Gears of War 2 Comic-Con 20x XP Weekend Incoming

75
Richard Walker

Epic's Rod Fergusson has been on Twitter again, tweeting the details of the next Gears of War 2 XP event, which will be taking place this weekend to coincide with the San Diego Comic-Con, giving you yet another opportunity to get your wings before Gears 3 launches in September.

"SDCC Gears 2 XP Event - 20x XP, Horde enemies with mixed up guns, starts tomorrow 9 AM EST till Monday tweeted Fergusson AKA GearsViking last night.

Horde enemies with mixed up guns? Does that mean a Kantus with a flamethrower and a Boomer with a Torque Bow? It certainly seems like it. All will be revealed as the latest Gears of War 2 XP event gets underway this weekend.

Comments
75
  • I lost faith in GoW 2 when my rank reset from 35 to 0. Will just wait for GoW 3 now.
  • I thought I read this started at 9 AM today but I'm not sure but I will be playing as much as I can since I'm only like 65.
  • I don't care if I get thumbed down for this, but I don't even like playing Gears online because the shotgun is overpowered as hell. Takes a lot of the variety out of the gameplay when everyone uses the same gun because there's little reason to use the others. I'll give Gears 3 online a shot, though, since I heard they were working on making the guns a little more balanced.
  • Do you get x2 or x20 the normal XP?
  • @4 You get 20 :)
  • YAY loads more people that diddnt put any time or effort into there level 100s will be getting there achievment. Honestly cant believe EPIC do these rediculas XP events. I was happy when I got my 100 now it just seems like nothing special.
  • @3 I played in Gears 3 beta and shotguns were not overpowered. I mainly used lancer and i did pretty good.
  • Does anyone know if the problem they had with the TU6 has been fixed yet? I got to over level 80, from what I recall, and then lost it, along with all other achievement progress.
  • Gave up trying to get my wings after my level got reset twice...once at 37 and again at 53...will wait on gears 3 instead
  • @4 Because Horde is on a permanant x2 multiplier, when there is an event, they take that away and replace it with the new multiplier, this case x20, so in actual fact you will be getting 10x the experience than you normally would without an event. Hope that helps.
  • @1 with boosting you can pretty much do that in a game at 20xp... highly usefull for those without there wings yet, but personally can't wait for gears 3 atm, as good as the mixed up horde may be you so know regular horde on gears 3 is just going to be so much better
  • @1 If you quit when you saw that sing "host being redericted" when in th ematchmaking lobby, then you wouldnt have got reset. it almost happenned to me 3 times.
  • How can anyone who played the beta for gears 3 say the shotgun isn't overpowered? All people did was use the sawed off and gnasher guns. I still love gears, but you have to know the strategy by now. You can only use the lancer if you are host or there is more then one person hosing them with fire and you hope you get the final bullet and claim the kill. If not, then the lancer is useless for the most part. I can see why someone would complain about the power of the shotguns, because they are too powerful.
  • Great another XP for GOW2, come on EPIC for gods sake, everyone and their grandmother has their fucking wings now, and if they have not, by some miracle they missed one of the other 1000 GOW2 events, then theres something wrong. Add an event for Gears 1 instead, so we dont have to sit there killing locusts for the rest of our lives on your shit multiplayer achievements
  • Got my wings a long time ago when it was only x6xp. Im playing gears 1 atm on pc but I think the online is dead :( .
  • Woo, level 61 at the moment hopefully i'll be able to get my wings soon.
  • How many more time is Epic gonna do this before Gears 3 I wonder.
  • @13 I did perfectly well in the Beta with positive K:D ratio and at least 75% of my kills were with the Retro Lancer. If someone is using the sawed-off and they miss, then they are dead, so just dive out of the way! On topic, I wish they would do a kill multiplier event were you get 20x kills... I've been on 1700 on this game forever..!
  • im looking to boost during this weekend message me. Ps. ppl who have boosted if i am a 63 how long is it gping to take me to get to 100???
  • @19 Not long if you get a good boosting team. Ages if you play legit.
  • yet ANOTHER 20xp event....... should just make it permanent. Just my opinion.
  • I want a kantus with cleavers like the butchers carry.
  • Why dont they do a Gears 1 event to help us unlock Seriously... ? 10,000+ now.....
  • i lost my love for gears 2 when they announced gears 3. then i lost my love for gears 2 permanently when i played the gears 3 beta. CANT WAIT FOR GEARS OF WAR 3!
  • i was playing the other day i'm at rank 24 still have a load of achievements to get but not really bothered i just play horde mode cause it rocks cant wait for horde 2.0
  • Even if you got your wings all the extra xp looks nice . Love horde so changes are good.
  • @1 you think 35's bad...I was at 65 when my rank reset...I hadn't played for like 6 months and then I jump on and BAM! I was a zero...GoW3 can't get here soon enough.
  • For those of you who got your wings the "legitimate" way and love to complain that EPIC is doing these events and others are this and that because we take advantage of the XP events....take your thumbs out your asses and give yourselves a great big brown thumbs up hooray for you. Now suck that thumb when you are done praising yourself. Unlike you whiners, those of us who don't have our wings are going through something called life. We have jobs, kids, wives/girlfriends, bills and everything that comes with growing up. So stop bitching about the events. Yes I will congratulate. You on getting your wings. I'm almost there but still I got shit to do. So instead of whining go play another game or go outside and experience life
  • @28 Says someone with a gamerscore of practically 125k
  • @18 Sadly they have said a kill multiplier is impossible. It is my last achievement as well. Seriously 2.0 is seriously annoying even with brumak boosting. one of these days I will get it havent checked for a while but i think I am over 60k
  • Well only "gears" players will have got level 100 without exp events. I'm on battlefield/cod/halo (mix between them) as my main online games. Hate online MP achievements that basically mean unless this is YOUR game you won't get itif want get me.(unless boosting crap
  • @#1 Dude, level 35 will take you maybe half an hour to reach again with a 20x XP weekend.
  • @13: I often beat Gnashers in the beta using the Retro lancer, and most of my kills were with the lancer.
  • Should just give us x100 experience. I can't stand how slow gears 2 online is I loved Gears 1 online and Gears 3.
  • do you still get horde 20x if you play by yourself or do you have to play online
  • @ 29 +100,000 GS is easily obtainable even when you are taking care of responsibilities and don't have that much time to play when you had a 360 since launch. It is very difficult to find time to play for the responsible adults with families. So i can relate to #28's post. Its all in fun though when you reach your milestones this way :-)
  • I don't understand why they keep doing this. I'm fine with the XP multipliers but almost every time they've done something different to Horde it wasn't fun with the exception of the 10th Wave being all Boomers for one event. But then again, them helping with Seriously 2.0 was Wretches with shotguns. I just really wish they would do a normal Horde with the XP multiplier instead of adding in things that nobody wants.
  • Hmm might have to jump back on horde for some x20 But still won't reach lvl 100 by G.O.W.3 :(
  • Tomorrow i'll raise my ranking....
  • @10 Not sure if you were saying that only Horde is on a permanent x2 XP boost, or just pointing out for Horde specifically, but for everyone to know -- everything is already on a permanent x2 XP boost. Therefore, this event IS an x20 of the normal XP, but only x10 of what you normally get. @35 You get it solo too, but I would at least log into LIVE to be safe while doing it solo, so you're connected and GoW2 can see that you should get x20
  • For all these people complaining about their rank being reset... It's happened to a LOT of people. However, there have been SOOOO many XP events that if you even put forth a couple hours of playing in each of these XP events and were a decent player, you'd have the level 100 by now.
  • This is cool I got my wings on the last xp event so good luck to anyone who is going for it now
  • @40 im on live but just playing local would i still get the xp bonus?
  • @43: You should. I remember the last event I had a Silver Account and played on Local by myself and I was getting the bonus.
  • @44 i will thanks
  • The last XP event ended when I reached level 98. Then I got reset because I put my hard drive in my friend's 360 Pro when I went to his house. I couldn't care less about getting level 100 now.
  • btw does any1 wanna play i dont have a mic but itd be a good change from playing by myself gt-frankhumpy21
  • @46: That's kind of like what happened to me and why I got my rank reset. I was level 60 I think. So I didn't have to move my friend's 360 so I could play Resident Evil 5 with his brother, I just put my Hard Drive onto his 360. They were doing an XP event so I took my Hard Drive off of his 360 and back onto mine which I didn't have mine on all of the way and I accidently didn't hit the update button because it was feeding from my Memory Unit and it acted like I had my wings because I was at least level 50, once I turned off my 360 and put the Hard Drive back in all of the way it reset me back to level 1. I'm on the same boat as you, ever since that happened I have almost no ambition to get to level 100 now.
  • Try being at level 89 and geting rank reset! Still did not stop me from going back for more finally got my wings after a long wait, I just enjoyed playing gears for the gameplay see no point in going for the wings if you don't like the game that much IMO.
  • Playing Gears 2 now. The XP weekend has already started. 3000 a round in Horde
  • @13 the retro lancer was very useful because I killed a lot of guys that aproched me with any shotgun in a matter of seconds....
  • HA!
  • man im like lvl 80 and i dont have any desire to contiune playing my rank and achievement progress where reset twice cus epic dosent know how to play test there stupid games all im missing is seriously 2.0 and wings but i dont want to win the 4 maps online even if i get my wings it sucks. still cant wait for gears 3 hopeing that they fix the achievement progress glitchs that plagued the first 2 games.
  • It's going to be hard to get to 100 from 33. first see if the reward for the achievement is worth it.(reward in GoW3)
  • 6: Get off your fucking high-horse, kiddo. Listen, I got tenth level 70 legitimately maybe a year in Modern Warfare's release, but of course, by the time I got there, tenth level 70 meant nothing because of all the idiot hackers that destroyed that game who were already there. Tack on a few more months, and even more people were legitimately getting tenth level 70, and suddenly, my accomplishment meant less. Take a lesson from that: as time goes on, the value of your accomplishment diminishes. Don't piss your pants, and try to put it on your first resume to McDonald's that you were one of the first LEGITIMATE level 100's in Gears 2. Your minor video gaming accomplishment means nothing to anybody that's not you, so grab a tissue and shut the fuck up.
  • @55 Well said my good man. Made me laugh and snot bubble, cheers
  • I'm surprised theres still people without their wings after all these XP events.
  • @55 *slow clap*
  • i was a lvl 51 then my rank got reset
  • I'll be jumping on some Gears 2 multiplayer. I reached level 50 the last time exp event. Here's to hoping I get the wings before Gears 3.
  • I lost faith in this game when I got reset from 100, but seeing it that I still need some achievements for horde that require rank, I suppose I'll be somewhat forced into playing in this XP event so I can have the opportunity to unlock these achievements AGAIN. But 20X XP is definitely better than nothing so I'm not complaining. In the end, thanks, but no thanks EPIC.
  • Guns in the Gears 3 Beta felt pretty good, for all those speaking on the subject. Double-barreled shotgun is a monster, the gnasher is a little weaker from a distance, the lancer has a lot more kickback, and running into people with a bladed weapon is always fun. Am I the only one that thinks there should be a unique execution move for a guy bayonetting into a revved lancer? So many ideas for that one... Back on topic, I hope that something in Gears 3 makes up for or replaces these experience extravaganzas. As much as I like the idea of "commendations" or medals, I don't know that these will be enough. Plus, though I am a bit of a completionist whenever possible, I don't like hunting down these things. I would be perfectly happy to just keep getting experience for running around like a maniac with a kitchen knife on a stick. The only stage that went badly on a routine basis was Trenches, and that was due to poor spawn location. Seriously, give us more cover from the mortar that shows up in perfect reaching distance of where I happen to materialize. Oh, and the rank thing where it resets seems to happen if you play any game of any type without an online connection. So don't play offline. Ever. Insert typical complaint about capitalization and spelling.
  • @1 dude same fuckin thing happened to me, i was so rotted
  • OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!! That was TOTALLY my idea! (though I really wanted 41x for the 41st year of Comic Con) My Live's down while they check into my account being hacked, but STILL! Fellow Gears fans, have a blast for me, guys!
  • there's deffinately been alot more xp booster events for gears 2 than i thought there would be after the rod fergusson weight loss booster. i thought there was gonna be two more, turns out there's been about 3 or 4 more. i got my vet achievement on the last booster event, 4th of july weekend.
  • @7 r u joking? both shotguns over powered. well, the gnasher's active is over powered, downs in about two shots from a mile away. but the sawed-off's bullet spread is too big. ik it's huge bullet spread is one of its unique features, but they need to turn it down alot so u actually have to look where ur aiming for once lol. the spread in the beta was 150 degrees, it should be about 90-100.
  • Does anyone know what they mean when it says "and few surprises in Horde!" on the Latest News Feed on the Gears 2 menu?
  • Wow how long is this?
  • @#1 LOL I had my rank reste twice at 64 and 51 and still got wings jus tplaying this kind of events. If you like game enough it doesn't really matetr anyway... @#3 Forget about balance, unless they fix some issues there will be 2 main guns that dominate still... OT: I wonder if once gears 3 comes out they will continue these events for gears 2 as well?
  • I just want a 9001 xp day for the lols, and so I can be lazy and get my wings quickly. :P
  • what time on monday does the event stop?
  • lol i missed it :D
  • does anyone know when the next 1 will be?
  • @73 the next one might be on august 23 cause gears is creating a homepage for gears 3 that day or something like that they have a video that says the destruction begins 8. 23. 2011. here is a link to the page with the 15 second clip http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/en/news/video/2011-08-gears3-explosive-graffiti-touts
  • correction they will do xp events from august 20 to septenber 20 only on the weekends though
  • You need to register before being able to post comments

Game navigation