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How to unlock the Seriously 3.0 achievement in Gears of War 3 - Definitive Guide

Nikke84

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15 Sep 2011 17:42

You do not need to have participated in the beta or be Lv100 in Gears 2 to earn this achievement.

Not all of the numbers from the official strategy are confirmed to be true. Please shout out if you find an error or if there are is any information you want to provide.

NickHawkeye made a spreadsheet to keep track easier, feel free to use it: Click here.

In total there are 65 onyx medals you need to earn in order to unlock the Seriously 3.0 achievement, you will also need to rank up to LV100 but that will most likely come automatically while going for the onyx medals (I'm Rank 59 and have only unlocked 2 onyx medals so far.). See my video for campaign boosting for a great way to earn XP. The medals have tiers, kind of like challenges in Halo: Reach, it goes bronze > silver > gold > onyx.

The information about every medal will look something like this:

NAME OF THE MEDAL
DESCRIPTION ( BRONZE / SILVER / GOLD / ONYX )
EXPLANATION/SOLUTION

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VERSUS MEDALS

Every versus medal can be earned in private matches with custom settings VS casual bots or friends, I recommend you to set the number of bots to "Fill" if you're going to play the matches otherwise you will not be able to earn any of the important ribbons. However, if you are afk playing, it helps to put the bots at 1 or 2 cause you will still earn progress to most of the medals.
Also remember that you can choose what weapons will spawn on what place, if you're going for fire kills for example, set everything to hammer of dawns or scorchers.

VENGEFUL
Execute (10/20/50/100) nemeses.
A nemesis is an enemy who killed you 5 times in a row without you killing him in the same match.
I don't have a super good method for this, I have been using 2 controllers and killed myself with the 2nd controller 5 times then executed the 2nd controller.

CAPTOR
Kill (50/200/500/1000) enemies with a captive.
Press X while standing next to a downed enemy to take them as captive, you can only use melee and your pistol like this. You can knock out a great deal of these while going for leader captures.

WAR SUPPORTER
Play in (5/10/20/30) Gears events.
Weird medal, been reported to unlock in private matches with different settings. The correct way to earn it is to play online during 30 different Gears Events, to check what events are coming up, go to the "Event Calendar" option in the main menu.

MVP
Earn (5/25/100/500) MVP ribbons.
You get the MVP ribbon by finishing a match with the most points. If you plan on playing vs bots, this will come way way way before you finish the 18,000 matches you need to play. Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

FIELD SERVICE
Reach Level (25/50/75/100).
You gain EXP from pretty much everything in Gears 3. You get the most points out of playing Ranked Matches, however expect your opponents to be more skilled than in quick match. If you don't turn off your console you never lose your consecutive bonus either.

VETERAN
Play (100/500/2000/4000) matches.
Create a private match of Execution or Warzone, set it to 1 minute and fill it with bots. Make sure your controller doesn't go inactive by using a wired one or a battery charger cable. If you don't have any cables you can pull out your battery pack during the countdown screen before the matches begin. Go sleep or go to school/work and when you come back you'll have tons of matches played.

MATCH WINNER
Win (50/250/1000/3000) matches.
Same as "VETERAN" except you can play the matches yourself if you really want to win every one of them. You can also plug in a 2nd controller for the other team to even out the odds.

HEADSHOT
Get (100/500/2000/4000) headshots.
You can score headshots with most single-fire weapons. Easiest for me is to down someone, then fire 2 rounds in their head with the snub pistol.

HEAVY WEAPONS
Get (100/500/2000/6000) heavy weapon kills.
One-shot, Mulcher and Mortar counts as heavy weapons.

EXPLOSIVES
Get (100/500/2000/6000) explosive kills.
Grenades, Boomshot, Torque Bow and Digger counts as explosives.

FINISHER
Get (100/500/2000/6000) executions.
You execute someone who is downed by pressing Y or X (meat shield) while standing next to them, chainsaw-kills and bayonet-charges also counts as executions and stack with kills for that weapon.

SKUNKER
Skunk enemy team (25/100/500/2500) times.
Win without letting the enemy team win a single round, cannot be won in 1 round matches. Recommend you to go for these while going for "Sovereign" and "Leader" medals or if you want them done as quick as possible, Warzone set to 2 rounds will be best. Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

LEADER
Earn (10/50/150/300) Untouchable ribbons.
You get the untouchable ribbon by finishing a round of CTL as leader without letting the enemy capture you at all. There is a trick to make you leader every round, you need to have 2 controllers and a dummy profile. Make your dummy profile the main player by pressing start with the 2nd controller at the "PRESS START"-screen, this will make your dummy profile the main player and you the secondary player. Start a match of CTL with rounds to win at 1 and cap time at 10, the key here is to put both you and your dummy profile on the same team vs 5 bots. The first match you start will have the dummy as a leader but every match after that you will be the leader! Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

ABDUCTOR
Capture (25/100/250/500) enemy leaders.
Earned in CTL by grabbing the other teams leader for as long as it takes to win the round. Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

ASSISTANT
Get (125/500/2000/5000) assists in Versus multiplayer.
Damage an enemy and let a teammate get the kill. Will surely come by itself if you plan to play in real matches online, if not, wait till you knocked out all the kill medals, then play KOTH or CTL with insane bots, find a place with a good view of the map and just spot and spray with your lancer, letting the bots do the killing.

MEDIC
Revive (50/250/600/1200) squadmates.
Press X while standing next to a downed teammate. These will most likely come while going for all the other medals, just revive whenever you have the chance. If you really want to knock these out fast, play CTL with bots and turn friendly fire on. Keep hitting/shooting your leader till he goes down, then revive him, rinse and repeat.

COVER
Earn (10/50/200/600) Buttoned Up ribbons.
You earn the Buttoned Up ribbon by spending the most time in cover in a match, using a meat shield will also count as cover. If you have a turbo controller you can get these while you let your game sit by putting something heavy on the a button. You'll get this medal every match this way. Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

ACTIVE RELOADER
(500/2500/10000/25000) perfect active reloads.
Will most likely come naturally while going for kills, otherwise, the snub pistol is the fastest gun to reload, master it and spam reloads.

LANCER
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Lancer kills.
Chainsaw kills counts as well.

HAMMERBURST
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Hammerburst kills.

RETRO LANCER
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Retro Lancer kills.
Retro charge kills counts as well.

GNASHER SHOTGUN
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Gnasher Shotgun kills.

SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Sawed-off Shotgun kills.

PISTOLS
Get (100/500/2000/6000) pistol kills.
Snub, Gorgon and Boltok are the pistols. Try to pick up a meat shield so you can work on "CAPTOR" at the same time.

SPOTTER
Spot (250/1000/5000/12000) enemies.
Aim at an enemy and press your left stick will spot them. Try to do this as often as you can while working on Rifle kills etc.

PYRO
Kill (50/300/1000/3000) enemies with fire.
Scorcher, Hammer of Dawn and Incendiary grenades are the fire-based weapons.

SAPPER
Destroy (10/50/200/1000) enemy grenades.
Shoot a grenade that is tagged to a wall or to the floor by an enemy. Easy, but tedious, to boost with a 2nd controller, just tag the smoke grenade you start with and shoot it with your main profile. You can also team up with a buddy for it, ViiETx made a video for that. Click here to watch the video.

GUARDIAN
Rescue (50/250/600/1200) leaders in CTL.
Make an enemy release your leader by throwing a smoke grenade at him/her or kill/down him/her. Chances are these won't come naturally, then you can put yourself and a casual bot on one team, a second controller on the other team. Put the bleedout to 5. Make it so the bot is the leader by finishing the first round (if he's not leader from the beginning.) then you just have to keep capturing him with your second controller and rescue him with your main profile. You can team up with a buddy to replace the bot if you want this to go smoother.

CTL
Play (100/300/1000/3000) CTL matches.
Same as VETERAN, except you can't set a time limit but set the capture time to 10 seconds. If you're going to idle play you can plug in a 2nd controller and set the number of bots to 1, make it so it's you and the bot vs the 2nd player. This will end the matches swiftly and you'll always win thanks to the bot on your team.

KOTH
Play (100/300/1000/3000) KOTH matches.
Same as VETERAN, except you can't set a time limit but set the ring score to 60. If you're going to idle play you can plug in a 2nd controller and set the number of bots to 1, make it so it's you and the bot vs the 2nd player. This will end the matches swiftly and you'll always win thanks to the bot on your team.

WARZONE
Play (100/300/1000/3000) Warzone matches.
Same as VETERAN. I always fill these with bots and maybe even put the time limit at 2 to earn as many "Last Man Out" ribbons, you need 3000 of these for the "HARD TARGET" medal.

EXECUTION
Play (100/300/1000/3000) Execution matches.
Same as VETERAN. I always fill these with bots and maybe even put the time limit at 2 to earn as many "Last Man Out" ribbons, you need 3000 of these for the "HARD TARGET" medal.

TDM
Play (100/300/1000/3000) TDM matches.
Same as VETERAN, except you can't set a time limit but set the stock to 10. I always fill these with bots and maybe even put the time limit at 2 to earn as many "Last Man Out" ribbons, you need 3000 of these for the "HARD TARGET" medal.

WINGMAN
Play (100/300/1000/3000) Wingman matches.
Best method is to use 2 controllers, put them on one team, make the amounts of bots 2 so it will be a 2v2 match. Set the time limit to 2 (For those really big maps like sandbar) and disable all weapon pick ups. The bots will rush and kill you almost right away for some reason, ending the match in 4 rounds.

ALLFATHERS
(Bronze/Silver/Gold/Onyx) Medal in all game modes.

MASTER-AT-ARMS
(Bronze/Silver/Gold/Onyx) Medal with all 5 starting weapons.

RIFLEMAN
(Bronze/Silver/Gold/Onyx) Medal with all 3 starting rifles.

HARD TARGET
Earn (100/300/1000/3000) Last Man Out ribbons.
Be the last person on your team to die, cannot be obtained in KOTH, Wingman or CTL. You'll knock out a great deal of these while afk-playing TDM/Execution/Warzone. If you still need more, turn on friendly fire and play private Warzone games vs bots. As soon as the spawn protection is over, kill all your team mates with the Gnasher and you'll earn a Last man out ribbon. Finish the match by suiciding or just kill everyone on the opposing team. Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

SHOCK TROOPER
Earn (100/300/1000/3000) First Blood ribbons.
Score the first kill of the round, can be earned in horde and beast as well but only once per session, not every wave. Must be done with bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

OLD SCHOOLER
Curb stomp (50/250/1000/3000) enemies.
Press Y (don't hold) next to a downed enemy to execute them with a curb stomp. Stacks with "Finisher" medal.

BATTLE MISTRESS
Play as a female in (25/100/500/1000) matches.
The female characters are Sam, Anya, Civilian Anya (COG) and Myrrah (Locust). See VETERAN for quick method.

SOVEREIGN
Win (25/100/250/500) CTL rounds as leader.
Almost the same as untouchable, except you can get picked up, you get credit as long as your team wins the round.

SPECIAL TEAMS
Get (100/500/2000/6000) map-based weapon kills.
Every weapon that is not among the 5 starting weapons count as a map-based weapon.

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HORDE MEDALS

FOR THE HORDE!
Completed all 50 waves of Horde on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane).
I have no good method for this yet, but playing with the mutators "Infinite Ammo", "Super Reload" and "Instagib" on helps A LOT. Read about a solo method here: For The Horde! Solo Method. MadmanRAB also made a video for it. Click here to watch the video.

HORDER
Complete (100/500/1000/2000) waves of Horde.
Cumulative, you can do the first wave on casual as many times as it takes if you want.

ARCHITECT
Earn Founder ribbon (10/50/150/300) times.
You earn the Founder ribbon by building a base, it's the tower like structures that you have to build to even start playing horde. Cannot be earned solo and only once per session per person.

SQUAD LEADER
Earn Point Man ribbon (50/150/300/500) times.
You earn the Point Man ribbon by finishing a wave with the most points, cannot be earned solo. Easy with a 2nd controller.

FIELD ENGINEER
Complete (100/250/500/1000) fortification modifications.
Barriers, decoy, turrets etc all counts as fortifications. Building/repairing/upgrading/reloading counts towards this. These will come naturally while going for the 2000 completed waves. Here is a fast method.

BIG MONEY
Earn $(100k/500k/1mil/5mil) cash in Horde.
Everything that gives you points gives you the same amount in cash, completing challenges also earns you cash. It's probably best to keep playing boss waves with mutators on.

LOOT COURTESAN
Complete (10/20/50/100) challenges in Horde.
If you complete 3 waves in a row without dying, your next wave will have a bonus challenge for you. It can be different side objectives like getting a certain amount of headshots, executions, chainsaw-kills, turret kills etc.

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BEAST MEDALS

I'M A BEAST!
Complete Beast without failing on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane).
There are 12 waves and you start with 1 minute on each wave, every kill you get will add time.

BEASTLY
Complete (60/180/360/600) waves of Beast.
Cumulative.

MOTIVATOR
Heal or revive (250/300/750/1500) teammates in Beast.
You have to play as the Kantus or Armored Kantus for this. Press X for your heal/revive scream. My method for these have been to join standard public games and play the savage drone until the Kantus is unlocked, then I just play the Kantus and spam X, can't heal all characters though, only those who are marked with a Locust emblem. You'll be surprised how fast this one goes up!

DISMANTLER
Destroy (150/500/1500/3000) fortifications in Beast.
The humans will build decoys, barriers, turrets etc. Destroy these by meleeing or walking through them. The Berserker is awesome for this purpose.

RUTHLESS
Kill (125/325/650/1100) humans in Beast.

INVESTOR
Earn $(100k/250k/500k/1mil) cash in Beast.
Same as horde, points = money.

HIGH ROLLER
Ready for the Heavies ribbon (5/15/35/75) times.
You get this ribbon by unlocking the final tier of locusts in a game of Beast, cannot be obtained solo. The more points you get, the faster you unlock new tiers. Unlocks at around wave 5 if using a 2nd idle controller. You have to actually buy and play with one of the highest tier locusts for this ribbon to count.

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CAMPAIGN MEDALS

KING OF COG
Earn (1mil/2mil/5mil/7.5mil) total points in Arcade mode.
You'll get this naturally while going for all the other medals, if not, replay chapter 2-7 on insane as many times as it takes. See Afficionado video.

NUMBER 1
Number 1 in Arcade (20/60/120/240) times.
Load up Act II chapter VII or the prologue and make sure you play splitscreen with a idle 2nd controller, shoot anything or everything to ensure you get more points than the 2nd controller. See Afficionado video.

WARMONGER
Complete all Arcade chapters on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane)

FORCE MULTIPLIER
Maintain max multiplier in (10/30/60/100) chapters of Arcade.
Act II chapter VII again, can be done in less than 3 minutes.

SURVIVALIST
Complete (20/60/120/240) chapters without dying.
Act II chapter VII or the prologue again. You need to play co-op for these to count. See Afficionado video.

AFICIONADO
Play (50/150/300/500) chapters of Arcade.
Act II chapter VII or the prologue again.

DOORMAN
Manipulate (200/500/1000/2000) objects in campaign.
You earn credit towards this medal every time you press a button, pull a lever or open a door etc.
Load up Act I Chapter I, after the cutscene with Jace you will climb up a staircase and open a door, right in front of you will be a piano. Walk up to it and press X to "play" it. There's also a piano right in front of you if you load up act 5, chapter 5. You can stop at any object scattered over the campaign really, like the Thrashball tables, co-op doors (if you're playing co-op) or buttons. Mash your X button for about 1.5 hours and you will have the easiest and fastest onyx medal in the game!

TOUR OF DUTY
Complete campaign on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane).
Stacks with Warmonger and if you complete it on insane right away you won't have to redo it for the lesser valued medals.

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Thanks for providing information goes to: rockinout69, Prowutski, Vindicator51, specularblinky, tigersrule, Foxfire49.

Another big thanks goes out to Z3RO 37 for helping me format the guide, making it a lot easier for the eyes!
Feel like I missed your name? Poke me!

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15 Sep 2011 17:42

429 Comments

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By Pyro1099 on 16 Sep 2011 05:24

Hahaha. Nevermind I noticed your gamertag :L.

By Pyro1099 on 16 Sep 2011 05:26

^Fail! :P

By Benchem on 16 Sep 2011 17:18

Don't be lazy Xeno!

By Benchem on 16 Sep 2011 17:21

Bah! Alright ... *looks at comments* wow HILARIOUS! im sure ...

By True XenoBlade on 16 Sep 2011 17:26

LOL

By The Onyx Kid on 16 Sep 2011 17:48

Holy fucking shit.

By Arbitrus on 16 Sep 2011 19:54

JEEZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is all...

By Ferrara316 on 16 Sep 2011 21:28

I agree with Arbitrus >.<

By MondoBondo on 16 Sep 2011 23:17

Wow, they finally came up with a way to keep people playing their game for years. lol

By on 17 Sep 2011 01:52

Just a quick question. To get the onyx medal for campaign and the 50 waves of horde do u need to complete them four times, once on each difficulty, or just once on insane

By JaredT84 on 17 Sep 2011 05:58

Have you done the rough math on all this yet? 6k per weapons, and such .. damn.. Would love to know the totals for all these.. bet it comesout to about 1mil. in everyhting.. gonna be hell getting someof these, but war is hell and that sounds like fun ...in video game anyway!

By B8TINGU on 17 Sep 2011 06:21

Ill answer your questions and the list will be updated tomorrow night, ill be without internet till then.

By Nikke84 on 17 Sep 2011 13:53

One thing for sure though, this seriously achievement will have a PROPER ratio. The first 1 is shit compared to what it requires, second one is easy though ...

By True XenoBlade on 17 Sep 2011 17:06

Wow, after seeing that silver was 500 kills in my game, i was thinking it'd be like 2,500 at the most, which i thought was kind of a lot. SIX THOUSAND?! Especially when campaign/horde don't count? Fuck..that.. With that said, I'll force myself to get there one day.

By Krazie on 17 Sep 2011 19:22

I think they went overboard with this one. I like a good, long-term challenge, but this doesn't come close to the first two seriously achievements.

By Barnsley Pal on 17 Sep 2011 21:22

6,000 kills per gun and a total of 18,000 games?? FUCK thats gonna takes years...
plus horde and campaign jeees

By Callum Rulez on 17 Sep 2011 23:57

Not really Callum. If he is correct in that you can play private matches like I predicted months ago (just ask any of my friends) then it won't take that long. In a 10 min match of king of the hill or whatever against bots on casual, you could easily get like 50 kills.

By SlayingADragon on 18 Sep 2011 00:18

Omg....game needs to hurry up and be released for everyone else so I can start on this :P

By Solario32 on 18 Sep 2011 10:39

Just to verify;horde mode does or does not count toward any or some or all of the medals. Also,does private matches eg. against bots count towards any either?

By CHRI5T0PH5R on 18 Sep 2011 12:34

i wonder how long it would take a person to earn this achievement

By steelworm on 18 Sep 2011 15:37

I have no real problem with the challenges themselves but when you want me to invest over 100 hours in each game mode, then there is when things get a bit ridiculous. But thanks for making the guide so early

By DJB Hustlin on 18 Sep 2011 16:16

I wish I had the game, so I could vote! Good job though...its a reference page for me now! Everyone is correct with one fact...this is going to take some dedication...2.0 was a cake-walk compared to this!

By Wyrmser on 18 Sep 2011 17:12

^piece of cake or walk in the park not cake walk
very nice guide

By Chris Turbo on 18 Sep 2011 18:10

^^ Cake Walk is a traditional American term for something being near effortless. Yah know after the game Cake Walk? Where you walk around in a circle and when the music stops they call out a number and if you're standing on it you win something? Guess not.

By Phantomzero17 on 19 Sep 2011 00:51

^ I like smart asses getting owned. :)

By Fatal RusH on 19 Sep 2011 10:17

CAN ANYONE CLARIFY whether in Horde and Campaign, whether the experience you earn counts for the leveling up system (e.g. level 50, 75 and 100)???

By Fuzz Magic on 19 Sep 2011 11:17

Yes it does

By iiM SO S1N1STER on 19 Sep 2011 13:33

But not towards your medals like 6000 kills with each weapon.

By on 19 Sep 2011 21:00

great guide so far!

By sC x BoOgEyMaN on 19 Sep 2011 23:29

FYI: (They're called "commendations" in Reach)

By DragonFangDan on 20 Sep 2011 05:31

I like how you've kind of made this a community team solution. You should add a section at the bottom for shout outs to everyone who's suggestions made it into the solution.

By DEVILS UMBRA on 20 Sep 2011 06:30

Thanks for the guide , very helpfull :D !!!

By alreadycrowned on 20 Sep 2011 10:44

Thanks for the effort and hard work on pulling this all together. As soon as I get my copy I'll vote this up! I really appreciate the work!

By ADROCKgreybeard on 20 Sep 2011 13:45

people need to get a life play the game for fun not for achievements

By TKOxKILLERWHALE on 20 Sep 2011 19:34

I'd understand ya BlueRecon ... i mean i would be pretty pissed at how pathetic i am if i had 4 games completed and 37% completion ... This is an achievement site, people DO play games for fun. Once that fun ends then what? We push ourselves to earn those glorious achievements which put more life into the games (even though some dont deserve it) Also FYI some people (like myself) find getting achievements as much fun as playing a game!

Stfu or gtfo

This is also a great start to Onyx medals too! Keep it up

By True XenoBlade on 21 Sep 2011 03:48

^ Win comment is win

By Woooof on 21 Sep 2011 11:55

Sounds like True XenoBlade needs to get a life...

But Seriously (3), how do 2 people have this already?

By WAKE n BAKERY on 21 Sep 2011 12:14

WAKE n BAKERY... its called cheating. That or they work in the industry and had a copy of the game weeks ago right after it went gold. I'm leaning toward cheating though to explain how those two already have it.

By Z3R0 S1X on 21 Sep 2011 12:26

Wow someone has alrdy completed the game?
Cheat?

By WalmsLo on 21 Sep 2011 12:40

Epic already said no one should have all the achievements yet, as it should take a while to get seriously 3.0 and that they would be working with Microsoft on any possible account suspensions or bans for cheating.

Awesome list by the way, I was going to make a spread sheet of seriously 3.0 just so before I start boosting I can plan out my sessions without contiunely having to go to the stats page.

By Mephisto03 on 21 Sep 2011 12:52

Thanks for all the input guys, I'm putting down as much effort as I can to complete these. I'm pretty determined to get Seriously 3.0 right now but the 18k matches and 60k-ish kills is gonna take a while. Even if I leave my game on every night and when I'm at work it's still gonna be at least 6 months.

By Nikke84 on 21 Sep 2011 13:15

I will be definitely hoping there will be some way to turbo controller this. Will take ALOT of the pain away. Any ideas?

By True XenoBlade on 21 Sep 2011 14:00

Nikke84, wont leaving an Xbox running all night every night burn it out after a while?

By WAKE n BAKERY on 21 Sep 2011 15:21

Do Tour of Duty and Warmonger stack?

By The Ju1ce on 21 Sep 2011 18:18

Yeah they stack.

By Nikke84 on 21 Sep 2011 18:29

Remember guys, this seems totally impossible now, but knowing epic, there will be events to help with this, I mean one of the medals & an achievement is linked to playing in events.

By Blair2100 on 21 Sep 2011 18:38

looking at the medals there is one for playing the beta. if you did not participate can u not unlock the achievement?

By xI Iceman xV on 21 Sep 2011 19:07

You don't need the beta medal for this. I will add it to the guide.

By Nikke84 on 21 Sep 2011 19:38

Good thing I hate Gears, have fun having no life.

By Scott is King on 22 Sep 2011 00:47

It isn't so hard (kidding). "SZ Camilinha SZ" (https://www.trueachievements.com/Gears-of-War-3-xbox-360.htm...) already completed it.

And what does T.A. do? NOTHING.

IncensedPanic82 (https://www.trueachievements.com/Gears-of-War-3-xbox-360.htm...) got Seriosly 3.0 too.

And we give hard to get these achievements legit ...

I hate cheaters!

By lordeleo on 22 Sep 2011 02:45

^ Don't worry that won't have it for long.

By Blair2100 on 22 Sep 2011 04:19

Anyone know if the Survivalist medal has to be earned in arcade mode or what?

By Darth Maul FTS on 22 Sep 2011 05:21

some wanker has already hacked gears 1 no way he could of gotten lv100 down all medals in one day
well two wankers have

By on 22 Sep 2011 08:31

your missing stuff for architect is 150/300

By Foxfire49 on 22 Sep 2011 13:57

ii Empty Magz - Good thing you are checking out the comment in an achievement for a game you hate. Have fun wasting your life while we are having fun playing what we love.

By Manifest95 on 22 Sep 2011 17:14

@ iiEmpty Magz- Hating this game is perfectly acceptable. I hated gears before I learned how to actually play it. Gears really is an acquired taste, it's not for everyone, and that's what we love about it.

By Snow Brigade on 22 Sep 2011 18:16

@Snow Brigade

I couldnt have said it better!

By Tinyshade on 22 Sep 2011 20:30

1 of the guys with this achievement unlocked does not have the achievement for beating wave 50 of horde?? wtf

By wBRY on 23 Sep 2011 01:02

Silver for Battle Mistress shows as 300 matches. It should be 100.

By perfectdozen on 23 Sep 2011 01:11

When I tried boosting with private bots on CTL, I was never the leader, and I played around 25 matches. This is going to make LEADER very very difficult to boost on your own.

EPIC did the fans of Gears a huge disservice by making this achievement so hard to obtain. It's not even a challenge really, it's just the longest possible grind to keep people playing for years.

By perfectdozen on 23 Sep 2011 02:02

CTL vs bots is broken, ive played almost 300 matches vs bots and never once been the leader. Epic better fix this.

By Nikke84 on 23 Sep 2011 02:07

So this is probably going to be the highest TA ratio achievement ever?

By DANgerous Mavu on 23 Sep 2011 03:15

I got Pyro progress with a single hammer of dawn kill, should be included as fire based weapon.

By Dr Worm Buffet on 23 Sep 2011 03:25

Thanks for all your input, the requirements are almost complete now. I'll be gone over the weekend but when I get home on Monday I will work a little more on the descriptions/solutions!

By Nikke84 on 23 Sep 2011 04:13

GOOD GOD, that is one brutal list, I think Life will prevent me from nabbing this one...

By Crimson Drifter on 23 Sep 2011 06:24

Thanks Nikke84 for this, very helpful.
Wow, Seriously 3.0 is... incredible, all of that, I knew it would be a bit long winded, but that's just rediculous.
I hope they back it up with lots of new DLC and events to keep interest in what is otherwise the longest grind in Xbox Live history! I'm loving Gears 3 so far, but without some great events and new DLC, that really is going to be a chore than a pleasure that's for sure.

By AceMcCloud on 23 Sep 2011 11:04

By AceMcCloud on 23 Sep 2011 11:44

If only campaign/horde kills counted for the weapons medals...

By liner bronson on 23 Sep 2011 12:34

in the end epic will patch the game 10 times and give away "medal progress 100 times" events. just to make sure people get S 3.0 and they will be rewarded with a new golden gun in the next gears of war game. wooh

By diabolical137 on 23 Sep 2011 12:49

Thanks Nikke84, now i know for sure that i never get this achievement. =D

By Hunter#8335 on 24 Sep 2011 01:39

The achievement should be for getting all the onyx medals since there is an onyx medal for reaching rank 100.

By Xbox Skully on 24 Sep 2011 03:31

You can be the leader in a private CTL match with bots, it just will never be the first round. It looks like the host is leader every 5 rounds.

By DivxKiller on 24 Sep 2011 13:28

If I played for a million years, I don't think I'd get all this done lol

By Knockout Moose on 24 Sep 2011 15:57

Any estimates on time for this? I ran my 360 going overnight with bots playing warzone (1 min round duration), and unless I counted wrong I only got about 200 matches played in about 7 hours.

If that's right then that's: 5 * 6 * 7 = 210 hours just for the warzone onyx, repeat again for the other 5 modes and you have over **1000** hours. And that's not counting kills, MVP's, wins, etc, or any of the non adversarial stuff (horde, beast, campaign).

C'mon Epic, this is just dumb.

By Pedle Zelnip on 24 Sep 2011 16:50

3 people already have this achievement? no way and two have completed it? I call shenanigans!

By AntaraelDulacre on 24 Sep 2011 17:01

Remove those three people who have it from the site, no way they've done that legitimately

By Acceleretto on 24 Sep 2011 22:29

well the idea is it is called 'Seriously 3.0' for a reason, so that when people see someone has the achievement they think... seriously??

By Hanx on 25 Sep 2011 00:08

The numbers for Veteran are wrong:

Silver is 500 matches
Gold is 2000 matches

By Pedle Zelnip on 25 Sep 2011 05:18

Match Winner is wrong as well, it's 200 wins for Silver, not 500.

By Pedle Zelnip on 25 Sep 2011 05:21

do CTL with 2nd controller and turn bots off and you will be leader every game

By wBRY on 25 Sep 2011 06:13

gave a negitive vote because this solution is no finalized and there is a lot of guess work in it.

also gave a negitive vote because of this:
WAR SUPPORTER
Play in (5/10/20/30) Gears events.
Weird medal, been reported to unlock in private matches with different settings.

you get this onyx medal by playing during gears events. Look at the calendar at the main menu to find them.

By on 25 Sep 2011 06:14

Sovereign is wrong: 100 for silver, not 50 (and I'd imagine that means that gold & onyx are wrong as well).

By Pedle Zelnip on 25 Sep 2011 06:34

I know im going be playing this game for a long time to come so i'm just gunna have some fun earning the medals then maybe after a couple of years see whats left to grind-I wonder if there are going be any silly DLC achievements on there way??

Good work on the guide

By Frostbite blitZ on 25 Sep 2011 07:16

I like getting all the achievements in games. I thouroughly enjoy playing for a 100% in every game, but this, this is absolutely fucking stupid. It has totally and completely removed any desire I have to play this game. I have felt that achievements have began to hurt games more then help and this has just proved my point I think I may be done with XBox 360 as well. This is so ridiculous, I am almost offended by the ignorance that EPIC has displayed with this bullshit. Good bye Gears of War, with one completely stupid ass move you have turned me away from your games for good.

By TR4rules on 25 Sep 2011 09:35

Well this achievemnt will take more more longer than seriously 2.0.... what a crap.... i had a lot of work on GoW2

By Lloyd Bangs on 25 Sep 2011 09:44

I think i speak for everyone when I say; WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY MAKE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ACHIEVEMENT SO FUCKING LONG I CAN SAY 110% WITHOUT A DOUBT I WILL NEVER EVEN THINK ABOUT DREAMING ABOUT THE DAY I MAY EVEN CONTEMPLATE GOING FOR THIS ACHIEVEMENT FUCK THIS ACHIEVEMENT IN ITS FUCKING ASSHOLE.....that is all

By ljp0390 on 25 Sep 2011 16:34

ljp0390, because this is the last gears game epic will make thats why

By on 25 Sep 2011 20:27

^^this will not be the last gears game. yes it'll be the last game with the stroy revolving around Delta squad. If you think Epic will stop making gears games after GOW3 you're smoking crack

By Ol Dirty Daz on 25 Sep 2011 20:42

There are people playing Gears 1 today, Gears 2, as well. Gears 2 is a 3-year-old game. I think after 3 years a lot of gamers will have completed this game.

By Toombs2008 on 25 Sep 2011 21:00

^^this will not be the last gears game. yes it'll be the last game with the stroy revolving around Delta squad. If you think Epic will stop making gears games after GOW3 you're smoking crack

By Ol Dirty Daz on 25 Sep 2011 21:03

for field engineer, if between rounds on horde you have one person shooting a turret, the person getting the medal stands next to the turret and mashes Y. This reloads the turret, and counts as a repair. You can easily get 100 or so in one round with this.

By danpsfx on 25 Sep 2011 21:33

>> do CTL with 2nd controller and turn bots off and you will be leader every game
>> Posted by YA BILLY on 25 Sep 11 06:13:26

Great tip as while doing this you also (quickly) work on Veteran, Match Winner, Finisher, CTL, and (if you play as the locust) Battle Mistress. You do *not* get credit for Abductor or MVP though.

By Pedle Zelnip on 25 Sep 2011 21:50

another easy Onyx is the Spotter...you can use a 2nd controller and just aim at the dummy and click left stick in...over and over until you get the required amount.

By wBRY on 25 Sep 2011 22:27

oh ya and another easy Onyx is the Revives...play CTL and turn friendly fire on...then just shotgun your leader and revive him until you get enough revives...you can also do a perfect reload after each shot if you want

By wBRY on 25 Sep 2011 22:30

A good way to get Last Man Out ribbons is to turn friendly fire on and then shotgun your entire team as soon as round begins in a game of Warzone

By wBRY on 25 Sep 2011 22:34

Prologue is NOT working for Survivalist

By Iceberg082006 on 26 Sep 2011 00:22

The doorman solution isn't working either. I hit the piano 50 times and it only counted it 21 times

By Iceberg082006 on 26 Sep 2011 03:54

For the Horde medal, mutators don't void this I just did it with some friends and unlocked the medal

By xblOrder on 26 Sep 2011 04:34

i hope these cheating fucks get banned from this site and from xbox. why glitch a fun and amazing game. finally there is an achievement that is really tough in gears and some losers already find a way around it. i hate these people.

By TheDeuterostome on 26 Sep 2011 13:41

they will get removed from the site eventually. I love this site, but the fact that their report team are a bunch of slackers really irks me. Its not like there is much research needed to know if the people with seriously 3.0 are cheaters

By Ferrara316 on 26 Sep 2011 14:10

The author of this guide needs to keep updating to get the best solutions for each medal up there. Hate having to search through 100+ comments to find them.

By hunterIV on 26 Sep 2011 15:17

Also, I have an idle boosting method to share. Only really works if you have a turbo controller. I start up a private match (usually execution or warzone) with bots to fill using female characters. I set turbo on the A button and just leave it be. This way, I get matches completed (and sometimes wins), matches complete with female characters, Buttoned Up (you jump forward to cover with turbo A), Last Man Standing. Pretty decent use of a turbo controller.

By hunterIV on 26 Sep 2011 15:34

Thanks for the constructive critisism and tips, I have not been able to update since thursday and it will delay until tomorrow. The reason a few of the requirements are wrong is because they have been taken straight out of the official strategy guide, I assumed these were correct but apparently they're not.

By Nikke84 on 26 Sep 2011 17:45

Slim Shady102 should be banned for two reasons: 1) he clearly modded his copy of this game seeing as how he started playing it six days ago and it's physically impossible to complete all onyx medals in six days. 2) he's from NJ [ewww]

By ClaytThaGreat on 26 Sep 2011 19:42

^ they didnt mod the game to get all medals, he just modded his gamerscore. he probably didnt even really play the game.

By Ferrara316 on 26 Sep 2011 20:28

Another turbo boosting method. I set up my controller to turbo left stick click to spot an enemy. Put myself in a match with a silver account second controller and have that turbo-ing away! Easy spots!

By hunterIV on 26 Sep 2011 21:00

@ Nikke84 you should take the the videos that the other two guides have and add them under the appropriate medal along with your video. Makes it a lot cleaner looking.

By iiM SO S1N1STER on 26 Sep 2011 23:00

Did you have to play the beta to get this achievement cause it is one of the medals?

By JOHN2689 on 27 Sep 2011 02:33

no only onyx medals

By wBRY on 27 Sep 2011 03:43

i can add the remaining info for the medals that miss the total ass soon as i get home

By evil terrorr on 27 Sep 2011 10:54

A really easy way to get 1000 Fortification Modifications (Field Engineer Onyx Medal) is to load up Horde on Thrashball with a second player or second controller, have both people acquire Frags on the appropriate round, and when you have a couple thousand dollars built up, have a player build a turret on the stairs. Now during the "off time" between rounds have the second player fire the turret and the first player who wants the medal mash the Y button to reload it. It costs about 20-30 dollars each reload but every reload counts and I was getting about 40 Fortification Modifications per go at it. After the down time is over, each player suicide with their Frags. You lose about 50 dollars for losing a round from what I noticed but you start over near the amount you had before. This also will net you the Infinite Ammo mutator which seems pretty clutch for Insane Arcade Campaign and Insane Horde. Hope this helps.

By Force Kin Fury on 27 Sep 2011 16:03

missing from survivalist is 120/240

By Morgothom on 27 Sep 2011 16:43

For Match Winner, if you have a 2nd controller plugged in on the other side while you do the Veteran method, you'll get a lot of wins since your team will be evenly matched against the other bots.

By Sashamorning on 27 Sep 2011 16:52

Remember people, Ticker Tuesdays coming up soon, so if you want to beat horde on insane easily, id save it for that.

By quinnpm on 27 Sep 2011 18:47

Will you get banned for doing this?

By WINK4193 on 27 Sep 2011 21:47

time sink. nuff said.

By Smedinho on 27 Sep 2011 23:57

I made up a spreadsheet for quicker overview. You can also save it as a checklist.

http://tinyurl.com/Seriously3OnyxMedals

By Sashamorning on 28 Sep 2011 00:21

I've got an easy strategy for beating beast mode on insane without dying. Needless to say, you will need five players working together. For the first few waves, have 3 people as wild tickers and 2 as savage drones. The tickers will clear out the barriers for the drones, and after the barriers are down, they will switch to explosive tickers and help take out the humans. Later on, when everyone has more money, the tickers will switch to serapedes and at least one drone will save up to become a berserker for the final round. The berserker won't last long, but they should destroy enough barriers and distract the onyx guards long enough for the serapedes to get kills. (One of our teammates wasn't listening and occasionally became a boomer or a kantus. We still managed to beat it without failing, so there is flexibility with this plan.)

By Wicked Jei on 28 Sep 2011 06:39

Tickers work really great in general, especially in pairs. They run up to a group, then one explodes downing the humans, the other explodes killing them. We did that quite a lot.

By Sashamorning on 28 Sep 2011 06:49

Ok I have a question i just beat arcade on insane but the warmonger onyx medal never unlocked.Do I have to beat arcade on 4 seperate difficulties?Someone plz respond because im tired of the campaign.

By Woolyguy24 on 28 Sep 2011 09:40

@Sashamorning- Kickass! Going to let a lot of these come naturally, but will certainly utilize this for those pesky remaining ones.

By Snow Brigade on 28 Sep 2011 16:55

@Sashamorning- you are a legend. Just saved me a few hours typing up my own sheet. Nikke84 should add this sheet to his solution (with your permission of course)

By MuddyAmoeba on 29 Sep 2011 04:43

Yeah... I think I'm going to pass on this achievement. Life's too short to play that much Gears, especially considering the quality of all the other games available.

By Sky Pony on 30 Sep 2011 03:17

It looks like someone did something about our cheaters who "completed" this game 1000/1000 already... On Xbox Live, all of their achievements are at 0/whatever even though they have a gamerscore. Good.

By LexiPants on 30 Sep 2011 11:53

This is sooo crazy.. Good I love playing it so I might get in one day..

By MATHlEU on 30 Sep 2011 14:03

This is one of the absolute best guides i have ever seen. Nice work!!

By DR HIGGLESTEIN on 01 Oct 2011 14:06

Great guide, doesn't deserve any of the negatives.

By Sanada on 01 Oct 2011 20:30

Thank you so much, it's taken me a while and I plan on updating it even further.

By Nikke84 on 01 Oct 2011 20:41

Guide is very good but I agree the categories should use bold text

By wBRY on 02 Oct 2011 02:26

OMG this will take FOREVER. Hundreds of hours. Maybe thousands!

By vSully on 02 Oct 2011 19:09

Idk bout you guys but I think those 4 modding assholes who have the achievement already need to be removed from trueachievements AND xbox live. Speak up and it might happen.

By Gogore WoD on 02 Oct 2011 19:32

I think you can earn the Founder Ribbion more then once in a single horde match i think you just need to wait so if you buy the first one on 1-10 you have to wait to buy the next one on 11-20. Not to sure, i will try to get back to you on this.

By NoobsUnited on 02 Oct 2011 20:20

This achievement will take a year of regular Gears 3 gaming, with boosting i suppose that could be halved.

By Leon Dreams on 03 Oct 2011 10:41

All those who say "have fun wasting your life" should question why are they reading and reply to achievement guides they have no interest in getting.... and claiming others are wasting their lives!

By dancrozier on 03 Oct 2011 13:36

Some people are at or are near Lv.100 already, so I wouldn't doubt it if people had this legitimately by the end of the year.

By KingBroly on 03 Oct 2011 17:39

I'm lvl 99 and I have only 13 onyx medals, the rank takes almost no time compared to the 18k+ games you have to play. Skunker and Leader will be the two most time consuming medals. I'm just going for those two as fast as I can and work on kills on the way.

By Nikke84 on 03 Oct 2011 18:03

No, skunker is a ribbon called "never had a chance", it requires a full room.

By Nikke84 on 05 Oct 2011 20:09

only medal I remember exp for was the Pyro onyx medal...I got 10,000 XP for that

By wBRY on 05 Oct 2011 20:37

id b embarressed to get this achievment

By MTpocKeTS on 06 Oct 2011 12:31

Considering this is a really long achievement and a really long guide, you could add for example a table of contents to CTRL+Find the medals you're missing, and perhaps put a total of medals in front of the gametype. E.g. Versus (X/65), X being the number of medals. You get a thumbs up for the effort, I know what it's like to keep track of a long solution, but this one will be a drag.

By Redodua on 06 Oct 2011 13:42

By AceMcCloud on 06 Oct 2011 20:22

I am glad they dont require you to have seriously 1.0 and 2.0

By keoskey on 07 Oct 2011 02:21

how come you don't have to have played the beta and got 2.0 for this? dont you get medals for that??

By JustSimply tom on 07 Oct 2011 09:45

I spent probably more time then i should have on this checklist but might as well share it.I made a checklist for all the medals using all the information from this guide.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkMKQm5rxtTMdFN...

I just found it handy to have printed out or on my computer screen while i was going for things so i didn't have to search down though. If you want to add a link to my doc so other people can have/save this for their own use please do. also this is my first public sharing of a Google doc or anything so let me know if anyone has trouble viewing the spreadsheet and such.

just a quick rundown there are 3 tabs. first one is a checklist with the descriptions of easy methods as provided in this solution, next is just the checklist and third is just the descriptions. again feel free to use and let me know if you have any comments. and good luck on the long long road ahead to S3.0

By NickHawkeye on 07 Oct 2011 15:25

Can you get the Skunk ribbon set to 2 rounds and with only 1 bot? I see specific ribbons are required with bots set to fill, but no mention of this in the Skunk method.

By Ferrara316 on 07 Oct 2011 16:53

You can't, you get progress towards skunker by getting "Never had a chance" ribbons.

By Nikke84 on 07 Oct 2011 17:28

first off its bots. if you cant skunk a team of bots that sad. but anyway i have 7 onyx medals. 2 campaign(insane on arcade which also gave me insane on standard). 4 beast mode(1100 kills i got 2 times, heal 1500 people as kantus, 1 mil gained in beast, and beating it on insane without failing) and 1 onyx in horde (build 1000 fortifications)

By i love cheese 2 on 08 Oct 2011 23:54

The bots are not hard to kill the hard part about it is the 5000 rounds that you will have to play just for the onyx.

By ll Lone Wolf lI on 09 Oct 2011 00:40

For Cover (gold) you need 200 Buttoned Up ribbons, not 300.

By Infernoblade on 09 Oct 2011 06:02

If you did not know already vengeful will be toned down as rod Ferguson says it's to hard http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?p=45...

By LGS I Hitman on 09 Oct 2011 16:38

This is the video where he talks about it 26:00-28:20
http://www.twitch.tv/epicgamesinc/b/296763512

By LGS I Hitman on 09 Oct 2011 16:56

@i love cheese 2, are you simply implying at my question that i cant skunk a team full of bots?LOL. I asked this question because when doing the KOTH match boosting, I was going to set it to 2 rounds instead of one. For quick KOTH matches, all you need is a second controller idle on the other team , with 1 insane bot on yours so you will get a win every single time, along with a quick match completed. (MAX 3 minutes) If i set the bots to fill, the matches wouldn't be so quick, let along I wont get a win every single time. You sir are a douche!

By Ferrara316 on 10 Oct 2011 15:02

Hey OP/all, just thought i would clarify "Force Multiplier" as i think the title can be deceptive. At first i was confused by this as the word maintain to me said that it needed to be consecutive, but this is not the case. Provided you finish the level with a blue flashing COG symbol with the x10 inside it you will get credit towards this medal. The only way on the suggested level is for no deaths and to take down at least 2 Reavers and all 4 gas barges. Also, sometimes if you get a barge low on health the drones commit suicide with a badly timed Boomshot making the x10 unachievable that run. I have done this on casual and insane (insane better for points, also helping towards "King of COG" medal, but second controller sometimes dies negating progress towards "Survivalist" medal).

By Skinstakovic on 10 Oct 2011 15:16

I just want to point out that for the "Number 1" Medal you dont have to shoot anything in the prologue, if you tie with the second controller player number 1 will always ean the ribbon,

By Pyro Jigamafre on 11 Oct 2011 05:54

By AceMcCloud on 11 Oct 2011 10:49

you cant be serius about all these things for one achievment ??? what a whaste of your live time man

By on 12 Oct 2011 01:27

Can't you just play CTL against an idle controller with no bots to get leader wins? Seems like the easiest and most obvious solution really... >.>

By paradox8493 on 12 Oct 2011 16:37

You can't.

By Nikke84 on 12 Oct 2011 16:59

AWESOME new guide for Campaign Arcade Chapters. I've got another 250 to go for Aficionado and your new method is going to make it sooo much faster than the Prologue, THANK YOU!!!

By spxyu02 on 12 Oct 2011 17:17

Ahh yeah I just tried and Leader and Abductor don't go up, but Sovereign does. Anyway great guide Nikke84, just thought maybe it was a solution that was so obvious nobody thought of it :P oh well, back to bots!

By paradox8493 on 12 Oct 2011 17:51

@spxyu02, what guide are you referring to?
Is it faster to do Act2 Ch7 than it is to do the Prologue, or are you talking about an alternative way even to that?

By Wanderer128 on 13 Oct 2011 16:27

I found ways to get 2 of the onyx medals more efficiently, one of them is for the Leader medal, the other is for the Architect medal.

Leader: Using a second controller, if you start a 2 round private CTL match and in the lobby keep your main account (p1) on the top of the team when switching the second account (p2) to the same team (doesn't matter which, and remember the lobby has to be set as "filled"), this somehow ensures that you get to be the leader on the first round. Then you just don't get captured to get progress towards the medal. You can do 1 out of two things afterwards.
1) Continue cycling 2 round matches, (p1) will be leader at least every other match (meaning 1:3 chances instead of 1:4 when in 5 round matches.), plus you get more matches in.
2) Go to main menu and start a new one if you only need the Untouchable ribbons.

Architect: Using 2 controllers again, just start a private horde match on Insane, start a command post, let (p1) and (p2) get killed. Then restart from the first wave and set up a new command post. Rinse and repeat.

Thank you for reading this.
(Deleted last post to make some changes.)

By Redodua on 13 Oct 2011 16:31

Wanderer: He's refering to my new campaign video guide, it's by the video links.

Redodua: Realised I havn't updated here for a while, this is pretty much a copy/paste from my original guide. Check out the leader medal, I have a better method.

Original guide can be found here: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33...

By Nikke84 on 13 Oct 2011 17:06

I think act 3-1 on insane with infinite ammo and active reload mutator gets points faster

By andrew 290000 on 13 Oct 2011 20:41

Campaign points are worthless though. You'll get king of cog while going for forced multiplier.

By Nikke84 on 13 Oct 2011 22:15

HaHaHaHa Guides... who need them ! I OWN this achievement. It was the easiest achievement ever ! HaHaHaHa

By JUNIOR CAPETA on 14 Oct 2011 00:22

Your just another douche bag modder. I don't know what your proud of the you ratard.

By ll Lone Wolf lI on 14 Oct 2011 01:19

What I'm proud of ? HaHaHa I have this achievement and you don't ! ! And there is nothing you can do about it HaHaHa

By JUNIOR CAPETA on 14 Oct 2011 01:29

And ban hammer in three...two...one...

By WithTheDawn on 14 Oct 2011 05:25

Well sure, if there's something major to edit I'll let you know. My last edit I just did some rewording and added a new video.

By Nikke84 on 14 Oct 2011 06:21

a great way to get "button up" medals and skunker when playing CTL. use the two controller method mentioned by Redodua. one thing to remember is once you have the second player signed in you should back out to the main start screen (where it just says start before it creates a party) then hit start with your 2nd controller (works with guest sign in or silver local account) you cant look at your main accounts stats this way but if you play 2 round matches then every round following the completion of the first your main account will be the leader for the first round of every subsequent match. now since you have to play these anyway first thing I do is take cover with my primary character (should be leader) as soon as that happens go capture the enemy leader with the second controller (make sure your on casual as you are putting your team a man down with the idle controller) once you win the first round you should see the "untouchable" ribbon pop then on the second round take your primary account an go capture the leader to get "never had a chance" for the skunker medal and "captive-ating" for the capture leaders medal. you should also have gotten a "button up" ribbon since you spent half the match in cover while as the leader. this way has also gotten me the MVP medal for the match almost every single time. I played this way for 50 min and got 13 of each of the mentioned ribbons (plus first blood most of the time) the longest time to complete a match (including the 30 seconds before and after each match) was 6:25 (this was because i lost the second match and they kept capturing the friendly leader in the last match. the average for the 13 matches played was about 3:06 with my quickest match clocking in at 2:36 (as i went i found out its quite possible on casual to run past all the bots and melee the leader down and with 10sec hold time they don't react quick enough to save her so some rounds only last 30 sec. (this is also a good time to "spot" enemies while you are waiting for the 10 sec to run up. sorry for the long winded comment but hope this helps some people

By NickHawkeye on 14 Oct 2011 12:21

For idle CtL, I set it up as me and insane bot vs 2nd player. The bot is the leader and he isn't bothering to capture the other leader, so I've instead set it up as me + player 2 vs 2 insane bots. The non-leader bot comes right at us and win each match in about a minute. I'd prefer to get match wins, so what do I need to do to get my bot to cap the other leader each time?

By vSully on 14 Oct 2011 15:00

Actually there IS something we can do about JUNIOR CAPETA. And I already did it. You clearly cheat. I've counted over 300 achievements you unlocked on 12/25/10 and over 150 on 8/8/10. You obviously gamesave you piece of crap. I reported you to the site admin and you WILL be banned from the site in no time flat.......

By I am Gozer24 on 15 Oct 2011 04:41

Anyone got any idea how the hell I am going to get the beta medal as i didn't pre-order the game. Plus this is just fucking crazy the amount of hours you have to put in to get this achievement anyone who gets this legally i take my hat of to them

By banned pirate09 on 16 Oct 2011 20:35

@banned pirate09 - Do you not read? It says at the top you DO NOT NEED the beta medal. Fail.

By hunterIV on 17 Oct 2011 01:11

My bad you don't need to get emotional hunter.

By banned pirate09 on 17 Oct 2011 11:22

How hard can it be for them to ban the cheats already? Geez.

By WithTheDawn on 23 Oct 2011 23:32

s, firstly if you have it, activate super reload and infinite ammo. I can confirm this method works solo but you will not earn various ribbons and medal progression. So why not be kind, invite a friend, maybe someone who has the mutators if you do not. Next start up chapter 3 act 1 on normal difficulty. The first gate is trivial but be prepaired for the second gate. Therefore at the beginning of the chapter skip the cut scenes until you take control of you character, pick up some frags and head up the left hand stairs. When you come to the outside bit there should be a boomshot on the floor behind you, it will not have infinite ammo (this mutator only works for starting weapons and snub pistol), pick this up for your gnasher and hold on to the ammo. Next just blitz the guys below until you see the catapult appearing in the background. At this point you run back to gate two spraying all but one bullet from the lancer, if your lucky pick up some more boomshot ammo. Get into cover against the wall, and if need be tell player two to get into cover behind you where they cannot get shot. When the locust breach the front gate you will get a quick cut scene. From here player two can remain ideal. Active reload and spray down the inbound locust. Blind fire normal bullets, active reload and repeat. The AI usually take care of the grapplers but stay vigilant. There is usually more than enough time to take out the locust infantry below before the maulers and grinders rock up. You've now got so many options to take these guys out, x4 frags, super reloaded lancer and pistol, dropping the gas tanks on them overhead by shooting them and finally active reload on boomshot gives you great damage and a few extra shots. I like to blind fire one off, active reload and then as soon as I hear they are coming fire a shot at their spawn, usually nets me a couple of hailmarys (towards the associated mutator, which would be a good one to activate for this grind). You get a stack of medals, points and progression towards other medals, your friend will also benefit too. NB. There are quicker methods by far for some of these medals, but its all progress right. All that's left to do is wait for the chapter summary to end and in that second or two before you see the checkpoint hit start button and select restart from checkpoint...back at the second gate, ready to active reload, friend/second controller safe in cover and a full arsenal ready to grind some locust. May the force be with you!

By SaltyFoal195030 on 24 Oct 2011 02:25

Firstly blind firing off a boomshot is not a youthamism, although I may adopt that. Secondly, just thought that when you have a good idea, odds are someone else has beat you to it, and his name is real impulse, check out his guide under the associated achievement. It has a video too. Finally awesome guide, seriously 3.0 got an initial F*** you when I first saw the requirements, but its growing on me, a bit like a tumour on the brain...its all I can think about. Hoping to see some of these requirements toned down. Anyway, I'm Ron Burgundy you stay classy TA.

By SaltyFoal195030 on 24 Oct 2011 02:33

check my video fastest way for FOUNDER RIBBON ONYX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRstGQpoGrI

By grasn reloaded on 24 Oct 2011 11:40

Nikee84 has an awesome method to knock out some of these achievements: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npeNu-Ozh9o

You can Onxy Number 1, Aficionado, Survivor and King of COG in about 3 hours using that video... its pretty genius and very fast.

By Twistedsymphony on 25 Oct 2011 11:45

@ people who hate this achievement, they planned on this being the last gears game, the game will still be able to be played 10 years from now (assuming no f'd up shit), this achievement is for the die hard achievement hunters and for those who love the shit out of gears and will be playing it and having fun with it for years.

By PHARREAL87 on 25 Oct 2011 21:35

This is just the last gears game in the trilogy...no way are MS letting this one go. Pendulum Wars game in 2-3 years max.

By WithTheDawn on 27 Oct 2011 23:00

And my (relatively recent) interest in completion percentage is now gone. Love the series. (Love playing this game with my wife -- pretty much the only franchise she plays.) But this isn't gonna happen. Meh.

By Rogash on 31 Oct 2011 02:56

Since people are still making a small deal about JUNIOR CAPETA cheating, he has been banned from TA and he has been reported on x360a for cheating his gamerscore so we'll see how long it takes Microsoft to reset him.

By Z3R0 S1X on 01 Nov 2011 13:03

I doubt Microsoft will do anything about it.... My former friend modded his gamerscore from 30k to 280k overnight, 9 months ago, and he still has his gamerscore last time I checked. Too many assholes abusing Jtags and Microsoft doesn't care about it's paying members.

By Gogore WoD on 04 Nov 2011 04:29

wow, this is a ridiculous achievement but a true test of patience to get it!!

By Famous387 on 05 Nov 2011 23:42

55% done......slowly getting there lol

By Solario32 on 06 Nov 2011 20:09

Can anyone confirm it's 1500 for the onyx leader medal? Really hope that's a typo, i'm up to about 200 and the idea of playing that many ctl bot matches is making my teeth ache...
Awesome guide btw

By Jayce of Bass on 07 Nov 2011 19:14

whats the quickest way to earn cash in horde? im sitting at 2 million right now.

By Ferrara316 on 07 Nov 2011 21:32

Jayce: Not a typo I'm afraid, I got everything except for Vengeful to at least gold so I can confirm all the numbers to be correct.

Ferrara: No real good method I'm afraid, I keep replaying wave 10 on casual with super reload on.

By Nikke84 on 08 Nov 2011 07:30

Top 5 hard onyx medals, 1. Wingman, 2. Old Schooler, 3. Vengeful, 4. Skunker, 5. Heavy Weapon's, these will take the longest

By OnTheSeshhLad on 09 Nov 2011 11:43

i would probably throw leader in there instead of old schooler, im at about 1200 and its been absolutely painful getting that high. i do think that skunker is a hell of a lot worse then vengeful, im eager to see what the patch changes if we see it anytime soon...

By freelance1986 on 09 Nov 2011 15:31

All those are easy as pie. Have Onyx in those except for Vengeful. Vengeful is the worst and seriously would be 100x easier without it...

By Pyro Jigamafre on 09 Nov 2011 16:27

i dont think Epic will patch anything on this game remember gears 1 we dont want anything like that to happen again :(

By OnTheSeshhLad on 10 Nov 2011 20:57

so for idle boosting nikke suggests using an auto fire controller that fires the a button to run into a barrier and then hide behind it for the buttoned up ribbon. Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap auto fire controller that works on the A button? I see all sorts of mega expensive auto fire controllers that do all sorts of programs and things, but they only mention auto fire on the triggers.

By Stu The Monkey on 15 Nov 2011 18:49

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Pad-EX-Turbo-Black/dp/B002LT9...
That's what I use.

By Nikke84 on 15 Nov 2011 19:10

thanks for the link.

By Stu The Monkey on 15 Nov 2011 19:52

The leader and vengeful medals will be lowered in TU2 which will be released in 4-5 hours. (posting it here in case it doesnt get posted on home page)
http://thecontrolleronline.com/2011/11/gears-of-war-3-title-...

By Mstrofdashadows on 16 Nov 2011 06:15

LEADER: 300 ribbon for onyx

By II darksmile II on 16 Nov 2011 11:25

VENGEFUL: 100 Executions against your Nemesis

HELL YEAH!

By Ferrara316 on 16 Nov 2011 15:41

Leader onyx - pop! My dentist will be so pleased...

By Jayce of Bass on 16 Nov 2011 19:52

I only have 5 Onyx medals lmfao, god this is gonna take a loooooong time lol

By Hanx on 17 Nov 2011 02:45

@Cobryza lol I got 21 now... It's still going to take ALOT of my time :( But yeah Gears is enjoyable so no problem lol

By General Joury on 17 Nov 2011 18:23

Hey i think i found a way to boost the finisher medal! start a private CTL match :friendly fire; bleed out time 5sec; 1 bot and the 2nd controller (or a friend) go to the same team, and you go alone to the other team.. down the enemy leader (if it's the bot) and press X then your friend (or you with the 2nd controller) shoot down the main profile and the bot and then rinse and repeat... the mian profile gets one execution for each cap.. and"your friend" gets 1 leader rescue for every time... that's all..

By Sgt BALI on 17 Nov 2011 18:29

I updated my shared checklist to reflect the good news 1500 untouchable ribbons was ridiculous. especially considering you only needed 500 for Sovereign

By NickHawkeye on 17 Nov 2011 19:25

By Sgt BALI on 17 Nov 2011 21:31

Thanks for all the thumbs up guys, appreciate it.

By Nikke84 on 18 Nov 2011 22:09

I don't mind at all the time and dedication this will take. I would like to have something that the "passer by's" of gears of war can't boost in no time. I think it truly separates gears fans from gamerscore fans and I don't plan to get this this year, probably sometime in 2012. My biggest fear is putting in the time and effort, just for epic to diminish the requirements for completionists. I would love to hear a solid promise from Rod that they won't destroy the integrity of the achievement down the road.

By Snow Brigade on 18 Nov 2011 22:35

This has got to be the most voted solution on the site by now. Great guide aswell, keep it up mate

By on 21 Nov 2011 21:06

I noticed the description for the TDM Medal isn't correct; it's really just a minor thing. I appreciate your effort for writing this guide! Thumbs Up!
I'm currently at 34 Onyx Medals (without the 'War Supporter' one; 'cause I want that one "legit").

By ComesBrothers on 23 Nov 2011 22:47

still no legit players with this achievement. No clue as to why TA has banned only a few of these guys and leave the rest.....

By Ferrara316 on 28 Nov 2011 15:33

That's 67,200 kill-centric medals, and of course you'd need many, many more than that to earn the achievement. Honestly, I don't see how anyone would even attempt to earn this. It seems like you'd need to spend years playing this game exclusively. And for what? A digital reward that means literally nothing? I'd rather play other games, read books, and have a life during the time it would take to earn this.

By Hoogs88 on 28 Nov 2011 15:57

^Why post this?^

By Legit Spam on 28 Nov 2011 18:01

Yea, seriously! We're at 11 people now! This achievement should still be around 30K TA Score and 0 people should have it. TA, do something! I'm at 42/65 Onyx Medals so far....

By Broa on 29 Nov 2011 02:15

Looks like Dragonwhisp3rer is the first in the world/TA to unlock Seriously 3.0 legit! Congratulations, all the players on this site who have this unlocked before him are all hackers, c'mon TA!

By Ferrara316 on 30 Nov 2011 20:37

I have created a leaderboard called "Seriously 3.0 Club" since the first legit unlocks have started to roll i and I'm pretty close myselfIll try to send out invites but its easiest if you just request entry whenever you unlock the achievement.

By Nikke84 on 30 Nov 2011 21:43

Could you add a link to the leaderboard?

By Avata on 01 Dec 2011 21:43

Here it is: Seriously 3.0 Club

By Avata on 01 Dec 2011 21:48

I wonder if top 100 is still possible...

By Broa on 02 Dec 2011 04:04

I know he probably is legit, but anyone has a feeling he's not? Is it even possible to have it already? Especially with the 3000 Wingman matches and all those other medals? It's a bit hard to believe....

By Broa on 02 Dec 2011 04:09

yes it is, if i wasnt so slack lately i would have it. 56 onyx with shit all left to do but a few weapons, idle matches and reonyx stuff :) can i just get in the leaderboard now so i dont have to request it later lol.

theres ever so many more people now with 50+ onyx. but you need to define legit? legit as in all public matches then hell no, you wont get those guys rolling in until atleast 1 year, probably 2, hell it could even be 3.

By freelance1986 on 02 Dec 2011 12:57

Two legit people have it now. If only I had 5 Xboxs and no school...

By Broa on 03 Dec 2011 21:46

How much does a turbo controller cost and where can I aquifer one? I like this guide by the way well done.

By RAVENxSPEEDSTER on 04 Dec 2011 06:33

@blue silk, you only need 3 xbox's and a few hours of free time a night. Its entirely possible to do it if you only play gears. But with so many great games out I can't stay focused on gears. Once I get my third copy I may just start hitting it hard.

@Bumblebee, Nikke already posted a link to the best turbo controller. Its around $35

By on 04 Dec 2011 07:16

How much does a turbo controller cost and where can I aquifer one? I like this guide by the way well done.

By RAVENxSPEEDSTER on 04 Dec 2011 12:51

I've been playing Gears Of War 3 everyday since it came out, and I'm only at 46 Onyx Medals, the only way I could see them getting it now is with 5 Xboxs, 10 Controllers and no school/work.

By Broa on 04 Dec 2011 13:37

that would depend on your play vs idle times, i only have 1 xbox and 2 controllers yet the only medal i boosted on here was heavy weapons because i really did not want to do that vs bots. also take out about 200 skunkers and 400 wingman matches as ive been in sessions for those buts its really not that hard to believe that people are getting it legit without multiple consoles. on the other hand i did get 1500 untouchables the day before it was changed so that was alot of wasted time.

currently i have 59 onyx. 99% of the time my xbox has ran since it came out doing something.

By freelance1986 on 04 Dec 2011 21:59

Lucky you, doesn't look like i'll be first 10 to complete GOW 3... 4 People so far, your next. I'm only at 47 Onyx Medals, trying to get Skunkers, Retro Lancer Kills and Execution matches done all at the same time. I only get about 7 hours weekdays to boost and thats if I don't have homework... And it seems in this game 7 hours can't even get you a Weapon Medal...

By Broa on 05 Dec 2011 01:24

Also how did you get 3 Onyx Medals in two days?!

By Broa on 05 Dec 2011 01:27

progression, i dont go from 0 to onyx in a day. ive had everything sitting at atleast gold for ages now. i think my last 4 onyx were pistols, skunkers, heavy weapons and warzone. i had a period where for like a week or 2 i didnt get a single onyx but it seems when it rains it pours so im getting onyx after onyx. it also helps to not work on the same thing all day, day after day. gets old fast so change it up from weapons to modes.

try to make sure you time manage so you can get the most out of everything. ive seen people with most weapons onyxed and all game modes onyxed yet 0 progess on skunkers, its like they didnt look at the bigger picture. if i had knew that leader was going to change from 1500 to 300 i wouldnt have spent so much time on it.

im not sure if i will be the next to get seriously 3.0, im aiming to have it by tuesday next week.

By freelance1986 on 05 Dec 2011 14:54

The first 100 people to earn this legit should earn at least a t-shirt or something that says "I AM F*CKING SERIOUS BRO"

By Snow Brigade on 05 Dec 2011 16:30

only 3 legit so far and 15 idiots on this site that havent been banned WTF TA!

By Ferrara316 on 05 Dec 2011 20:47

the only way you would have this achievement by now LEGIT is if you had no LIFE, no FRIENDS,no WORK/SCHOOL, no FAMILY THAT LIKES YOU, OR GIRLFRIEND. So if you have this achievement by now LEGIT you one sad person or you have hacked it like what most people do when there crap at there games

By OnTheSeshhLad on 06 Dec 2011 04:30

runningman4 0: or maybe you just suck.

By Nikke84 on 06 Dec 2011 05:32

Nikke84 how many Onyx Medals do you have?

By Broa on 06 Dec 2011 13:18

By Nikke84 on 06 Dec 2011 15:16

nikke84 get a life btw you suck at this game cause if your mate has the achievement so would you. oh but wait thats because he cant play the game he has to glitch it like the other 20 people now. one work for you SAD!!!!

By OnTheSeshhLad on 06 Dec 2011 15:46

Nikke84 you would probably have this one by now if you didn't spend so much time on this guide :p

By Snow Brigade on 06 Dec 2011 20:19

He could have been easily idle boosting...

By Broa on 06 Dec 2011 22:04

what people choose to do with their time is no one elses business, the fact that you actually chose to take the time to post that crap means you are atleast 1 of what you said. are you aware that a xbox has the ability to run even when you are not awake or when you are not home for work/school/friends/family/partner?

By freelance1986 on 06 Dec 2011 22:07

i just dont like cheat yeah and everyone knows that you cant have this by now unless you have been awake from the 20th of September till now. btw nikke84 if he say he has 58 onyx medals then that seems about right for someone who plays the game everyday. and freelance dont try and say am at least 1 of what you have said cause if you were face to face with me i would kick your head in for trying to take the piss. and i posted this cause i dont like cheats

By OnTheSeshhLad on 07 Dec 2011 04:14

You're just being an ignorant ass, I've spent around ~4 hours per day playing this game since I got it and idle boosted pretty much 95% of the time I havn't been playing. There are 24 hours on a day, plenty of time to do something else like work/school, friends, family. It's all about devotion and priority, I choose to play this instead of anything else on my 360 or watch TV shows, reading books or whatever most people do in their home and I'm sure the same goes for the three people on this site who legitemately unlocked it. You know you don't have the patience to devote yourself to earn this achievement so you're trying to bring us down to your level. keep trying bro, if it helps you sleep at night.
I don't like cheaters either but seriously, if you're gonna talk trash on cheaters, watch out so that you don't step on the wrong toes.

By Nikke84 on 07 Dec 2011 05:28

Under the requirements for "For the Horde!" you mentioned that you can "Read about a solo method here", but the link is missing :( Can you tell me where? Thanks.

By Avata on 07 Dec 2011 14:34

know what yeah you said that there is now 3 people with this achievement legit but the first guy got it a week ago. 3 people with this achievement in the same week now come on there cheaters and you know it. and nikke84 not trying to say your a cheater just the 3 GUYS IN ONE WEEK WHO SAY THEY HAVE THE ACHIEVEMENT BULLSHIT

By OnTheSeshhLad on 07 Dec 2011 15:27

Not sure of which of the above strong worded comments were for me, but I assure you I wasn't criticizing Nikke or anyone. I appreciate the guide and really meant it friendly, like, "hell, you would probably have this by now if you weren't busy helping everyone", which blue silk easily pointed out was wrong.

By Snow Brigade on 08 Dec 2011 14:46

Snow Brigade: Didn't take offense from your comment as I took it as a joke, allthough it might have been true :P

By Nikke84 on 08 Dec 2011 15:18

Snow Brigade: What do you mean I "easily pointed out was wrong?" All I said is that he was probably idle boosting when he wrote this guide, so he probably didn't waste time writing this. He was still getting his medals done...

By Broa on 08 Dec 2011 21:27

Lol at keyboard warriors. I would have this achievement by now (no I wouldn't) if I didn't take a 2 month hiatus from Gears 3. This guide is among the top if not the most helpful here on TA so thanks for all the effort you and so many others put into all of this to try and make other's time easier. Makes my efforts to help others with Black Ops Zombies achievements seem like nothing.

By DaChiefOfOwnage on 09 Dec 2011 03:37

Nikke84, how'd you go from 58 to 65 onyx Medals in 3 days?

By Broa on 09 Dec 2011 06:13

Finished horder, big money, 3 different game types and hard target. After finishing wingman I had like 5 ctl games, 20 execution games and 1300 warzone games.

By Nikke84 on 09 Dec 2011 06:28

@Nikke - Thank you!

By Avata on 09 Dec 2011 18:16

Skunkers are taking a large chunk of time. Probably one the most time consuming medals out there. How did you guys finish it so fast?

By Broa on 09 Dec 2011 18:32

@Nikke - Congrats!

By Avata on 10 Dec 2011 00:57

Look like TA is finally banning people...

By Broa on 10 Dec 2011 14:02

I had previously started a document outlining the XP you obtain when earning each different medal. I have now hit level 100, and it would appear that every medal you earn after that point gives only 1000XP (I've earned at least 3 and all have been 1000XP). As such, I can no longer update the spreadsheet with new details so I'm opening it up to the public. Anyone can now go to this document and contribute:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArxbOv976TEpdHp...

Please though, don't be a d#!%, contribute only numbers you know are accurate.

By Pedle Zelnip on 10 Dec 2011 19:51

None of it is "legit" anyway since people had to glitch the Socialite achievement. The first real Seriously 3.0 will pop when we hit the 30th event.

By a holy chainsaw on 11 Dec 2011 05:15

@a holy chainsaw: I hate people like you, people that don't know the meaning of legit. Legit - Legitimate; legal; conforming to the rules. They did not break any rules to get the achievement, they will never get banned for having the achievement. Your just mad you weren't the first one to get Seriously 3.0...

By Broa on 11 Dec 2011 05:27

I'm not mad. You exploit an obvious bug in the system to get an achievement, it's not legit, it's that simple. Judging by your reaction, obviously you spent a lot more time thinking about this than I have and trust me, I would NOT want to be know as that guy that got this achievement legit first. I'll get it once the 30th event rolls and I'll be perfectly happy with that. As far as getting banned, we can link Epic to the solution guide that very specifically teaches you how to exploit a glitch and see what they think.

By a holy chainsaw on 11 Dec 2011 13:24

I use the forums, and EPIC already said that it was their fault and there not going to ban anyone for it. Also no matter what you did the glitch was still there, what you expect people to stop playing Gears Of War 3 until it's fixed? It was there for like 2-3 weeks, doubt anyone is gonna stop playing Gears Of War 3 just for a glitch.

By Broa on 11 Dec 2011 14:23

Also looking for people that will help me get Onyx Medals without any help in return. Right now all I need you to do is sit in spawn. Send a message to my gamertag.

By Broa on 11 Dec 2011 14:30

Glitching is cheating. The end.

By SixtyFootMonkey on 12 Dec 2011 18:14

You are wrong... The End...

By Broa on 12 Dec 2011 21:17

You're delusional.

By SixtyFootMonkey on 13 Dec 2011 00:38

like i said before NO LIFE OR CHEATERS haha

By OnTheSeshhLad on 13 Dec 2011 07:40

Many gaming companies consider boosting an unfair advantage over others and many have took to banning over it, just because epic hasn't started does not mean that they are for it. If you say you are "legit" you better know that that means you never once boosted with others or another controller. With the insane requirements for this achievement I doubt anyone will ever be able to call themselves a "legitimate" owner of S 3.0.

By ll Lone Wolf lI on 13 Dec 2011 19:34

Killing bots, using multiple controllers and multiple Xboxs does not make you a cheater, it does not break the contract you made with Microsoft. Since achievements are 100% Microsoft the most EPIC can do is ban me from getting EXP. Like Bungie did to me, I got banned from getting EXP for two weeks after I finished getting all the achievements...

By Broa on 14 Dec 2011 01:30

I am not talking about bots as they were put in the game and Epic obviously intended for people to play with them. You stated and I quote, " Legit - Legitimate; legal; conforming to the rules". For someone to be legitimate they must abide by the rules not only of microsoft but also of Epic. Again epic has not been big about banning for boosting, modding, or glitching but if they knew a person or group was excessivley doing so they would start banning just as halo and black ops have done in the past. Just because achievements are as you say 100% microsoft does not mean you get to jump around Epic's rules and still be legitamate. By that logic I could go and mod in GoW and still be legitamate. If you can find an official statement from Epic saying they are not against boosting then you are conforming to their rules and are legitamate but I highly doubt that they would be for it.

By ll Lone Wolf lI on 14 Dec 2011 07:51

I have found many people saying that they get banned for AFK boosting and private match boosting therefore that means they broke one of Epic's rules but then I have also heard many say that Epic will not give you any penalty at all. It is really hard to find out if they consider boosting cheating as Epic has never really adressed it as far as I know.

By ll Lone Wolf lI on 14 Dec 2011 08:02

Epic set the rules by programming the achievements, nothing you say can change that. If they wanted the rules to be different, then they would program the achievements to be different.

By Nikke84 on 14 Dec 2011 19:07

And that anyone ever been banned from Gears 3 for idle boosting is very much bullshit, some developer even tweeted that they had no intention to care for what anyone does in private matches as long as there are no 3rd party tools involved.

By Nikke84 on 14 Dec 2011 19:08

congrats Nikke with getting 3.0 legit!

By AcE ViCTiMiZER on 15 Dec 2011 11:58

I would imagine if they didn't want S3.0 achieved with bot boosting, they would make the requirements online versus only, similar to the "foreshadowing" achievement. Much respect to anyone that ever earns this without private matches, yet that doesn't seem remotely possible; who the hell would get "vengeful" legit?

By Snow Brigade on 16 Dec 2011 18:37

I'm getting so frustrated with Seriously 3.0! I've been doing Skunker boosting for two weeks now, and i've done about 50 hours of boosting and I'm only at 1650! These dam bots keep on doing the cheapest shit!

By Broa on 16 Dec 2011 23:55

Don't know if it's been mentioned but mortars and frag grenades also count as explosive kills. Also, Hammer of Dawn counts as a fire kill.

By WeisGuy9 on 18 Dec 2011 08:22

Mortars are just heavy and map-based.

By Nikke84 on 18 Dec 2011 15:50

Microsoft has already said boosting is not cheating

By GrmRpr69 on 19 Dec 2011 05:16

Boosting IS cheating, Microsoft just don't enforce it. And Nikke84 can't have it legit when he acquired War Supporter because of a glitch...

By Hanx on 26 Dec 2011 03:11

It's just your oppinion, which I don't really care about anyway.

By Nikke84 on 26 Dec 2011 03:54

Fair enough.

By Hanx on 27 Dec 2011 18:06

I just got it! thank you for this guide. I can finally play other games lol.

By Shroomz0120 on 05 Jan 2012 06:49

Question. Does clearing your cache erase the progress towards seriously 3.0? I thought I heard that somewhere...can anyone confirm this?

By x athiktos x on 08 Jan 2012 02:01

I'd just like to mention that I've found the best way to idle boost CTL is with two controllers and /three/ bots.

With one bot on the opposition team they will always be leader and run out into the map, where your two should easily, and quickly, be able to capture them.

By Ackter on 08 Jan 2012 21:29

Thanks to the new Title Update, Warzone idle boosting is impossible... Instead of losing the round with your dead team, as long as you are still alive, you get nothing but stalemates and never end the match.

The quickest way for me to earn it now is to get 2 controllers on the same team, enable friendly fire and get them to smoke tag each other and bleed out for 5 seconds. It makes the match end in 10 seconds!

I hope EPIC fix their shit. They're just making game settings worse.

By TitleInLarge on 14 Jan 2012 15:23

i heard sumwere u can turn stalemates off in private matches not sure how so cnt confirm atm

By DemonDuffeh on 15 Jan 2012 18:13

@Diamond Thing: there's a 'Classic Stalemate' option in the private match configurations (the same one where you set the number of bots and round limits). Set it to 'Off' to get rid of that annoying behaviour.

By UpgradePolecat on 16 Jan 2012 22:17

@UpgradePolecat: There is not! That is the problem! *face palm*
Execution you can still boost but not Warzone. Do your research before talking to me unnecessarily at the end like a stubborn asshole.

By TitleInLarge on 17 Jan 2012 10:56

@DT: or, you could be clearer when explaining what you've tried. I assumed the option would be there. Also, try to not be an ungrateful asshole when someone is trying to help you, even if it doesn't help you.

By UpgradePolecat on 17 Jan 2012 17:47

@iBe Tubzz: The big problems are the big maps. The bots glitch out and don't move on maps like Sandbar, meaning nobody dies. Nobody wins. Endless game. :( Even weapons don't seem to get their attention.
You may sometimes if lucky get last man out, but mostly the bots won't come after you even if all your team is dead. As long as you are alive, you cannot end the match. Epic needs a slap to the face. They are abusing their costumers with awful updates and aren't focusing on the key problems.

@UpgradePolecat: You are a pudding... You should have done your research lol

By Okapiraffe on 18 Jan 2012 11:59

Great guide, but I will get this cheevo without boosting, or will I?

By FireRaiser1985 on 24 Jan 2012 00:15

TIP : Easy Hammerburst, Snub and Headshot kills ==> Play the gametype |Stay Frosty|

Instant Headshot with Snub and instant kills with Hammerburst.
Since there aren't a lot of people playing this list, it's easy to get in a match full with bots.

Peace out

By SIE Psyonaz on 25 Jan 2012 10:46

Tip for headshots: Its boring and tedious but its the quickest way as far as i know.

With 2 controllers go into KOTH with no bots and change all weapons to longshot, choose the checkout map.

All you have to do is go the the raised portion of the map and pick up the longshot, from that spot you can see all 4 spawn zones, but most of the time the other controller will spawn behind you.

If you have more than 2 controllers even better as quicker and more kills, also better if theres a few of you taking turns as more people to kill in quicker time.

By IveABrownThumb on 30 Jan 2012 13:12

does anyone know about / where i can find a list of the 'xp' awarded for every medal? (bronze/silver/gold/onyx)

thanks in advance

By p00p2 on 09 Feb 2012 18:35

Anyone know if the silverback counts as a heavy weapon on the map rustlung?

By Games Master on 13 Feb 2012 20:47

If you had to take advantage of a glitch in order to get an achievement, I don't think you have earned it "legit". Therefore, since nobody can technically have the onyx war supporter yet i don't think anyone has truly earned this achievement. But if you have boosted and have every other onyx medal --- well than I give you props cuz i only have about 15 so far.

By SloppyJoe811 on 17 Feb 2012 20:31

Best guide on the entire website.

I wish I could give you two thumbs up...

By Salty Old Dog on 20 Feb 2012 12:58

There seems to be some kind of really lame anti-boost method in place for the Doorman medal that prevents you from just sitting in one spot and hammering the X button. After seeing the notification that I had 1800/2000 for onyx, I started counting my button presses, and counted 800 interactions before hitting it a few more times and quitting to menu to check it. Stats screen said I had 1996/2000.

Apparently, when sitting in one spot and hammering the X button, every 5 interactions counts once toward the Doorman medal.

By Mobius Evalon on 20 Feb 2012 15:05

the best way to boost headshot kills AND explosive kills is in my opinion the torgue bow....
if you get a headshot you will also gain 1 kill towards the explosive kills

By lordevil3000 on 21 Feb 2012 19:53

Ackter's CTL idle method does work, just set three bots to insane with a guest on the other team and two bots on your team. Pretty much the matches went like this:
COG-
-Me (sleeping)
-Bot 1 (Leader; running around trying not to get captured and taking random shots at the enemy leader)
-Bot 2 (On offense; ran around chasing the enemy leader)

Locust-
-My guest (not moving)
-Bot 3( Enemy Leader; running around but always got captured by Bot 2)

Just set the bleed-out time to 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds so that Bot 2 has enough time to run over to Bot 3 before they can get back up. Also, if you don't want to play CTL after getting the onyx medal then be sure not to exceed 1500 matches played so that you have enough room for Sovereign.

By Debrimba on 23 Feb 2012 06:54

I need help, although he was 4 onix I renewed my level. When I picked up all onix I was at level 70, I arrived yesterday at level 100 (green) achievement not pop up. :/

By DAVID7741 on 23 Feb 2012 19:37

I found a very fast method for getting the onyx Field Engineer medal, which you can also use to earn the Infinite Ammo mutator if you have not already.

Firstly, make sure you have unlocked at least a level 1 turret in Horde. I was confused for the longest time as to why all these people were talking about fixing a turret and I didn't have one, but you need to play horde and spend tons of cash on fortifications until it unlocks. It takes about $75000 (or approximately 19 waves on casual) -- just buy and repair everything between rounds until you're broke.

Once you have a turret unlocked, choose any map you like, but I prefer Thrashball or Checkout just because there exists a turret six feet from the base you spawn near. Have your buddy (or second controller, as I did it) give you all their cash right at the start. Go buy the command post right near your spawn, then immediately go buy the turret. Have your buddy (or second controller) hop on by pressing X, then unload the turret into the ground.

Now here's the good part -- every button press counts toward the Field Engineer medal, so hammer the Y button as quickly as you can. You'll notice your cash depletes and the turret icon flashes as quickly as you mash the button, so you'll onyx this medal in no time. I got 85-95 fortifications toward the medal each time.

Once the countdown stops and the wave begins, exit to menu and repeat, or just play on insane and let the horde kill you to restart the wave. You'll onyx the Field Engineer medal in about 15 minutes.

By Mobius Evalon on 25 Feb 2012 03:52

If you have Re-upped at least once, you do not have to be a level 100 anymore to unlock Seriously 3.0. I was a red level 90 when I unlocked Seriously 3.0.

By SummitViking on 09 Apr 2012 23:24

OP can't join his own board. He used a second controller (hence not making his Seriously 3.0 legit).

By Aidenkael on 15 Apr 2012 17:41

thanks bro helped a lot in arcade mode ;D

By UltraMaster Ryu on 03 May 2012 20:35

For boosting CTL medals it is MUCH faster to use 3 bots with insane difficulty. I found that having the one bot as your teammate means it will always be leader and spend quite a bit of time running around trying to avoid your second idle controller. With three bots the matches end in less than a minute and you win almost every time. In my last idle session I won 135 of 138 matches!

By braKito on 11 May 2012 15:22

Would everyone shut the hell up about him and others who've gotten this using Idle boosts or second controllers as either cheaters or as someone who didn't get this legit!! Thing is, you still have to play the game for A LOT of hours, it's not like he used some crazy glitch or exploit. If you want to get it "Legit" and only do so online, good for you, more power to you, but the funny thing is, no one will be able to differentiate between those who only played online or those who did idle boosts, the achievement looks the same. So in the end, it comes down to people taking your word that you got it "legit".

By Vestri Sator on 10 Jun 2012 21:08

Hey does anyone know if difficulty matters for the Big Money ribbon? Or do points=money no matter what?

By NY x MeTs FaN on 13 Jun 2012 22:02

@NY MeTs if you're referring to a ribbon, you're in the wrong thread, look for "I've Done It All". If you're referring to the Big Money medal, then no, difficulty does not matter. Higher waves i.e. bigger enemies net more money. Difficulty determines the worth of that money and xp. Use mutators and keep instagib meleeing berzerkers and maulers.

By Snow Brigade on 15 Jun 2012 14:25

do campaign/arcade kills/reloads and curb stomps count toward the medals?

By Wilkos Wrath on 16 Jun 2012 12:05

No.

By FireRaiser1985 on 26 Jun 2012 16:49

Holy fucking shit! I can't believe this ridiculous achievement is only worth 100 points. This should have been the first ever 1000 point achievement!

By Hordriss on 01 Jul 2012 15:40

ive been slaving over this and im still going
you should totaly delete this guide for those 44 negatives though(sarcasm)

By BaneDain on 03 Jul 2012 01:12

BEST METHOD FOR IDLE WINGMAN 1 xbox only

Only thing you will need is 2 controllers and a rubberband.

Settings

Points: 10
Bots: 2
Bot Diff: Insane
Round Time: 3 minutes
FF: Off
All weapons Boomshots or disabled

Now after getting your second profile signed in, go forward to starting the game with those settings. When you get to the screen where you can switch teams, put both your second controller and you on one COG team, and the other two bots on THE OTHER COG TEAM, that is the most important bit.

The reason why is that the cog team will start very close by to you, versus the locust will start across the map.

After the game has loaded, rubberband one of the controllers joysticks together (so that you run in a circle) so the bots can spot you easier.

By what people have been testing it seems like the average round time for anything besides sandbar or trenches is about 30-40 seconds, making each match about 2-3 minutes.

You will get almost double the matches played versus just using the regular 2v2 application without putting both on COG teams.

Try it out!!!!

By Crimson Drifter on 03 Jul 2012 20:36

Close now, I have 62/65 Onyx Medals, hope to be done by the end of July. Skunkers, Assists, and Pistol Kills are the final three.

By DownInFlames85 on 04 Jul 2012 02:55

unf... 35/65

following your guide, for wingman, what difficult i must set for the bots?
because they are retarded and cannot find me on Sandbar~ -.- "stupid bots"

By Sc4rLeT WolF on 15 Jul 2012 06:04

I've been looking for a quick way to earn the weapon kill achievements and found this awesome thread on the subject: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=34...

Cliff notes:
1. work on CTL stuff first as it will boost up your pistol/headshot kills
2. work on old-schooler second, use the scorcher in a 240 KOTH on blood drive (down them with the scorcher then stomp)

3. after that work on the kills for weapons you use the least up to the ones you use the most (for instance I use hammer burst the least so I work on that first and I use gnasher most so I save that for last)

Method A: if you have 2 or 3 consoles/copies of the game your fastest method is to setup 1v3 or 1v5 team death match on small map with 35 lives. obviously set all weapons to the one you want to boost.

Method B: If you only have 1 console 240 KotH filled with casual bots on Thrashball (60 bleed out and weapon respawn: after use)
Here you grab the weapon at the smoke grenade spawn, then the one at the heavy weapon spawn. Shoot down the enemies from this position but leave at least one shot left. while you wait for the weapon to respawn you can work on kills for starting weapons). This works for everything but shotguns (in that case just pick a smaller map like checkout and chase down the enemies)

supposedly averages on the low side around 300 kills/hour with the hammer burst to 900 kills/hour with the hammer of dawn, most weapons net about 400-500 kills/hour

By Twistedsymphony on 17 Jul 2012 14:47

*er I meant to say weapon kill "medals"

By Twistedsymphony on 17 Jul 2012 14:50

HOW MANY EVENTS ARE LEFT IF THERE ARE ENOUGH TO GET 30 LET ME KNOW BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO START BOOSTING 3.0 IF I CANT GET IT
PLEASE HELP
SEND ME A MESSAGE IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO
THANK YOU

By PTP Lesko on 21 Jul 2012 22:12

HOW MANY EVENTS ARE LEFT IF THERE ARE ENOUGH TO GET 30 LET ME KNOW BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO START BOOSTING 3.0 IF I CANT GET IT
PLEASE HELP
SEND ME A MESSAGE IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO
THANK YOU

By PTP Lesko on 21 Jul 2012 22:58

Man really good work.

By whitedreams2 on 28 Jul 2012 20:10

@ Wolf, I've always put them on insane. Seems like luck of the draw on those huge maps, some nights i'll only get 60-70, other times I'll get well over 100, just depends what maps come up.

Boomshots seem to work best versus the disabled, but either way still works

By Crimson Drifter on 30 Jul 2012 16:00

How do I beat the campaign on Insane for arcade mode? I already beat it for the regular campaign. Is there like any difficulty glitch like the regular campaign where three play on causal and one plays on insane?

By GTAmissions1 on 03 Sep 2012 15:38

Great guide and thank you for doing this <3

By AG Bucky Barnes on 06 Sep 2012 21:58

@WL It depends on Epic supporting the game after Judgement. I think there are around 24 or 25 weeks left before Judgement assuming they release it mid Feburary. There are alot of variables I may be wrong on the release date, they may change the event schedule, they may delay Judgement, continue support etc. Lastly as of now you have to play 30 unique events which could be changed to only 30 events not unique ones.

By tjayars on 10 Sep 2012 21:25

I've recently been wondering this: will this achievement eventually become unobtainable?

Considering Socialite medal, I accidently got it 3 times when one of the glitch events happened (the very first digger event) when I was idling. I know many people that do not have the 30 events, and people are constantly starting to grind this now the Judgement is to far away, but I keep thinking that it will all be futile for them in the end due to no more events.

Very curious to see how this will turn out, as for me: 37/65, still a ways to go!

By Crimson Drifter on 13 Sep 2012 02:15

If I choose to re-up but don't have all the onyx medals, do I still get the achievement when I get all 65 medals or do I need to hit 100 again with all 65 onyx medals?

By Onlyonevince on 18 Sep 2012 02:53

You do NOT need to be dead on 100 when you get all onyx medals, as long as you hit 100 the first time you are good to re-up to your hearts content as it should pop when you get all 65 medals.

By Crimson Drifter on 19 Oct 2012 01:21

You don't need more than 1 Xbox to do this achievement, if you do then you suck. Playing against casual bots is better because they are ALWAYS available to play and don't require extra unnecessary electricity nor do you need to buy another copy of the game.

By Hanx on 30 Dec 2012 17:43

Electricity is hardly a concern, I'd say the bigger problems are buying extra copies and gold accounts. Besides, this is one of the few games that use guest accounts that let you sign in extra controllers on the same console. I don't know about anybody else, but all I used was one guest controller for match types so I could unbalance the 1 or 2 insane bots to my team.

By Mobius Evalon on 30 Dec 2012 21:57

If you are going for Skunkers by playing the matches (and perhaps combining weapon kills), I can confirm that stalemates DO NOT negatively affect Skunker progress.
For example;
If you have a 2round game of Warzone and you win round 1, but then get a stalemate in round 2, by then winning round 3, you will still get credit towards Skunker.

By Wolfie9985 on 16 Jan 2013 12:31

I've never had two Xbox 360s to work with in the past, but I am buying a second one very, very soon thanks to some extra income (and the fact that my fiancée always wants the TV when I want to use it...). I was wondering what kind of things I can easily boost by myself with two consoles. I am at 41/65 onyx. Medals I still need to work on include:

-Starting weapon, pistol, heavy weapon, explosive kills
-Headshots
-Executions/curbstomps
-Skunker
-Guardian (rescue leader)
-KOTH, TDM, Wingman matches
-First bloods

Thanks in advance for any help!

By hunterIV on 24 Jan 2013 14:15

My method for Heavy Weapons kills

-Warzone
-Gridlock
-15 Rounds
-Bots set to fill and Casual
-All weapons disabled besides longshot, replace it with the oneshot
-1 minute round duration

When the match starts rush the longshot spawn in the tower which will be replaced by a one shot. Since the bots are casual they'll be running slow so you'll get there way before they do. As all weapons are disabled besides the oneshot, they'll all be rushing you, usually in a straight line, so you can pick up all five kills incredibly easily with the oneshot, usually a triple then two singles.

Now sometimes you won't get them all with just three shots, but that's fine. I average between 70-75 oneshot kills each match out of a 75 kill total. Each match takes between 7-8 minutes depending on how accurate you are, if you're hitting quins a lot then you're gonna fly through.

This is easily the fastest method I know, so give it a try, and good luck!

By waddish on 17 Feb 2013 16:03

bit hypocritical isn't it? "I'm making a leader board for people who have seriously 3.0 legit, and here's how to do it with a turbo controller, a second controller, leaving Xbox on all night etc. etc ... that's not legit !

By The Cipriani on 25 Feb 2013 01:05

If you want to spend years busting your ass to get Seriously 3.0 in legitimate online matches, then that's your prerogative and the rest of us don't care. If we want to finish it in 3 months and play better games, then that's our prerogative and you shouldn't care.

By Mobius Evalon on 25 Feb 2013 01:18

Yeah, you go ahead with your "legit" methods. Meanwhile us hypocrites will have the achievement and be playing something else.

By WeisGuy9 on 25 Feb 2013 01:23

^There isn't really a "legit" way of getting this achievement, no matter what medal you are doing, you will eventually resort to using the quickest method to get things done, and if you have the resources (another xbox, turbo controller, etc.) why not use them. Unless you want to literally play this game for the rest of your life, you will have to result to other methods, than "legit" ways.

For example: I've played this game almost daily since its release (public TDM) since then I only accrued 1,800 matches out of the 3000, and that is only ONE gametype out of five.

...also after looking at your page, you are creating and joining boosting sessions for various games, seems hypocritical that you are saying what you are.

By Crimson Drifter on 25 Feb 2013 01:26

I have a full time job, plus a personal side job that I do from my home, friends I go hang with on the weekends, a loving family, and a girlfriend of 3 years. I just popped this a few days ago. So yeah, go troll somewhere else Lloyd you incompetent ass.

By Crimson Drifter on 07 Mar 2013 16:23

Something like eighty percent of Seriously 3 can be done without any effort on your own part. The Xbox can be left idle and/or you can get into sessions where you do one-fifth or lesser of the total work for 100% of the gain.

Though, anybody who does this completely in legit multiplayer most definitely does not have a life.

By Mobius Evalon on 07 Mar 2013 22:39

Is every guide on this site taken from xbox360achievements?

By Col Double D on 05 Apr 2013 16:17

Uh, just so you know. I am the author of this guide and I post it wherever I feel like.

By Nikke84 on 05 Apr 2013 22:54

By Crimson Drifter on 05 Apr 2013 23:29

well i beat the game insane arcade mode and it only unlocked casual mode for me in the medals when I should of got the onyx medal, i got the onyx medal for beating the campaign. Any suggestions??? am i glitched or something?

By lMORGMANl on 29 Apr 2013 01:24

Has anyone actually come up with a good way to do assists on your own with multiple consoles or any way that's actually fast? I still need First Blood ribbons, so my current plan is to run 15 round Execution on small maps, getting First Blood and 4 assists on AFK guests. I just hope the damn insane/hardcore bots follow me over faster than the casual ones.

I'll offer a couple tips of what I've done lately for some annoying ribbons with 2 consoles....

1. Leader rescues aren't nearly as hard as you'd think with 3 controllers and no bots. Fearless .44 showed me the method originally and the two of us traded about half of them. Just use the jumping over sandbags trick and get yourself coordinated (smack, smack, grab, jump, repeat). It's not bad once you get into a rhythm. The bridge on Highway works well and tends to keep the leader being captured from wondering.

2. Motivator - I did this with 4 controllers. I played far enough into the waves to unlock the Kantus on my main, then turbo'd the X button. I spawned my Kantus every round with 3 Butchers and ran them out to get shot at and healed. Probably a 2-4 hour project.

3. I think someone asked about what controller to use for Spotter. A Hori Pad EX2 is amazing for this kind of stuff. You can set the stick button to autofire, then rubberband the trigger for aiming.

By on 06 Jun 2013 18:08

If anyone is still going for Sapper alone, I came up with a pretty tolerable method. I was using 3 controllers (2 consoles) but this'll work with 2. Set everything to frag grenades and load up Mercy. Spawn your main with a Hammerburst and park it up at the rear center where the mortars spawn. Now just use the 3 nade spawns at the church. One dead center and one on each side. Plant them on the posts along the front of the church for easy view and snipe them with the hammerburst. My 3rd controller was grabbing the nade spawns in the back of the map since I was using them faster than they were spawning. I probably ended up with 60-80 per 20 minute round.

By on 10 Jun 2013 00:39

Great Guide man +1 vote

By Raw Sauce Ross on 19 Aug 2013 03:08

LOL at those that use multiple consoles. It can easily be done with just one Xbox. Assists can be done by playing the game normally against human players. I have it Onyxed 3 times by naturally playing

By Hanx on 31 Oct 2013 11:01

lol at us for turning something that takes thousands of hours in legitimate online play into a couple hundred of boosting. How dumb are we to not want to dedicate our lives to one game, right?

By Mobius Evalon on 31 Oct 2013 15:54

Yes indeed. I also had fun playing legitimately so nothing lost. :]

By Hanx on 09 Nov 2013 10:49

Idle Boosting on Warzone and Execution is impossible. If one team has more players, and the time runs out, it's still stalemate. Even with insane bots, they have a hard time killing the last man [me] for some reason. This sucks!!

By Vanglak on 23 Nov 2013 02:06

Ok, I'd like to edit above comment. Execution has stalemate on/off and it works. maybe 100 matches per 6 hours. but as for Warzone, since the update. This seems to work best. 3 insane bots on 1 team, two controllers on other, set 1 round 3 min, FF on, Boomshots.

By Vanglak on 04 Dec 2013 12:15

Wow, this achievement is just so completely intimidating, it's actually funny. I still struggle with the first two Gears games, but kinda (in a very sadomasochistic way) look forward to this ridiculous challenge. I won't ever complete it, mind you, but still gonna try :)

By Bumsen42 on 30 Jul 2014 17:51

For anyone still trying to knock this out. If you are working on your Old Schooler medal for 300 curb stomps change your control scheme to alternate. Huge issue I faced was when curb stomping my game would prioritize changing the camera to a downed teammate over curb stomp so it would screw you over often. I should also point out that you will get a shitload of assists doing this medal, I don't know why but my Bots are just inclined to kill every damn enemy I down. Kind of annoying since I could easily be pushing 50-60 kills per KotH round on raven down if all my kills weren't stolen. Still averaged about 40 per round though.

By on 23 Aug 2014 19:38

just don't gulch out other wise you will never get the achevment

By Star Strikar on 26 Aug 2014 10:09

Great guide!

By Punzley on 13 Oct 2014 16:11

You could update WARZONE method because thanks to the new Title Update, Warzone idle boosting is impossible. You don't have "Classic Stalemate" option anymore. In large maps, the bots don't find you and instead of losing the round with your dead team, as long as you are still alive, you get nothing but stalemates and never end the match.

I found good tips reading comments:

"...This seems to work best. 3 insane bots on 1 team, two controllers on other, set 1 round 3 min, Boomshots."
Posted by Vanglak on 04 Dec 13 at 10:15

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"The quickest way for me to earn it now is to get 2 controllers on the same team, enable friendly fire and get them to smoke tag each other and bleed out for 5 seconds. It makes the match end in 10 seconds!"
Posted by Diamond Thing on 14 Jan 12 at 13:23

By rafa1000house on 20 Jan 2015 14:15

DOn't listen to dloyd, his life is near destroyed.

By on 26 Mar 2015 22:54

3 gold accounts is excessive. System Link FTW.

By on 27 Jun 2015 20:16

What Onyx medals MUST be done over Xbox Live as opposed to split screen? I know War Supporter is one are there any more?

By MannedPython070 on 10 Jul 2015 04:20

@MannedPython070, I'd say "I'M A BEAST" because it is nearly impossible to do it without failing alone or with just a local controller. I did it on Trinchers map (the easiest one) with 3 more players.

By rafa1000house on 10 Jul 2015 22:20

Thank you for this guide. After I won this, I drank a beer and fucked like crazy whoooo!!!!!!!

By RisottoRage on 20 Oct 2015 17:50

Anyone know where I should start? Any tips would be appreciated, but please, if you do have some, pm them to me so I don't have to scroll down a mile long page every day. lol

By AwakeDeadeye on 30 Jan 2016 15:08

The game has been out for 4.5 years. There is literally nothing you can come up with that is not already the modus operandi.

By Mobius Evalon on 14 Feb 2016 11:13

http：//www.gearsofwar.com

By kenjisugita7 on 24 Mar 2016 08:23

really hard achievement especially if you get a STAT RESET after 1000+ hours thanks to their shitty save sytem i am now back to level 1 and lost EVERYFUCKINGTHING!!

By raidenhardcore on 06 Jun 2016 12:23

That's why you should do a back up save on cloud, I got reset and I went for it again and everything I make progress I do a backup save just in case I get reset again

By Razzer070 on 16 Sep 2016 11:59

I see nothing on the event calendar.
How can we do those now?

By ParadoxReal8 on 18 Feb 2017 15:03

The event calendar has ever had anything useful on it.

By Mobius Evalon on 18 Feb 2017 17:55

How do I ensure I will not be reset with playing on the Xbox One? What do I have to do to back it up from time to time?

By Coffee OUFC on 14 Dec 2017 17:29

So I've been working on this a bit as of late.. currently doing pistol kills coupled with headshots.. I finished the captor kills. Using Nikke's strategy, but I've moved to the Mercy map.. play as Locust and you can post up at the cover near the well, directly in front of the idle 2nd controller. You're closer and have a better angle. I've also noticed that turning the "Gore" off.. seems to make the death animations quicker. The bodies also fall backwards.. instead of with gore on, forwards. So if you accidentally down the bot, you don't have to move him ever. I'm doing TDM set to 25 kills.. so every 4 matches I'm netting 104 kills, which takes about 25-30 minutes. I'm just now over 2000 pistol kills and need 4000 more.. even if I do 4 matches/104 kills a day.. it'll take 40 days! I mostly have just weapons to do.. so many kills.

By Xenolith666 on 28 May 2018 23:45

This solution's comments were hilarious back in the day. So many salty, pissed off gamers with pathetic completion percentages trying to put down people who really wanted this achievement. Like how more transparent can you possibly be? These guys were never gonna put in the time to get it so they felt the urge to disparage everyone else who actually was. Jealousy is a bitch.

By The SCHWARTZ 00 on 29 Jun 2018 08:49

^THIS! LMAO! so true tho

By jasonlc3221 on 21 Nov 2018 22:19

By Maxterfeak3 on 02 May 2019 05:18

Do all VS medals have to have bots set to fill?

By Homunculus Fury on 07 Aug 2019 04:48

I found out the silverback rockets on rustlung count towards the explosive medal. It's a nice boost compared to running around trying to find explosive weapons that don't want to spawn.

By Voraga on 27 Aug 2019 02:10

@Homunculus Fury: No, bots only need to be set to fill to get ribbons.

I'll get this achievement one day. Maybe.

By Mercado on 01 Nov 2019 18:52

Does anyone know if idle boosting still works on 360?

By xTheFetusGodx on 11 Nov 2019 02:53

@xTheFetusGodx yes idle boosting still works. I just got onyx in wingman earlier today after idling for what feels like a month.

By Voraga on 13 Nov 2019 05:04

Don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere, but a super good method for Shock Trooper medal (and also pyro kills, explosive kills, and map-based kills) is to play 15-round warzone with filled casual bots on Gridlock. Set all weapons to disabled except for the longshot; set that to either the hammer of dawn or the mortar and you'll get 75 kills and 15 first bloods in ~10-12 minutes :)

By PerilousPWN on 15 Dec 2019 09:14

Just want to add that Wingman can be easily done by double boxing. Just keep quitting out with the dummy xbox and rejoining. I've done 700 since 6am this morning

By kd rio 007 on 21 Dec 2019 15:37

est-il encore possible d'obtenir la medaille belliqueux ? car il n'y a plus rien dans le calendrier d'évènement ?

By Dynamite games on 03 May 2020 16:25

Yes, they made it to where that medal unlocks after one game.

By Homunculus Fury on 04 May 2020 04:56

what do you mean? ^

By Iceberg082006 on 04 May 2020 16:33

For the events medal

By Homunculus Fury on 05 May 2020 05:17

oui celle la je n'arrive pas a la débloquer...

By Dynamite games on 05 May 2020 17:59

have you played the event play list i think it's still brothers til the end? I know that epic had given everyone 29/30 events so it would still unlock the associated achievement.

By Homunculus Fury on 05 May 2020 18:05

Thanks for your answer i test it yesterday , i played all the map on brother to the end and nothing change on the medal ...

By Dynamite games on 06 May 2020 18:33

Is it stuck at 29/30 or no progress at all?

By Homunculus Fury on 06 May 2020 19:18

i am stuck at 1/30....

By Dynamite games on 07 May 2020 21:40

are you on x1 or 360 maybe that makes a difference?

By Homunculus Fury on 08 May 2020 16:05

this is fn insane

By MrKoolxDood on 09 May 2020 05:40

This one achievement convinced me to not even start GoW 3. I even gave away the disc to a friend to remove the temptation.

By Gilbert Prime on 24 Sep 2020 21:19

Currently 4 / 65 onyx. Long way to go. Those beast ones I think are going to be my main problem

By ACxSkywalker on 28 Oct 2020 11:35

Currently glitched again, as the War Supporter medal is now unobtainable again.

By AvengeELchpo on 24 Feb 2021 15:20

Is there any chance to get the war supporter medal?

By xxHAWKBITxx on 21 Apr 2021 15:14

How long has war supporter been glitches for this time? I got reset and if it doesn't get fixed no point in trying for 3.0

By EmperorBello on 13 May 2021 12:11

If anyone likes to come grind with us we are a gears achievement hunting community
https://discord.gg/2MW36VVrtf

By ImQueenBoo on 31 May 2021 06:51

You can’t get War Supporter anymore.
If anyone wants to boost Seriously 3.0 and ribbons with me, get it contact. Thanks!

By VanillaLatte44 on 08 Jun 2021 20:21

War Supporter is fixed as of yesterday. Same rules apply as before (i.e you need to do an event that you didn’t do back when the game was active)

By The S bot 9000 on 16 Jun 2021 16:44

Like S bot 9000 said: It's fixed

By oh Gentle on 17 Jun 2021 12:09

Correct, it’s now fixed. Hopefully for a while now at least.

By VanillaLatte44 on 03 Jul 2021 08:36

https://gears5.com somebody ought to give me MY 100%

By kenjisugita7 on 04 Dec 2021 01:11

Thank you for this in-depth guide. I'm working on this achievement with the goal of obtaining this achievement next year. I'm open to working with people if it makes certain things go quicker.

By Happy Dog CPH on 18 Dec 2021 20:14

Weopon kills is it versus only or do they also count in horde

By MARKY BO1 2k13 on 10 Sep 2022 01:57

Both I believe, but I’ve personally done it on versus, with 3 Xbox’s and 6 controllers, I set it to myself vs 5. Don’t have bots set to fill.
I still need to work on most of the horde stuff (beast too). Feel free to PM me if you have any further questions.

By Happy Dog CPH on 11 Sep 2022 14:55

Stopped going for this many years ago. The medal for completing Horde on Insane would never unlock for me. I think I got 40 something medals before discovering that. If anyone has any ideas, I’d like to go back and complete this someday. I’m no longer hopeful though.

By SchiZoPHreNiikz on 01 Oct 2022 16:44

Bro, this might the most insane Achievement I have ever seen 😂😂 I played the hell out of Gears of War 3 back in the day and even today (Co-op campaign) but I never even tried this achievement, it is just too much time consuming and I prefer to be sawing some grubs in the Team Death Match over interacting with 10.000 objects just for one Onyx medal 😂

By SeñorMarstón on 06 Nov 2022 10:55

is it still possible to get the events onyx medal

By Fallout#5293 on 03 Jan 2023 23:09

Idk why but now if u do the trick where u take the batteries out during the count down when u select weapons and map. after 15 20 minutes the game automstically pauses for you the only way to afk is with a plug n play or a wired controllwr

By Snatch Snake on 28 Jan 2023 10:52

@Snatch Snake mmm, it doesnt happen to me, are you sure you set your lobby as local? I havent had that problem and I am boosting medals.

By iFx So lHappy on 03 Feb 2023 17:09

Everyone reading this... nowadays we could use xCloud, I recommend to use it for All fathers medal, if you have an old phone or device you could set low brightness,keep charging and once you start a match, you make a xbox live party and that is all, it would be avoiding to be quitted of xcloud.

By iFx So lHappy on 03 Feb 2023 17:37

The spreadsheet is great!

By Orran Durai on 23 Feb 2023 12:51

Got this achievement and all others back when this game first came out 10+yrs ago on my old account. This new profile I have had for several years cause I cannot recover my old, I want to go back and play the gears series but doing this grind all these years later just to 100% one of my favorite franchises is very useless. For a game this old to grind for these achievements is ridiculous

By ToMiSIav on 06 Mar 2023 06:59

I think your post is kind of ridiculous

. Nobody forces you to grind all these achievements except yourself so don't do it if you don't like it – simple as that. Others do like to play and complete this great game which is perfectly fine, especially since we are on a site which is all about achievements, ratio, challenges…

. This has nothing to do with how old this game is btw. You not being able to recover your old account sounds a bit fishy to me on the other hand, possibly you got caught cheating

By Orran Durai on 07 Mar 2023 07:27

All these years later it’s still fun to play and try to 100%. As long as it stays fun and engaging it doesn’t really feel like too much of a grind. 100 % mk9, far cry 2 and max payne 3 feel more tedious than this does. Still fun to revisit what was one of the 360s best games

By Chrupdiddy on 20 Mar 2023 05:31

⬆️👍🏻. Gears 3 will always be a classic.

By Orran Durai on 20 Mar 2023 06:25

Thank you for such an amazing guide @Nikke84, you really put a lot of effort into this and it was extremely helpful to me +1

By Games Master on 08 Aug 2023 23:05

Danifitti has created a new and more up-to-date spreadsheet. Feel free to check it out here:

https://1drv.ms/x/s!ArYQ6XKRQYXYhOBN_Usm_Da1jN1rKg?e=PQ5YhO

By Ox1893 on 29 Dec 2023 12:58

For War Supporter it's says I have 3/30 but I have the onyx medal with 4 red stars that means I have it right it doesn't have to say 30/30?

By A Jedi Knight on 09 Feb 2024 23:21

@Ox1893 thank you for sharing the link here.

@A Jedi Knight some medals can be won many times. You get the xp plus a number on the medal when you get it for the second time. Perhaps you played in 33 events, so you have the onyx plus 3.

By Danifitti on 26 Feb 2024 15:58

Your welcome.

By Ox1893 on 06 May 2024 09:36

@ Happy Dog CPH would you mind explaining how you set it up with 3 xbox's & 6 controllers because if you add a 2nd controller it puts you in a local party do i need gold for the guests profiles aswell?

By A Jedi Knight on 12 May 2024 12:54

I can help. You will need gold for all 3 accounts @A Jedi Knight.
Once this is done you can add second controllers to each main account and it’ll say “Party Joinable”.
It’s very easy to do.

By Ox1893 on 02 Jul 2024 05:27

4 cheating B******s have the achievement now. They should be banned ASAP.

By Redcoat1892 on 26 Sep 2011 16:08

I also have a spreadsheet up where I'm trying to track how much XP you get for the various medals. If you have anything to add, feel free to msg me & I'll add it in.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArxbOv976TEpdDE...

By Pedle Zelnip on 03 Oct 2011 23:14

Nikke84,
Small request, but when you update this guide, could you just give a short summary at the top, with the date, of what exactly you've updated? I refresh the guide about 1x a day and if it shows that you edited it recently, I try and scan it and go from memory when trying to figure out what you've added/changed. I find the guide super helpful and an update section at the top would be great in finding if you've entered new/better info for any medals. Thanks!

By spxyu02 on 14 Oct 2011 06:01

Avata: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33...

By Nikke84 on 07 Dec 2011 16:18

Only 3? I thought there was at least 5. Still sitting at 47 Onyx Medals, trying to get executions, skunkers, first bloods, assists and retro lancer kills at the same time takes forever..

By Broa on 07 Dec 2011 23:03

Easiest way to beat Beast on Insane is on Trenches - Everyone pick Drones and run into the middle, most of the humans will be in there waiting for you. As soon as the Kantus is unlocked, have one player switch to heal the others and find a good place to hide depending on the base layout. You could complete the game like this, but it's easier again if two people change from Drones to Boomers when available. The Kantus should also change to the armoured Kantus when available. You could Berserker if you want, but there's not much need.

By Ackter on 08 Jan 2012 21:45

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Strategy One

TrueAchievements

18 Jun 2012 21:54

BEST WAY TO GET FIRST BLOOD KILLS, HEAVY WEAPON KILLS, EXPLOSIVE KILLS, PYRO KILLS PLUS CURB STOMP KILLS:

I made it to #4 in Private Execution using this method!
Even now a week later im still #8!

If you load up private execution with Time limit 2 minutes, Fill bots, casual difficulty, Classic stalemates (OFF), Friendly Fire (OFF), Doesn't matter on weapon respawn.

HEAVY WEAPON KILLS:

EXPLOSIVE KILLS:

PYRO kills:

These Methods really helped me get my Seriously achievement out of any other methods. Another great thing about these methods is, you can stop any moment, unlike in King Of The Hill (Which I was in the top 800) you cannot if you have it set at 15 rounds. I also recommend playing music while doing these methods, it really helps get your killing done and you enjoy it alot more.

GOOD LUCK GUYS, HAPPY KILLING

I would like to also Give my method for IDLE boosting the Game type Medals:

First off you can mix some of these medals up WITHOUT a Turbo controller, but before anything I would recommend 2 wired controllers, and 1 rubber band. In every match or gametype make sure to have all weapons on boomshot, bots fill, Friendly fire (ON) and bots on INSANE.
The rubber band should be placed on at least one controller to keep your guy constantly moveing. If you don't you will be dropped.

There is 2 methods for each, 1 if you have skunker and 2 if you dont have skunker. (CTL has a method to gain Untouchable ribbons(FOR LEADER MEDAL) with IDLE BOOSTING) Also if you want free XP and Battle Mistress medal put all your characters female (Cannot put female for Wingman)

NOTE: YOU NEED 2500 SKUNKS WHICH IN TOTAL IS WINNING 2500 CONSECUTIVE 2 ROUND GAMES

CTL IF YOU NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

CTL IF YOU DONT NEED SKUNKER MEDALS: '

CTL IF YOU NEED LEADER MEDALS (UNTOUCHABLE RIBBONS):

KOTH IF YOU NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

KOTH IF YOU DONT NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

NOTE: you will get HARD TARGET off WARZONE, EXECUTION, and TDM if you have bots on FILL, Im sure you will get it just by following the below methods, my hard target is at 5381 when only 3000 is needed.

WARZONE AND EXECUTION IF YOU NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

WARZONE AND EXECUTION IF YOU DON'T NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

TDM IF YOU NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

TDM IF YOU DON'T NEED SKUNKER MEDALS:

WINGMAN:

OVERALL THIS IS POSSIBLY NOT THE FASTEST METHODS BUT IT STILL IS DANG CLOSE. I left my xbox on almost every night while I was boosting my kills, and this will take a very long time, I have used an XBOX slim for every single night, and it has never had problems. but 1 thing is also recommended DO NOT DO THIS IN AN ONLINE PARTY IF YOU THINK YOUR CONNECTION WILL DISCONNECT OVERNIGHT. IF SO TURN YOUR PARTY LOCAL BY HITTING SELECT ON MENU, IT WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING BUT PROTECTS YOUR MATCHES FROM ENDING BY DISCONNECTION.

GOOD LUCK YOULL NEED IT FOR THESE.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE OTHERS I DID:
ALSO NOTE: This may not be the best way for getting these medals but this is how I got them, and I felt like it was much better than boosting with people. I feel like boosting kills with people is a waste of time when you can just kill bots very easily. But this is depending on the person, I choose music over people talking, and I also prefer getting kills without giving kills. (When you can beat bots on easy difficulty)

VENGFUL:

HEADSHOT ,CAPTOR , AND PISTOL KILLS (SPOTTER IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT):

AFTER YOU GET CAPTOR:

FINISHER:

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31 Comments

Nice tip but idle boosting King Of the hill without skunker takes just as long as wingman heck maybe longer.

By Woolyguy24 on 07 Jul 2012 05:52

Id say longer.

By Strategy One on 07 Jul 2012 06:03

Been using your weapon kill methods for heavy weapon and pyro, love em! I'm actually having more luck with heavy weapon by spawning a mortar at the sniper on Gridlock, instead of Mercy. I grab it and take 5 steps forward before launch 90m. The bots seem to spread out less than on Mercy. Watch out for the ceiling though!

By Snow Brigade on 20 Jul 2012 17:30

Yes, its possible but the risk of hitting the ceiling wasnt worth it to me. I liked having open all over, but as I killed most AI's in Mercy it left a few to make some easy Curb stomp kills.

By Strategy One on 20 Jul 2012 20:26

Pyro method is amazing, will be using this method as well to grind out the rest of my First Blood. Nothing even comes close to being faster for FB

By Crimson Drifter on 02 Aug 2012 03:20

I know, that is BY FAR the fastest way to get pyro AND first blood

By Strategy One on 02 Aug 2012 05:47

This is great help, the best guide on here! Thanks!

By AlonsoFive on 19 Aug 2012 17:55

KotH with Skunker and without skunker have the descriptions swapped.

Also from what I understand you can not get Skunkers without bots set to fill. Skunker is rated by the Ribbon for winning without losing a round but you can not gain ribbons without a "full" match

By on 12 Aug 2014 17:25

Shoot, With Skunker means you already have it, Without Skunker means you need it, you need to have full bots to get skunker. It can be confusing

By Strategy One on 12 Aug 2014 18:43

Ah. Ok I see it now

By on 12 Aug 2014 19:30

I can't but help being nitpicky. The guide is outstanding except you have IDOL (in all caps) when I believe you mean IDLE. Very different words. :)

Thumbs up for the info though.

By NighthawkJoV on 14 Oct 2014 11:37

Trust me Nighthawk nothing bothers me more than spelling or grammar mistakes, I fixed them and thanks for correcting me

By Strategy One on 14 Oct 2014 17:05

I got it nehehe

By Garsia Sk on 07 Dec 2014 02:48

Good solution, but the 'With Skunker'/'Without Skunker' is fairly confusing and seems the wrong way round as someone has pointed out before.

By TrueBlade94 on 03 Apr 2015 12:25

Since multiple people said it I edited it so its less confusing, thanks for putting your inputs! Im always listening.

By Strategy One on 04 Apr 2015 06:49

Is there something I'm doing wrong for Untouchable? I set it so my dummy was player 1 and I was player 2, making it so I am always the leader. I put the bots on insane and both accounts on the same team. My profile is set to run in a circle because of the analog sticks being rubberbanded. I lose every match, every single time though. Not even 1 round win. This is my 10th game so far and nothing. :/ I might have to just play these.

By VRETENAR 906 on 26 Apr 2016 20:21

You have to leave it running I believe and you get little wins but it will eventually make it.

By Strategy One on 26 Apr 2016 20:23

Okay, thanks. I'll come back and check what I'm at later. Fantastic solution by the way. I've been getting a lot of Heavy Weapon, Pyro & Explosive kills following your guide. Also Skunker, First Blood & Button Up.

By VRETENAR 906 on 26 Apr 2016 20:35

Yea thanks I believe that they were definitely the best methods to obtaining them. Anything that you can rubber band and leave your xbox running I recommend doing while sleeping, thats so you don't have to watch the time tick by and not get the best of results. Wake up to it and you will feel better. I spent about 1500-2000 hours of my xbox running overnights just to save time of me not playing the game.

By Strategy One on 26 Apr 2016 20:39

I seem to be getting Untouchable ribbons more often when having the bleed-out time set to 60, the bots on Insane, my person running in circles (thanks to my brothers YoYo he left here & all weapon spawns set to default. I need about 100 more

By VRETENAR 906 on 05 May 2016 02:50

I've found instead of having weapon spawns as Boomshot where listed (for stuff like the gametype medal boosting) it's more worth it to use Diggers.

By CodeMonkeysGuy on 02 Nov 2016 04:29

Using this mortar/mercy method on CTL to get my abductor medal done. 3 to 4 kills and the leader gets downed right away most of the time too, just can't do it on rounds where I'm leader because of the delay at round start, but average better than 1 a minute if I don't screw up.

By Chucklestyle on 20 Feb 2017 06:34

Hi there i have a question about the CTL if you don't have skunker, so the main profile in one team, and the guess account in the other? or each in the same team?

By Concetto18 on 28 Aug 2017 17:38

Other team

By Strategy One on 29 Aug 2017 02:09

Sooo in the hour or so I've idle boosted, I've yet to get a skunker. My secondary has gotten 2 in that time... FML, whatever.

By Darkness727420 on 08 Jan 2018 21:36

Seconds after my first comment, I got one

All this crap is very tedious. Off to work I go

By Darkness727420 on 08 Jan 2018 21:38

For Wingman, I used 2 controllers with 2 bots on insane. I also disabled all the weapons so that the bots will come kill you almost instantly. The amount of matches doubles this way.

By SchizoPsycho74 on 31 Oct 2020 12:16

I feel like they changed something.. I come back to this game from time to time.. still doing explosive kills.. and I load up the Mercy map, set the Boomshot for the Torque and Digger spawn.. and it shows up at the Grenade spawn location every other round. I set the Longshot to be Boomshot on Gridlock, and it just doesn't spawn at all. Anyone else experience this?

By Xenolith666 on 15 Apr 2021 15:26

Xenolith666 I also experienced this when grinding heavy weapon kills on mercy. Previously you could knock out around 75 kills a game and get a ton of xp doing it, but they changed something back in January 2021 I wanna say, as been boosting with a group of people and they have all had the same thing, they no longer get the same amount of xp as before, now its barely anything. I noticed the mortar would no longer spawn at the torque and digger, had to be amended to the grenades, so I moved to the gridlock map, changed the longshot and torque bow to mortar and worked fine, even better than mercy in my opinion, and now working the same tactic with the boomshot. They have definitely done something to the servers to mess it up recently

By Jamone the Afro on 21 Apr 2021 06:56

Yeah, they switched back to the old servers which means that the weapon spawns changed and the XP went back to normal instead of x10 which is now a grind to just level up from one level. It is also preventing the Socialite Achievement. Anyone that would like to go for Seriously 3.0 can't as of now since there is no more events which means no Party Animal Onyx medal.

By oh Gentle on 30 Apr 2021 23:56

It's now fixed

By oh Gentle on 17 Jun 2021 12:09

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Snrm

TrueAchievements

26 Feb 2012 16:17

Considering this is most likely to take A LOT of time, there is a high chance of you accidently getting reset at some point since there are probably a million different ways to get reset in Gears. Call me stupid now but it happens to a ton of people because they accidently quit games at wrong times ETC. Believe me, you are going to want to backup your player save every now and then. Below is how to do it.

1. Use USB or cloud storage. I feel that USB is a lot easier.
2.Launch Gears and instead of choosing where you normally save your Gears file, choose your alternate device. (USB or Cloud).
3. Now you should have your original rank on there with all your ribbons, stats, medals and everything.
4. Start a private 1 round warzone match against bots.
5. Playthrough the match really quick, this makes the game save your file.
6. From there you are done! If your rank ever gets reset just startup the game from this file and you will have your rank back on the Gears of War servers!
7. If you want to re-backup your file then just delete your backup player save on your alternate storage device and repeat the steps!

NOTE: Getting RESET in Gears also means losing all medals, ribbons and stats!
You have been warned!

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I don't think you have to delete the file to back up again. If you go through the steps then it will over write the old save on the usb.

By on 03 Mar 2012 17:58

No it will not, It will load the current backup you have to whatever level you are at on that backup and therefore save that old level to the Gears servers.

By Snrm on 03 Mar 2012 18:36

That's what I was thinking. If you reload the cloud and play another full private match, it would just overwrite the last cloud save...

By ClaytThaGreat on 13 Mar 2012 16:43

But you have to delete your previous cloud save otherwise your OLD backup would be saved and your new level would not be there.

By Snrm on 14 Mar 2012 00:25

I do this every day now, my friend was sitting at 61 onyx medals and his game froze while it was updating his stats so his file got corrupted meaning a total reset. Yep level 1, 0 onyx medals, but he backed his save file up but from about a week ago so it wasn't all bad but he lost alot of work. So i suggest doing this every day or whenever you make progress.

By JamP0und on 30 Mar 2012 06:49

I'm going to have to get on this. Only 21 Onyx so far, but that's still a lot of work I put into it when I can. Thanks Snrm.

By Snow Brigade on 30 Mar 2012 14:53

3 negative votes. the guy is trying to help you from getting reset

By OnTheSeshhLad on 06 Apr 2012 00:06

So I don't need to copy my file from my xbox to my USB drive? I just load a clean USB drive and start gears 3?

By Homunculus Fury on 09 Apr 2012 02:18

Exactly

By Snrm on 09 Apr 2012 02:58

ok thanks just wanted to make sure I didn't mess anything up.

By Homunculus Fury on 11 Apr 2012 06:29

BTW QUITING GAMES WILL NOT RESET YOU ANYMORE THEY FIXED THIS. I HAVE DASHBOARDED FROM RANKED GAMES AND PRIVATE GAMES AND ALL IT DID WAS RESET MY CAMPAIGN PROGRESS AND CAMPAIGN COLLECTABLES NOTHING ELSE.

By Strategy One on 16 Apr 2012 06:23

I can confirm this method works. I just woke to find my game frozen when I restarted I was level 1, instead of 85. I restarted from cloud but that said I was only Lv20(cloud is not reliable) I deleted my cloud progress. Then played a quick game from my USB, that made it save to my HD. Then I played a game from cloud so it would up-date. Now I'm back to level 85(green)

Thank you Snrm!

By III JONESY III on 26 Apr 2012 03:36

+1 from me, just started doing this today following this method.

I guess all the downvotes are from the "h4rdc0r3 l33t" fans who are so bad ass that they see stats getting reset as a good thing.

By The Onyx Kid on 27 Apr 2012 01:32

For some reason my xbox isn't reading my USB. Will saving on the xbox's memory unit, rather than saving on the harddrive, work as well?

By Wicked Jei on 02 May 2012 01:03

All my medals and stats got erased by signing out of a 2nd profile while the game was loading. I had no backup so everything is gone now. I already have 2000/2000 on Gears 3, but it still sucks though. Fortifications and campaign are also gone.

By wBRY on 11 May 2012 01:35

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY got my first stat reset today!!!!!!!!!!! Sadly I hadn't backed up for over a week so I lost a metric ton of progress, but still better than nothing.

Thank you so much Snrm, if I'd lost everything I would have snapped my disc and smashed all my Xboxes.

By The Onyx Kid on 12 May 2012 16:30

Even if I don't ever have a problem with stats being reset, it's nice to know I have a fall back! Thanks for this guide

By Davis 888 on 21 May 2012 02:50

Thank you!

By LexiPants on 11 Mar 2013 04:59

I was looking for a way to do this after I lost my Judgement story progress. Thanks!

By thatcantbegood on 11 Aug 2013 13:03

Does it matter which type of alternative storage device you use? I got my main progress on the HDD and the back-up on the internal memory unit of the Slim ed.

By Dokter V on 06 Feb 2014 17:08

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I was on 52 Onyx medals and 94% towards completing Seriously 3.0 and left Xbox on over night to idle boost TDM and when I woke up..... 0 Onyx medals and 0(ish)% completion.

This is still an issue and I cannot stress how relieved I had a backup!

Big thumbs up!

By Matt the Victor on 06 May 2014 19:55

I've just receceived a reset

Fortunately I create a back up every 7 days, and I lost 6 days of work :(

By rafa1000house on 20 Feb 2015 04:47

I have done this in the past successfully, but I tried last night and each time I did it from the title screen all my stats were gone, rank was 1. They continue to load up from the HDD fine but my stats seem to only be associated with the HDD from this point in the game.

Instead, I had to load my player data using the HDD from the title screen. Once you're in the game, select "OPTIONS" using the start button. Scroll down to "STORAGE LOCATION" and select your alternate backup location. This allowed me to carry my stats into the game and backup my files.

By x athiktos x on 14 Sep 2020 15:19

You should be backing up 2/3 times a week, not once a week.

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TheDeuterostome

TrueAchievements

07 Apr 2012 08:18

i know this isnt much of a guide or solution, but it is worth noting. you no longer have to be a dead on rank 100 to unlock seriously as long as you are a white 100 or greater. i got mine at green 85.

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Mephisto03

TrueAchievements

25 Sep 2011 19:31

For CTL medals -

If you try and do CTL by yourself and another controller you will only help out getting 'Sovereign' (win CTL rounds as leader). It will not count towards 'Abductor' (capture enemy leaders) or 'Leader' (earn untouchable ribbons). It does also count for 'Finisher' (get executions) though when you capture the enemy leader.

If you want to work on CTL medals exclusively for Sovereign, Abductor, Leader, Finisher, and CTL all at once the match has to be full of bots. Don't worry about Guardian as there is a much easier boosting method available.

Option 1 - SINGLE CONTROLLER OWNERS - Set the game to 5 rounds and you will be leader last. At the end of the match you would have acquired from the list above; 1-5-1-5-1. For bronze from the list above it goes 25-25-25-100-100. As you can see, it all kinda fits together. You'll get Abductor quickly, but since you need to play so many matches for Finisher and CTL anyways, you'll get Sovereign and Leader in the process. Once you get Sovereign, Leader, and Abductor you should be pretty healthy into Finisher but can change back to 1v1 to complete your CTL matches.

*Note if you can win all 5 matches you will help towards the Skunked medal.

Option 2 - DUAL CONTROLLER OWNERS - Sign on a guest account. Hit B to go back to the title menu. Press start with the guest account controller. You'll notice that the guest account is now the primary player at the top of the list. Start a 1 round (2 round if you want to work on the Skunked medal) match, 10 seconds capture time, casual bots, fill with bots. Put your guest account onto your team, should be cog. Not sure it matters but I like cog. The first match just capture the enemy leader with you account you normally use since the guest account will be leader. Every match after that, you will be the leader.

Make sure though that the guest account is the primary player. If its not, then you will not be first every match, and its not guaranteed you'll be leader for the second match.

For the Guardian medal. If you don't have two 360's, and a extra copy of the game. It's easy, make a boosting session with 1 other person. Both of you put a guest account on your team (no bots). CTL, 2 rounds, win time whatever. The first round both players will be the leader. When the second round comes along take turns saving your guest account leader over and over. This does count towards the medal. It may take some time, but its extremely easy and the quickest way. So it shouldn't take to long to get.

For the Wingman game mode medal I've heard takes a very long time, if you're planning on leaving your console on overnight. People suggested 1 minute matches but if you do that you're wasting way to much time. If one team actually gets more then one kill in that minute you it wouldn't be a problem. You're also depending on 1 team actually getting that 1 kill every round. Since the AI plays slow or good on any difficulty it probably won't in most instances. My suggestion that I've started and works good while I'm asleep and then at work for 3/4 of the day. Put the AI on normal, put the round time to 3 minutes, win is to 10. Matches like this take anywhere from as short as 6 minutes to at most 10 minutes depending on map size mostly. I'm going to try and refine the settings as best as possible but for a first round of testing I got 100 matches done. I only plan on doing this while asleep and at work to a certain point, and then go on to the next game mode (currently I already have 2300 warzone matches done) and not for the whole 3000 matches, so total playing time for this medal is I would estimate around 5-6 days of solid play.

Thanks to ToxiicDucky831 for helping out with the guest account method.

25 Sep 2011 19:31

fxSoap

TrueAchievements

15 Apr 2012 18:36

This guide is meant to save you time when going for Seriously 3.0
Many of the medals don’t need to be sought after on their own and can be attained without dedicating time to them individually. Much of the guide has been changed but was originally written by Nikki.

Please don't vote negative unless there is something completing wrong with it that can't be fixed! (pm me!) :D

Medals that are junk medals (either you get them for getting another medal or stack while doing another action) will be at the bottom of the medal list in each category. Some that aren’t even medals (same reason above) are removed from this list, (IE embry star, allfathers/rifleman/master-arms).
In total you have about 45 medals, a little less because so many are stacking on one another so don’t be swayed by the 65 total.

Keep in mind this is for fastest medal completion. Of course you can do this with bots it will just take much more time.

Required numbers for each medal:
( BRONZE / SILVER / GOLD / ONYX )
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*33 real medals in total
VERSUS MEDALS

ACTIVE RELOADER
(500/2500/10000/25000) perfect active reloads.
This is the most daunting medal of them all. Just make sure that you always active reload, make it a habit. If you are boosting weapon kills, always active reload from the beginning of this journey to the end.
Nikki has said:
“the snub pistol is the fastest gun to reload, master it and spam reloads.”
Also don’t bother with controllers that offer “turbo-perfect reloads” for GOW3. They don’t work reliably and you have to sit there and fire and reload over and over. Not much of a time saver.

SPOTTER
Spot (250/1000/5000/12000) enemies.
Two options for this; infinitely easier if you have a turbo controller.
Aim at an enemy and press your left stick will spot them during your normal play or boosting.
Both of this and Reloader are at the top because you absolutely need to remember to do them (unless using method below.)
Or use a turbo controller, load up a match with a guest on Mercy CTL (for 20 min rounds). Run to your guest, turbo control spot the guest for 20 minutes nets around 400 spots in 20 minutes.

VENGEFUL
Execute (10/20/50/100) nemeses.
There are two ‘best’ methods for this one is to use a second controller and grind out killing your main profile with a guest and then executing them after 5 kills in a row of you.
Second is to get a partner and both take turns doing this but ultimately this will take much, much longer because you are sharing!

SAPPER
Destroy (10/50/200/1000) enemy grenades.
Shoot a grenade that is tagged to a wall or to the floor by an enemy.
Two methods for this:
Get a friend or TA session and load up thrashball, all weapons grenades, 5 second bleed out time, on CTL for max time. The middle area has 3 nade spawns now. The walls below the platform you can walk on is ideal for this. Pick up, plant, shoot, repeat.
Nikki method:
Easy, but tedious, to boost with a 2nd controller, just tag the smoke grenade you start with and shoot it with your main profile.

HEADSHOT
Get (100/500/2000/4000) headshots.
Highlyrecommend going for this while doing the captor medal. After that, work on it with your pistol kill boosting.
Nikki note:
You can score headshots with most single-fire weapons. Easiest for me is to down someone, then fire 2 rounds in their head with the snub pistol.

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***Example of a CTL TA session to use for medals below: **
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*Each player needs 2 controllers

"Capture The Leader" boosting for games played, with the Emphasis on 5 players taking 2 hour shifts with the responsibility of capturing the leader as fast as possible, giving everyone "Skunks" even while they are idling.

Ribbons possible during the game will be Buttoned Up/Skunker/Abductor/Executioner/Leader/Captor and More, but Skunks are the aim basically.”

CAPTOR
Kill (50/200/500/1000) enemies with a captive.
Press X while standing next to a downed enemy to take them captive. While doing this medal it is highly suggested you go for pistol kills with headshots. If doing the above session method, have your teammates get assists and shoot all enemies to the downed position. Recommend all weapons set to boltok pistol.

ABDUCTOR
Capture (25/100/250/500) enemy leaders.
Earned in CTL by grabbing the other teams leader for as long as it takes to win the round. *Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

GUARDIAN
Rescue (50/250/600/1200) leaders in CTL.
You must make the enemy drop your leader either from dying or by smoke grenade stunning for this to count.
Two methods for boosting this:
Yourself and a friend both take turns with guest signed in capturing the leader and rescuing and visa versa. Some times you can setup the game to make your guests always the leaders so you can both attain this at the same time.
Nikki’s method:
Put yourself and a casual bot on one team, a second controller on the other team. Bleedout to 5.
Make it so the bot is the leader by finishing the first round (if he's not leader from the beginning.) then you just have to keep capturing him with your second controller and rescue him with your main profile.

SOVEREIGN
Win (25/100/250/500) CTL rounds as leader.
Almost the same as untouchable, except you can get picked up; you get credit as long as your team wins the round.

LEADER
Earn (10/50/150/300) Untouchable ribbons.
You get the untouchable ribbon by finishing a round of CTL as leader without letting the enemy capture you at all. There is a trick to make you leader every round, you need to have 2 controllers and a guest profile. Make your guest the main player by pressing start with the 2nd controller at the "PRESS START"-screen, this will make your guest the main player and you the secondary player.
Start a match of CTL with rounds to win at 1 and cap time at 10, the key here is to put both you and your guest on the same team vs 5 bots. The first match you start will have the guest as a leader but every match after that youwill be the leader!
*Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

SKUNKER
Skunk enemy team (25/100/500/2500) times.
Win without letting the enemy team win a single round, must be set to 2 round matches.
If also doing the TA session method suggested above, you will earn this very quickly.
Nikki note:
Recommend you to go for these while going for "Sovereign" and "Leader" medals or if you want them done as quick as possible, Warzone set to 2 rounds will be best.
*Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

CTL
Play (100/300/1000/3000) CTL matches.
*Wait to complete this until after you have done the above medals first to avoid overlap.
Otherwise, same as VETERAN, except you can't set a time limit but set the capture time to 10 seconds. If you're going to idle play you can plug in a 2nd controller and set the number of bots to 1, make it so it's you and the bot vs the 2nd player. This will end the matches swiftly and you'll always win thanks to the bot on your team.
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All weapon kills here would be recommended to find a session on TA or get 3 xboxes+ for a 1v5 game.
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LANCER
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Lancer kills.
Chainsaw kills count as well which stacks with Finisher.

HAMMERBURST
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Hammerburst kills.

RETRO LANCER
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Retro Lancer kills.
Retro charge kills counts as well which stacks with Finisher.

GNASHER SHOTGUN
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Gnasher Shotgun kills.

SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN
Get (100/500/2000/6000) Sawed-off Shotgun kills.

PISTOLS
Get (100/500/2000/6000) pistol kills.
Snub, Gorgon and Boltok are the pistols.
*Stacks with Captor

PYRO
Kill (50/300/1000/3000) enemies with fire.
Scorcher, Hammer of Dawn and Incendiary grenades are the fire-based weapons.
*stacks with special teams
-One method to do this alone if needed, load up gridlock with casual bots, FF on, weapon respawn after use, CTL. All weapons set to hammer of dawn. Run to the top of the steps and hammer all bots you can find. If your team captures the queen, hammer them too to keep playing.
Every respawn the bots will all come in together in bunch if done right. This will net you several hundred kills an hour.
-Thanks to Iron Heyd for this method

HEAVY WEAPONS
Get (100/500/2000/6000) heavy weapon kills.
One-shot, Mulcher and Mortar are the heavy-based weapons.
*stacks with special teams

EXPLOSIVES
Get (100/500/2000/6000) explosive kills.
Grenades, Boomshot, Torque Bow and Digger are the explosive-based weapons.
*stacks with special teams

FINISHER
Get (100/500/2000/6000) executions.
You execute someone who is downed by pressing Y or X (meat shield) while standing next to them, chainsaw-kills and bayonet-charges also counts as executions and stack with kills for that weapon. While playing capture the leader you will also be getting credit for picking up the leader.

OLD SCHOOLER
Curb stomp (50/250/1000/3000) enemies.
Press Y (don't hold) next to a downed enemy to execute them with a curb stomp.
*stacks with "Finisher" medal.

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All of the game modes can be idled alone or in groups to accelerate them. TDM would be recommended to wait until you are done with all weapon boosting sessions (as most sessions use TDM.)
Remember you can plug in a controller and as the screen is loading unplug or take out the batteries and the game will still go on, just make sure you check the auto shut off setting.
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KOTH
Play (100/300/1000/3000) KOTH matches.
Set the ring score to 60 when playing. If you're going to idle play you can plug in a 2nd controller and set the number of bots to 1, make it so it's you and the bot vs the 2nd player. This will end the matches swiftly and you'll always win thanks to the bot on your team.

WARZONE
Play (100/300/1000/3000) Warzone matches.
If idling, recommended you fill with bots and put the time limit at 2. Turn off classic stalemate.

EXECUTION
Play (100/300/1000/3000) Execution matches.
If idling, recommended you fill these with bots and put the time limit at 2. Turn off classic stalemate.

TDM
Play (100/300/1000/3000) TDM matches.
If idling, recommended you fill these with bots and put the time limit at 2.

WINGMAN
Play (100/300/1000/3000) Wingman matches.
Best method for idling:
Use 2 controllers, put them on one team, make the amounts of bots 2 so it will be a 2v2 match. Set the time limit to 2 and disable all weapon pick ups. The bots will rush and kill you very quickly, ending the match in 4 rounds.

SHOCK TROOPER
Earn (100/300/1000/3000) First Blood ribbons.
Score the first kill of the round, can be earned in horde and beast as well but only once per session, not every wave. Stacks while boosting all other weapon kills.
**update 6/12/2012
Method I found if you are like me and had 1500 of these left AFTER completing all other medals, open up a warzone game, casual, one minute round, with stalemate on.
Play a map like Slab or something large, run to the bots shoot one (boomshot maybe) and wait for the time to end.
Every time it stalemates and restarts the map you can earn another first blood. Fastest I've found so far without actually playing.

*Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

ASSISTANT
Get (125/500/2000/5000) assists in Versus multiplayer.
Damage an enemy and let a teammate get the kill. Very easy to earn while CTL boosting/weapon boosting sessions. Down or injure all enemies for the person doing the capturing or weapon killing.

MEDIC
Revive (50/250/600/1200) squadmates.
Press X while standing next to a downed teammate. While boosting all other medals and playing you will should earn this without effort. But if you really want to complete this or never get to 1200 by the end, play CTL with bots and turn friendly fire on. Keep shooting your leader till he goes down, revive him, repeat until complete.

COVER
Earn (10/50/200/600) Buttoned Up ribbons.
You earn the Buttoned Up ribbon by spending the most time in cover in a match, using a meat shield will also count as cover.
Using a turbo controller: rapid fire “A” when appropriate, while idling matches at any time.
*Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

WAR SUPPORTER
Play in (5/10/20/30) Gears events.
Play online during 30 different Gears Events, check events by going to the "Event Calendar" option in the main menu. Also, keep in mind that Epic is now not updating the event calendar….really ever but they are still going on. Other third party sites my be needed to look up when events are happening (ie EPIC forums.)

HARD TARGET
Earn (100/300/1000/3000) Last Man Out ribbons.
Be the last person on your team to die, cannot be obtained in KOTH, Wingman or CTL. You will achieve this and more while afk-playing TDM/Execution/Warzone and boosting other medals.
*Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

BATTLE MISTRESS
Play as a female in (25/100/500/1000) matches.
Set your character for any of the female characters and leave it that way as you go for other medals.

SPECIAL TEAMS
Get (100/500/2000/6000) map-based weapon kills.
Every weapon that is not among the 5 starting weapons count as a map-based weapon. By default (going for other medals) you will be onyxing this medal 2.5 times.

MVP
Earn (5/25/100/500) MVP ribbons.
You get the MVP ribbon by finishing a match with the most points. Recommend you don’t work on this at all with bot matches. If you are boosting weapons & other medals this will occur naturally.
*Bots set to "Fill" or in a match full of players.

VETERAN
Play (100/500/2000/4000) matches.
Not worth actually dedicating time to this medal. Going for all the other medals will onyx this medal many times.

MATCH WINNER
Win (50/250/1000/3000) matches.
Not worth actually dedicating time to this medal. Going for all the other medals will onyx this medal many times.

FIELD SERVICE
Reach Level (25/50/75/100).
Experience points will come on their own as you play.
If you are desperate for rank 100, use the reconnaissance medal boosting technique.
Use a turbo controller for your main account (Player1). Player 2 gives all money to main account. Player 1 then buys a grenade, drops new grenade. Hold X for Player 2 to pick up the grenade then unplug the controller. P2 will not stop picking up the grenades. P1 will now turbo-control-spot the grenades for a maximum of 9 hours. Complete wave 1 and repeat as needed.

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HORDE MEDALS

BIG MONEY
Earn $(100k/500k/1mil/5mil) cash in Horde.
This is cumulative. Recommend the rustlung method. If you are one of the two watching the left/right side you’ll be taking in 70-100k per 30 rounds (which take 12-60 seconds). This is where the real grind will come in. All other medals including horder should complete before you reach this.
If you plan to play alone, slower but still possible, keep playing boss waves with mutators on.

HORDER
Complete (100/500/1000/2000) waves of Horde.
Cumulative. Very strongly urge you to use the rustlung method for this on casual stopping at round 30 and dying and restarting.

ARCHITECT
Earn Founder ribbon (10/50/150/300) times.
You earn the Founder ribbon by building a base, it's the tower like structures that you have to build to even start playing horde. Cannot be earned solo and only once per session per person.

SQUAD LEADER
Earn Point Man ribbon (50/150/300/500) times.
You earn the Point Man ribbon by finishing a wave with the most points, cannot be earned solo. If using the rustlung method this will onyx at least twice if you are one of the two point men.
Easy to do alone with a 2nd controller.

FOR THE HORDE!
Completed all 50 waves of Horde on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane).
Highly recommend the rustlung boosting method.
Mutators, Super reload, instagib and infinite ammo. Minimum of 3 players with 2 guests signed in for the rustlung method but if you are going for insane, likely need 5 real players.

FIELD ENGINEER
Complete (100/250/500/1000) fortification modifications.
Barriers, decoy, turrets etc all counts as fortifications. Building/repairing/upgrading/reloading counts towards this. These will come quickly while going for the 2000 completed waves.

LOOT COURTESAN
Complete (10/20/50/100) challenges in Horde.
Complete 3 waves in a row without dying, your next wave will have a bonus challenge for you. It can be different side objectives like getting a certain amount of headshots, executions, chainsaw-kills, turret kills etc.

If using the rustlung method this will onyx at least twice but likely many more times. Don’t bother going for difficult challenges (headshots/chainsaws) as it will only slow down the waves. Link to method below.

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*7 total
BEAST MEDALS

I'M A BEAST!
Complete Beast without failing on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane).
There are 12 waves and you start with 1 minute on each wave, every kill you get will add time. To complete on insane you almost undoubtedly have to have 5 players and work together to destroy fortifications as well as humans.

INVESTOR
Earn $(100k/250k/500k/1mil) cash in Beast.
Same as horde, points = money.

HIGH ROLLER
Ready for the Heavies ribbon (5/15/35/75) times.
You get this ribbon by unlocking the final tier of locusts in a game of Beast, cannot be obtained solo. The more points you get, the faster you unlock new tiers. Unlocks at around wave 5 if using a 2nd idle controller. You have to actually buy and play with one of the highest tier locusts for this ribbon to count.
Recommend you stay as the tier one with the Savage Drone until you unlock the Corpser/Boomer (your preference) and then stay there until the final tier (both with others and working alone).

MOTIVATOR
Heal or revive (250/300/750/1500) teammates in Beast.
You have to play as the Kantus or Armored Kantus for this. Press X for your heal/revive scream. My method for these have been to join standard public games and play the savage drone until the Kantus is unlocked, then I just play the Kantus and spam X, can't heal all characters though, only those who are marked with a Locust emblem.

DISMANTLER
Destroy (150/500/1500/3000) fortifications in Beast.
The humans will build decoys, barriers, turrets etc. Destroy these by meleeing or walking through them. This should onyx twice.

BEASTLY
Complete (60/180/360/600) waves of Beast.
Cumulative and will likely onyx twice.

RUTHLESS
Kill (125/325/650/1100) humans in Beast.
Will likely onyx 3 to 5 times.

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*8 Total
CAMPAIGN MEDALS

#Work on completing the chapter’s on insane first in arcade; then working on force multiplier next. Both are very time consuming and rather annoying.#

FORCE MULTIPLIER
Maintain max multiplier in (10/30/60/100) chapters of Arcade.
Act II chapter VII, can be done in less than 3 minutes. (SEE video below, make sure you have a partner or a guest signed in).

SURVIVALIST
Complete (20/60/120/240) chapters without dying.
Act II chapter VII or the prologue again. You need to play co-op/guest signed in for these to count.
*Stack easily when doing force multiplier and other chapter completion.

NUMBER 1
Number 1 in Arcade (20/60/120/240) times.
Load up Act II chapter VII or the prologue and make sure you play split screen with an idle 2nd controller, shoot anything or everything to ensure you get more points than the 2nd controller.
There is a method if you delete your xbox system cache where you can complete this quickly but if you decide to do that keep in mind it will erase progress in some achievements you are working on (IE say progress in completing “Play 10 matches of Versus as a member of Zeta” and others)

AFICIONADO
Play (50/150/300/500) chapters of Arcade.
Act II chapter VII or the prologue again.
Also, same with method above with system cache.

KING OF COG
Earn (1mil/2mil/5mil/7.5mil) total points in Arcade mode.
You'll get this naturally while going for other medals, if not, replay chapter 2-7 on insane as many times as it takes.

DOORMAN
Manipulate (200/500/1000/2000) objects in campaign.
You earn credit towards this medal every time you press a button, pull a lever or open a door etc.
Load up Act I Chapter I, after the cutscene with Jace you will climb up a staircase and open a door, right in front of you will be a piano. Walk up to it and press X to "play" it. There's also a piano right in front of you if you load up act 5, chapter 5. You can stop at any object scattered over the campaign really, like the Thrashball tables, co-op doors (if you're playing co-op) or buttons. Mash your X button for about 1.5 hours and you will have the easiest and fastest onyx medal in the game!
With a turbo controller this is a very fast/easy medal.

WARMONGER
Complete all Arcade chapters on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane)

TOUR OF DUTY
Complete campaign on (Casual/Normal/Hardcore/Insane).
Stacks with Warmonger and if you complete it on insane right away you won't have to redo it for the lesser valued medals.

15 Apr 2012 18:36

pyr0lyZer

TrueAchievements

15 Sep 2012 21:21

EDIT - 13 July 2016: Added new links for missing images.

FOLLOWING SOLUTION IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TYPICAL "1v5 TDM on Mercy" WEAPONS BOOSTING FOR RIFLES & SHOTGUNS

Using this method can net you nearly 1000 kills in 3 hours as opposed to the 600 normally acquired during a 3-hour 1v5 boost session (1 hour actively killing, and 2+ hours idle while fellow boosters kill), and may be useful if you cannot consistently do boost sessions.

This method is targeted primarily at the following weapons medals: Lancer, Hammerburst, Retro Lancer, Gnasher, Sawed-Off. In addition, you can also make some progress, albeit slow, on the Assistant medal, as well as a few others.

EDIT - 20 Oct 2012: After finally getting to the Gnasher, I kind of got bored with King of the Hill. So I tried TDM. Lo and behold, I found that you can also average about the same number of kills on TDM with the quick-kill Gnasher. In a 5 round TDM with 35, even with the bots taking some kills I was able to get around 175-185 per match, but this match only takes 26-28 minutes. This works out to about the same kill rate in a 3-hour time slot as my method for KOTH below. So, if you want to change it up a bit with the Gnasher, there is even another alternative...

Set up the following game:
-Game type: King of the Hill (KOTH)
-Round score: 240
-Rounds to win: 2, 5, 10, or whatever you want (recommend minimum 2 if you need Skunker; I usually select 5 just to provide a "natural" break)
-# of bots: Fill
-Bot difficulty: Casual
-Bleed out time: 5
-Friendly fire: Off
-Weapon respawn: After Pickup
-Map selection: Host chooses
-Choose the map "Mercy"
-I play as COG, but it shouldn't matter
-Don't worry about capturing the Hill yourself unless you want/need the extra points; let your own bots capture and you can focus on killing

The image below shows the different locations where the Hill spawns during the course of a round. It also shows where I've chosen weapon spawn points for the Hammerburst:

After playing several hundred rounds, I've found that the Hill migration order is nearly always 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 or 1,2,4,3,6,5,7

For each Hill, I recommend the following optimum "camping" locations around/near the Hill. These are chosen based on how the enemy approaches the Hill after respawn, and how it provides a good line of sight to target the enemy on that approach. Note that immediately after a Hill migration, the enemies on the board start to move toward that Hill from many directions, but after a few kills and respawns they tend to come from only one or 2 directions toward the Hill.
-Hill 1: Stay directly in the Hill; Locust tend to approach the balcony from both sides, so staying in the Hill gives maximum view of approach. Keep moving around within the Hill proper and monitor the stairs as some bots may slip through your own team's bots and can sneak up on you with the Gnasher.

-Hill 2: Camp in the small hallway on either side of the Sanctuary as marked with the red X's in the following picture.

-Hill 3: Stay in the Hill and look toward the Balcony. Enemies typically come from that direction as marked by the curved arrow in the picture below.

-Hill 4: Same strategy as Hill 3; stay in the Hill and watch mainly toward the balcony.

-Hills 5 & 6: Camp at the small cover spot near each Hill, as marked by the X in the picture below. The enemy bots mostly respawn on the balcony and follow the paths shown as marked by the arrows. They can also come from near the cellar and library areas. When using the 3 rifles, this camping spot is ideal for targeting the enemy as they come toward the Hill, and to monitor the Hill itself.

-Hill 7: Sometime the round ends prior to getting this Hill, but if not, best place is to camp right next to the fountain in between the camping spots for Hills 5 and 6 and watch all sides.

With both Lancer and Hammerburst so far, I've been able to achieve 40-60 kills per round and usually netting 220-260 kills in a 5-round match, which lasts between 35-45 minutes. Therefore, on average, playing 4 matches over 3 hours, you can get a minimum of 800 kills, and even up to 1000. Of course, you don't get the mandatory break like you do in a boost session, but the overall rate of kills is higher with this alternative and you can pause at any time.

If you use this alternative, I hope it works for you also and wouldn't mind hearing about it in the comments.

15 Sep 2012 21:21

I AM ARSEFACE

TrueAchievements

20 Oct 2011 22:30

Onyx architect medal (Founder ribbon)

For this medal you will need:
- Friendly fire mutator (attain this by completing the campaign in 4-player co-op)
- A second controller or a very generous friend

Start a private horde match (any difficulty) on checkout. Although I haven't tested all of the maps, checkout seems to have its spawns closest to the command posts.
The player wishing to boost then sets up the command post, moves over to the idle control and they smoke grenade tag each other. This should take roughly 10 seconds.

Finally, after you have both died restart from the beginning (restarting from current wave does not seem to give multiple founder ribbons)

This method should give roughly 2.5 founder medals/minute. If anyone would like to make a video of this or for any further clarification, please message me.

20 Oct 2011 22:30

Palesius

TrueAchievements

29 Aug 2016 20:40

This guide is based on having access to 3 xboxes. Between Gears 3 having been free on Games w/Gold and it being backwards compatible, that lowers the bar for that requirement quite a bit. If you have a xbox one and a 360, you are already 2/3 of the way there. If you can find someone else with a similar setup, they can join whichever one (One/360) they aren’t using to your lobby. I refer at some points to a “sufficiently capable” macro controller. The CronusMax/TitanOne is one that I know of that would enable you to do several medals “hands free”. I believe the older version is $39 currently (you don’t need the new one unless you are using it on a PS4). If you decide to go that route, let me know and I will send you my scripts.

Versus Mode
1st I will cover all the medals you can earn in versus.

Automatic
You should get the following medals automatically just in the course of taking care of all the others. Just make sure you are using a female model (whichever team you are on) for the Battle Mistress.
War Supporter: Play in 30 gears events (you will automatically get bumped up to 29/30 and need to play one online match of any type to finish it)
Field Service: Reach Level 100
Veteran: Play 4000 matches
Match Winner: Win 3000 matches
Allfathers: Onyx Medal in all game modes.
Master-at-Arms: Onxy Medal with all 5 starting weapons
Rifleman: Onxy Medal with all 3 starting rifles
Battle Mistress: Play as a female in 1000 matches
Special Teams: Get 6000 map-based weapon kills

Idling
These are all things you can do leaving your xbox idle and just letting the bots fight. Some will only be possible with a turbo controller. You can do these whenever you want. These obviously will not be the only time you do these matches so you can save this for last, or stop a little before 3000, or just let it finish so you can forget about it. Any of the idle boosting will go faster if you only have the basic maps. So I would recommend deleting all DLC or moving it to a USB drive and removing it until you are done idling.

#1 Warzone
Gametype: Warzone
Xboxes: 1
Players: Players: You+4 bots vs 5 bots (insane) or You vs 2 bots (once done with hard target)
Settings: 1 Round, change all pickups to boomshot, 5 sec bleed out
Speed/Rate: 18/hr (warzone), 10/hr (hard target) then
22 /hr (warzone only)
Time Required: 170 hrs (this assumes you will be doing it at the slower rate to get Hard Target)
Medals: Warzone(3000/3000)
Hard Target(~1600/3000)
Cover (~3000/3000)
Just let this run overnight or whenever you aren’t using your xbox until you hit 3000 matches. Turbo the A button if you can and you will make progress to Button Up. Once you are done with Cover you can stop turboing A. If you really want to speed this up, you can do you and 4 idle controllers vs 5 bots and rubber band the left thumbstick up on everyone except you (this will make them run forward and hopefully die before you). If all you need is the matches then switch to you vs 2 bots.

#2 CTL
Gametype: CTL
Xboxes: 3
Players: 1 idle controller+You+3 bots (insane) vs 4 idle controllers+1 bot (other controller on your team must be the host, not you, this will cause you to always be leader). If you only have 2 Xboxes, you can do 1 idle (host)+You+3 bots (insane) vs 2 idle+3 bots, but your progress on Leader and Sovereign will be slower. Once you are done with Leader, you can switch to you+1 idle (but make them host, i.e. they press start from title screen) vs 3 bots (insane).
Settings: 1 round, change all pickups to boomshot, 10 second capture
Speed/Rate: 17/hr (Leader) then 18/hr (CTL/Sovereign)
Time Required: 18 hrs (w/3 boxes) then 146 hrs (w/1 box)
Medals: CTL(3000/3000)200 7:30 (to get 2622)
Cover (3000/3000)
Leader(300/300)
Sovereign(500/500)
Just let this run overnight or whenever you aren’t using your xbox until you hit 3000 matches. Turbo the A button if you can and you will make progress to Button Up. Once you finish Leader/Sovereign you can drop down to one xbox and the same player settings as for warzone.

#3 Execution
Gametype: Execution
Xboxes: 1
Players: You+4 bots vs 5 bots (insane) or You vs 2 bots (once done with hard target)
Settings: 1 Round, change all pickups to boomshot, 60 sec bleed out
Speed/Rate: 18/hr (execution), 10/hr (hard target) then
22/hr (execution)
Time required: 170 hrs
Medals: Execution(3000/3000)21
Hard Target(~3000/3000)
Just let this run overnight or whenever you aren’t using your xbox until you hit 3000 matches. Turbo the A button if you can and you will make progress to Button Up. You should be done with Cover by now, but if not, keep turboing A. If you really want to speed this up, you can do you and 4 idle controllers vs 5 bots and rubber band the left thumbstick up on everyone except you (this will make them run forward and hopefully die before you).

#4 KOTH
Gametype: KOTH
Xboxes: 3
Players: You and 4 bots (insane) vs 5 idle controllers
Settings: 2 Rounds
Speed/Rate: 13/hr (Skunker) then 24/hr (KOTH)
Time Required: 210hrs
Medals: KOTH(3000/3000)
Skunker(2500/2500)
Just let this run overnight or whenever you aren’t using your xbox until you hit 3000 matches. Once you finish skunker you can switch to 1 round and 1 xbox.

Cooperative
These are really best done with another live person.

#5 Vengeful
Gametype: KOTH
Xboxes: 1
Players: 1v1
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map - Hotel ,change weapons to longshot
Speed/Rate: 35/hr (solo), 20/hr (2 people)
Time Required: 3hrs (solo), 5 hrs(2 people)
Medals: Vengeful(100/100)
Headshot(400/4000)
Finisher(100/6000)
If two people are working on this: P1 grabs longshot from enemy pistol spawn, shoots them 5 times, then runs up to them while P2 retro charges them (or just stands there with lancer chainsaw revved up). Then P2 runs to the other pistol spawn, grabs longshot, shoots them 4x, after which P1 retro charges them. Either let them know over chat when your spawn protection wears off, or fire your weapon. The actual protection seems to last a second or two after the timer goes away, so don’t shoot too soon.
If doing this solo: log in a second controller, have them run to the enemy pistol spawn and headshot you 5x, then have them run over to you while you hold the B button to rev your lancer chainsaw.

#6 Sapper
Gametype: CtL
Xboxes: 1
Players: 1v1
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map – hotel ,change weapons to grenades
Speed/Rate: 5/min
Time Required: 3.5hrs
Medals: Sapper(1000/1000)
1 player runs around picking up/tagging grenades, and other shoots them. Then switch. The path we followed was each side pistol spawn, then digger/boomshot, grenade, then torque/longshot. Find two places in between each spawn where you can stick a grenade and your buddy can see it easily. Alternatively you can do this “solo” while weapon boosting on mercy. At the start of each spawn have your 2nd controller slap their smoke grenade on the wall. It adds a little time to the match but is marginally more efficient than coop (about 6 or 7 per added minute of match time) and only requires one person.

Miscellaneous

#7 CTL Ribbons
Gametype: CTL
Xboxes: 3
Players: You+4 bots (casual) vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map - Mercy ,change weapons to Boltok, 20sec capture time
Speed/Rate: 4/hr
Time Required: 9hrs
Medals: Captor(1000/1000) - this will take 250 rounds/17 matches
Abductor(500/500) - this will take 500 rounds/34 matches
Headshot(2400/4000)
Pistols(2000/6000)
MVP(34/500)
Shock Trooper(500/3000)
Finisher(600/6000)
You will need to work a little bit here, as there will be one live bot on the other team. Grab the leader (should be one of the idle controllers, not the bot), then headshot the others with the Boltok.

#8 Medic/Guardian
Gametype: CTL
Xboxes: 2
Players: You+1 idle vs 1 idle
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map – Mercy, friendly fire on, shortest bleed out, longest round time
Speed/Rate: 6/min (Guardian) 17/min (medic)
Time Required: 200min (Guardian), 70min (medic)
Medals: Medic(1200/1200)
Guardian(1200/1200)
Down your leader then revive them for Medic. For Guardian, have enemy melee then grab them, then melee them off.

#9 Assistant
Gametype: KotH
Xboxes: 3
Players: you + 4 bots (insane) v5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map – mercy, all weapons to Boomshot? (I’m not really sure what will keep them killing fastest in TDM, HoD was very disappointing, maybe mortars?)
Speed/Rate: 750/hr (coop),275/hr solo
Time Required: 6.66hrs (coop), 17hrs (solo)
Medals: Assistant(5000/5000)
Spray the enemy team with lancer, let bots kill them off. This can also be done with another player, spray the enemy team while they are working on Hammer of Dawn or Mortar kills. Best done on Hotel, just stay far enough away from enemy that you don’t flip spawns. If you can coordinate with another human, this can be done very effectively whie they are boosting HoD or Mortar kills.

#10 Active Reloader/Spotter
Gametype: CtL
Xboxes: 1
Players: You vs idle
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map – mercy, weapons to starter pistol
Speed/Rate: 30/min (reload), 20/min (spot)
Time Required: 14 hrs (reload), 10hrs (spot)
Medals: Active Reloader(25000/25000)
Spotter(12000/12000)
If you have a sufficiently capable turbo/macro controller, this can be done automatically. Park yourself on top of a weapon spawn. Shoot a shot, reload, pick up a new gun when needed. Then go over to the other controller and spam (or turbo) the LS.

Quit Outs
These can both be done by idling but will be much MUCH faster with quit outs.

#11 TDM
Gametype: TDM
Xboxes: 2
Players: You vs 1 (on a 2nd xbox)
Rounds: 1
Speed/Rate: 45/hr or 14/10/6/hr (idling with 3/2/1 xboxes)
Time Required: 66 hrs or 214/300/500hrs (idling with 3/2/1 xboxes)
Medals: TDM(3000/3000)
Start the match then quit with the 2nd xbox and have them rejoin the match immediately (using join session in progress is easiest). With a sufficiently capable macro controller this could be automated.

#12 Wingman
Gametype: Wingman
Xboxes: 2
Players: You vs 1 (on a 2nd xbox), if idling then you+1 idle vs 2 bots (insane) seems to be fastest
Rounds: 1
Speed/Rate: 45/hr or 7.5/hr (idling)
Time Required: 66 hrs or 400 (idling)
Medals: Wingman(3000/3000)
Start the match then quit with the 2nd xbox and have them rejoin the match immediately (using join session in progress is easiest). With a sufficiently capable macro controller this could be automated. If idling, the best settings are 2V2, 10 points, 3 minute rounds, 2 insane bots, 30 sec bleed out, all weapons to boomshot, and make sure both the 2 controllers and the bots are both on COG.

MVP/Shock Trooper
This will finish up MVP and shock trooper and a good amount of weapons.

#13 15 round matches
Gametype: Warzone
Xboxes: 3
Players: You + 4 bots (casual) vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map - Mercy
Speed/Rate: 6/hr
Time Required: 30hrs
Medals: MVP(180/500)
Shock Trooper(2690/3000)
Sawed-off Shotgun(6000/6000)
Gnasher Shotgun(4950/6000)
Headshot(4000/4000)
Run over to the other spawn, kill them all, when you finish the match, start a new one on Mercy. With the Sawed-Off you can usually get a triple kill if you stand right in front of the front right enemy in their spawn, move slightly to the right, and aim slightly to the left of the back right enemy. Then a 2nd shot will kill the remaining two enemies. This should take 146 matches like this. If you finish a weapon, do curb stomps until the match ends and you can change.

#14 1 round matches
Gametype: Warzone
Xboxes: 3
Players: You + 4 bots (casual) vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 1
Speed/Rate: 30/hr
Time Required: 11 hrs
Medals: MVP(500/500)
Shock Trooper(3000/3000)
Gnasher Shotgun(6000/6000)
Run over to the other spawn, kill them all, when you finish the match, start a new one on Mercy. With the Sawed-Off you can usually get a triple kill if you stand right in front of the front right enemy in their spawn, move slightly to the right, and aim slightly to the left of the back right enemy. Then a 2nd shot will kill the remaining two enemies.

Weapon Cleanup
At this point all that is left is a large number of weapon kills

#15 Curb Stomp
Gametype: TDM
Xboxes: 3
Players: You vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map – Mercy, 35 respawns, 60 sec bleedout
Speed/Rate: 450/hr
Time Required: 7 hrs
Medals: Old Schooler(3000/3000)
Finisher(3600/6000)
Go to their spawn and keep killing them with curb stomps. I found this easies with retro lancer. My best results were to down two while running up and down the remaining 3 with melee.

#16 Lancer
Gametype: TDM
Xboxes: 3
Players: You vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Settings: Map – Mercy, 35 respawns, 60 sec bleedout
Speed/Rate: 480/hr
Time Required: 12.5hrs
Medals:Retro Lancer(6000/6000)
Finisher(6000/6000)
Go to their spawn and kill them using the chainshaw, its faster than shooting.

#17 Retro Lancer
Gametype: TDM
Xboxes: 3
Players: You vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Speed/Rate: 550/hr
Settings: Map – Mercy, 35 respawns, 60 sec bleedout
Time Required: 11hrs
Medals:Retro Lancer(6000/6000)
Go to their spawn and keep killing them, use charges for the first one then shoot them.

#18 Remaining weapons
Gametype: TDM
Xboxes: 3
Players: You vs 5 idle controllers
Rounds: 15
Speed/Rate: Varies
Time Required: Varies
Settings: Map – Hotel, 35 respawns, 60 sec bleedout
Medals: Hammerburst(6000/6000) – set all to Hammerburst
Pistols(6000/6000) – set all to Boltok
Pyro(3000/3000) – set pistols Hammer of Dawn
Explosives(6000/6000) – set all to frag grenades
Heavy Weapons(6000/6000) – set all to Mortar
A note about spawn points: as long as you aren’t too close to their spawn when they are spawning back in, they will stay on the same spawn so you don’t need to run back and forth. “Far enough” is inside the sandbags of the pistol spawn, or behind the middle line of the sidewalk near the hotel side doors. (There is a line that runs down the middle about halfway between the curb and the door, you need to be behind it.)
Hammerburst(500/hr-12.5hrs): Run to the close pistol spawn and grab the appropriate weapon. Then run to the pistol spawn closest to the enemy. Stand to the outside of the spawn so you can see the feet of all five enemies. This will give you the best angle. Shoot the enemy and run the six feet pick up ammo as needed. Don’t wait for the perfect active reload (hammer burst perfect is at end of bar), it’s not worth it.
Pistols(450/hr-13.3hrs): Grab the boltok from the close pistol spawn, then grab extra ammo from the top spawn. Refill from the enemy pistol spawn and boomshot/digger spawn as needed. You can headshot them all while standing on the enemy pistol spawn. You can refill as soon as you get down to 24 shots without wasting any.
Pyro(950/hr-3.5hrs): Grab the hammer of dawn from the close pistol spawn, then run to far pistol spawn. Target middle enemy and incinerate them. You should be able to hit them 4 or 5 times, then grab 2nd HoD and finish up. Don’t even start shooting HoD until spawn protection wears off.
Heavy Weapons(800/hr-7.5hrs): Grab from grenade spawn, walk just past sandbags, aim for top center of APC, or above center of enemy team (maybe twice head height), max power. You can start charging shot when spawn protection timer hits 3 or 4, no need to let go of LT to reload. Once out of ammo, grab from digger/boomshot spawn. Head towards enemy and go just to the outside (farther from hotel) of the 1st car or truck, max power. Once out of ammo, head to pistol spawn near enemies. Back up to ???, aim at head of center guy, max power.
Explosives(775/hr-7.75hrs): Grab grenades from close pistol spawn, run to enemy spawn, tag guy in center, and immediately run to either hotel side door or enemy pistol spawn. Grab new grenades from enemy pistol, then one of the center spawns, then enemy pistol spawn should be ready again for final kills.

Mutators
There are 5 mutators that will be very helpful in Horde and Arcade mode. I’ll cover the quickest way to get each.

#1 Super Reload
You should already have this from doing the versus mode medals, specifically the bronze Master-at-Arms medal (100 kills with each starting weapon).

#2 Comet
You should already have this from doing the versus mode medals, specifically the silver ribbon for 300 First Blood ribbons.

#3 Infinite Ammo
Gametype: Horde
Xboxes: 1 or 2
Players: You+1 or 3 idle controllers
Settings: Map – Mercy, Difficulty – Insane, Mutators – friendly fire (optional)
You need 100 combat engineer ribbons, which are earned by making 5 things in a round. Give all the money on your other controllers to the one trying to unlock this. (Get close, aim, and hit B twice). Build a base. You have two options then, you can build a turret, have the other controller hop in, shoot, you reload it with your main, and repeat that 2 more times. What I would recommend, however especially if you have 3 other controllers, is just build/upgrade 4 more things. (You can still do this with the $2000 from two controllers, you will just be limited to building small walls and decoys. There are several spots in mercy with enough small walls to do that). If you have $4000 you will make pretty good progress towards leveling up your defenses as well. Just try to spend as close to the full $4000 as you can each round. After that just wait for the enemies to kill you and then pick restart from beginning (NOT from the current wave). If you have just two players and already have friendly fire unlocked, you can simultaneously tag each other with smoke grenades to end the round before the enemy even spawns.

#4 Instagib Melee
Gametype: Beast
Xboxes: 1
Players: You+1 idle controllers
Settings: Map – Mercy, Difficulty – Casual
You need 200 kills as a wretch. The easiest way to do this seems to be to spawn in the second controller as something large and tough like a butcher. Run them a little bit out of the spawn, to the L shaped piece of cover. Spawn in your main controller as a wretch and start killing guys. For the most part the enemies will be ignoring you and shooting at the butcher and you can mow them down with little trouble. You probably don’t want to progress past wave 3 or so. While there are more enemies to kill on later waves, they get a bit tougher (more heroes, more defenses) which slows things down.

#5 Friendly Fire
Gametype: Arcade
Xboxes: 2
Players: You+3 idle controllers or 3 friends
You need to complete the game in 4 player co-op on any difficulty. Since you don’t need this mutator for arcade mode (just for horde) I would wait until you have completed your arcade mode play through and wrap up any chapters that you have not done in 4 player. (Hopefully just the final one.)

Arcade Mode

#1 Insane Playthrough
Gametype: Arcade
Xboxes: 2
Players: You+3 idle controllers or 3 friends
Settings: Difficulty – Insane, Mutators – Comet, Infinite Ammo, Super Reload
Medals:Warmonger
Tour of Duty
Start at the 1st act with 4 players if possible. If you can’t manage 4 it is worth signing in extra controllers. Arcade mode only ends if everyone is dead at the same time. After dying you respawn in 25 seconds, so even an idle controller far away from the action can save the day and let you spawn back in. You should do pretty well with your starting rifle thanks to super reload. If you empty your clip and then perform a super reload, you will have a full clip of super ammo that does greatly increased damage. After that you will have another full clip of normal ammo. It is often worth just staying in cover and blind firing your normal clip so that you can have another super clip. When you finish a fight, if there isn’t much super ammo left, empty your clip and do a super reload. Unlike normal super reloads, it does not expire. Comet is your get out of jail free card. While you are roadie running you are on fire and invincible and will kill small enemies you run into. If you are the last one alive and have enough running room, you can just run in circles with comet and wait for everyone to respawn. As long as you don’t run into a wall and stop you are golden. On the final level I highly recommend not trying it on 4-player insane. The number of palace guards that spawn is pretty absurd. I would play on 2 player insane arcade where you will face far fewer guards. Try to take the boss down as quickly as possible, both hitting her with your Hammers of Dawn when she is vulnerable. After beating it, you can then quickly go back and beat her with 4 players (extra controllers if necessary) on casual.

#2 House of Sand
Gametype: Arcade
Xboxes: 1
Players: You+1 idle controllers or 3 friends
Settings: Level 2-2, Difficulty – Normal, Mutators – Comet, Super Reload (we are skipping infinite ammo and casual so we will get enough points for king of cog)
Medals: King of Cog (7.5M/7.5M)
Number 1 (240/240)
Survivalist (240/240)
Aficionado (500/500)
Start the level and run through as quickly as you can, but try to avoid getting hit as much as possible, and do not get knocked down.
Level Walkthrough: You will face a medium corpser soon so empty your clip, prepare your super reload and grab the ammo at the start area. After the corpser, there will be one grenadier (carrying some ammo), then prepare a new super reload before heading through the gateway into the next open area. There will be a low wall to your left as you enter. Take cover behind it and kill off 3 or 4 savage grenadiers, a few tickers, and a savage boomer. Once they are cleared out, you can run out of cover to the right and go up the ramp a bit (but not all the way) and take cover along the side. From there you can quickly take out the grinder using your active reload. As you run towards the door you’ll get a cutscene. Use the cover you end up in front of (with both controllers) and 4 or so savage therons and perhaps 8 savage drones will burst out of the ground. After they are done, prepare your super reload, and open the gate with the help of your 2nd controller. Once through the gate and the cutscene, you will want to have your 2nd controller quickly take cover behind a rockwall that is at about 45 degrees to your left. Then have your 1st controller sprint down the ramp (and straight at the fork) and take cover by the small wall at the right side of the ramp. Two grenadiers will drop down, kill them and move up past the crate to another small wall. A few grenadiers and a savage boomer will come out in front of you and a few grenadiers to your left, then a few more grenadiers. Once they are clear, climb up the ladder, hop in the catapult and try to take out as many enemies as you can with your 3 shots. Then comet run past all the enemies, through the open gate and take cover on the far side of the square of boxes facing back the way you just came. Clear out any remaining enemies and more will pop out of the ground. Kill all but one or two and then turn around and run right up to the closed gate (facing it). Then bring your other controller and finish off any remaining enemies. Once they are all dead you will get a checkpoint and the gate will open.
The Trick: You are now about 5 seconds from the end of the level. Run right through the gate and up the hill. The level will end. You will get medals. Right after the score screen goes away a cut scene will start. When it does, immediately pause the game and then reload the last checkpoint. You will then be back at the gate, moments from the end. You can repeat this many times. You may want to stop after 75 or so as I found my game would tend to freeze if I went too much further, and sometimes I would have credit for those ribbons and sometime not. When you want to stop just skip the cutscene then return to the main menu once the next chapter starts.

#3 Unbreakable
Gametype: Arcade
Xboxes: 1
Players: You
Settings: Level 3-1, Difficulty – casual, Mutators – Infinite Ammo, Comet, Super Reload
Medals: Force Multiplier(100/100)
Start the level. Once you reach the 2nd section in the inner courtyard, don’t get hit too much and you should max out your multiplier fairly easily. And don’t let them breach the inner doors, or the level will drag on much longer. After the score screen, immediately pause and reload and you should be at the beginning of the courtyard fight and can repeat your performance. (You do not have 2 or 3 seconds to pause like on house of sand, you need to pause as soon as the score screen starts to fade).

#4 The Piano Man
Gametype: Arcade
Xboxes: 1
Players: You
Settings: Level 1-1, Difficulty – casual
Medals: Doorman(2000/2000)
Start the level. Get Dom, get Jace, get a turbo controller if you can, then go up the stairs, walk up to the piano, and press X for 3 hours.

Horde Mode

This section is going to be a little more free form, as there are a lot of ways you can go about this, but here’s what you need to do all together:
• Complete 2000 waves
• Earn 300 Founder ribbons
• Earn 500 Point Man ribbons
• Earn $5M
• Complete 100 challenges
• Complete 1000 fortification modifications
• Complete all 50 waves on Insane (in one sitting)

For the 50 waves obviously you have to play on insane, I’d highly recommend 5 people for that and the infinite ammo and super reload mutators, along with instagib or comet depending on your personal preference.

Then you’re going to need to grind out the 2000 waves. Go with casual for this and either a 2nd controller or an idle friend or two. For mutators I would recommend infinite ammo, super reload, and friendly fire. You shouldn’t really need instagib or comet on casual, and friendly fire makes it easy to down the other people so you can restart on wave 1 without quitting back to the main menu. You will also make twice as much progress on leveling your fortifications. My preferred map for this is blood drive as it is small and easily held by one person. If you want to ease the sting a little, I’d find a friend who needs this too, and you take shifts, each doing 100 waves while the other person idles. Having two people actively playing is faster, but not twice as fast, so this is a bit more efficient in terms of man hours. I’d recommend repeating waves 2-9 (or you can even go up to 19). But I’d avoid getting into the 20s and I’d stop if you get a lambent berserker, they just take too long. If you are running waves 2-9 you should be averaging about 5000 per wave. That will get you your 5 million in about 1000 waves (which is why I recommend splitting up the duties 50/50. That will also get you 125 founder ribbons, more point man ribbons than you need, and you should easily have 100 challenges and probably your fortification modifications (even if you just build 2 barbed wire walls and repair them 3 times each, that’s well over 1000).

The most likely things you will be behind on after 2000 waves are money and founder ribbons. For money, I would play wave 9 and deliberately die to the last enemy, then restart and repeat. For founder ribbons, I’m also assuming you will want to level up your fortification (both to make playing horde easier and for the achievements). If you start off with that it will not take very long. Start a game on insane on the map Mercy with friendly fire and 2 other “bad” mutators with 2 xboxes and 4 controllers. It can be done with just 2 controllers, but won’t be as fast. Give all the money from 3 controllers to the one you want to gain the levels. Have them build the base and then spend your $4000. Either gun down all of your teammates and wait for the locust to kill you, or gun down two, and then have the last two tag each other with smoke grenades. Then restart from the beginning. The whole process should take less than a minute. Thank to playing on insane and the mutators you will be making $5,500 of progress towards your fortifications each time. To level everything up as far as is needed for the fortifications will cost you $1,125,000. So you will need to do this just over 200 times. Which should only take you 4 hours or so even if you are starting from square 1. Hopefully you are well on your way already.

If all you need is founder ribbons, skip the rigamarole with transferring money and building things. Difficulty doesn’t matter, level doesn’t matter, just have 2 controllers. Build a command post, smoke tag each other, restart, repeat.

Beast Mode

You’re almost done! Here’s what you need in beast:
• I'm A Beast! - Complete Beast without failing on Insane
• Beastly - Complete 600 waves of Beast
• Motivator - Heal or revive 1500 teammates in Beast
• Dismantler - Destroy 3000 fortifications in Beast
• Ruthless - Kill 1100 humans in Beast
• Investor - Earn $1M cash in Beast
• High Roller - Get the Ready for the Heavies ribbon 75 times
I’ll start with the insane run. Find four friends. At least three of you need to be good with boomers. Play on Raven Down, it is a very small map which makes this a whole lot easier. In the early waves you will probably want to run 4 drones and 1 ticker. (A single ticker at the start, more on later waves is very helpful to clear out the fences at the entrance of the COG base.) Try to not die too much so as to save cash. If you are down to one human who is DBNO, feel free to destroy sentries/turrets/etc for extra cash. If they are a hero beware as they will self revive after a time (normal stranded will just bleed out). As soon as you can one person should be a kantus and spam heals while hiding behind cover. As you unlock boomers, you should gradually transition to at least 3 boomers and 1 kantus. The 5th slot works well with a serapede or a 4th boomer. Pummel the humans from long range. They will usually take 2 shots, 1 to down and 1 to kill. If you time it right you can often down a would-be reviver w/the 2nd shot as well. The serapede is low to the ground, fast, and well armored, excellent for killing downed enemies. Don’t be tempted by the berserkers, they will be cut down in no time, especially against the onyx guards in wave 12. The kantus can upgrade to armored if money allows. As long as you don’t die too much, money should not be too much of an issue. Your greatest danger is COG overrunning your spawn in the close quarters. It may take several tries, but each attempt is quick so it will hopefully be yours before long.

The main grind after that will be getting 75 High Roller medals. The quickest way to rack these up is to play with one other person or with a 2nd idle controller. If playing with another person, one of you should switch to Kantus ASAP to maximize your income. If playing solo, I’d probably just stick to the drone until you unlock tier 3 and then switch to the corpser. It’s combination of AoE attack, armor, and healing is great for soloing. As the drone, if you have the opportunity, destroy turrets, decoys, and sentries, walls are just not worth the time it takes. As corpse you can destroy walls pretty well also. You need to earn about $7750 to reach the final tier, and you need to spawn in as a 4th tier locust at least once. It will probably take you until wave 5 or 6 to unlock it solo and maybe a tiny bit longer as a duo. In the course of doing that 75 times you will have no trouble whatsoever killing 1100 humans. If you need to work on dismantler (which you most likely will as you need to average 40 destroyed fortification per each of your 75 runs), you can switch to a berserker and keep going until you run out of cash. It may not be worth your time continuing after wave 9, as the flame sentries start to appear, which makes the life of a Berserker much less pleasant. But you will probably be able to rack up close to 100 in just a couple of waves as the berserker. If you are down to one human, down them and just go on a rampage destroying everything in sight. By the time you are done with the above you should have more than enough cash for the $1M. You can bang out the remaining waves by just repeating the 1st 3 or 4, or sit there while someone else works on their medals. The only remaining one is healing 1500 teammates.
You can obviously get this by joining a public game, being a Kantus, and spamming heals. A good solo option is to get yourself 2 xboxes and 4 controllers. Get to at least wave 2 on Mercy (you can just keep repeating wave 2 and failing to get to tier 2) and tier 2. Spawn the other 3 controllers in as butchers and run them into the little L shaped stone area near your spawn. You can then keep healing them as the humans shoot them, and if you feel like it, take down a few humans to extend your time. Once you get down to two humans, just let the timer run out, and repeat. Each wave takes just barely over a minute and can probably get you 25-50 heals.

29 Aug 2016 20:40

Tazwaz

TrueAchievements

28 Jun 2013 02:43

IDLE BOOST SKUNKERS IN GEARS OF WAR 3

THE METHOD:

- Sign in a PLAYER 2 (wich is just turning on a controller and pressing the Y button in the main menu) or sign in a GUEST either will work.

- Game type :EXECUTION

- Rounds to win: 2

- Round time limit: 1 MINUTE

- Number of bots: FILL

- Bot difficulty: INSANE

- Classic stale mates: OFF

- Friendly Fire: OFF

- Make sure you and your PLAYER 2 or GUEST are on DIFFERENT TEAMS

- Set ALL the weapon pickups to: BOOMSHOT

- When the game is counting down to start the match remove BOTH battery packs in the two controllers so game will not pause on its own when controller times out (turns off)

EXPLANATION / NOTES:

- This method will net you between 30 and 60 skunkers a night (while you sleep) depending on how long you leave your box on, and how lucky you are because your team needs to sweep the other team without your help.

- This works because you turn off classic stalemates and the bots run to the boomshots and end up killing a few people before the TIME RUNS OUT (it is set to one minute) and the team with more people alive after the one minute showdown of insane bots with boomshots receives a victory. the only way there is a stalemate is if the teams have the same amount of people alive at the end of one minute which rarely happens, and if it does big whoop its one minute wasted and has NO effect on victories it just loads another round and continues the cycle.

- I posted this solution because THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO IDLE BOOST SKUNKERS EFFECTIVELY, and I came up with it myself because there are no other solutions on how to idle boost skunkers so I got creative and it works great. I know it doesnt give you a tonne of skunkers, but some are better than none, and no effort is required. It also prevents you from needing to join a tonne of gaming sessions and works while you sleep!!

- I HOPE THIS HELPS EVERYONE; IT HELPED ME ALOT AND IT IS THE METHOD I USED TO GET THE MAJORITY OF MY SKUNKERS

28 Jun 2013 02:43

luke turbo2010

TrueAchievements

30 May 2013 15:49

For wingman boosting. If u setup 2 controllers put you and your 2nd controller on one team. Vs 2 bots. Leave it to idle. In a 24 hour period you will get 200 matches played so to finish wingman will take you roughly 15 days to finish. Not bad if u dont really want to play for them. Hope this helps you ought.

30 May 2013 15:49

OnTheSeshhLad

TrueAchievements

21 Apr 2012 09:32

WINGMAN BOOSTING

Wingman is the longest medal in gears of war 3 you have to play 3000 matches and 6000 rounds of it. Every match of wingman has to be 2 rounds or more the highest score you can get in a round is 7.

Wingman boosting there is 2 ways to boost this.

1. Have a party of 4 people including yourself with second controllers or party of 8 now doing it this way you can earn yourself ,firstblood ribbons ,MVP ribbons, Skunker ribbons,Button up ribbons only if its a full match.

2. have a party of 4 with 2 of them having second controllers and having no bots on. So you should only have six players in the game.

Now the fastest way to boost this is to have 2 people on the same team going to the spawns doing it with method 2. You can end a round in 14 - 24 second a round with 2 people going at once there will only be 1 spawn each for them look at your second controller to look for the spawns . method 1 with 2 people going will take about 25 - 47 second a round. The 2 people that are killing will get the Skunker ribbons only if there team gets all the kills.

Weapons for wingman boosting.
The fastest weapons to use is the Gnasher and Retro Lancer
if you have your retro and the gnasher done lancer is best. Hammer burst ,Sawed-off shogun will only make this longer for you.

Doing method 1 will take about 4 - 5 hours for a 100 matches played. Doing method 2 will take about 3 - 4 hours for a 100 match played only if 2 people go at the same time.

hope this guide helps out :)

21 Apr 2012 09:32

ArogueHaggis

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26 Jul 2012 00:50

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but I found a good way to boost a few medals on your own. This method focuses mainly on the medic, skunker and hard target medal and the others just come with it.

Start up a private warzone, 2 rounds, 3 mins, friendly fire on, fill casual bots, 60 sec bleed out, and all weapons smokes (or a weapon of your choice, I was going for pistol kills so wasn't necessary). Start with retro and melee or shoot your team down and revive them for medic (8 revives a round). After reviving twice kill so eventually its you left, this gives you last man standing (hard target medal), then kill the enemy team however you like but on the last enemy, leave him down and spot him until the last second then kill him. Repeat for round two which nets you 1 towards skunker and also a warzone game played.

If done flawlessly this method nets you the following per game:

16 revives (2 retro bullets and a melee downs quickest)
2 first blood ribbon (shock trooper medal)
10 kills ( your choice of method)
1 last man out ribbon (hard target medal)
1 warzone game
1 skunk ( if you win 2-0)
1 MVP ribbon
Roughly 20 spots (if the last enemy is in view at the start of sudden death)

I dont do many solutions so hope this helps guys!

26 Jul 2012 00:50

OhhJustBQ

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10 Apr 2013 19:28

For Vengeful
i did it in a 1v5 weapons boosting session
you get to execute your nemeses 23 times when they are going for there 600 kills
another 23 for the other player when they go for their 600 thats 46 executions on your nemeses in one session that you were doing already

10 Apr 2013 19:28

Howard23Saint

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08 Apr 2016 16:43

Apr8-2016
My guide is the best methods IVE personally found. I say that from hours to potentially days of looking up ideas and methods for each and every single method for all 65 medals I'm not gonna repost exactly the contents but exactly what is the best/easiest/fastest way to get each and every single onyx (also please note this is my first solution so please be gentle)

I also hope you the reader understands all you need is the rank 100 and all 65 onyx's, no lvl100 in GoW2, beta medal etc. This is also I guess if you want to can call it an Xbox one guide too if you happen to have both a X1 and 360 this will be A LOT easier. I personally have 9 left and it's almost mid April 2016

Vengeful-Execute 100 Nemeses:
2 Controller Method, King of the Hill, Mercy Map, Weapons Default, now I can't remember if you have to have full teams I don't beileve so but just load up those settings (longest and biggest score times always implied!!!) and have the guest kill your main account 5 times in a row, run over down the guest afterwards and Execute him, it's pretty straight forward takes only about 2hrs ish

Captor-Kill 1000 Enemies with a captive:
Mercy map, solo, full teams, King of the hill, weapons set to all gorgon, bots casual, now just pick up a gorgon downing enemies making sure to press X to pick them up carry your new friend around the map trying to use the gorgon to down quickly any enemies and if your meat shield is about gone one of those new downed enemy's can replace him (this method I used 1000 was like 4hrs tops of gorgon downing plus any slip ups count towards pistol kills :)) also you can do all Boltok and work on headshots but I personally had 1/10 headshot Boltok kills which sound great but if you want JUST this medal, gorgon sweep then

War Supporter-Play in 30 Gears Events:
I made new accounts and tried this and for whatever reason you should always receive 29/30 idk why exactly and I played just a casual TDM online and got 30 really not sure what's going on with this but I also beileve that if you are having trouble getting the 30 play in each online playlist till the bar starts moving

MVP- Earn 500 MVP ribbons:
Okay even if you are the worst of the worst there's a 100 ways to get this I mean ANYONE is better than bots in a local private match will come with time, hey if your reading this and WANT S3 then this will come naturally, but if your just plane insane and want this grinded quickly as possible load up gridlock replace longshot with HoD or Boomshot, whatever your good with 2 rounds and go to town on some casual bots, or even mercy and replace the digger and torque spawn with X weapon all I can say if you want JUST this, full teams too

Field Service: Reach Level 100:
....what do you want me to say the exp alone for everyother onyx will put you easily at 150 total, the medal can only be onyx'ed once I mean really if you want S3 you'll get this don't need a guide, again if you want to grind this SKUNK on gridlock helps a ton even by rank 90's it goes really fast (I put the method for this in the skunking solution)

Veteran- Play 4000 Matches:
Again if your going for S3 you'll get this at least 4-5 times over, as in 4-5 of this same onyx, AGAIN if you want just this medal and grind it out seek the warzone or execution idle grind method listed under the warzone and execution onyx medals below

Match Winner- Win 3000 matches:
Ugh again naturally you'll get this, even idle boosting the bots will win this at least 2 times over, if you really wanna grind some wins, again I recommend skunking, 2birds 1stone kinda thing, skunking method listed below

Headshot- 4000 Headshots:
I found a few different ways plus the way the community likes to play I have 3 options; 1. Mercy, KotH weapons all longshots no bots but 2 controllers account and guest, neat little trick take the main account fill up on longshot go to wine cellar/House of the map (on one side of the fountain) sit basically were the horde flag would be if it was horde (idk how to post a pic but you can look it up yourself it's easy to figure out what I mean) park there with longshot in hand now if the 2Controller is anywhere BUT top of the fountain move him there now head shot him, you might have to move him around till eventually he will continue to spawn at the top of the fountain, you can also shift left for more ammo but do not leave the spot, this is not the greatest method it seems to be unreliable at times plus going from 0-4000 would take at least 10hrs of this; 2. (My method) Boltok all spawns KotH with a actual 2nd player all bots and make sure u and friend are on same team, now P2 will hate it but let him travel with P1 downing EVERY enemy then P1 mopping up the down with a Boltok headshot these are about every 1/3 times it works AT THE LEAST I'm doing pistols and headshots together and I recommend that; 3. Is just simply people having full bots 1 person and all longshots and just trying your best to score headshots, again I recommend Boltok and headshots together cause if you figure it 6000 pistols and half of those will be headshots and that's if you have a bad aim

Heavy Weapons- 6000 Heavy Weapon Kills:
Skunk skunk skunk skunk skunk, warzone: 2-10-fill-casual-60-off-after pickup settings-gridlock-weapons off, longshot spawn is oneshot, (now people say mulcher, NO wildly misses them, Mortar yeah but you have to stand out from the lip of the building unless you wanna kill yourself) Oneshot is best I grab park agaisnt the wall (to work on Cover onyx) aim and get at least 2 doubles and a single kill, I get a 5 for 1 often too which hey 20 sec rounds with that can't beat it, repeat for another round then game ends you just got at least 5 kills (if your a terrible shot or bad day, u know) or at most 10 kills/a skunk/ and a cover match done, also you could do mercy and put on all mulchers, mortars, oneshot but it feels more like a hellfire match from every angle but that's me, if you want that instead, mercy KotH fill bots all weapons set to X, 15 rounds, could also do my 2player downing and P1 gets the kill method

Explosives- 6000 Explosive kills:
Boomshot or Torque, frags if your a maniac, I did mercy all boomshots 15 rounds fill casual bots and grinded it out, although you can do my skunk method on gridlock and use a boomshot/Torque instead, I recommend saving it for skunks, trust me you'll have the time

Finisher- 6000 Executions:
Seek my curbstomp onyx below that's a free 3000 right there, so for the other 3000 mercy fill bots KotH I say lancer chainsaw kills just to get lancer onyx going and this youll definitely get it that way, I did the 2player method P2 downs I run in gnasher execution is very short (holding Y with gnasher) or P2 downs and P1 chainsaw kills, if you want more work for P2 though

Skunker- 2500 Skunks:
Private>Warzone>2-10-fill-casual-60-off-after pickup>gridlock>all weapons off
Set longshot spawn to:
Oneshot -Heavy Onyx
Boomshot - Explosive Onyx
HoD - Pyro Onyx
Longshot - Headshot
You can also work on pistols and 5 starter weapons if you really want, I didn't though, I got the main 4 done then left it HoD that is the fastest kills you can get make sure after picking up whatever replaced the longshot spawn that you take cover on a wall while the enemy team Mickey funnels towards you, also working on your 600 cover onyx, and that's matchs btw, I did some run and times and basically with this if you stay on it you can get about 100 skunks every 4hrs, me and a friend are doing 10 days of 8hrs skunking for 2000 skunks, so you can figure your time accordingly, make sure on cog or locust your a femal character if you still need that onyx, can spot enemy's too if you need that, also while doing this you will get:
Match winner onyx
MVP onyx
Heavy Onyx
Explosive Onyx
Cover Onyx
Pyro Onyx
5 Starter weapon onyx (if you choose lancer Etc)
Pistol onyx (if you choose very hard though)
Shock Trooper onyx
Battle Mistress Onyx
Special Teams Onyx
Spotter Onyx
This is 1 of the 2 worst onyx's but this one can definitely earn you a lot if you plan accordingly

Leader: 300 Untouchable ribbons:
Don't get captured while playing as leader there's a cool little trick to make sure in game 2 and beyond you will always be leader there is a post about it above mine with details very easier 2 controller method, simple load up any map 1 round casual bots make P2 do the work of capturing the other leader or if you don't want to do that capture the leader as leader to work on abductor onyx too more ballsy but easy if your good, also the idle method 2 controller 1 on each team with a bot on each team, bots on insane you have a 50/50 shot of your bot killing the other pot and capturing poor P2 (I did this worked amazingly) mind you 1 round matches though

Abductor: Capture 500 leaders:
Can be done alone but easier with a 2nd person load up checkout 15 rounds full bots u and P2 same team just rush to the enemy leader down and capture them the P2 element is just back up or if the bots wanna get fun and toss smokes, I say checkout instead of mercy just cause checkout has more cover Incase you get shot etc plus make sure you have low capture time

Assistant: 5000 assist earned:
Best and fastest method have a friend work on a starter gun on mercy full bots u and friend same team down, put a few bullets in them spot but has to lead to a kill pretty simple really the fastest way besides naturally

Medic: revive 1200 teammates:
Can earn naturally but why do that when you can grind! There's a cool video on YouTube basically you go to sandbar (biggest difference between spawns) insane full pots on CTL just gnash and revive your leader LIKE CRAZY you can do it really fast just grind it out like I said if you need a visual tutorial just look up the medal on YouTube

Cover: 600 Buttoned Up ribbons:
Earned by spending the most time in cover I mentioned this in my skunking method, best method and fits perfectly within that onyx but again if you need JUST this load up gridlock no weapon spawns longshot is HoD sit in cover and aim out and blow the enemy team up has to be full bots and at least 2 rounds on warzone

Active Reloader: 25000 active reloads:
Can sit there on KotH Fire a shot with each gun then active reload if you wanna grind really hard, everyone really gets it naturally when going for any other weapon onyx's no worries really, it took me forever to get it but now I have almost 50,000 and about 9 onyx's from seriously so don't worry

Lancer: 6000 Lancer kills:
Mercy-2 players full teams of bots, both players on same team all weapons set to Lancer, have P2 down and P1 get the kill, KotH 15 rounds, really best method and best map to do this

Hammerburst: 6000 Hammerburst kills:
Seek Lancer strangely replace guns with hammerburst

Retro Lancer: 6000 Retro Kills:
Seek lancer strategy replace guns with retro

Gnasher: 6000 gnasher kills:
Seek lancer strategy replace guns with gnasher

Sawed off: 6000 sawed off kills:
Seek lancer strategy replace guns with sawed off

Pistols: 6000 pistol kills:
Seek Headshot onyx medal with the Boltok best method by far, captor will be 1000 kills already into this, can do lancer strategy but with gorgons if you want it done fast paced

Spotter: spot 12000 enemy's:
Mentioned in skunker onyx, pretty easy just keep clicking the left thumb stick every 5seconds over a enemy and you'll get it, if you really wanna grind (like I did) mercy 1v1 2 controller KotH rubber band LT on P1 controller and keep clicking left thumb stick, ruined my control I and thumbs do not suggest but this is an option

Pyro: 3000 pyro kills:
Your thinking flamethrower wrong your not a flame grenadier your someone who has nothing better to do than earn the worlds hardest achievement (eventually) just do the skunking method ALWAYS use HoD fasted Pyro kills

Sapper: destroy 1000 enemy grendades:
I think i did 1 online legitly anyway for the other 999 2 players only KotH all spawns to flame gernades have P2 pick them up plant them with some space between them to not set the other one off by accident P1 will shoot each planted gernade, really easy there's a popular YouTube video about this too super easy onyx

Guardian: rescue 1200 leaders in CTL:
2 players 1 per team and P1 and bot VS P2 load up a CTL game 2 round longest settings time length insane bot and friendly fire on, basically u want the bot to be leader have P2 capture your leader then punch him till leader drops, when bot leader gets back up retro or punch till your own leader is downed have P2 pick up rinse and repeat takes a bit but best method, we did it on mercy btw

CTL: 3000 CTL matches:
Set up single round insane bot, 1 bot verses you no weapons can delete DLC maps for better maps and quicker matches, you can even do 2 insane bots agaisnt you idle boosting, pretty easy should only take a couple days to get onyx

KotH: 3000 KotH matches:
60 score-1 round-2 insane bots agaisnt just you idle boosting no weapons can also delete DLC maps for faster matches

Warzone: 3000 Warzone matches:
Do 500 matches with 1 round 2 insane bots verses you idle boosting no weapons very easy, I say 500 cause the other 2500 wil be from skunking, but again if you want just this then same method but longer obviously

Execution: 3000 Execution matches:
1 round-10min-2 insane bots agaisnt just you idle boosting- no weapons can delete DLC maps too pretty simple

Team Deathmatch: 3000 TDM Matches:
10 respawns-1 round- fill insane bots-bleed out 60- friendly fire ON!!!-after pickup- all weapons boomshots, the friendly fire got me more matches played a ton more like I had 120 every 12hrs now with FF I get 200 every 12hrs helps a ton cause bots kill themselves or teammates etc. you will on average earn about 1000 last man out too that's what I got about too

Wingman: 3000 wingman matches:
10-3-2-insane-60-off- no weapons- delete all DLC maps too- put you and a 2nd controller on the same COG team make sure bots are on a COG team too, Y? Cause the teams spawn closer to Eachother and bots can kill you idling faster best method sadly this is worst than skunking IMO but really this and skunking are just the worst 2 onyxs

All Fathers: onyx all game modes:
Technically worse than wingman you need at least 18,000 matches played between all game types this is were you earn the veteran onyx 4-5 times over

Master at arms: onyx all 5 starting weapons:
Lancer, hammerburst, retro, gnasher and sawed off all need onyx medals it's a stack medal

Rifleman: onyx all 3 starting rifles:
Lancer, hammerburst, retro, personally I hate the hammerburst but got it last out of the 5 so it's a nice stack if you think of it that way, earning hammerburst rifle and master medals all at the same time

Hard Target: 3000 Last man out
Have to have full teams to work right best thing is when grinding out all fathers should at least get 1-1500 of these out of the 3000 best method is warzone insane bots full teams boomshots all spawns and hope they destroy your team, the idle way, if not and you already have rank 400 or don't care about XP then load up warzone causal fill bots all weapons flame gernades gnasher your whole team then go get a flame gernade and kill your self or take out the team like in true clutch fashion

Shock Tropper: 3000 first bloods:
Earned on full teams per ROUND just load up any map can even cycle them on warzone all Boomshot or whatever gun you like and get the first kill, that's the grind method really you'll earn this if you follow my skunking guide

Old schooler: 3000 curb stomps:
Like every other gun have a 2nd person down bots on mercy full casual teams and Tap Y to get this pretty much it no real fast way

Battle mistress: 1000 matches played as female:
Easy while doing all fathers put your presets to Myrrah and Anya the idle gave me 15 of these onyx'ed and I still need all of wingman

Sovereign: win 500 CTL rounds as leader:
Do the trick so you can be leader put it to one round per game and insane full team bots and hope your team takes out there leader before you, on my way to 3000 CTL I earned this onyx twice shouldn't be a problem

Special teams: 6000 map based weapon kills:
Should be earned with skunking and other medals can't really boost this without doing other medals, wanted with explosives medal etc

For the horde: all 50 waves completed on insane:
You highly need a full 5 person team and 2hrs to do this try over pass and camp the bridge was our best technique having the super reload and infinite ammo mutator really evens the field plus the super reload if done right is a damage boost too I also had comet on for those tight situations u can run around a bit without taking damage and try to regroup or get some breathing room

Horder: complete 2000 horde waves:
That's COMPLETE as in beat the wave, 50 waves is about 2hrs just play the game sadly all I can really say no fast way maybe smaller maps like mercy to see all the spawns and kill faster really bout it

Architect: 300 founder ribbon:
Basically you have to establish 300 bases not the ones that cost $ but the first free one, 300 times keep playing if it's your last horde medal keep loading up horde buying the first base then leave and repeat till you get it

Squad leader: point man 500 times:
Will come with the 2000 waves if not just have a empty 2nd controller camp somewhere while P1 does the work

Field engineer: 1000 fortifications modifications:
Fast way build a turret have about 500$ have a friend hop on the turret and continue to shoot it during the 30sec round break while tapping Y to repair and replenish the ammo adds up fast

Big money: earn 5,000,000mil in horde:
Will come with the 2000 waves if not then play from 1-49 by yourself kill everything in 49 but the last enemy have him kill you and keep repeating 49 cash will add up faster, pretty easy super time consuming

Loot Courtesan: 100 challenges completed:
The bonus objectives are pretty easy you'll get this with the 2000 waves if not just keep playing and making sure you do them

I'm a beast: complete all 12 waves of beat on insane without failing:
Get a good team of 5 and try using 2 people using tickers then maulers, 2 people doing drones then kantus/savage grenadier and one person misc save the beserkers for 12 if you can but wave 11 and 12 be best to save them for, the ticker team will work on the clock by eating fortifications while the others kill/heal really the best tip mercy and checkout are the best maps

Beastly: complete 600 waves of beast:
Pretty easy will come naturally from playing no boost or grind just play beast mode or stack it with other medals

Motivator: heal/revive 1500 teammates in beast:
Kantus and armored kantus work for this medal just another one that takes time if you wanna sped it up can have your teammates get hurt more often

Dismantler: destroy 3000 fortifications:
Just about anything can destroy a fort. Beserkers are best when holding LB you can see all structures just go out and break stuff

Ruthless: kill 1100 enemy's:
Simple will get this before the 600 waves if not just keep playing can't really farm the AI

Investor: earn 1,000,000mil in beast:
Again will naturally get it, if you want it ASAP play beast by yourself on mercy or checkout and destroy everything and kill everyone that way you get all the cash

High roller: ready for the heavy ribbon 75 times:
Oddly enough this is online only you have to unlock the final tier 75 times just play online it's straight forward enough

King of COG: earn 7,500,000 in arcade:
Fast boost insane on act 3 chapter 1 has the most and fastest potential for kills can put on infinite ammo and super reload plus a hard mutator for even more points

Number 1: #1 in arcade 240 times:
Load up you and a local p2 on the flying barge level of act 2 have P1 do all the kills pretty easy

Warmonger: arcade campaign on insane:
Pretty easy straight forward you should do it with a team and have easy mutators on, HOWEVER the fight with myrrah do it by yourself in arcade, we figured out the more real players agaisnt her the more health she had on the tower so last chapter is best played alone

Force multiplier: maintain max multiplier for 100 chapters of arcade:
Just finished the level in arcade with a blue 10 doesn't matter difficulty do that 10 times easy

Survivalist: 240 chapters comply edge without dying:
Load up act 2 chapter 2 when the next cut scene plays hit last checkpoint from the pause menu, a whole 240 times yes but it's easy

Aficionado: play 500 arcade chapters:
easy with the 240 for survivalist medal, can keep doing that or play the campaign, over and over

Doorman: manipulate 2000 objects:
After you wake up in the begging of the game you'll find a piano before talking to Anya, play it 2000 times with X button, music to my ears!

Tour of Duty: complete campaign on insane:
Just the regular game no arcade beat on insane lil old school with watching ammo again but straight forward best with full team of people

That was my seriously 3.0 guide as of April 2016 I hope you guys don't hate it again this was my first guide this is my 5th year of working on seriously 3 hope to have it soon and hope my guide was helpful and maybe a little funny, and also forgot to mention the idle boosting matches with a X1 you can watch tv or play Gears UE while leaving ur 360 to idle gow3 any tips or suggestions love to hear them thanks :)

08 Apr 2016 16:43

GLOBEGAMING

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28 Aug 2015 04:48

A video guide, I did my best to give pointers for all metals.

28 Aug 2015 04:48

Col Double D

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26 Apr 2013 20:14

For Capture the Leader

2 people can get a bunch of medals each. Set the game to 1 round bots fill and weapons disabled with a bleed-out time of 20 or so. And capture time to 10.

Person A will get the following medals:
Captor if killing while (capturing)
MVP
Veteran
Match Winner
Capture the Leader
Shock Trooper
Abductor

Person B will get the following medals
Leader
Sovereign
Cover (if always entering cover)

Person A will invite person B to lobby and start. Almost every match 9/10 on average, Player B will be the leader. It is just like the guest method, except nothing is being wasted.

For Guardian Medals

Set the match to

15 Rounds
Max capture time
NO BOTS

You will need 2 people and a guest for this. Player A plays as the COG player with a guest as the COG Leader. Player B plays as the Locust Leader. The COG team will (from the spawn) look immediately left. there should be a 6ft indent in the wall right before the map opens up. Have the COG Leader stand face pressed against the corner farthest from you. The Locust Leader will stand right behind the COG Leader facing his back. The COG Player stand outside the indent directly facing the right side of the COG Leader. Using the retro lancer the COG Player keeps meleeing the COG Leader (2 hits per down) and the Locust Leader keeps capturing the COG Leader and the COG Player keeps hitting the COG Leader while being held by the Locust leader (be sure not to damage the Locust Leader.
(This method is far easier with turbo controllers, but in no way required).

The two players with quickly get the following medals and when you are done, just swap.

COG Leader- GUEST
COG Player- Guardian
Locust Leader- Finisher progress equal to the Guardian requirements for rescues.

26 Apr 2013 20:14

JamesLCC

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03 Mar 2014 09:05

.....IDLE SKUNKERS.....

this method requires at least 4 players being idle (can use 5 but is slower) but i used a 2nd box which helps alot as 1 person will have to get nothing in each session.....

SETTINGS
-Capture the leader
-Bots set to fill
-Bot set to insane
-time 2 minutes, ( for some reasons bots spaz around, it easier to finish the round than wait 10 min for the bot to realise what he has to do)
-IMPORTANT- Ensure no weapon sapwns, as bots will run to them constantly
-it also helps if the host delete the dlc maps as they add alot of bigger confusing maps.
-select 1 host to host all the time (Best connection)
-Leave it idle over night and get 15-20 games an hour..

4 Player Method

-all 4 people will need a guest...
-designate which order that 1 of you will not get anything... 1 person a night etc.
-make sure all main accounts have a play and charge kit or do the disconnect method at the correct time....

1st, the 3 players that are going to win (skunkers) shoul all place thier main account on the cog team and thier guests on the locust team....
This leaves 2 spots on locust team where your designated loser and his guest will fill up the locust team.

......COG TEAM...............................LOCUST TEAM.......

Player 1 main.............................Player 1 guest
player 2 main.............................Player 2 guest
player 3 main.............................Player 3 guest
Insane A.I...................................Player 4 main ( LOSER)
Insane A.I...................................Player 4 guest

It is definatly faster to do the 4 player method as the A.I feels better with a second bot giving him back up, espeacially if he manages to get to be the leader...
If ypu have a 5th person you can always have him sign with his main with NO GUEST and put him on the COG team.. But this will slow your skunk ratio down...

Tip.....
If you do not own a play and charge kit, you can disconect your battery at the correct time to ensure you dont get idle kicked..
When the first match finished there will be 2 count downs in the top right.

-1st to find the next map for the next game
-2nd, for that said map ^^^ to start the actual game.

we want to act right in the middle as you have about 3 second of no count down load, this is when you remove your battery and it will not ask you to reconect..

hope this helps out with skunkers and save a lot of boring grinding while a group of you sleep...

03 Mar 2014 09:05

Metal Crusher

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02 Jun 2022 06:46

In addition to all the other great guides for this achievement, I made an image showing all the Onyx medals, their requirements and ribbon requirements for reference, in case anyone would find it useful.

02 Jun 2022 06:46

Darkness727420

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29 Mar 2019 13:49

Let me start by saying, I know this game is old and almost all efficient boosting ways have been found. But I have not found what I am about to post. Although some might have figured it out but I haven't seen anything posted about it.

I've figured out a way to boost Medic (revive 1200 squadmates) and guardian (rescue 1200 leaders in CTL). You can also work on spots while doing these.

Edit 1- Below is a way to boost destroying fortifications while earning money in beast

This method requires one of two things. A second Xbox and copy of the game or a buddy who's willing to do this with you. Also a second controller for either Xbox or you or your friend. I've been doing this solo so I'll keep it to that.

Sign in a guest on either Xbox as it doesn't matter which one. Obviously your main account and on the other Xbox, another account that has gold if your on the 360.

First will be Guardian
Load up a private CTL on overpass, 15 rounds, 60 capture time, 5 bleed out and friendly fire ON. Have your main account and the guest or secondary on one team. The other on the other team. You will have to capture the enemy leader the first round so your guest/secondary is leader the second round. Have your main run to the turret located on the bridge, place your leader against the sand bags and on the edge. Then have the enemy leader next to your leader. Down your leader, pick up with the enemy leader then spray in that direction to have them release your leader. Rinse and repeat. You can have one hand on one controller and the other hand on the other controller. It will take some time and finesseing to get it to where you can smoothly shoot, pick up, drop, shoot, pick up, drop. The round will end eventually so you'll have to capture the enemy leader again to make your secondary leader again. But this is the fastest solo method I've found. My best was around 90 rescues before the round ended.

Now for Medic
Almost the same setup up. But turn friendly fire off, capture time doesn't matter, 15 rounds, CTL on overpass. This time have the enemy controller get on the turret, your leader by the sandbags and you by your leader. Simply down your leader and press

to revive them. I rubber banded my controller that was shooting and just constantly press

with your main. You will rack up the revival really fast this way. I did this method over a year ago so I don't remember how many revives per round I was getting. But doing it this way makes this onyx medal one of the quickest to earn.

The reason I mentioned spotter is because you could work on them, but it requires you to aim in order to spot. That could slow things up while doing these. So do that at your own risk.

Below is a method if you have a buddy. Info was given to me by XBox Assassin83. Thank you for the info.

Leader Rescues
Basically you go CTL on Checkout, all spawns Gnasher, Bleedout time minimum, FF On.... go Team 1 with your 2nd controller as leader, second live player as leader on Team 2. Place Team 1's Leader in corner and stand next to as both. Just keep shooting and capturing the leader as Team 2 (every capture counts as execution too!) As Team 1, as soon as Team 2 grabs (captures your leader) fire point blank gnasher which gives you the rescue immediately and won't kill the Capturer. Both will pop right up due to minimum bleedout and the fact they are leaders. Rinse and repeat and grab ammo as needed

Medic

Same setup as above except Team 2 Don't capture the leader and let Team 1 immediately revive his leader, these go as fast as you can shoot and revive! 2 hours or less from 0 to onyx.

Dismantler & Investor boosting
Play until you unlock the berserker, keep playing until wave 12. From there destroy any and all fortifications then simply let the timer run out. Rinse and repeat. I needed about 1000 more and finished it in about an hour, that's from wave 1 to 12 then replayed wave 12 3 or 4 times and got the onyx. This is way faster than finishing wave 12 and restarting. This method is also good if you need investor onyx.

Hope this helps some. Thanks for reading.
Any suggestions or tips for a better method would be useful and I would implement them in the solution if it helps.

29 Mar 2019 13:49

Happy Dog CPH

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11 Sep 2022 18:18

A video guide that shows you how to get all the Onyx medals. The video quality isn’t great, due to it being a very old guide, but this helped me earn a fair chunk of the medals.

All rights reserved to the video creator: SpudWhacker - I do not own this video.

Hope it helps you as well.

11 Sep 2022 18:18

iFx So lHappy

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03 Feb 2023 17:38

J ROLL 1998

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31 Mar 2024 12:15

For anyone idling boosting in the modern year and finding their gains low, UNINSTALL THE FORCES OF NATURE AND FENIX RISING DLCS.
While some of the maps that are part of them are fine for the most part, maps like Academy are HUGE and trust me, with them gone, idling modes like Wingman is a thousand times easier. I didnt uninstall the Booster/Horde command map packs because i heard that they may cause potential issues, but even without doing that Ive pretyy much doubled my idle boosting progress.

31 Mar 2024 12:15

R2K SpitFire

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04 Feb 2012 21:48

I have a method for Guardian that is pretty effective and doesn't require much besides either 2 xbox's or a friend + 1 guest for a total of 3 players.

METHOD:
1.) Player 1 (you) and one other on one team (if with friend put guest on your team)
2.) Your friend/second console on the other
3.) Game Settings:
Map Overpass
Capture time 60
Friendly fire on
4.) Start the match and have everyone head up to the turret
5.) You get on the turret if your not leader (if you are capture yourself and start the next round)
6.) Place your AFK player in front of turret
7.) Place your opponet (Friend/second console) behind your leader
8.) Start firing the turret and press X and A together on the controller for your second console. If you have a friend helping this would be their job. (You press a to get up faster than the AFK leader and get a quick pickup before instantly downing the other leader)
9.) Rinse and repeat.

I haven't made a video yet because I have to install my capture card drivers later tonight and get it all hooked up. But once I do I'll up a video.

04 Feb 2012 21:48