The long awaited Title Update 2 was just recently confirmed by Director of Production Rod Fergusson (@GearsViking), and it is scheduled to go LIVE tonight by 2 A.M PDT. Epic advises players to restart their XBox 360 console, once the update is live, as it will take approximately 2 hours for the update to be fully integrated into the game servers. There will be expected downtime on the dedicated servers tonight as well, in perpetration for the launch of TU2.

Here are the details:

Improvements

A spectator mode option has been added to private versus matches for broadcasting by gaming leagues.
One player on each team will be able to choose spectator mode during match set up.
The matches will be 4v4 with two spectators
The Leader and Vengeful medals are now easier to acquire.
The mutators Roadie Comet and Regen Enemies are now easier to acquire.
Added an option to disable the HUD during multiplayer games for machinima and video creators
Added a visual indicator of the next ring’s location during the last 10 ring points in KOTH.

Exploit Fixes

The Onyx Field Engineer medal can no longer be prestiged.
In Capture the Leader, the overhead Beams on DryDock are no longer accessible.
While affected by the Smoke Grenade stun, players will no longer be able to take hostages, pick up weapons or revive teammates.

General Fixes

If there is a host migration during Horde, the match will resume at the same wave.
Also during Horde, the Combat Engineer ribbon can now be achieved once per wave instead of once per game.
The Ranked Disconnect stat will no longer increase when quitting a standard Horde or Beast game.
The cringe from the Mortar will no longer cause players to drop their primary weapon.
The Hail Mary ribbon is now correctly awarded for long distance Boomshot headshots.
Maps will no longer be immediately repeated when choosing random map selection.
If the host pauses during a private versus match the game will continue for other players.
The game will still pause in the Campaign, Beast and Horde.
Potential fix for the rare lost progress issue.
Potential fix for the rare profile freezing issue.
Beast leaderboard screen no longer refreshes while sending challenges
http://gownation.net/2011/11/15/gears-of-war-3-title-update-2-details/

While affected by the Smoke Grenade stun, players will no longer be able to take hostages, pick up weapons or revive teammates.

fuck off

its good to see that there supporting mlg and machinima more now though.

The Onyx Field Engineer medal can no longer be prestiged.

What does that mean?

you cant just keep onyxing it (it was the easiest to onyx and only took like 10 minutes)

idk what you get if you onyx medals 2+ times though =/

Exp maybe? I ddint know that was possible. I think i still dont have that one, not shure.

everytime you reonxy a medal you get the xp for it and a number will show how many times you re onxy it just like ribbons

oh ok