There’s a lot of turmoil on the online battlefields of Gears of War 2 these days, main concerning exploits such as invisible shields and melee attacks that go through walls.

Epic’s Mark Rein popped into the official forums and revealed that the new patch should be ready for release this month, and that many of the mentioned bugs will be fixed, including harsher penalties for those who quit early (you know who you are!).

The patch should also fix bugs, add an achievement progress numbers to the War Journal and better spawn protection against planted grenades.