Gears of War 3 Updated Playlists

Gears of War 3 Updated Playlists

It's time for some consolidation

Written by SgtDigglesworth on 31 July 12 at 18:48 | Credit to Dominator Dale

Most gamers who enjoy the multiplayer in Gears of War 3 would probably agree that there was never a lack of playlists. Some could argue that with so many different playlists it caused issues with map rotation, matchmaking, and somewhat longer wait times when searching for a match.

Recently, Epic Games Senior Gameplay Designer, Peter Knepley, and Multiplayer Designer, Quinn Del Hoyo addressed these issues by removing and consolidating some of the existing playlists:

Forces of Nature Playlists:

Old School
Execution- 4v4
King of the Hill-4v4
These two playlists will be Alpha and Zeta combined,
with no stopping power, active reloads, no Hammerburst,
Retro Lancer or Sawed-Off Shotgun, and custom weapon
skins will not be available in these playlists.

Capture the Leader-will remain 5v5 with standard rule settings
Wingman-will remain 2v2 with standard rule settings

Standard Playlists:

Mercenary
Team Deathmatch-TDM with no parties
King of the Hill-KOTH with no parties

Team Deathmatch
Warzone
Execution
Guardian-has been moved to the standard playlist from The Forces of Nature playlist
King of the Hill
Team Deathmatch No DLC
Player’s Choice

What is your take on the new consolidated playlists? The new playlists are available now. For all of our Gears of War 3 news look no further then here.
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PILULE 1995
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Wingman 5v5?
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NEED NEW EVENTS
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Iso more events.
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does that Guardian move mean 2 achievements are unattainable now? I have 1 and was never getting the 10 kills as leader anyway (LOL) but some may be upset??
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As long as there is still a KOTH with no parties mode I'm happy.
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More Events please EPIC! I only need 2 more for the achivement...
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PILULE 1995 said:Wingman 5v5?I noticed the same thing...
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Baron Sqwelch said:does that Guardian move mean 2 achievements are unattainable now? I have 1 and was never getting the 10 kills as leader anyway (LOL) but some may be upset??It just means its map rotation will be on ALL maps.
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TAI JASON said:More Events please EPIC! I only need 2 more for the achivement...This! I only have one more and haven't got a new event for a few weeks now. I wrote to Epic on Facebook and they said they are recycling old events, it might be a while till we find ones that we missed. Hopefully they'll put some new ones up soon.
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Does anyone else have an issue whenever Gears 3 gets an update? For some reason every time a new update for the game comes out all of my campaign save data, progress on achievements and collectibles are all erased as if I just started playing the game from scratch.

Thankfully I keep my rank and medals but was just wondering if anyone else runs into this kind of problem or knows how to prevent it.
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The mercenary mode is the best one of them all, nothing more frustrating than playing alone and having an organized team crush you and all of your bots because the people quit since they can't keep up.
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Cobryza said:Baron Sqwelch said:does that Guardian move mean 2 achievements are unattainable now? I have 1 and was never getting the 10 kills as leader anyway (LOL) but some may be upset??It just means its map rotation will be on ALL maps.And it's already been that way for some time now.
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+1 For more events, war supporter is starting to annoy me !.
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iheartslampigs said:The mercenary mode is the best one of them all, nothing more frustrating than playing alone and having an organized team crush you and all of your bots because the people quit since they can't keep up.Just a question nothing personal but did you know that the Stranded playlists were No Party Modes?

The "Mercenary" hoppers are nothing new just a new name for Stranded. I'm guessing to make them more easily identified as no party mode playlists. It was quite surprising to see overtime people on the EPIC forums make mention of wanting no party gametypes and then asking what Stranded was when you told them to play in Stranded. Rare occurences surely but still interesting.
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TAI JASON said:More Events please EPIC! I only need 2 more for the achivement...Sorry to hear than man. I have War Supporter onyxed twice now. Wish I could donate some of these credits to you folks. It sucks that such a conditional and glitchy medal was included in the long haul that is S3.0. I myself randomly got it in just one weekend.

Cheers to the playlist update though!
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I also would like more events.
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Never a fan of the online play for Gears.
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Can someone please help me out? I recently purchased the game, finally. I know, took a while. Anyways, I'm really disappointed with the lack of people on versus matches, and even less on horde. I think the most I've seen worldwide for TDM was 2600 people. Please tell me there are more playing this game? Is it because I don't have DLC so it's not showing those people to be matched with? All I really want to do is complete the 50 damn waves of horde and no one can stay in the match more than 18 or 19 waves before leaving. Sorry for the minor rant, I just find it strange I can't get into good matches, for a game that should have hundreds of thousands of people playing it.
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Edge2099 said:Does anyone else have an issue whenever Gears 3 gets an update? For some reason every time a new update for the game comes out all of my campaign save data, progress on achievements and collectibles are all erased as if I just started playing the game from scratch.

Thankfully I keep my rank and medals but was just wondering if anyone else runs into this kind of problem or knows how to prevent it.
Are you playing on two consoles? My friend had a similar problem. He playing on his console after an update. Then took his profile on a USB to a friends house and played on a console that was not connected to the net and hadn't received the update. Then when he returned to his console, progress had been lost like you described.