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Gears of War 2 Patched To Fix Matchmaking Issues, Problems Persist 34

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 08, 2008 @03:22AM from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed-you're-dead-rook dept.

When Gears of War 2 was released, one of the biggest complaints about the game was that its matchmaking system didn't work properly for multi-player games, leading to unreasonably long wait times. After trying to placate players with mostly useless suggestions, Epic finally released a patch to address the matchmaking issues. Unfortunately, now that players have had a chance to try it out, it seems a large segment of the Gears 2 population is still having problems.

Comment Re:PowerBooks & Apple (Score 2, Informative) 524

by stacko on Friday January 14, 2005 @11:20AM (#11362524) Attached to: Looking Ahead to Tiger, Powerbook G5s

I'm a long-time Linux user and I use a PowerBook for admin and development duties. (I also admin Win2K machines with it.)

It's really outstanding. I can NFS mount drives in either direction, allowing me to pick the most convenient path of building on my laptop or on my dev Linux box. The PB comes with X, so I can fire up any Linux GUI tool I need. I have bash so I can script everything I need. And, best of all, I can mimic my run environment (Tomcat and PostgreSQL) on my laptop for completely portable development.

Hey--guess how I back up my laptop! I use a cron job that invokes rsync over ssh to a Linux box. Oh, the joys of having a Unix-based laptop!

The only awkward part would be switching between Sys V and BSD style commands (ps -elf vs. ps -aux, for example).

Highly, highly, recommended.

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