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I Made It All By Myself

I Made It All By Myself

Created and published an Escape Hive

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How to unlock the I Made It All By Myself achievement in Gears 5 - Definitive Guide

Updated solution to add thumbnail before playing your created map instead of after. June 3rd 21

This achievement is for creating your own escape map.

From the main menu, go to:

'Multiplayer'
'Escape’
‘Map sharing’

Press cn_RB to go to ‘My maps’
Then select create new map.

You’ll want to make the map as short as possible.
Making it longer is optional if you actually fancy making a decent escape map for you and your friends to play.

Select and a build a start tile (should be top option out of the 3)
Place the start tile anywhere you want.
Then select and build an escape tile (bottom option)
Place it above the start tile.

After that is done press start and edit Thumbnail
Press cn_back to capture thumbnail and confirm

Now after that’s done select ‘play map’
You have to play your own map first before it can be published. Once played on, return to editor.

Nothing else is needed now once all boxes on the right hand side are ticked.
You can customize the description and add tags if you wish.

Press publish to finish off.

Once published your achievement shall unlock toast
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06 Sep 2019 00:19

54 Comments
Okay so on an alternative account I tried this achievement following my guide step by step and of course I’ve run into the same problem with the map played box not being ticked!
So I’ve tired putting a safe room in the middle. Didn’t work. Tried adding a large tile with a hallway, dead end, exit etc. That didn’t seem to work either. Then tried it again but this time I put enemies and gun spawns in too and that didn’t tick the box either so not really sure what’s going on to be honest :( I’m going to try again tomorrow
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By M I K 3 ID v on 23 Jan 2020 00:52
Will now just pop if you just load the game up...
Gears 5 removing Map Builder, two achievements will auto-unlock
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By Torchstone on 30 Apr 2022 21:50
Can't get this to work. After I finish the map and choose the Editor, it kicks me to the main menu and says I never played it. Tried 3 times and same thing every time.
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By Haugse 0ne on 07 Sep 2019 23:13
The gears servers right now are all over the place. Keeps constantly kicking me from games of horde with my mates. Force quitting the game now and then too :(
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By M I K 3 ID v on 07 Sep 2019 23:44
Worked like a charm, thanks. There are going to be quite a few crap maps out there because of this achievement lol.
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By pezboyben on 08 Sep 2019 10:03
FWIW once published you can search for your map, select it then choose DELETE to remove it from the community maps
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By KAW 24 on 11 Sep 2019 00:11
@KAW 24 That's good to know, wouldn't want to flood the system with BS maps.
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By Anima Pura on 13 Sep 2019 10:41
keeps crashing for me, tried various maps
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By BaronVoNewman on 15 Sep 2019 10:05
Thanks mate worked great
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By Iggsy81 on 18 Sep 2019 10:01
if only this would work for the difficulty achievements we'd be in business
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By on 20 Sep 2019 04:41
mine refused to publish constantly saying it cannot be reached and published.... awesome, all that time creating it and playing it literally wasted. GG Gears servers.
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By on 20 Sep 2019 04:57
Published my map as described but achievement did not pop up for me.
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By Maaarc15 on 21 Sep 2019 20:03
Thank you for your long response! I can confirm that my achievement popped up the other day I started Gears 5
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By Maaarc15 on 23 Sep 2019 15:05
Not sure if this changed but there is an option at the top that says “valid map” and no matter what I do this box will not check off.
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By Anxsighety on 17 Nov 2019 12:41
Hmm, I haven’t been on the game for a week but I will look into that tonight, see what I can find :)
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By M I K 3 ID v on 18 Nov 2019 08:07
I got this Xmas morning using your guide, no problems. Thanks a lot. Will delete it later and redo it for a more legit map.
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By Robster80 on 25 Dec 2019 13:19
Xmas morning also, no probs. Thx.
Will delete later. wink
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By bogle1 on 25 Dec 2019 16:22
Thank you guys! Hope you had a great Christmas! smile
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By M I K 3 ID v on 26 Dec 2019 09:43
Just did it on 12/31/19 and it pooped no problem
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By on 31 Dec 2019 07:08
@ Anxsighety, I was having the same issue, but I was making a slitly larger map. When I deleted all the other stuff & just put the exit right on top of the start, it worked fine & I got the check for Valid Map.

And Thanks KAW, I definitely deleted my map. Too many of those small maps would really clog up the servers.
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By TinCannEd on 31 Dec 2019 11:32
I just published a couple today. Achievement didnt pop. I will have to wait and see if it pops later on.
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By gpriby1025 on 12 Jan 2020 21:46
Sorry to hear that, sometimes this achievement can be a bit finicky. Hopefully it pops for you eventually! I would try deleting the map and creating a new one
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By M I K 3 ID v on 13 Jan 2020 00:02
I just published a couple today. Achievement didnt pop. I will have to wait and see if it pops later on.
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By gpriby1025 on 13 Jan 2020 01:23
I’m having the same issues as Plague. I play my map from start to finish but it still won’t let me publish. Says I need to play my map before publishing. Try over and over to no avail.
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By TBS Nikolai on 19 Jan 2020 01:26
I will do that and see if it lets me publish.

It lets me play it over and over just won’t tick off the played checkbox.

Buddy tried and he’s having same issues as well.
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By TBS Nikolai on 19 Jan 2020 17:35
Same problem here
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By kabobles on 22 Jan 2020 06:55
Getting on that tonight. Has their been any updates recently? I’m thinking they’ve changed the play and publish requirements to stop people uploading maps with just a start and finish. Just a thought but I’ll come back with a update tonight
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By M I K 3 ID v on 22 Jan 2020 09:18
Tried it sometime during this week and it did in fact not register for some reason. I had a couple buddies tell me to repeatedly do it until the mark is checked, in which I am a bit lazy and not happy about redoing a simple method over and over. Will try again when I have time.
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By fabian907 on 22 Jan 2020 23:02
I’m pretty sure it’s just glitched for now.
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By TBS Nikolai on 23 Jan 2020 05:24
It could be! I just checked and the last time someone unlocked this achievement was the 16th January
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By M I K 3 ID v on 23 Jan 2020 07:39
Same as previous poster, have played my map multiple times, it still says “you must play your map from start to finish before it can be published”.

And I didn’t even do it for the achievement, I just legit tried to create a map for the fun of it, and when googling the error came upon this solution. XD

Seems map publishing is just straight broken...
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By WhyattThrash on 23 Jan 2020 20:52
A heads up that this is now obtainable again, suggesting it might have been a server-side issue.
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By WhyattThrash on 31 Jan 2020 09:29
Ah that awesome to hear! Hopefully everyone can get this now with no issues :)
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By M I K 3 ID v on 31 Jan 2020 11:02
Top guide,worked perfect,big thanks.
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By Reecyboyo on 20 Feb 2020 09:12
Very detailed description on what to do. clap
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By G Mason Patriot on 07 May 2020 14:18
Great solution, thanks! clap
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By netstryker on 10 May 2020 20:36
Thx for your attention to detail. 5💥 Game pretty slow today, but that was to be expected.
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By IceeLady on 18 Jul 2020 18:43
Thank you
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By Urban Huntsman on 27 Jul 2020 05:50
Thanks for the help!
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By Bunny Breakfast on 29 Nov 2020 14:28
I had to replay after adding thumbnail, so save yourself some time and do that before playing it the first time.
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By MadcowJay on 31 Dec 2020 15:46
Keeps telling me my map must be loaded to select a thumbnail and there's no way to grab a thumbnail in map
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By darkrealmslord on 02 Jun 2021 10:28
Did you get it sorted? I’ll look into it, they might of change some things with newer operations updates.
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By M I K 3 ID v on 03 Jun 2021 06:33
Updated the solution to add thumbnails before the map is played on. I tested it myself now was able to play the map first, then add the thumbnail after, then publish without having to play again. Must be a bug of some sorts. Although now i feel the thumbnail should come first to avoid any issues. Sorry for any inconveniences.
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By M I K 3 ID v on 03 Jun 2021 17:27
199 positives and 1 negative.. ouch! We nearly made it to 200 untouched lol cry
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By M I K 3 ID v on 05 Jun 2021 07:03
I don’t know people thumbs down w/out reason
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By IceeLady on 05 Jun 2021 08:24
Great guide, and a really great game feature by the way.

And because of downvotes: haters gonna hate...
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By tajbender on 28 Jun 2021 11:16
I created a map, played through it but it won't let me publish it...says has to be a valid map. What requirements makes it valid?
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By chrisarcade on 11 Sep 2021 17:02
@chrisarcade, did you try darkrealmslord? I kept messing up until his guide showed a little more details
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By IceeLady on 11 Sep 2021 21:23
I did exactly the start tile and end tile. GG
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By GumbysGumballs on 21 Apr 2022 15:50
I did exactly the start tile and end tile. GG
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By GumbysGumballs on 21 Apr 2022 15:51
i can't get these achievements to 'auto-unlock'
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By TuftyAlx312 on 19 Oct 2022 21:31
The achievement is a little buggy like some of the others. It might not pop on your first attempt.
I had it where my achievement for getting into a rank placement never unlocked while I had got into a placement in all ranked modes. The achievement ended up unlocking 3-4 days later when I booted up the game.
So your best bet is to try publish another map the day after and hope for the best. It will unlock eventually:)
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By M I K 3 ID v on 22 Sep 2019 09:19
Played my map several times and still doesn't let me publish because I haven't played it. angry
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By PlagueStallion on 18 Jan 2020 02:54
That’s very odd! I will try the achievement on an alternate account after this weekend and see if I run into any issues.
Unless they’ve updated it or something.
Try putting something between the start and the escape tiles. See if that works.
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By M I K 3 ID v on 19 Jan 2020 11:19
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By TheLightMaster on 06 Sep 2019 23:14
This is great but unfortunately their servers are so shit that it's not letting me upload
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By Arador on 07 Sep 2019 00:20
How to load map? It asks me to load map while try to edit thumbnail. Thanks
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By venksbond on 03 Sep 2020 12:35
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Other guides didn't work for me so here's how I got this cheevo. On the main menu select Multiplayer, Escape then map sharing.
Once in Map sharing press RB to go into My Maps and select Create New Map.
When the map creator page opens up you need to select a start block which will be the first block on the left of the screen, select it and press A to place it. Once its placed ther'll be a red square with a hand in the centre on the block you've just placed so move that square off to the top of the block until the hand changes to a spanner and hammer, Press A, this will bring the room selection menu up again.
move two blocks down until the Escape Exit is highlighted and press A to select it, move it until it's white and connects to the start block and press A to place it.
Press RB to go along to pickups and add a few of your choice on the start tile near where the tiles join.
Once placed press the menu button to go into the diting page and head down to Map Thumbnail (can't publish the map without one) and press A. This will bring up a picture that you just need to press the double square button to capture.
Once the thumbnail is done highlight play map on the menu on the left and play your map (it'll ask you to save it before playing so select that.)
Once you finish playing the map select Return To Map Editor to be taken back to the map building page and press the menu button to go into the editor page.
If all the Map requirements on the right of the screen are ticked then select publish in the left hand menu and the cheevo shoul pop when the bar on the top left has filled.
Once the cheevo pops you can use the same method to start the map to delete it, Multiplayer, Escape, Map sharing, My maps and select your map go down to delete and delete it and then you can spend some time building a more elaborate map if you like.
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02 Jun 2021 11:23

Mode discontinued, the achievement is set to auto unlock after signing in to the menu after booting the game.

Simply load up Gears 5 in Cloud Gaming, or install the latest version of the game/title update, then navigate to the main menu and the achievement will then unlock.
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27 Apr 2022 22:19