Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

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Commando

Commando

Completed all acts on Insane Difficulty

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How to unlock the Commando achievement in Gears of War: Ultimate Edition - Definitive Guide

***** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS METHOD IS TESTED IN SPLIT SCREEN ONLY *****

If you're looking for an alternative to just straight up playing on insane. What I did was play split screen with a guest and set there difficulty to casual, whilst keeping my main profile set to insane. I could then sit back with my insane profile and do all the work with my second controller that is set to casual. This is a good method if you're also looking to bust out the three co-op campaign related achievements. This method will save you the hassle of replaying the campaign numerous times and gain you all the campaign related achievements along the way! Hope it helps!
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Anyone else having problems? Will edit solution if this isn't working. Have seen quite a few issues on the gears forums of achievements not popping.

@Santa2512 can you confirm that main account was on insane and you had what i'd assume Santa2512(1) signed in as the guest?

If you did this with a friend I'm pretty sure it's a bit glitchy, if they had done chapters/acts beforehand that may cause the achievements to not unlock.

Go to chapter select and see if you have been credited with completing each chapter on insane.
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By on 20 Sep 2015 11:43
I can confirm that the local split-screen co-op Insane/Casual method does indeed work. I started it on 3/25/16 and completed it the next day. In most sections, you can just leave your main profile behind cover and do the work with the other controller. But there are a couple sections that are tricky. You could control both players but it is easier if you just have a friend join and help you. There's the driving section in Act ll, The Cart section in Act lll, the movie theatre in Act V. *To set it up, leave your game with Insane/Casual. Invite your friend to a private game and it will be on Insane. Once you're past the hard section, you can end it and go back to Casual in split-screen. I'm sorry if this information is a little jumbled and disorganized but I hope it helps! Good luck :)
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By TA Sam on 28 Mar 2016 14:00
Yes can confirm as I have just completed it today.

As said I did it in split screen with a guest signed in. Main profile was set to insane and other controller was on Casual.

I'm not 100% sure if it works online with a friend or not but it should do! :)
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By on 28 Aug 2015 19:20
Nice man thanks a lot!
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By einbrecher87 on 28 Aug 2015 20:43
It works but there are certain parts of the game that require two actual players thus making this method very difficult. Good solution though just wanted to make that observation.
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By Armored Cantus on 29 Aug 2015 03:12
There are certain parts that can be slightly tricky yes. I didn't really have any problems with the ones where you had to split up.
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By on 29 Aug 2015 12:35
Totally forgot about this method! That's alright though. Enjoying my Solo Insane play through. Will go back and do coop on easy/normal another time :)
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By Seliphas on 31 Aug 2015 13:56
Just to confirm this method did not work on the original GOW, I was always wondering if it would on this Ultimate Edition.
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By supadryz on 01 Sep 2015 10:10
I was using your guide and noticed that when I pause the game the logo that shows what difficulty you are on is only showing 3 stars. Doesn't that mean I'm on hardcore? Or is that insane?
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By Senor Slurpee 2 on 01 Sep 2015 22:46
I'm pretty sure that is insane. Red emblem with 3 stars in it if memory serves me well. Casual is no stars i'm pretty sure.
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By on 02 Sep 2015 13:21
Does completing the game on Insane also unlock the other three achievements?
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By Broa on 03 Sep 2015 16:45
Ya, they stack.
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By on 03 Sep 2015 20:19
Other things to note, person playing on the lower difficulties will get the harder difficultie achievements too, so I don't think it matters all that much who plays on what.
Another note is that doing this trick will not allow you to get the Raam achievement. However you can easily quit out right before the Raam part and reload that last chapter with both on Insane and do the block trick if you're by yourself.
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By mcnichoj on 03 Sep 2015 21:17
I'm worried about the "person playing on the lower difficulties will get the harder difficulty achievements too" can anyone else confirm this?
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By Broa on 04 Sep 2015 04:43
Can you do this across live or only split screen?
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By Arador on 04 Sep 2015 06:46
Yes the lower difficulty player gets it, my alt has all difficulty achievements unlocked and did everyone but the final boos battle on Casual with it.
This trick only works on split-screen as it only asks the host to select a difficulty online.
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By mcnichoj on 04 Sep 2015 09:48
For some reason none of my act 5 achievements unlocked, my cog tag achievements didn't unlock and none of my completion achievements unlocked. And my co op achievements didn't unlock. Anyone else having these problems? I hosted a private co op campaign online and we both beat it on insane. Could private be the problem? Also my co op partner play a few acts before me and re ran them with me so I have no way of knowing if they unlocked for him in private.
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By FTW Grizz on 18 Sep 2015 02:41
Just completed the game (ultimate) on insane / casual using this method, and only the casual achivement unlocked for both players :(
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By Santa 2512 on 20 Sep 2015 08:53
They should've forced you to play alone & without more than one controller.
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By on 19 Nov 2015 16:29
Can someone confirm this is still working or patched?
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By SandMan NL1 on 30 Dec 2015 18:02
Afraid this method no longer works. Just beat the game with 2 controllers with main account on insane and guest on casual. Only coop achievements popped. No insane mark (3 stars) on chapter select...
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By halfdead Z on 27 Jan 2016 23:23
Any update if this still works?
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By Lumpi on 23 Feb 2016 16:00
halfdead Z im not sure why that happened for you but i just did the 1st mission with this method and chapter select shows completed on insane...
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By Daemonic NZ on 28 Feb 2016 21:41
I can now confirm this method does still work local co op with guest
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By Daemonic NZ on 06 Mar 2016 04:33
I did this and both profiles got casual only... the hell?

Here's the bit where I get very angry now. Both profiles say I did casual only, but if I resume the campaign, it still shows my main profile as on insane difficulty). Hell, all the damage effects and everything where there. Now i'm really mad.

EDIT: apparently the insane player has to be player 1, not two. Grrr......
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By count023 on 11 May 2016 10:08
Still works... Main profile on insane with guest on casual works like a charm, Thanks
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By TNT on 27 Aug 2016 23:06
For the people going nuts on the theater section. If you play in splitscreen with Dom on easy. Send Marcus upstairs and immediately move back down the stairs to make sure you won't get shot. I'm not sure if there's a certain trigger responsable for it but as long as I didn't move forward with Marcus none of the sniper enemies spawned and I could do the whole section using just Dom. Once he's done enough progress the door upstairs will open and a Theron will come out. Since he took cover on the balcony I took him out with Dom. The only enemy I had to kill with Marcus was the Theron that spawns once he moves forward. (The one with the longshot)
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By Tuschi on 02 Oct 2016 16:14
Seriously can anyone confirm this works over Xbox live?
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By YoDz on 21 Oct 2016 14:41
any tips for the brumak section? i havent attempted the insane/causal local coop run yet. im thinking this part will be the worst doing this solo with two controllers.
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By Divine Infect on 16 Jan 2017 07:32
Lmfao the first comment. This is ULTIMATE EDITION
Of course it works. My god READ!
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By on 27 Nov 2018 04:26
Sooooooo does every section have to be played or can u just do last checkpt/chapter of every Act with P1-Insane/P2-Casual?
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By DolphinChic03 on 11 Apr 2019 04:56
I was wondering if you just need to do the last part of every chapter in Insane to unlock this. Anyone can confirm?
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By NessNoldo on 26 Oct 2019 15:22
Can it be done with co-op, but no split screen?
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By IdanST on 09 Sep 2020 16:34
Anyone noticed that even if you do this split screen, that the enemies have insane difficulty health, even though you're playing it on casual?

They definitely take more bullets than if you play casual normally.
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By soundlessb00m on 20 Nov 2020 17:20
Yeh they're bigger bullet sponges compared to playing on simply casual
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By VOODOO85 on 30 Mar 2021 20:39
Does anyone know if playing through the level on casual up the last checkpoint, and then swapping to insane for that last checkpoint will count for each chapter? I know it did in the original game.
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By Jazernocsuh on 24 Apr 2021 23:34
II wonder if this method also works for the Xbox 360 version...
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By on 03 May 2021 16:40
II wonder if this method also works for the Xbox 360 version...
It doesn't. It does for Gears 2 though.
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By Jazernocsuh on 07 May 2021 10:36
This is a really flawed strategy given that doing this turns the enemies into 5x bullet sponges making it ammo depleting to even get through a few enemies. It’s doable yeah but this really needs to be mentioned, playing this method will mean the enemies have insane health.
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By Scenic Route 16 on 06 Dec 2022 07:06
Comedy of errors is also outright fucking IMPOSSIBLE to do on your own. Maybe if the shotgun wasn’t outrageously broken in this game.
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By Scenic Route 16 on 06 Dec 2022 11:07
Glitch spot plus a partner are the only way to kill this guy. Ran out of ammo twice solo.
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By My Ringtones on 14 Dec 2022 00:35
Hey guys im looking for someone to play this mode on Insane, just send me a message
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By SABOTAGE#9358 on 13 Apr 2023 03:16
Looking for someone complete whole game start from Chapter3，It was difficulty to beat alone after chapter3,message me on xbox plz
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By on 24 Apr 2023 09:50
Can you confirm this works for the Ultimate Edition?
I'll try the trick today with a friend, so the host had to create a game on insane and the other one can join on easy..?
give you a thumbs up if it works toast
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By einbrecher87 on 28 Aug 2015 18:46
Still needing to do this. Will give it a go over the long Easter Weekend Mar25-28 and reply back with the results when I finish. Going to start from scratch with P1 - Insane and P2 - Casual on LOCAL split screen. Will report back!
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By Krazy Dutch18 on 23 Mar 2016 20:48
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In addition to the solutions posted below, I feel it necessary to include the following, so that my pain is not shared!

If playing co-op split screen, then this achievement can be unlocked for both players by having one person play on insane, and one on casual, however the person on insane must be player one (Marcus). Having it set the other way around will result in both players only getting the achievement for playing through on casual.

Following on from this, I would assume (though I would be grateful if somebody could confirm this) that if doing a similar thing online, the host must be the insane player.

I hope that this guide helps cut some time off for co-op players, I know that DeathOnWings37 and myself just discovered this the hard way.
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As far as i have tried, only the host can choose the difficulty which means that both the players will be playing at insane.
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By Absohail on 24 Jun 2016 10:15
Just gonna put up how I did this,
I played on insane whilst my teammate played on casual (this was on split-screen by the way). I just stuck back for the entire campaign and picked off the enemies as much as I could whilst also resisting the urge to run up and help, I tried to let my teammate do all the running and gunning. They can do most of the work but you must be careful when required to split for them because a death (from either of you) is an instant fail, no DBNO. But upon completing the campaign we both got this achievement as well as the other difficulty related achievements.
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