It only took about a month but Mark Rein from Epic has finally responded to all of the complaints about the glitches and bugs people have been using to exploit their way to victory. You know the ones I'm talking about - the ability to equip a shield with a 2-handed weapon, Lancers with infinite ammo, invisible shields... I could go on for an hour. So how significant of an update will it be and will it be enough to get you back into playing Gears of War 2? Turn the page to find out.

We're fixing a whole bunch of online exploits. For example we've fixed the ability to wield an invisible shield, melee through some walls, gain infinite Lancer ammo and equip a shield and a two-handed weapon simultaneously plus many more.

We're also making several small changes to improve the overall online gameplay experience. A few of the ones that might interest you are; increased penalties for quitting matches early, adding additional spawn protection against planted grenades and chainsaw attacks, and adding the ability to see the Submission flag carrier destination by using Tac/Com.

We know you folks love achievements so on the achievement side we're adding achievement progress numbers to the War Journal, increasing the frequency of in-game Achievement progression notifications and adding some new Achievements for DLC.

This is just a very small list of some of the things that will be in the next title update but one more item which has been talked about a lot in our forums deserves a special call out...

About that shotgun...

We fixed the client side hit detection on the shotgun so that in a high-latency (i.e. "laggy") match, the shotgun will be more reliable. We've also fixed another bug whereby shotgun and boomshot rounds could strike the ground when firing from the hip. -- Epic's Mark Rein

I hate to say it but in it's current state I couldn't be bothered with playing Gears 2 online. Hopefully this update will resolve all of the known issues and all of the players that have put it on the backburner will return in droves for some chain-sodomy. What really interests me is what they're adding in terms of achievements. Will achievements be implemented for the Combustion map pack or will we be seeing a brand new set of achievements for an upcoming pack of DLC?