OFFICIAL: Gears 2 Anniversary Event Nov 6th to 16th Brings Lethality and Triple XP
Hey all,
To celebrate the first anniversary of Gears 2, we've decided to have some fun by having a special event where you get to play in a different kind of way. During the development of Gears 2, we were really interested in seeing if we could push the game to be more tactical (at least how we define it). A big part of this was increased weapon damage and reduced ammo counts along with a bunch of other more subtle tweaks (like increasing DBNO health so that revives were still possible). Anyway, the more we played it and enjoyed it, the more we worried that we would upset too many fans of Gears 1 by moving so far away from the wall bouncing, shotgunning fragfests they enjoyed so much. So we tabled it - until now. Here's your chance to see how Gears 2 multiplayer might have been and to let us know what you think of it.
And of course, we'll make it all worth your while. During this extended event you'll be receiving triple XP (yes, I said triple, even in Horde) and we've separated the playlists by individual game types so you can play exactly what you want, when you want. And if the wait times aren't too bad, we'll keep them that way after the event as well.
So to sum up:
Nine day event starting morning of Nov 6th
Play in "tactical" mode across all MP gametypes including Horde Triple XP
Public Horde difficulty bumped to Hardcore
Playlists have individual gametypes
We're planning a 12 days of Xmas event. Each day of the event we will do one special thing for that day only.
Originally Posted by joeGraf
No promises because of technical problems with our testing server but this is the list of what is planned:
1. A Noobsaw for everyone
2. No 2 piece
3. 3 Frag grenades
4. 4 Boomshot shells
5. 5 one man teams
6. 6 satelites
7. 7 Mortar Shells
8. 8 retro gamers
9. 9 Boomers booming (squads of boomers on waves ending in 9)
10. 10 Waves of Kantus (Kantus appear on every wave)
11. 11 Meatflags taunting (double (6x) XP in Meatflag)
12. All of the above
Make sure to sing it to the tune. Flak, post the song of Rod singing it