FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!! At long last, I am a girl player and I love Gears of War be it 1 or 2 and I enjoy the online play, but the "stun" grenade is a major headache..and if CliffyB is going to let this idea of Smoke grenade free Saturdays come about, it would be excellent..and also if they could "fix" the GLUT of glitching that goes on, that would not be amiss either !!!!!!!! Keep at it, EPIC!!!

This is ridiculous for those of us who are actually good enough to throw good stuns or play gamebattles. It removes a completely important aspect of the game instead of everything being rush rush rush and actually puts some god damn tactics into the game. I just want this taken out of private. It's so insane to not have smokes in a clan match.

I think that the stun free saturday's would be a good idea but know the smoke gernades are pritty much a warning if some one is comming and is useless as a proximity mine you can run right past it if planted and if tossed it most of the time does not hit but no matter what happens i will still play because no game in the world can beat the games unsopping limits. P.S it would be asome to get a reply on what is going to happen by epic games

This is the most stupid thing epic games have done.
To make it permanant would be a disaster and i wouldnt play this game anymore

Just when I got used to the smoke grenades stun effects, Epic takes it away. It has been 1 week since they changed the grenades effects and they haven't changed it back. It was originally only going to be over the Memorial day weekend not the entire week. Please bring back the grenades as they were originally designed for GOW 2. As FooZee said it changes the game completely...the way the grenades are set up now they do absolutely nothing but make it difficult to see, and easier for the lancers to run in and chainsaw you. Let GOW be GOW and let GOW2 be GOW2.
ps-- can't wait until July 28th for the new map pack!

I'm one of those who hated the smoke Grenades stun effect because it was outright cheap. it took away a fair battel because the stun would just knock you on your ass and then dude runs up while your helpless and Bang your dead. As for the new effects of the smoke, I must admit that I'm not sure how I feel about it yet because I have developed a habit of throwing in the smoke grenades expecting the opponent to fall to the ground. There is something about this game that I just can't put my finger on. I think I'm going to throw back in Gears 1 to see what it was. Gears 1 game play was perfect except for the host advantage.

YES I EXACTLY.i agree its stupid to change that this far into the games release.its unfair to us who use them

I play gears a lot... and i mean a lot, and i love gears 1 multiplayer mode.
This "grenades" issue is one of many ones in the game, and i think that its a good idea to test a change. Most of the time i ended up "shotgunned" trying to get the sniper in jacinto for example. And it was not cause the adversary was better than me with the shotgun it was cause he used that thing over me. I know its part of the game but there is 1 grenete each player, that is 10 a game and you want to play against guns not smoke

i think the grenade should still have the ability to know players down its a tactical thing removing it would be stupid

Stun when thrown, smoke when on wall or floors. It's that simple.

just limit the number of smoke bombs avalible.

I dont see the problem with the grenade...ppl with the shield and mulcher are immune to the stun effects making these deal breakers in annex, koth. The grenade is tactical and this just means that all u ADD kids cant just run in there - you have to approach either stealthly or strategically. U wont be able to knock ppl off the balcony in river or flood anymore with this grenade feature either. This is a cover game and u cant get stunned behind cover.

I dont like the idea that the smoke grenade stun effect is being removed just because a couple of people are having a cry over it. The new thing in gow2 was the traps that you can set up.But in both gears of war games you need to be smart to play it.Example timing your grenade throws so you can knock people over and kill them with the advantage. But another thing, The people who dont like the smoke grenade dont get to annoy people so they can have the game they way they want.I think that gears of war 2 should stay the way it is with the stun effect and if people dont like it they can play the first gears of war.

WOW...I CANT BELIEVE HOW MANY PPL ARE CRYING ABOUT THE STUN EFFECT TAKEN AWAY...ITS NOT A CONCUSSION GRENADA ITS A SMOKE GRENADE...ITS MEANT FOR COVER LOL. WHY DON'T U GIRLS GROW A SET AND PLAY THE ORIGINAL GEARS. U KNOW THE ONE WHERE U ACTUALLY NEED SOME SKILLS TO PLAY...LOL HERE IS MY IMPRESSION OF GEARS 2....RUN RUN RUN THROW SMOKE...MINE DIDN'T WORK U THROW URS...OK THEY'RE DOWN AND ROLLING DOWN THE STAIRS OK LETS GO GET THEM BEFORE THEY RE UP...WAIT WAIT ONE IS UP MELEE SHOOT MELEE SHOOT..LOL GAME BATTLES AH AHA GET A GIRL GET A JOB WTF IS WRONG WITH U...GOTTA MOVE OUTTA THE BASEMENT SOMETIME LOL

put the stun effect back epic.

i really liked the smoke grenades before the updates on march 24th when you fly across the map. How come sometimes we go down and about all the time we stay up. Is Epicgames doing somes tests or what?

Wow. The smoke grenades were one of the funnest things in the game. Couldn't help but laugh watching people getting knocked on their butts. The whiners must have formed a union. Bad move, Epic.

I loved the story mode game play,but was disapointed with the on line. It took for ever to get online for any game mode. Also all the glitching and lagging makes the xperiance disapointing; especialy with how competative gamers can be trying to get an edge . I felt the game failed to deliver a balanced on line experiane. Especialy the Unbalanced weaponrey! Safe to say it felt like papaer rock sizzles; a race toward the weapons and who ever got their first gets the advantage. Let's not mention jumping and two peacing, faulty shoot gun use when at a distance, and aimeing is out of the question if you are to be effective at eliminating oponents. Also guys just run thru your whole clip of bulets. I love the grafics the story and the third person view. I loved the first gears even with it's flaws; it was permisable die to it's uniqueness. The online experiance tough small maps was better and less flawed; I guess my expectations were too high. Would like to see gears be a 10 it has all the tools it needs. If EPIC took a bite out of COD in some form like a smoother engine that can hold the ambitious game play and mouth watering grafics gamers are looking for. I am no expert but something is definetly wrong with the online experiance this has to be the main focus for this game to be elite. Hey! in the NFL teams copy each other to get an advantage. Thy why they call it a copy cat league. All I'm sugesting is look at what INFINTY WARD is doing and grab from them what works. Awsome online over all fair experiancem, great game play and most important an engine that runs smooth. If that could be done in my opinion GEARS could be one of the greates games of all time. From a disapointed Fan of GEARS 2.
Hope it comes around.

This is An absolute joke looks like cliff and the gears team have been listening to one to many fan boys!!! i personally love the lancer and im forever getting insults and messages from people calling me a chainsaw noob and things. just because i know how to use it the * little whiners that go around using nothing but two peiceing they are complaining to gears about the use of stun grenandes the answer is KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN! sorry but this really really annoys me the fact they have taken the stun effect out of grenades when it is a tatical wepon used in battle yes it may give a slighter advantage to somebody with a chainsaw but if you were a good enough shot with the shotgun u wudnt have a problem sort it out epic!!!!!! i know next epic why dont you take the two piece advantage away then see how much bitching you get from your fan boys!!

All they do is make new maps an add things to make everyone over look all the lag i for one am sick of it fix the lag an bad games an stop making new maps. An why should i lose 1500 point because the game is so laggy I cant do nothing fix this not take out the smoke an making new maps.

iv been playing gow2 on and off same with gow1 but the week i started playing with this new update it's like changed the way i play i like the idear of trying it out but why cant it be a seting at the start or the game u can have a vote at the start of the round and if thay r tie then turns on and off each round or even who ever lost the round gets to change to off or on but thats just me.

Bobo_King64

i think this is the dumbest idea ever first of all i hate the smoke grenade and second it is completely irrelevant to the game. the smoke is garbage.