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Gears of War achievements to change?
05 Mar 2007 6:50am
Rumours of player match rewards...
For anyone yet to take Gears of War online, here is a quick summary of what you can expect: Argh! Whoa! YES! Repeat.
But for the achievement hunters out there, Gears is a time consuming title to attain those all important gamerpoints via Xbox Live.

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As it stands all the online achievements are linked to ranked play and as such, playing with friends online outside of a player match (non-ranked play) is problematic at best and impossible at worst. Without a party system ranked play is often an exercise in chance as you are lumped into a team of strangers; couple this with the occasional quitter and the experience starts to become a bit of chore - especially if gaining 100 kerb-stomp kills is high on your agenda!
And It would appear that Epic are to some degree in agreement, with rumours circulating that a change to online achievements in GoW could be implemented soon. The amendment would allow you to gain achievements outside of ranked play, meaning the kills gained during player matches with friends would count statistically against your overall tally.
With more downloadable content inbound, if this change was to take place it would no doubt happen alongside the release of new content. But will this make player matches even more fun, or merely cheapen the achievements in question with no doubt many more people able to easily attain them?

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I personally think it would make it better.. think about how many of us feel on this site about playing ranked matches?? You usually end up playing Americans and usually end up with crazy amounts of lag... plus we can just achievement each other up like in R6... !!!

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Sounds good to me.

I like the idea of that. I have never played ranked matches

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I hope they change this. Ranked matches are normally full of gobshites

ive only got 4 achievements left, never really bothered me playing ranked.

See Fenian Warlord's post.... says it all Shane!!!

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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crab's just jealous cause he cant even make the c team

Just cause you trying to get into Fenian's pants!!!

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