Welcome to the Big Leagues Achievement in Gears of War 3

  • Welcome to the Big Leagues

     

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    Demonstrate your skill in Casual Versus multiplayer.

  • How to unlock Welcome to the Big Leagues

    If you have played either previous games in this series, this achievement will unlock automatically when you start the game and you will not have access to Casual Versus. If you have not played a Gears before, you will only be able to play this mode, and will advance (and receive this achievement) after some number of matches. It is basically a place for people completely new to the Gears multiplayer to get acquainted before being thrown into the mix with veterans. There does not appear to be a specific number of matches or level you need to reach before it unlocks, so the best advice I can give is to keep playing until you advance.

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  • From what i hear, you can only play casual versus mulitiplayer if you have no achievements in ether Gears games or if you played the gears 3 beta making this achievement for me, impossible to unlock. There goes my trilogy completion :(
  • hope this don't count towards your 100%
  • It's an achievement, it will count towards it the completed list. What's so hard about this one? Just seems like you have a play a game in Casual MP.
  • You're not allowed to play in Casual mode if you have played any previous Gears of War game, as noted in post #1, Einstein!
  • I really hope that Epic makes this mode open to everyone sometime after the game releases.
  • Betting it's like the Bioware continuity achievements: complete it if you haven't played the previous games, if you have, whoopie! Free 'chievo.
  • MS rules are that all achievos are uptainable .. orso since last time i checked :P we shall see
  • @6 Im hoping is like that too, "If you played our previous games heres an achievement worth 0G.
  • Hope this isnt counting for 100% since most of us are banned from this playlist : /
  • hopefully it will unlock automatically for the rest of us because most of the people who are getting gears 3 played at least one of the others
  • I don't care about the 100% completion, and also this is worth no Gamerscore, so it is not worth the effort just thinking about this shit achievement. If its all true what randoms say here about this then this achievo is a slap to the face for mostr of you lol
  • It was answered on the Gears Forum. You get the achievement free if you have achievements in gears 1 or 2
  • another pointless achievement. Epic sucks with achievements so much. just like the retarded viral achievement no creativity at all and pure lazyness. oh we made a decent game so who cares what the achievements are.
  • I would think they would give this achievement as you load up you game to everybody if you already have achievements in Gears 1 and 2.
  • just a thought but i think casual is just a new name for social matchmaking. as i recall the only thing completely new players get is a health and damage buff until ten kills. my theory at least.
  • -_- wtf epic?!?!? is this how you reward your loyal fans -_-
  • So basically for our years of dedication and money... we get the middle finger in return?
  • @17 Look at what 12 posted. I guess It's fine, but I don't understand what the point of this achievement is then :S just seems like a stupid idea...
  • @everyone: Look at what 12 said and stop complaining. Everyone can get it, since the rules by MS is all Achievements must be able to be unlocked. @17 and 18, I think it's just a free chievo to say 'thanks for supporting our previous games' for those who have achievements from 1/2 and it's a free chievo for everyone else, who tries out the game at a friend's house or something. It wouldn't be the first game with a free achievement for popping in the disc, and it surely won't be the last.
  • Yeah read the posts before complaining all of us who have played gears 1 or 2 will get this achievement after playing a game of MP. We "Demonstrate our Skill" by being too good to play casual MP ;)
  • The MS Achievement rule is that all 1000 points have to be obtainable but not neccessarily all achievements. If an achievement has 0 points like this one, they don't have to make this obtainable to everyone. An example of this is in B&K: Nuts and Bolts, where there's one achievement worth 0G that you can only get by playing the other B&K games.
  • Worthless ach
  • This is a stupid achievement, really epic!
  • I'm almost certain that Epic said something like everyone starts on Casual multiplayer for the first game or two they play online. I think what it does is allows you to see the outlines of the opposing team if you hold the LB button. It's the same thing with capture the leader where the leader can see everyone on the map, blue is your team, red is the enemy team. I don't think it's unobtainable, I'm sure you just play an online match for the first time and you will get it. Either that or you have to die and never get a kill for your first match and then it will switch you to casual for a round or two until your kill / death ratio gets better.
  • Could it be a possibility for getting level 100 in GOW2?
  • It is confirmed that this will unlock automatically for those who cant access Casual.
  • @26 Awesome thanks!
  • What the flying fuck?! That'll be stupid if 90% of Gears of War 3 players won't unlock this, just because they've played Epic Games' previous Gears of War games.
  • As posted on Joe Graf's wall on the official epic games forums (he's their lead programmer) "The entire point of that achievement is for people that have played previous versions of Gears. It will unlock the first time you hit start." So it'll automatically unlock.
  • Other achievements say "(Standard or Casual)," obviously you can play Casual, whatever it is.
  • 29# iv seen him call everyone pathetic all the time i think hes just hiding his cowardness.
  • GAY
  • good for me, never played a gears game but i want to
  • Previous gears Players get this automaticly so quit bitching
  • To all people whining. If you have ach in other gears games, when you put in the game and start playing, this will pop first thing.
  • agree with #36 this will probably pop up if u hav alrdy played other games in the gears series so stop panicking people
  • calm down people i read that if you already played another gears of war game it will pop out :) :) :) :) :)
  • @19 press start to play, the simpsons game :)
  • yay, free easy 0g when i turn on the game! easier than the simpsons press start to play rofl
  • if this achievement effects it being a completed game then EPIC games fails at life or they need to make it open to everyone once and awhile.
  • I am just going to make another Xbox live account so i can play it
  • If they detect that you have certain cheevos or have played the Gears beta then you get this achievement no matter what.
  • @13 Gears of War achievements have always been brilliant. They were also the first to implement the achievement trackers.
  • HOW DO YOU GET THIS? WTF?
  • maybe this is like the boot camp thing from CoD 5 u get to a certain lvl and u have graduated boot camp and then theres the achievement just a thought ??
  • 0 gamerscore games like this piss me off
  • should be worth more for the vetran gears who have rocked gow and gow2 from the begining
  • #48 i knw right
  • also it called Welcome to the Big Leagues.i think it means you get it when you play your first regular match because it also says you Demonstrate your skill in Casual Versus multiplayer it dosnt say you have to play casual it pretty much says your done playing casual
  • Free 0G! Skeet Skeet!
  • i dont understan the point of haveing achivemnents that have no gamer points
  • #45 Relax dude, I worked for MS Certification a while back and I can definitley say that they would never certify a game with a non-obtainable cheevo! It's bad for business! You'll likely get it when you fire up the game, or start a MP game. Chill, Tuesday will rock!!
  • Yeah. If you played the previous gears, then this one should unlock automatically.
  • Got to love people jumping to conclusions. Chill out, they can't make it unobtainable :)
  • its just a stupid fun type thing to get its easy to so why bitch it was put in for a giggle
  • its fuck all to do with any other gears game i know coz a lad on my list played this last night and up it popped so why dont you all stop with stupid comments thought the idea was to make a comment on how to get achivo not bitch like a whore
  • me n 4 mates got this game friday, only one of us got the cheevo, even tho all 5 of us have played both gears 1 and 2.. playing previous gears games does not unlock this cheevo.. (if it does mines n me mates must be glitched). bozie69 is right, make a comment on the subject, n stop bitchin like a 2 dollar whore, its not a pissing contest
  • http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/822439-So-how-does-quot-Welcome-to-the-Big-Leagues-quot-work?p=28985376
  • Play In gears 2
  • This popped for me when i started the game.. all you have to do is put the game in
  • All I did was start the game and this popped up. Not sure how I got it though.
  • #62 Yup, same here. I didn't play a massive amount of Gears 2 mp but it was obviously enough.
  • I don't have this achievement, my old account with 1k+ GS on gears 2 got banned and I've played the casual playlist but this still hasn't unlocked for me. do you need to reach rank 10 as well or something? or get x amount of gamerscore?
  • Yeah, instantly popped for me too on start-up.
  • @64 same thing happened to me i played and backed out and didnt pop maybe you have to get to level 10
  • Uhm, it didn't pop for me... :/
  • @64, I didn't get it when I got to level 10, I've played through Gears 2... apparently you have to play through both? I'm not sure, but if anyone figures this out, let me know.
  • Have played trough 1 & 2, halfway trough 3 now, but still i didn't pop for me
  • Have played through sp of gears 1 and 2... Didnt get it at start up but rather casual play up to level 16. So Maybe the ones who didn'T get it yet just have to keep playing and have some faith ;)
  • I've played sp on both almost half way done with 3. Didn't pop. Hmm I wonder about this one
  • ...and played mp on 2 and 3..guess I'll keep playing casual and see what happens
  • Its part of Versus mode and it popped up for me at the Main Menu.
  • This popped for me as soon as I pressed start at the title screen, I never even got to try casual mode.
  • this doesnt have anything to do with getting the season pass does it?
  • Is anyone sure on whether or not this is based on playing in the Beta? I've beaten 1 and 2 on Insane, but also played the Beta so I am not sure
  • I put in the disc, main screen came, and it popped up. I have played Gears 2, but haven't done anything in campaign for Gears AND Gears 2. I havent played Gears multiplayer, But I have played Gears 2 Multiplayer, level 40ish, and I still got it
  • I didn't get this until after I reached Act V for some reason. I've been playing co-op and once the other profile logged out it popped up for me. It still hasn't popped up for the first player person yet. Have patience people. ;)
  • thank you to last severl comments on this that have tried or lease explained how they got it.ive played online and half way in sp and co op still not popped up was playing with a lad today reckons it popped up soon has he put disk in when i looked hes not played any other gears game lol for 0g its sure picky on who gets it for sure haha
  • Put my disk in and went to start campaign and it popped straight away. I have played both 1 & 2 so don't see why it isn't popping for some people.
  • Just popped for me at level 15. Completed Gears 1 and 2 Campaign in the past, but no appreciable Multiplayer in either of the old games.
  • I unlocked this when I hit level 17 in Casual Versus.
  • Yup, popped as soon as I started up the game.
  • Mine finally popped at level 20 in casual.
  • I have played every gears game, and I have played casual versus whats up with this.
  • God damn I hate 0G achievements xD
  • turned on the game and got a 0 point achievement. Don't recall playing any mp in the first two gears, only horde mode.
  • Write Ok, This Is How It's Done People, Your Not Helping People Saying It Just Poped Up This Is How I Got This One! Carry On Playing In Versus - Casual and keep playing, I Played For A Good Few Hours... A Messege Will Auto Appear On Your Screen Saying That Due To Your Rank & Skill Level Your Now Ready To Go To Battle... Once You Press "A" POP! Goes The 0GS Welcome To The Big Leagues!!!! Achievement! I Hope That This Help's And For The Recored.. I Haven't Played Gears Of War 1 or 2 But My Firend Has And We Had No Problem's
  • i saw these comments before i got game and was worried. I started it up, updated it and after hitting start @ main screen it popped up for me.
  • What Ops Lewis said....Basically get a string of good games going in casual. Thats why some people are ding the 'chieve at level 11, some at 17, and some at 28...
  • This one unlocked for me the first time I loaded the game. And I had no idea why.
  • I have achievements from Gears 1 and 2 and this one still hasn't popped for me...?
  • i played part 1 and beat part 2 and got 2 play causal mode but didnt get da cheivo
  • Ok For Some Reson People Are Still Haveing Problem's, Because They Post Before Looking Next Time Look On My Old Post Basicly Keep Playing In Versus Casual Until A Messege Pop's Up With The, Achievement! 0GS Welcome To Big Leagues! The Messege Will Say "Due To Your Rank And Skill Level Your Ready For TeamDeath Match & Other Online Game Modes, Versus - Casual - Is A Game Mode Very Simular To Black Ops Combat Training If Your In The Game And Press The Back Button You'll See A Star Like This Sniper *, Elite * And So On But Now And Again They Put A Real Play Like Your Self On The Other Team Just To Make It More Of A Challange Keep Playing In This Game Mode, I Played It For A Good Few Hours Just Rack Up The Kill's And You'll Get It Adventionaly.
  • so stupid
  • Well it unlocked for me at lv 11
  • I had to start a new profile recently and so I lost my 1000 and 1750 in gears 1 and 2. I played casual for a while and nothing poped, but all my friends got it first match. Loaded up gears 1 and 2, and got a checkpoint... getting no achevements on either, then went back and played a casual match again and poped right after the match. Not sure if it was how many I played of if loading up the old gears games worked. Give it a try.
  • @ 96 really? i pressed the start button and it gave me this achievement.
  • i have just played gears 2 and 3, can i get this achievment? or must i play gears 1?:)
  • if you've gotten to a certain level online on Gears 2 you'll get it at the press start screen but if like me you haven't played the first 2 (i have but i got a new GT and haven't played it on this one) you will have to play casual versus, once you get a good couple of games it will pop up, mine came up 2 rounds after i turned to level 13 so its got nothing to do with what level. when its searching for games and it keeps displaying 'Cannot find games to match your skill level' chances are you'll get it in the next two games or something, i was worrying how to get it too but it will come just keep playing.
  • This was the first achievement I unlocked when I used my profile to play gears 3 at a friends house. Luck me I guess...
  • I lv17, but i don't have this Achievement, what i have to do?
  • I think this achievement might be glitched cos i've played online on gears 2 and i've played casual versus... a lot... and it still hasn't popped up. Anyone confirm this?
  • To 103 I can confirm this i have gears 1 and 2 play them alot i play online and am also at level 21 on gears 3 still no acheivment could someone please tell me how to get it as i am going out my mind hate it when things like this happen... epic sort it out pleaseeeeeeeeee!!!!!
  • i already have this i just pressed start at loading screen and it came up but hasnt worked 4 2 of my friends,, also i have achievements in both other gears
  • I can't seem to get this one. played 1 and 2 of course, played everything on 3, no cheevo pop...
  • I havent gotten this one either. According to post #30 its supposed to happen automatically when you first turn the game on. Well, Ive turned it on several times and even played vs on casual. Still no achievement. Ive finished Gears 1 and 2 as well.
  • Ok here it is people, think of it like training for multiplayer. Play games on casual until it pops up. If you have played Gears 1 or 2 and got multiplayer achievements or if you participated in the Beta it will unlock for you.
  • Fairly pointless in my opinion, what do 0 point achievements accomplish for people? Bragging rights doesn't seem to do it fir me.
  • To expand on what @108 said, you get this upon reaching Lvl 18, aka, when casual mode is no longer available too you. Assuming you didn't play MP in Gears 1/2 or beta.
  • You can play MP in gears one and two! My god people are you this thick headed?! Just get over yourself, they wouldn't do that to their fans. You get it regardless you played online MP in gears 1 or 2. I have it, and it was the FIRST achievement I got.
  • I just got this achievements without having Gow1 or Gow2 played. Just keep playing casual until it pops after some time. I got mine after 20 casual matches.
  • Fag
  • Shut the fuck up Zaft Althause
  • I would say it's less about the lvl you aare and more about the amount of games you play. Achvment popped up for me after 20 games of casual versus. I was lvl 16 and 10 of those were gained in versus. I would say to those who still have not had this achvment kick in, hang in there it will eventually
  • I got it right when stuck the game in the day I got it right when I was at the main menu hit start and boom zero g
  • PLAY ALL GAMES DUMBASS
  • i Havent got this acheivement and i have played gears 1 2 and finished 3 but i havent played multiplayer on any game apart from gears 3 reason being i just got on gold a month ago. but my housemate has played gears 2 on multiplayer and got too level 2 and then played gears 3 and this acheivement popped up when he got too the start menu. so im pretty sure you have to play multiplayer on gears 1 and 2 then play gears 3. nothing to do with the main game.
  • is casual like halo 3 basic training? never played gears before this one, and it won't pop up for me
  • I had gears 1 and 2 but never played online. For this cheevo I just played a heap of Casual games and I eventualy got it.
  • hehehehe... this is hillarious... so much bickering over something so simple... I played a multiplayer match on Gears of War 3 on the 21st of Semptember and got this achievement right away after the very first match... by the way I had fully completed Gears of War and Gears of War 2, achievement-wise, before ever playing Gears of War 3... did not stop me from getting this achievement in any way... so for those of you who say that people cannot get this achievement unlocked if they have played the first two Gears of War games... are WRONG and CONFUSED
  • Ive played a casual match but didnt got this...
  • "Ned's dead...sort of..." was cooler to get...
  • I turned on the game and it automatically unlocked for me. :/
  • So basically no one knows for sure. They only know how it worked for them. Some get it as soon as they start. Some after playing a certain amount of gears 3. Some who have played 1 and 2, some who haven't played either. A bunch of us still can't get it. Which sucks. To those who troll or read 2 or 3 posts and then post something stupid in response, you suck. I have 500 achievement points, and a bunch in both 1 and 2, and it hasn't unlocked for me, so you can understand the frustration. It is a stupid worthless zero point achievement, and the frustration stems from having to spend more than 10 seconds thought on it... But I plan to keep playing and hopefully it will randomly accept me as one if its own soon. I also plan to stick Gears 1 and Gears 2 back in the xbox to see
  • Sigh.... I'm Level 24 and spent god knows how many time on the casual multiplayer w. multiple MVP's and lots of other awards and still nothing.
  • @12 and evryone else who use #12 as a reference: I have achevements from both 1 and 2 and I beat the campaine and played Cas. VS and I still dont have this chevo. So if #12 is correct then why isnt it unlocked for me?
  • My mate brought his gears 3 round for 2 player. My personal profile and the one others use for 2 player have achievements from gears 1 and 2. All my mate did was select casual versus from the main menu and he got the achievement. After a few games i still hadn't got the achievement, so we went back to the main menu and I selected casual versus, but no achievement. ???? WTF
  • Never popped for me so i guess i'm stuck playing casual for a while...yay.
  • Finally it popped up for me! It took me a while to get it, even after getting a lot of MVP finishes.
  • Just got it little after getting to level 25 and getting 16 kills on top of that.
  • how the fuck do you get this achevment fucking mean it
  • i played gears 1 and 2, this achievement unlocked right as i put the disc in and it went to the main menu
  • Got this yesterday with a mate, we had a string of good games going (either me or him coming top each time) and after about 10 games the playlist locked up and kicked us out.
  • ive complryrf all gears of war games and i cant use casual mode :(
  • there is one way of getting this, by accident my son got this by using a hard drive without any saves from any gears games, played the multiplayer at the start of loading the game first time and up it popped. i failed to get this myself as i went onto campaign to start with.
  • I can play casual mode, but i got save files from both gears and gears 2...can i still still not get the achievmetn?
  • Yes i can get it, has nothing to do with the other games, just play casual long enough and it will pop, for me it took 2 matches...And i was level 34 when i did it so that doesnt matter either.
  • The achievement guide is wrong. I finally got this pain in the ass playing another round of casual mode. Easily the 5th time, maybe 10th I have done this, and I have 500+ achievement points in both 1 and 2, and have loaded up both games recently to see if I needed to download updates for them or something. Glitched achievement basically. and for zero points it just makes it more annoying.
  • I have played gears 2 online, and play in the casual multiplayer and still dont have this!lol
  • ME TOO #140 WHAT GIVES?
  • someone online said to do this on standard!!! thats wrong right? its casual! and my team won 5 death matched in a row and i got 10-20 likked per game so wtf???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
  • fuckin retarded people at epic just had to make casual for people who havent played gears 1 and 2
  • just got this the second i loaded up the game haha
  • I played both Gears and Gears 2 and I did not get this Achievement?
  • dumbest chievo ever
  • im pretty sure you had to play the beta?
  • I just put in Gears 3 and got the achievement automatically. I didn't play the beta. I beat Gears 1 and 2 on Casual, Normal, and Hardcore. I beat 1 on Insane, but not Gears 2. Hope that helps? I also bought the season pass.
  • I played Casual Versus multiplayer, but didn't get the achievement! I played with mostly AI's, though. Maybe that was why I didn't get it?
  • all you need to do is prove your skills by having more than 35 kills and less than 3 deaths and a moderate ammout of revives i don't think the downs matter and at least 3 pages or ribbons that did it for me but i was messing around in versus in standard first then in casual (unlocked in casual)
  • wont pop up at all and i played both Gears 1&2 and played the beta!
  • I have two profiles and have almost all the same achievements on both of them on got this achievent when loaded up and on didnt recieve it so pretty much this is a crappy achievement
  • gears 1, gears 2, beta??? don't worry about that! i unlocked this achievement after playing few matches on Casual Versus game mode (I haven't even won all matches) After that you will not be able to play on Casual skill level.
  • stupid achievement is stupid
  • What exactly is this? I got it as soon as I put the game in without ever playing it before. I did play the first 2 though but this was so random...
  • got it today at level 59 30 matches won 18 lost
  • appearantly this achievement pops up on starting the game when you have played gears of war 2 and have a minimun rank of 5 obtained in the gears 2 multiplayer
  • This achievement automatically unlocks if you have played either one of the previous GoW games in multiplayer.It will unlock by 3 standard ways: I.Automatically unlocked if you have obtained the "Always remember your first" achievement from Gears of War 1. II.Automatically unlocked if you have obtained the Level 5 achievement in Gears of War 2. III.Unlocked after you have played AND WON enough matches in the Casual playlist.

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