Look at those two up there! The Locust and Gears clans, joining together finally for peace and happiness between the two factions. Happy at last after years of fighting and confrontations, sharing their territory with each other finally. I want you to take away the chainsaws, or better yet, imagine that those two chainsaws are essentially candles. Symbolic candles, like those you would see in a wedding ceremony that are used to show the joining of two families coming together. Wait? What’s that? Oh, there is going to be double XP weekend and whoever wins this fight gets 500 bonus XP? SHIT! Kill ‘em ALL!
Taking a gander over at the testosterone filled Gears of War 2 forums lets you know all of the ingredients needed to make a Gears man. What is needed to make a Gears man you ask? Why, its bulging sweaty biceps, back hair, stubble, a soul patch of hair under the bottom lip, and quite possibly a do-rag (optional). You will also find a few chatty characters in the Gears forums as well, probably complaining. Deep inside the forums is a post laying the groundwork for a very busy Labor Day weekend for US celebrators. It’s time for another double XP extravaganza hosted by Epic Games.
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XBL has been pretty clear that they don’t like cheating. For some reason, people are still so hard for achievements that they risk being reset to zero for a few gamerscore points for the hard to get milestones. Major Nelson dropped some knowledge on us recently about the upcoming beat down:
Deliberate cheats like these are in direct violation of the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use and will not be tolerated. As I post this, we’ve begun taking steps to reset the Gamerscores of the offending players.
I could see if you had to cheat on your Spanish quiz because you didn’t study or cheat at strip poker to get some girls topless, but cheating at gamerscore? Making us all look bad there d-bag.
More news coming out of Comic Con is that Gears of War 2 may have something planned for us soon. The campaign was a huge step in the right direction, but still left gamers wanting more from the story arcs that we have a hard time following. Here is what the gaming front network is reporting:
Gears of War 2 writier Joshua Ortega basically confirmed that single player DLC is on its way for Gears of War 2. When asked of single player DLC at NYCC 09 he said: “Keep watching. You won’t be disappointed.
Would I download single player DLC for Gears 2? Maybe. It all depends on how much and what kind of DLC it is. Episodic, I would be all for. If it just some re-imagined maps. probably not.
Do you despise the Gears of War 2 ranking system? Well, you are not in the minority apparently. Epic’s Rod Fergusson posted in the Gears of War 2 forums about a possible rank system change and just from a quick glance at the comments, it seems most players are absolutely for it.
The change would add player experience levels. Each player would be rated on their individual performance in public multiplayer matches. The higher your score is at the end of each match, the more experience points you will acquire. Rod Fergusson addressed the most obvious question stating:
“Of course the experience gained across the different match types would be balanced so you couldn’t just grind on the respawning game types to try and level faster.”
The amount of experience points needed to level up would grow with each level attained, just like an RPG. The levels would be capped as well, 99 being the highest level attainable. At the end of every match players will be able to check their stats and see how many more points are required to level up. Sounds dandy.
Players who quit would be penalized by being demoted a level. Maybe this would finally stop people from dropping out in the middle of a game that is out of reach.
The only problem that wasn’t addressed is other players stealing kills. When an opponent has been downed, you may be seeing a lot more players scrambling to steal another players kill to level up even quicker. I guess there is no way to address this other than screaming at your teammates. I will stop complaining because this would be a welcomed update even with this added challenge.
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