Gears of War 2 Double Experience This Weekend!

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Alan Pettit
Everyone taking the long trek to 6,825,804 experience points to max out at level 100 in the new Gears ranking system... here is some great news! The first ever Double Experience weekend will begin this Friday at 5PM EST and run through Monday morning at 9AM EST.
 
This first event will run through all Public matchmaking gametypes. Epic has said this is something they have wanted to do for a long time and will be doing again in the future, so look forward to more chances at shortening the time needed to rank up to level 100!
 
We will keep you informed of any future events like this.
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115
  • omg my account is suspended! =[
  • i have barely played this lately. but now i will probaly play
  • Meh, how much to u get for 1 kill?
  • #1
  • awsome those glithers will hate them selfs now
  • if you get all the points, then 175
  • Yaaaaa! but I have the prob with #1 :(
  • Sweet.. getting that 100 still going to take a long ass time.. good news that there is action being taken against the lvl 100 cheaters!!
  • i'm at 37 already, but imma see if i can't get close to 50 this weekend, nice can't wait
  • Time to add on my 50
  • Rank 100 is beast :D Talk about time consuming but its worth it
  • I'll be on... only if I can find a match. I was playing earlier and was searching for ten minutes. I just gave up and went and played something else.
  • Sweet! Can't wait.
  • 5PM EST Does anyone know what time that is UK wise? We are GMT if that helps? Cheers
  • Sweet. Normally I wouldn't give a rat's ass about Gears 2 mp but the past few weeks have been really good. It doesn't take me 15 min to find a match. Not its like 7 seconds
  • screw double exp i wanna see the connection problems and lag switching eliminated. i haven't played a legit match in months!!!
  • I've never played Gears of War 2 and only played the first gears for the single player but the thing that I'm wondering is, why does that max out level go to 100? that's a bit far and alot of exp to be gained.
  • cool.
  • They should fix the laggy, glitch-ridden multiplayer first.
  • I hope to be there playing it this weekend
  • Woooooooo!
  • oh man.. F me! I'll be in a clinical research study. They have internet hook-ups but their connection is so bad that it's nearly impossible to play. Unless of course you just run around holding the B button and just hope to God you chainsaw someone.
  • Didn't see this coming, now I must play me some gears!
  • Good news Time to kick on toward Rank 50 5pm EST is 10pm GMT Still lots of fake 100's online
  • I can't believe that Epic keeps making crappy new maps and giving us new achievements and double XP when their game is still a beta. It's completely ridiculous, fix the damn game first.
  • damn weekend hike!
  • Awesome. This train runs on time! (Hopefully..)
  • I might actually play online this weekend, I've got plenty of online achievements to get and the like.
  • i just used a calculator and getting the 6.8 million points will take just over 39,000 kills if you were to get all 175 pts...
  • Cool ! I'll be on this weekend :)
  • better play a lot of annex lol
  • Cool, been playing it a fair bit over the last few weeks, shall have to organise a game with a few mates on the weekend
  • @ 15: That's 10pm your time. Having close friends from the UK area pays off =) Hopefully I'll get my level 50 achievement by this weekend, I'm only level 36.
  • might be an opportunity for me to get the 3 KOTH achievement
  • WICKED i get an average of 1,500 points a game. If my maths r right IM HAPPY :D
  • (CONTINUED) IM GONNA GET BOUT 3,000 POINTS PER GAME... NICE. THX EPIC GAMES
  • sweet. hopefully if the game isnt laggy then i'll get a good amount of kills. i just reached the 25th rank today. so if i play on the weekend hopefully i'll be up to 40. which means im gonna have to start playing on the Snowblind Maps. just to be sure i get the lvl 50 achievement later in the course of my ranking. sucks its 6 million XP though!!! i wouldnt doubt if on GoW3 rankings takes 5 times longer than that!!!
  • Why do so many people moan about lag so much? Im from the UK and i will admit it's not perfect at all, but some of you make it sound like it's all the time. On topic double XP is cool im 44 so i'l try for level 50 this weekend.
  • gears 2 multiplayer sucks huge balls. gears 1 was fine. if its not broken dont try and fix it!!!
  • haven't played Gears 2 in months... is it possible to rank on the maps game was shipped with, or do you have to buy one or all of the DLC?
  • Sweet, going to get as close to 50 as posible. Currently rank 37.
  • this are great news :)
  • Well I hit lv 25 last night so maybe I can work my way through a good chunk of the next 25 over the weekend...probably not though!
  • FINALLY!!!!!
  • Some achievements just are ridiculous... this is one great example! :-/
  • This will make getting to level 25 a breeze. I got to level 15 in about 2 hours of play. So another 2 hours would take me to around 30 with Double XP.
  • i'm only on level 8... but i will be working my ass of this weekend to get to 50......... is that even possible?
  • This will be fun. Too bad my 360 is in the mail. =(
  • A lot of people have cheated for their wings, makes it hard to feel any sense of pride or point in getting to lvl 100! They should be dealt with!!
  • at #50 they were
  • @ #51 quite a few still havn't been dealt with, despite action been taken...
  • I went in to a few matches yesterday and there are still lvl glitched lvl 100's. I take no notice really ALL lvl 100's ive played against either quit or are really really bad.
  • Looks like i will be staying up most of the night this weekend playing gears 2.
  • yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
  • Why do they think adding double xp will bring people back to such an awful and poorly made game? Its like adding content to a game that came out on release, because no one plays it anymore.
  • This sounds sweet although EPIC most definitely needs to address the lag and glitching especially if they keep wanting your money every two months for some new maps.
  • And as for people complaining about glitchers being dealt with, Microsoft will never get everyone, there are far too many Xbox Live users to do it. I mean, my old credit card is still in their system and it cant be used, yet when my Xbox Live expired I didn't lose any of my Gold privelages, and its been like that a month now without me paying a thing. They will NEVER be able to determine every glitcher or hacker w/e. I don't know wether or not if your active a lot online affects this.
  • lol this sucks, I'm busy all weekend :( Ah well, good to hear they will be doing this again in the future.
  • sweet, just in time for my return from Uni this saturday!
  • I'm pleased with this - looking forward to the weekend.
  • #49 i know it sucks so much i hate RROD and my gold trial is running out on the 28th
  • too bad i have a life and cant join you lot!
  • Can someone give me an Australian time for the start of it? ~Bryce
  • Thhhhank Gooooooooooood, I'm stuck at 26....
  • you know ive bounced up to a big ol' level 5 in this so maybe ill shoot a little higher this weekend...
  • @17 they already fixed the lag switch problem
  • im gonna be out of town this weekend =(
  • Good thing I'm amazing at this game! :)
  • All you gota do is play Guadian you only lose like 10% of ur pints and thats why im rank 82!!!!
  • Can't wait for this, im a level 42 and should be able to get really close to 50 by the end of the weekend. If not higher!
  • Kant wait for this... gota tell the girlfriend to fuck off lol. rank 33 atm should easily be able to bounce to rank 40 woop
  • I barely play this game game.
  • ugh of course this is my prom weekend when they do this shit o well can't wait 2 get outta philly nd party down wildwood woo hoo
  • Awesome! :)
  • Gonna play some Gears 2 this weekend :)
  • awsome! but i got an exam on monday so i cant play alot :(
  • Ooo this just might give me the motavation to get myself and some mates off COD and back onto Gears Of War for the weekend. Unluck #77 my first exam isnt untill thursday of next week :)
  • About time it is still going to take a hell of a long time. People complain far too much about lag i am in Australia and i never seem to come across any other Aussies and always get put into a game with Americans or Europeans which is kind of strange and i get bad feedback if i finish with more kills whats that about?
  • I said to a friend only the other day if there isn't going to be no double xp weekends then i would never go for 100 but looks like EPIC proved me wrong and looks like level 100 will be mine one day
  • omg I am going to Rank up like 30 times
  • ive been stuck on 49 for ages ive just not had the motivation to play it really so this will make it a damn bit easier :P
  • ive got an exam on monday though :(
  • Madser, just a pitty I'm the worst gears player in the world I'll play it all weekend prob only get up a couple of digits
  • YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
  • No amount of double xp is gonna makeup for laggy games where the region filter just seems to fail. I cry for gears because it is a good game. When it dosen't mega lag.
  • How much is this going to cost me? You EPIC bastards.
  • Time to blow the dust off my copy of Gears!!!! :)
  • Just my luck, I have the 3 rings, and when I hear this,makes me wanna go buy a new xbox just to rank up. Thanks a lot EPIC
  • fantastic!
  • Will be on Saturday Evening
  • people who dont like this game r a load of retards because y would you wanna know about the DOUBLE XP if u dont play it????
  • @91... grats.
  • ill definetly play this weekend havent been playing for 3 weeks. im still just lvl 18 but this weekend ill be atleast 25
  • Great Now I can Score some points I am level 40 and I wanted to at least be 50 when Ghostbusters came out cause I will be on that till Dark Corners! Then its Dark Corners! Until Batman: Arkham Asylum Then its on to Splatterhouse then Brutal Legend then Aliens: Colonial Marines and then Aliens vs. Predator. And That Dosn't include Arcade games I want!
  • ill be pulling all nighters this weekend!!!
  • 6 mill getting it all this weekend
  • I agree with comment #17 the game is not worth playing if they don't fix the connections. so double weekend is a no go for me unfortunitly. can hard run for 3 secs with out teleporting on getting killed randomly even thought there is no one around me. they should of keep to the orginal way from gears one and allow people to host their games themselves. thats all i have to say on that matter.
  • sweet
  • Comment #25 ^
  • @79 We play later at night/early morning (We're Canadian/Californian my clanmates) so we end up getting into Europe players games which tend to be pretty laggy for us. But at least they don't parade around like they're better than us as much as the American whiners do. On-topic, I'm at 38 and work all weekend so I'll miss this one, but I'll be keeping an eye out for the next for sure.
  • Whoa site has it wrong. It starts at 5 AM eastern on Gears site.
  • bad ass cant wait
  • ohh I am getting on that for sure, level 50 here I come by monday haha, and by then my account will expire hahah niice, gives me a chance to catch up on my 1P games that I have longed to play
  • sure took them a long time to do what others have started. It's not surprising it took them this long to decided to do this.
  • its 5AM not PM,,,, 9AM in UK
  • damn i thought was pm :S ill be on that in a sec lol
  • looks like i'm going to be playing Annex for a while.
  • Thanks X360A for the info!
  • @92: The only retard here is you and your lack of grammar. This game really is bad online ad we all know it.
  • double exp! thats this weekend into a void then.......
  • Doub Exp!!! Nice now more people can donate to my 2.0 I can't wait til that "All Front Collections" come out Epic Games is tryin to save their Franchise
  • Doub Exp Weekend!!! Nice, now more people can donate to my 2.0; I can't wait til that "All Fronts Collection" comes out Epic Games is tryin to save their Franchise... Well see you on battle-field TEAM XxKrEaMxX
  • Gears Of War 2 rocks ...awsome news if tho Im still new to this game .....
  • i hope they do this every weekend
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