Recently, Microsoft made some backend changes to how Xbox 360 era Call of Duty matchmaking worked, and the successful tweak brought thousands of players back in their droves. However, the move doesn't appear to have been exclusive to the Call of Duty series, as players are beginning to see improvements with another classic 360 era franchise.
The old Gears of War games have been a little hit-and-miss in recent years when it comes to online play. Overall they seemed easier to work with than much of the CoD library from the era, but it could be tough to find matches, especially on the original Gears of War. Now, users are beginning to report that more and more servers are starting to crop up when matchmaking online.
We can't 100% confirm the nature of the changes, but we can say that finding matches on Gears 1 does seem to have improved. In the last few years the 2006 title has appeared all-but dead online when searching for games, but we've just hopped on during a Monday morning (UK time) and have quite easily found a couple of 'Player Match' servers that are well-populated.
As this writer has regularly discussed in recent months, Gears of War 3 has still been a top choice for some online Gears mayhem here at Pure Xbox, and that title has seen its own improvements in recent weeks as well. General matchmaking has long been smoother with the 2011 title, as you'd expect, but the backend Gears 3 servers were improved recently to fix low XP rates and re-apply more recent balance patches that were incorrectly reverted.
As for Gears of War 2, we haven't had much experience with that one so we can't really speak for Epic's 2008 sequel, but fans are suggesting that all three games have improved. It may be well worth a 2023 revisit if you'd like to play any one of these classics on Xbox 360 - or of course on your modern Xbox consoles through backwards compatibility and with FPS Boost!
Thinking of going back and playing some classic Gears? Let us know your favourite of the OG trilogy down below!
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I'll go back to '360' era Gears when they do a Remastered collection...
Noice!!!! This is filling out the rest of my summer nicely
@Kezelpaso Still no mention that Shadowrun also had its matchmaking fixed with this and COD?? After fixing COD, the work they did made Shadowruns matchmaking even worse. After being notified, Microsoft jumped on it, and not only fixed it but found a bug and fixed it, going from a typical search of 30 seconds to 3.
With the industry moving towards becoming stale and uninspired I like that MS is moving towards more backwards compatibility with the classics.
I'd rather they update the old games rather than waste time on more and more remasters. Publishers are getting more lazy, more greedy by the hour. While you think they couldn't be any more debased - gamers, while always one of the lowest form of consumer, are becoming more complacent and dumb by the day as well.
This is good timing as I'm playing all these with my bro at the moment
I really like that MS is providing support to many older games. MS is excelling and setting the standard in game preservation.
Hope this trend continues as there will be many first time ever xbox users this generation
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