Casual Mode has autoaiming lock-on stuff: if you have any Gears1/2 MP achievements, or get a certain number of kills in casual mode, the game will tell you you're ready for the big leagues and graduate you up out of casual mode, at which point it becomes inaccessible to you.
Now They Begin to Understand (20)
Complete all 12 waves of Beast on all Fenix Rising maps.
Defending the Past(25)
Complete all 50 waves of Horde on any of the Fenix Rising maps.
Come to Poppa! (15)
Win a Versus multiplayer match as a team of five Recruit Claytons (any mode).
Locust, Forever! (15)
Win a Versus multiplayer match as a team of five Savage Marauders (any mode).
Time to Re-up! (50)
Achieve level 100 and choose to re-up for another tour of duty.
Again! (50)
Achieve level 100 a second time and choose to re-up for another tour.
I've Done it All! (75)
Earn at least one of each of the original 132 combat ribbons.
There are a couple of the original combat ribbons that are pretty tough to get, but overall the achievements look like fun. Obviously the re-upping achievement will take a bit.
What are the difficult combat ribbons to get? The one that looks hard to me is:
Team Shaman - Healed 4 teammates at once [Kantus].
So is the 4th DLC going to have achievements? Or is 1750GS the limit?
It'll be the first officially sanctioned 2000GS game (A couple of games snuck over the 1750GS limit due to expansions/added games.)
Interesting. I'm pretty happy with the achievements for this DLC pack. I wanted to get one of each of the combat ribbons anyways. I'm glad there isn't an achievement like the Foreshadowing one from DLC #2.
Okay, so prestige doesn't come out until Fenix Rising does, which is about a week or two. Any mention of special symbols to show that you have hit level 100 once already?
Okay, so prestige doesn't come out until Fenix Rising does, which is about a week or two. Any mention of special symbols to show that you have hit level 100 once already?
Time to Re-up! (50)
Achieve level 100 and choose to re-up for another tour of duty.
Again! (50)
Achieve level 100 a second time and choose to re-up for another tour.
On the bright side, you'd probably get Seriously along the way too.
I doubt you would get Seriously 3.0 even after re-upping twice. You need a bare minimum of 54,000 multiplayer kills, not to mention 7.5 million arcade points, 1 million dollars in beast and 5 million in horde. I would be surprised to get Seriously 3.0 before re-upping a potential third time.
Time to Re-up! (50)
Achieve level 100 and choose to re-up for another tour of duty.
Again! (50)
Achieve level 100 a second time and choose to re-up for another tour.
On the bright side, you'd probably get Seriously along the way too.
I doubt you would get Seriously 3.0 even after re-upping twice. You need a bare minimum of 54,000 multiplayer kills, not to mention 7.5 million arcade points, 1 million dollars in beast and 5 million in horde. I would be surprised to get Seriously 3.0 before re-upping a potential third time.
Thanks.
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Time to Re-up! (50)
Achieve level 100 and choose to re-up for another tour of duty.
Again! (50)
Achieve level 100 a second time and choose to re-up for another tour.
On the bright side, you'd probably get Seriously along the way too.
I doubt you would get Seriously 3.0 even after re-upping twice. You need a bare minimum of 54,000 multiplayer kills, not to mention 7.5 million arcade points, 1 million dollars in beast and 5 million in horde. I would be surprised to get Seriously 3.0 before re-upping a potential third time.
Thanks.
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What I meant to say was... you'll EASILY get Seriously 3.0, Tastydonuts. Easy as pie. Or donuts.
Anyone feel like helping me kill the final boss on Hardcore? Hardcore hasn't been very difficult so far. No clue why they felt the need to ratchet it up so high for one part of the game.
They have to be public matches, but as far as I know, any mode is good.
Yea, I dunno why it wasn't incrementing for me. I'll try again tonight I guess.
I turn my headset on but if I'm just running around in quickmatch I usually don't put it in my ear because most of the time it's not worth listening to.
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I turn my headset on but if I'm just running around in quickmatch I usually don't put it in my ear because most of the time it's not worth listening to.
Yeah, I figure it'd be nice just to be able to communicate when it's actually useful to do so. Is the standard Microsoft headset "good enough"? I'd rather not plunk down $40+ yet if I'm not sure I'm going to use it much.
I don't see why it wouldn't be enough. I use a non-bluetooth wireless headset myself, it's the Reach Edition? I went through a few of the wired before that.
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The wired I got with my Pro way back when was crap, but the one that came with my new slim works like a charm. Which is good because I didn't use my wireless one for so long that it no longer holds a charge.
Title Update 3 is due out tomorrow (the 11th). Here's some of what it'll contain.
Gears of War 3 Title Update Coming January 11
A new Title Update for Gears of War 3 will be available January 11, 2012 and will be downloaded automatically by starting Gears 3 while connected to Xbox LIVE. The update will include a variety of balance tweaks, bug fixes and more. Here’s a sneak peek at some of what you can expect to see:
Improvements
1. All unlockable and non-purchasable characters are unlocked for System Link play. Online play still limits players to characters that they have unlocked or have purchased through DLC.
2. “Classic” stalemates are now enabled on the Execution and Warzone playlist. An option exists in private Execution to disable classic stalemates and re-enable the man-up rule.
3. The ghost camera can be raised and lowered using the Xbox controller d-pad.
4. “Must Active Reload” mutator has been made more restrictive. Issues with the Torque Bow and OneShot have been fixed.
5. “Retribution” ribbon is now compatible with dedicated servers.
6. Holding the “Y” button before being in range of a DBNO player and then walking into activation range will start the execution sequence. This is similar to holding “X” to queue up a weapon pickup sequence when walking into range of a dropped weapon.
Exploit Fixes
1. Removed Hammerburst and Longshot exploits with using the iron-sights/scope on Mercy where a player could shoot from a concealed position near the Sanctuary bells. Damage will not register when players are using the scope or iron-sights from that concealed position.
2. Fixed the OneShot exploit on Drydock. Players will be pulled out of the OneShot mounted pose when in certain positions.
General Fixes
1. A second player signing in on the loading screen before entering the pre-game lobby will no longer cause profile issues.
2. The transition from spectator player view to ghost camera view will no longer force the ghost camera view to point upwards.
3. The map cycle in QuickMatch is now randomly ordered.
4. DLC that is not owned by the current player will no longer stop the player from using DLC they do own.
5. Horde will no longer use the Versus weapon swaps. Horde players will have Hammer of Dawn and Mortar spawns on Overpass again.
6. Fixed the lens flare on a scoped Longshot not appearing for a player facing left.
7. Xbox system notifications have been moved out of the way of kill messages in competitive multiplayer. They now show up in the top center of the screen
Sounds good to me. The game feels very balanced to me these days, so I'm glad there's no changes to that. Kinda cool that you can play as locked characters in local games.
Holding the “Y” button before being in range of a DBNO player and then walking into activation range will start the execution sequence. This is similar to holding “X” to queue up a weapon pickup sequence when walking into range of a dropped weapon.
This is nice.
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Yea, unless they significantly increase the XP gain rate, I don't see myself hitting 100 anytime soon. Especially with a massive backlog and fact that I'd could accrue far more gamerscore in the time it'd take to do it.
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http://www.trueachievements.com/dlc.aspx?dlcid=4243
There are a couple of the original combat ribbons that are pretty tough to get, but overall the achievements look like fun. Obviously the re-upping achievement will take a bit.
What are the difficult combat ribbons to get? The one that looks hard to me is:
Team Shaman - Healed 4 teammates at once [Kantus].
It'll be the first officially sanctioned 2000GS game (A couple of games snuck over the 1750GS limit due to expansions/added games.)
Interesting. I'm pretty happy with the achievements for this DLC pack. I wanted to get one of each of the combat ribbons anyways. I'm glad there isn't an achievement like the Foreshadowing one from DLC #2.
EDIT: We should probably get a group of five season pass holders together and hammer out those 5-map achievements that have been popping up so much.
http://gamingtrend.com/2011/12/21/fenix-rising-dlc-coming-to-gears-of-war-3-in-january/
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On the bright side, you'd probably get Seriously along the way too.
I doubt you would get Seriously 3.0 even after re-upping twice. You need a bare minimum of 54,000 multiplayer kills, not to mention 7.5 million arcade points, 1 million dollars in beast and 5 million in horde. I would be surprised to get Seriously 3.0 before re-upping a potential third time.
Thanks.
haha
What I meant to say was... you'll EASILY get Seriously 3.0, Tastydonuts. Easy as pie. Or donuts.
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edit: nvm, did it on Normal just to get it done.
I"ve been doing KOTH but it doesn't show progress.
Yea, I dunno why it wasn't incrementing for me. I'll try again tonight I guess.
I turn my headset on but if I'm just running around in quickmatch I usually don't put it in my ear because most of the time it's not worth listening to.
Yeah, I figure it'd be nice just to be able to communicate when it's actually useful to do so. Is the standard Microsoft headset "good enough"? I'd rather not plunk down $40+ yet if I'm not sure I'm going to use it much.
Source: http://epicgames.com/community/2012/01/gears-of-war-3-title-update-3-coming-january-11-2012/
This is nice.
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Same, I haven't seen Checkout in like a month.
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Seems that the DLC is required:
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It's a major point of the DLC too. So... yeah.
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