Epic is considering an overhaul of it multiplayer ranking system for Gears of War 2. Executive Produce Rod Ferguson has told the game’s official forums that Epic is strongly considering exchanging the complicated and frustrating TrueSkill system for one based on more traditional experience ranking.
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DRM. Awesome, isn’t it? The way it’s killing piracy. The way it empowers consumers. What a miracle of the modern world it is. But just occasionally things go wrong, as owners of the PC version of Gears of War discovered this week. An expired Windows digital certificate is preventing players from loading up their copies of their legitimately bought-and-paid-for game, presenting the following error message: “You cannot run the game with modified executable code. Please reinstall the game.”
Epic has finally announced a proper fix for the multiplayer problems that marred the launch of Gears of War 2, bringing an end to frustrating waits for matchmaking and fixing some balance issues and other bugs.
Good Tuesday to you, and welcome to the lunchtime lowdown, all this morning’s must-read stories, compacted into a single digestible package.
It’s the Eurogamer Expo in London today, and hardcore gamers have been practicing patience worthy of a Buddhist monk by waiting hours for a chance to play Gears Of War 2 before next month’s release.