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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 8:14PM Schlecht said

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RAAM, two onyx maulers with reflective shields, and a theron with a retro sawed off. Second DLC please.

Posted: Nov 15th 2011 8:16PM marklyndongarcia said

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i love the gears of war series but why must they always have such a terrible(imo) achievement list??

epic needs to learn that not everyone enjoys playing videogames online

Posted: Nov 15th 2011 8:26PM Mouthsmasher said

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I agree with this. While I don't think it's wrong to include online achievements, the sheer amount of overly extensive grinding required to get them is discouraging...
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Posted: Nov 16th 2011 12:01AM INTRO said

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@marklyndongarcia The reason it's (Gears itself) so big is because of its MP, so it makes sense to have MP achievements.

There are plenty of single player achievements too. Now when the single player DLC comes out next month, what if people say, "What about the people who play MP."
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Posted: Nov 16th 2011 4:59AM BeardyMarcus said

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I actually thought they improved the online achievements greatly for GOW3. Aside from the "reach level..." ones, most of them are easily done within an hour or so.
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Posted: Nov 17th 2011 12:27PM mcnichoj said

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@marklyndongarcia
Everything is doable in private games with bots, just saying.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 8:17PM Arsenic13 said

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So they're fixing that issue where some people can't even play the game? ,Let's hope so. My buddy and I haven't finish the campaign because he (and a few other thousand) have encountered that issue.

Posted: Nov 15th 2011 8:37PM Frostblade10 said

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Wow these guys must have bottomless coffers. It costs a lot for certification testing for title updates.

Posted: Nov 15th 2011 10:14PM Darki Dreamside said

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@Frostblade10

And how do you know this?
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 10:33PM Frostblade10 said

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@Darki Dreamside

Been in the game industry for about four years. I've been at studios during certification time. Believe me, you want to pass through "cert" only once if you can help it; the resubmission costs a lot if you fail and you have to submit for each SKU and title.

Just stuff you pick up working for a game studio during near-release crunch time.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 10:46PM darkinchworm said

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@Frostblade10
Yeah, it's not like Gears of War sells or anything... ... ...

:p
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 10:48PM Styli said

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@Frostblade10

I'd say it being a Microsoft Studios game might help them quite a bit.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 11:03PM Frostblade10 said

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@darkinchworm
@Styli

I totally agree.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2011 12:03AM INTRO said

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@Frostblade10 It's not bottemless, but pretty damn big lol.

And first time someone actually replies with a source rather than saying, "I just know." or something along those lines lol.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 9:13PM 2Slick said

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What do you have to do to get those medals that will be made easier?

Posted: Nov 15th 2011 9:31PM Master Troll said

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@2Slick

One was, Execute an opponent that killed you 5 times in a row. I think.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 9:45PM ProfessorBonkle said

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"The Ranked Disconnect stat will no longer increase when quitting a standard Horde or Beast game."

This makes me the happiest of all the campers :D

Posted: Nov 15th 2011 10:38PM fallouthirteen said

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@ProfessorBonkle Yeah, due to it randomly putting those in other categories (like turning a Horde disconnect into a Ranked Warzone disconnect), I have more Ranked disconnects in some playlists than matches actually participated in.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2011 10:21PM CaramelZappa said

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Looks like a great update. Couldn't be happier with the game. I'll probably jump on later tonight.

Posted: Nov 16th 2011 12:16AM Sgt Barone said

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Can they please add the capability to switch weapons in-game for split-screen online?

Posted: Nov 16th 2011 12:49AM Slight of Ham said

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Vengeance medal in GOW 3 is ridiculous and seems pretty difficult to get legit once, much less 3000 times. Execute your nemesis. Yeah right, like the guy who just smoked me 5 times in a row is going to be taken down by me, much less executed.

Posted: Nov 16th 2011 1:01AM benjaminhc said

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@Slight of Ham not to mention if you happen to body them outright then you're out of luck... I`ve only managed to get one... and only from playing CTL, and letting the leader kill me five times before picking him up... but i figured itd be too slow to bother trying more that way
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Posted: Nov 16th 2011 10:33AM Vcize said

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@Slight of Ham

Not to mention how often do you actually get killed by the same person 5 times in a row in the first place? Unless you play nothing but KotH there's rarely a scenario where even that part of it would happen.
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Posted: Nov 16th 2011 1:25PM trendscenedental said

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@Slight of Ham
It's definitely difficult, but it's so satisfying when it happens! It also helps that they put that crossed-swords icon over the player's head when they become your nemesis, whenever I see that icon I hunt that person down!

If you just wanna grind that medal out though, you can always just run a 240-point private KotH match with casual bots, let the entire other team kill you enough times to become your nemesis, then spend the next 20 mins or so just executing anyone you see. Set the rounds to 10 and it makes it even easier, nemesis sticks between rounds and at 240 points to win a round, each one lasts for a good half hour or so, even with casual bots. That equates to maybe 10 minutes of the first round for preparation (letting the other team get nemesis'd up) and then almost 5 hours of just mindless slaughtering to work towards that onyx!
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Posted: Nov 16th 2011 2:15AM GamingColt said

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I love you EPIC Games. Those damn medals were a pain in the ass. But you listened, and I thank you.

Now give us those weapon skins on the disc please.

Posted: Nov 16th 2011 10:30AM Vcize said

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It's really cool that they're adding the spectator mode and no HUD modes for recording.

I just wish they'd brought back the dead room chat in private matches. Help out with that by posting here: http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/829551-Request-Bring-back-the-quot-Dead-Room-quot-in-Private-Games

Posted: Nov 16th 2011 12:37PM MassDragonEffectAge said

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Yay.. What?
Some of the achievements are BEYOND grinding. Seriously 3.0... 65 Onyx medals??? Level 100 I can see (some I've played with are already past level 91). But Onyx medals of each weapon (Lancer, Retro lancer, Sawed off, Gnasher and Hammerburst with atleast 2000+ kills each not including campaign) just to unlock another Medal? And how am I to kill the same guy if they bail?
I got Insane done and on Arcade and Co-Op. But now... I am playing Halo CE, and then Skyrim. Gears 3.0 well, Horde away....

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