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New Gears 2 Experience System; and new map pack.
Topic Started: Mar 13 2009, 08:42 PM (515 Views)
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The Experience system sounds great, and the Grindyard map being described as "the Gridlock of Gears 2" sounded interesting. The actual GameStop article is full of other information about notable tweaks due.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6206057.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=topstory&tag=topstory;title

New Gears 2 Experience System

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Three months after the second Gears of War 2 map pack was announced, Epic Games has taken the wraps off its successor. The Snowblind Map Pack will arrive on Xbox Live on March 31 bearing four new maps: Grindyard, Under Hill, Courtyard, and a remake of Fuel Depot from the original Gears game. No price has been announced, but the last add-on for the game, December's three-map Combustible Map Pack, cost 800 Microsoft points, or $9.99 in real-world currency.

Grindin' in the Grindyard.

Though exciting for Horde mode addicts, the Snowblind Map Pack will be preceded by something far more ambitious--and completely free of charge. The week prior, Epic will launch its third and most extensive title update, which implements an all-new experience-based ranking system. The old TrueSkill system ranks will become hidden but will still be used under the hood to "set up the most competitive matches possible."

Under the new system, players will earn experience points for scoring in public matches, advancing all the way to level 100. Upon attaining certain levels, they will be rewarded with the following Xbox achievements: Rookie Gear (level 5), Seasoned Gear (level 15), Battle-Tested Gear (level 25), Battle-Hardened Gear (level 50), and Veteran Gear (level 100). (The last two achievements will also require that players download and achieve feats in the Snowblind Map Pack.) Four other unnamed achievements will be added as part of the update, with a total of 250 GamerScore points.

In addition to the new experience system--which will be based only on games played post-update--Gears of War 2's Title Update 3 will also feature new auto-balancing features, which will swap in bots for players who drop out mid-match. (Those same dropouts will suffer an experience-point penalty.) To learn about the rest of the update's features--and about Epic's future Gears of War plans--GameSpot spoke with executive producer Rod Fergusson.


New Map Pack:

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GS: Can you describe the four new maps?

RF: Yeah, absolutely. Grindyard is kind of an interesting map for us. Any time you've ever heard us talking about Gears 1, we always talked about the fact that Gridlock was the map we used as a basis for a lot of our development. Grindyard was that map for us for Gears 2. When we first started bringing in the new weapons, like the mortar, it was the very first place we tried all these new weapons. We had hoped to make it part of the original 10 maps that were going to be in the Gears 2 box, but for a number of reasons, it ended up not being that way.

So, the team is really excited about Grindyard actually getting out. The fact that it's become a winter-themed map makes it even more awesome-looking. It's a junkyard processing plant with flames, but then you have this really cool falling snow which makes for an interesting contrast.

Then there's Courtyard. If you remember Embry Square in Gears 1, it has the same city feel with a nice dusting of snow. It's a really fun map because you can see people across the way really quickly, and so you get a really good sense of motion in the battlefield.

And, then we have Under Hill, which basically takes place on a highway juncture, just before it goes into the mountains. You have this raised highway and this tunnel into the mountain and it's sort of half-and-half on that sort of environment. You can go to the high ground on the turnpike and grab the mortar, but going up there exposes you because it's essentially a raised highway. It's a dead end to go up there. So, you can get the higher elevation, but once you get up there, you could potentially be stuck up there.

For the last map we're bringing back--by popular demand--Fuel Depot from Gears 1. This was a map that was sort of a warehouse map with a downed helicopter and these gas pumps that you could blow up. It had two transport truck trailers with the sniper rifle inside. We gave it a makeover, much like we did for the Flashback Map Pack and the other Gears 1 maps we revisited. We gave it a new look and feel in terms of the visual style--again, it's a winter theme.
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Pure$killz
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you know if i could play 4 player online and offline I would actually play this game alot more....
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'Soup
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Oh my Jesus.


Fuel. ****ing. Depot? Maybe I won't sell this game after all. I was wondering when EPIC would realize Fuel Depot is THE map they should have put in the game. :O
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yea its a really good map...gears of war 1 is a better good game overall map wise there was very few maps I disliked.
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I'm enjoying these new maps quite a bit. o;

Anyone got the maps and feel like rollin through the ranking system?
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Omacron
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Im already level 100 so i dont need to play anymore pubs....ever
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