/boomshot be able to penetrate thin cover... this way they don't become useless in this new "cover-heavy" style of play

- put a scope on the pistol... that way people are not encouraged to just go up to someone with the blindfire/melee combo with it.

- most of all... bring back the insanity (or insane, i forgot what it was called) meter.  this was something that epic decided to take out because it made the game too hard, but seeing as many beat the game on insane without much trouble, then this addition should be welcoming to those who want a challenge, and i think it would be an awesome addition to the MP.

   basically, you would have two meters... one for your health, and one called the insanity meter.  when you popped out of cover to fire and was getting hit, your life meter would go down.  but once you were down in cover but still being fired at, your insanity meter would go up (since people are trying to blast you with loads of bullet... who wouldn't go crazy under those conditions).  if you stayed up to long firing at people or your stayed in cover for too long, your life meter would go down all the way or your insanity meter would go up all the way.

   having either your life meter down or your insanity meter all the way up would make you go down (for some flare... before you go down due to your insanity meter, you would shoot yourself in the head with your pistol).  this would make it so that people are constantly moving from cover to cover, and the game won't be more along the lines of "who becomes more impatient and then sticks out  of cover."

Singleplayer... looks like they know to make a fun singleplayer, even though it is short.

Multiplayer... needs to be less random. It feels like you can never truely get good at this game, it just feels like you get one guy fighting another guy, and nobody knows who is going to win... then someone's head is blown off, or someone falls to their knees. It's just not my thing.
ag1002

no offence but you deffinatly can get good at this game. it is ALOT of skill. it may be slightly random with the shotgun at close range but it is DEFFINATLY as game that requires skill. and i also disagree with the more in depth singleplayer. i know they would never do this but i whole heartedly support a multiplayer only gears of war. oblivion had the biggest singleplayer any game had seen on the 360 , some people getting 100 + hours. even if the gears singleplayer was that long which it would never be, myself and many others would still get more enjoyment and fun out of the online. most of the people i play with who LOVE the online havnt ever played the singleplayer. single is a side dish, it is disposable. multiplayer is where it matters. 

hammerburst and lancer need more teeth (esp lancer)

lower shotgun power 

no invulnerability during animations like chainsawing or curbstomping. if you are sawing someone and an opponent shoots you in the head, you should die then and there. the guy you chainsawed, however, would still be dead, they would just have to have different deaths like maybe you die with a huge deep groove in the chest with blood spurting out instead of being cleaved in half all the way. 

with curbstomping, you should be able to kill someone at the last second and then go save your buddy while the corpse of the guy about to stomp him topples over, foot still raised

the morale meter sounds cool, they could use it for a fourth difficulty called suicidal

some mp coop challenges, like a game mode where you have to fight of waves of different enemies, or where you have to get through a map full of enemies with an artifact or something

bigger maps for 8v8 games

CTF (or variant)

glitch-proof multplayer

A more lengthly, varied single player. The visuals were absolutely stunning, but I couldn't help but feel as if I was constantly being shuffled through the same area. Sad part is, there were actually many different locations the game took you through... from the prison through the courtyards and mansions to the passageways beneath the soil and a derelict factory... you all know... but the whole time I never really felt as if I was seeing anything new, even though I was.

I dunno, hard to explain. I just REALLY hope the next Gears chapter has a very promising single player with all types of varied landscapes and walkways. Oh, and 4 player co-op with an additional extreme difficulty setting for 4 players only. Right. 

*** things that SHOULD be done so that MP will actually have people PLAYING LIKE THE SINGLE PLAYER COMPONENT (I.E. have people take cover, no huge reliance on the shotgun):

c0mplex

I don't think that would be a good idea, since a normal player isn't going to just stand there while you shoot them with a lancer. If everyone sat back and took cover the whole time the game would become very dull. I think the actual maps are what sets the pace of the game. Raven down is just and all out shoutgun fest, Bullet Marsh on the other hand is alot slower with drawn out sniper battles.

Bullet lag, Put a scope on the lancer and give it more range. Make rolling a little less fluid. Spawn with nades. Less devasting Melee imo this game is a mess but tis fun so yeah.

jarhead1990

If everyone spawned with nades, there would be no real fight, everyone would just tag all the time.

The bugs/glitches, longer single player mode, better multiplayer (ie. better multiplayer maps and modes).

In short pretty much everything except the voice acting/sound and the graphics. 

Make it last more than 8 hours on single player (1st play)

A story would be welcomed, but hey, that's just me.

4 player co op more weapon more boss more mission

Completely overhaul the multiplayer.Raidea

Singleplayer... looks like they know to make a fun singleplayer, even though it is short.

Multiplayer... needs to be less random.  It feels like you can never truely get good at this game, it just feels like you get one guy fighting another guy, and nobody knows who is going to win... then someone's head is blown off, or someone falls to their knees.  It's just not my thing.
ag1002

Some guy said to get rid of Host advantage they need Client Side HIt Detection, what is this? I think Gears uses Server Side HIt detection( Can anyone tell me if this is right or not?) Where all the shots and everything is being run through the host's connection then back into the game, or something of that sort. But what difference is CSHD.Mikey289

Client side wont get rid of the advantage, but it would help a little, client side means that there is no need to lead your shots and where ever you fire even though there will still be a delay you will hit exactly where you fired, the shots dont register on the hosts only but on all connections, but of course the game is still running on one host so he will still have the jump on you in terms of speed. Only one way you can get rid of host advantage and thats dedicated servers but Microsoft dont care about quality, just money, and Epic dont realise that the 360 community understands what client side is.

Make the single player section of the game focus a little more on the story.  Gears of War seemed to have a good story behind it, we just rarely got to actually hear about it.  It was always about the here and now.  Also like to know why the Locust are engaging in this war.

In Gears of War 2 I would like to learn a little more about Marcus' past.  Starting off with his trial.