Last night over at the official forums, Epic's Mark Rein posted some notes on an upcoming second title update for Gears of War 2.
Note that according to his post, they don't have a release date scheduled for this title update, but he states that it's going to probably be sometime this month (January).
"We don’t have an exact date for it but all indicators are it will go live within January. If that changes we’ll let you know."
So what do we have to look forward to with this second title update? The folks over at Epic haven't released a detailed list yet, but here's what we know:
They're working on fixing severl online exploits, including 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.
There will be updates to the general gameplay experience, including 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.
Achievement changes will include adding achievement progress numbers to the War Journal, increasing the frequency of in-game Achievement progression notifications and some new Achievements for DLC.
It also looks like they'll be tinkering with the shotgun some more:
"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."