Gears of War 2, Host?

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#1 oak199
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Is there any host advantage in Gears 2? Thanks!
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#2 Pump_man44
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probably
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#3 caddy
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Yes, there is a lot of host advantage. The only different between this and the first one is that the host is randomly picked, but the advantage is still crazy.
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#4 T_0_D
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Yes, there is a lot of host advantage. The only different between this and the first one is that the host is randomly picked, but the advantage is still crazy. Caddy06_88

You will be able to figure out who is host from the shotgun and the flamethrower...both of these weapons seem to be the most affected by host in my experience. Any game without dedicated servers will have some sort of "host advantage" as their will always be latency invovled for the people playing who are not hosting the game.

Things to watch out for from Shotgun and Flamethrower: immediate downings from both, shotgun that stops the chainsaw online (if you are not host you will probably have to melee)

Hope this helps.

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#5 II-FBIsniper-II
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There is a huge advantage and it is the most noticeable with the shotguns still. I got 60+ kills in one game of submission because I was host.
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#6 caddy
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You will be able to figure out who is host from the shotgun and the flamethrower...both of these weapons seem to be the most affected by host in my experience. Any game without dedicated servers will have some sort of "host advantage" as their will always be latency invovled for the people playing who are not hosting the game.

Things to watch out for from Shotgun and Flamethrower: immediate downings from both, shotgun that stops the chainsaw online (if you are not host you will probably have to melee)

Hope this helps.

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Yeah, you can figure it out easily enough after a few kills.