New Gears of War Content Coming Tomorrow
Microsoft announced the addition of eight more achievements for the gametype called "Annex" for Gears of War. The new achievements will be worth a grand total of 250 points. Epic also decided to improve the Roadie Run controls "so players have greater control of their movement and can better annihilate their pestilent enemies." In addition to this, the title update will eliminate multiplayer exploits and clean up a few things. That's it for the free stuff, besides for "Annex" now being available at no cost.
Something else going online is the new "Hidden Fronts Multiplayer Pack." As mentioned, this will not be free and will set you back 800 points. However, if you're as patient as I am, you can wait until September 3, 2007 when all four multiplayer maps will be made available at no charge. As I type that last bit, what do you think of this practice? Providing extra content for a fee, only to make it free a few months later? I would think I'd feel a tad screwed out of my money. While you think about that, here are the release notes:
- New Achievements added! Eight new achievements worth a total of 250 points created for playing Annex and the Hidden Fronts Multiplayer Map Pack
- Improved Roadie Run to reduce getting snagged on cover
- Tweaked up the amount of damage done by the Lancer Assault Rifle in multiplayer
- Fixed split-screen players interrupting the other player’s actions when they die
- Stopped Annex scoring whenever a “Connection Error” dialog box is displayed
- Reduced the duration that corpses remain visible when hosting an Annex match
- Reduced the range of possible Annex bleed-out times selectable by host
- Addressed a number of multiplayer exploits
- Addressed other general housekeeping
For details on the achievements, follow this link.
Super Timsy
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 13 June 2007
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