PSA: Another Gears of War 2 30x XP Event Starts Tomorrow

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Richard Walker

If you're still crawling ever closer to that elusive level 100 and those pesky wings in Gears of War 2 multiplayer, then Epic Games has got you covered, as there's yet another 30x XP event getting ready to grind into action from tomorrow as E3 2011 gets underway here in Los Angeles.

It's to celebrate Epic successfully bribing their way towards bagging IGN's most anticipated E3 game gong. Here's the proof: "Hey , don't forget to turn on the 30X xp event and Horde madness while I'm gone!" tweeted Epic's Rod Fergusson a couple of days ago, probably while we were 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.

While we expect you'll be far too busy reading our amazing E3 news coverage, you can get your Gears 2 multiplayer action on from tomorrow and bag 30x XP before Gears of War 3 launches on September 20th, 2011.

[Thanks, Jalen]

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  • Excellent! So many multiplayer achievements I still need for this game. These XP boosting events are genius.
  • is there an exact time period announced yet and will it only be for the one day i know its a HUGE bonus but i'm just curious.
  • Yeah. I read about this a while ago. Sadly, I already have all 1750... Maybe I'll mess around on my other account. 30x XP makes 100 a cake walk.
  • Im level 91 which is what half way on the xp ladder its freaking rediculous but i'll be there tomoz. Slave to the man lol
  • Any idea what time of tonight / tomorrow morning this starts?
  • @2: Whole week :) @4: 91 is more like 75%
  • yeah well i'm level 51 so proberly won't get to 100
  • @7 you'd better pucker up and ask epic for a 60xp event lol try king of the hill on a public match for a boosting session and u'll have it by lunch
  • :)sweet!!! thank you #6
  • Shweeeeeet!!! Any word if they will have the Annex playlist for that achievement as well?
  • i was damn close in november...leve 89...and then my account glitched and i couldnt load the game anymore. So i had to reset it...so now im a measly 25. Gonna be in for the long haul. hopefully can get in with a group of koth boosters lol
  • imagine what it will be like 1 week before the release of gears 3 it will be like 100x xp - one can only hope
  • I borrowed Gears of War 2 from a friend about two years ago, played halfway through the second level and never touched it again. I've thought about buying the $30 combo pack they have in stores now, but I've never been convinced to get back into Gears of War franchise. Are these 30x EXP events worthwhile for achievement gathering?
  • whats the horde madness then?
  • @5 They usually start at Noon-ish in america, about 4 in the afternoon in the UK. I wish they'd do a seriously 2.0 boosting event. It's the last achievement I have, 80,000 off.... :(
  • @14: Boomer only
  • I might have to borrow this from a buddy of mine.
  • great :D only 7 more levels and those wings are mine
  • First I was like "aaaawww yeeaaaah maaaan now imma boost to lvl100" then I was like "aaaaaawwww shiiiiiitt I have my GoW2 borrowed to my cousin"... Bad luck but hopefully they will do some ridiculous 50x exp near the release of GoW3......
  • yes I will be getting my lvl 100 for sure
  • "thanks jalen" err rich mate don't you ever read your messages thought i sent you this info last week great event though i'll be a little busy seeing whether horde2.0 is shown for those asking belive horde is all bommers during the event
  • @13 with 30xp you can probebly get all the dlc achievements in 2 days of boosting, mostly because the win on the snowblind maps may take a while not the hitting 100 itself be warned though if you get the lvl 50 and 100 achievements on the same day it will think you glitched them
  • @23 damn phone cutting me off and as such you won't get the unlockable for it in 3
  • Hope they get some (even more) ridiculous xp multipliers the weak before Gears 3 releases... Yes I'm selfish, but I do feel kind of "sorry" for the people grinding for this cheevo with no multipliers.
  • I guess I will try the horde mode out, since I'm a lvl 100 already there is no point in playing the regular multiplayer.
  • Lol only 47 lvls to go and my exams start on wednesdays, god dammit!
  • @23 I believe it was Rod who said that he doesn't care, so long as you have the achievement. Also I don't think that they could worry too much about this considering if you were lvl 49, with 30x xp lvls 49-100 is doable in 1 day if you play all day, even without boosting. Anyways, get ready for all the people to come in and complain that they got their wings without any xp multipliers. Good for them and all, but thats their own problem. Glad i put Gears off for a little while. Made rank 100 a cakewalk :)
  • Got my 100 last year. Then guess what, like so many others, I fell back to a 0 because of some stupid glitch. I'm not even gonna bother.
  • I wish they could do something to help get seriously 2.0 I am only at about 60k and it is my last achievement. Too bad they have said a kill multiplier is not possible
  • I have my wings for Gears 2 but for some reason member of the old guard didnt unlock in the Gears 3 beta, I didn't get the chrome hammerburst :(
  • @30 Just keep up with that brumak part. I grinded that within like the 1st two weeks. Was glad to be done with that achievement.
  • Is it just for the day?
  • Damn and I don't even plan on playing any games tomorrow. Waking up early to watch E3 all day! Can't wait!!
  • level 55 to level 100 in a week, is it possible? im going to find out :P
  • damn i gone love this. only i have a low level 20 and then to 100 who say it possible i say it's impossible.
  • Aint this a kick in the nuts,we are getting ready to move to the East coast and I have been working some more and we have to leave the house if they need to show it :( ..... missed most of the x-mas event as we went to the WC in Pittsburgh! @ 35 & 36 GOOD LUCK!
  • time to regain my wings
  • Why don't they just GIVE everyone their wings already. I got mine last E3 with the 3x multiplier. If only I'd known that it would get this ridiculous.
  • Hmm... level 36. Let's see how close I get!!
  • Whoo level 78 now, can finally get my wings and put this finished game away!!
  • @4, lvl 86 is half way. 91 should be like ~60%
  • Hey, feel bad for me. I only picked up Gears 1 & 2 for the first time about a month ago. I haven't even touched the multiplayer on Gears 2 yet. So I'll be starting from level 1 tomorrow. Even with 30x XP that is probably gonna take a while. Any suggestions?
  • 30x XP? That is just mental.
  • I get the feeling they'll do something really crazy closer to the actual release of Gears 3. Here's hoping for 99x!
  • @36 my friend went from a 65 to a 100 got reset then got up to a 75 in a week definately possible. he did it on the older 30x one so it should be a cake walk I my self if for whatever retarded reaso, haven;t gotten reset only have 5 levels to go Unfortunately myself and everyone I know sold gears 2 a long time ago
  • im down for koth boosting i got my achievement but my game glitched and i lost my lvl 100 i got back to 61 then quit but i want my wings again damnit! gt - xv flatline vx
  • I have also lost my wings after only having them for a little over a week :(...I now must get back to at least lvl 50 so I can finish those hoard achievements.
  • Give me 100x xp for a whole week and ill happily buy the gears of war 3 epic edition with the lancer lol
  • anyone that wants to do horde achievements add Vicious Diezel.
  • I can finally get to lvl 100 now
  • I haven't touched Gears 2 since I got my wings, I really don't want to mess something up and find out I got reset to 0.
  • edit: I hope that if it does get messed up, Gears 3 will look at the achievements to gauge whether or not you reached level 100.
  • Gears of War 2 scanned Gears 1 achievements for unlockables, so it is probably a safe bet that if you have the achievement, you're fine.
  • @53 IIRC that's how they're doing it.
  • anyone know what the horde madness is? I still have to get those achievements, even though I got my wings.
  • Must take. . . . advantage!!!!!!!!
  • Time to get my game on after school tomorrow! Thanks for the generosity Epic games.
  • @56 I'm not sure exactly, but further up someone mentioned Boomers only. So i'm gonna go with that.
  • I got sick of the MP when I getting to 50 without these multipliers.
  • @22 - Ah! I see I had a message from you, yes. My bad. A big thank-you to you too, dude!
  • @49 amen bro...LOL
  • This makes me derpy happy :D
  • Someone please give us a horde week where it helps towards seriously 2.0.
  • Had a blast with gears 3. might put gears 2 in and see how far i can get....
  • 2pm Gmt. I think the horde is boomers gone wild.
  • When does this start?
  • Looks like I'll be on Gears later then, think I'm like level 61 to 68 or somewhere around there, hopefully reach level 100 by the end of the week.
  • Well my bro will be chuffed, he still wanted to work on that before 3. I got mine like eons ago. - In the days before Double/Triple + now X30XP was around in Gears2!! lol
  • Looks like imma have to catch up the Gears of War stuff... haven't played it since the first game haha
  • I got my wings a year and a half ago. What is taking people so long?
  • level 71 now. hopefully ill get this level 100 out of the way and then its full completion. Now i gotta start thinking about GoW1 and whether i should go for it or not.
  • Mint i cant wait to get my wings now been playing gears of war 2 online loads for so long. My 97 will become 100 finaliy.
  • @31 Nobody did mate, it was a bug in the Beta, don't worry about it. ;)
  • If there is a boosting party up, msg me! GT: Lord Statn
  • i was level 95 the last time they had the 30x experience and i somehow got reset. right now im at level 50 something. i need to get on this.
  • Add me; Ellemire360. Will be playing Hoard working on Achievements if anyone wants to boost EXP.
  • i was level 95 the last time they had the 30x experience and i somehow got reset. right now im at level 50 something. i need to get on this.
  • Well I do but I think I traded my Gears 2 in already... oh well. Have 12 other games to play until Gears 3 is released.
  • just gone through a level of horde to see if this is up and running yet and it doesnt seem to be.anyone have a time when this is kicking off
  • time to get my wings. i spent soooo long in lobbies last time, this time i think i'll just pull out my smokes and try to crash some random boost sessions. beside i think my internet settings don't let me join specific games from invites on GoW2. anyone know any reliable ways i can get xp without a boost party?
  • lvl 100 = 6.600.000 exp points (about) 3.300.000 = about lvl 80 I'm at lvl 85 and I still need about 2 millions of exp points to reach the lvl 100 I don't give a fuck about a 30x multiplier, it's completely useless; I still don't know if a 100x multiplayer can be enough. Epic just let this stupid race end, please.
  • ^ Are you serious? Just KOTH boost and you'll have level 100 within an hour.
  • so when are they switching it on???
  • @ch33zy - It should be on right now; reset your xbox and hopefully it should work.
  • I Did that.. but nothing happened, still only getting 200 xp per round on horde... Is this worldwide or just usa? (i'm in the uk)
  • ^Nah, it's worldwide. I'm currently not on my xbox right now, but I'll ask the Devs if the event is up right now =/
  • cheers for that. makes a change for someone on here to be quite helpful rather than the usual negative comments.
  • ^Yeah no problem :) The problem is being resolved right now; they forgot to turn it on I believe :p ... in the meantime, leaked Halo 4 news http://www.oxm.co.uk/viewer.php?mode=article&id=19266
  • Well, I just played a game and only got about 900 EXP so I don't think they've turned it on yet. I'm bad, but not that bad.
  • Is this just xbox live or will it work local connected to xbox live me and the other half sometimes play on same console
  • ^As long as you're connected to XBL, you will receive the multiplier. However, the event hasn't started yet.
  • Actually, the event just started :D . All you have to do is restart your Xbox and it give you the 30x multiplier.
  • I'm only getting 3k it should be 6k
  • 4,5k in normal, horde, level 1 (just tested) So it should be 5k and 5,5k in the highest difficulty.
  • Just checked.. Its now working 30000 per round of Horde... That will do nicely.
  • anyone KOTH boosting? add me and ill help. GT: Dark Oblivion
  • Hey just saying if you play that map: underhill I think it's called it has that big highway bridge but yea round 1 has 4 guys so do it on hardcore and do wave 1 and then just die wave 2 and restart. You should get heaps Of XP
  • Is it still going? i was on earlier thats all and got up a few levels
  • stupid question guys whens it on till
  • im sure i was getting 200xp for casual 300xp for normal 400xp for hardcore 500xp for insane on horde so 30x should be 6000xp for casual 9000xp for normal 12000xp for hardcore 15000xp for insane so why do i get 3000 for casual, am i being stupid?
  • I've seen some videos of people horde boosting on Security. They'd complete the first wave and then suicide dive into the lasers to start over at wave 1. I suppose it's worth a shot.
  • @101 because normaly it is 2x exp therefore a casual wave is worth 100 exp but since the regular is 2x exp you get 200 exp hence 30x exp x 100 =3000 exp
  • I find this easiest on- Map: Flood Difficulty: Insane Wave: 1 Get on the rotation of the torque bow/frag spawn (kill yourself if necessary). Run and grab frags, then grab torque and hold up on the bridge. Only 4(or 5) enemies spawn- typically 2 boomers a wretch and a drone. With 9 arrows, melee the wretch(es), take the boomers, then plant a frag at the base of the bridge for the drone to rush into. Rinse (kill self) and repeat. This takes about 1.5 minutes each time x 7,500xp each. I went from 80-93 in two days.
  • mine got reset around the time they had the last 30x ex. i was a 95 then now im in the 50s.
  • can anyone help me get level 100 during this xp event please??
  • I really hope they do a few more of these before they release gears of war 3. (Most likely they will!).
  • Is there another one coming up?
  • anybody know what time this ends exactly? est.
  • GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!!! I GOT TO LVL 86 AND IT ENDED!!!!
  • man, i was even more angry, i'm nearly level 98 and it ended. will there ever be another one? just one more. i recon if they ever do another one, it'll be the last one. if so, it'll probably be a week before launch day, or the day before launch day. probably a week if anything, a day is too much short notice. i was also thinking, why don't epic make another game type like torque bow tag. i was thinking, make it so that you can only kill or harm people with bayonets, including executions. that'd be awesome, everyone just charging with the retro or tearing people to pieces with the lancers chainsaw bayonet. that'd be sweeeeet.
  • you know what, about the time it ends, you'd assume it ends on september 20th, but no, it ended yesterday.
  • Tips for getting lvl 100 on a custom xp base ie (x2 - x6 - x20 - x30 XP) Play Round 1 horde on INSANE around 10,000xp per round took me around a day and half around 1-2 mins for 10,000XP of killing retch. NOTE - More players more LOCUST so just go into party with friends to speak and play in seperate lobbies.....Hop this Helps. -CraKeL
  • anyone wanna koth boost add me plz
  • why arnt they doing any boosts for seriously 2.0?! besides Act 5 Chapter 5, all these xp boosts but nothing for seriously 2.0? Ive only heard a rumor about something called Locust By The Boatful, the name is all i know i cant find it anywhere, anyone know something about this "Locust By The Boatfull"?
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