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Gears of War 3: Versus Booster Map Pack (5 maps, FREE)

Lothars said:
how is this fucking things up?

I bought the season pass and don't regret it at all.

Same here .

Cant wait to play the DLC campaign , Bullet Marsh & Clocktower are amazing , I dont know why the hate with Bullet Marsh , I loved it

Cant believe all this people complain about Gears DLC , it just $10 bucks
 
Skilotonn said:
People still managed to flip this into something negative, nice.

Last I checked, the Season Pass wasn't for just one pack, and last I checked, people that have the Season Pass weren't missing anything.

Anyways, hell yeah for Clocktower, and an even bigger hell yeah for Swamp if it really is a Bullet Marsh remake, since I loved the suspense that map gave in Gears 1.
So the 'discount' I was getting was useless for buying it all at once, so that doesn't entitle anyone to complain? No one would've paid 800 ms for 3 skins and an upgrade normally.
 
This is why I didn't buy the Season Pass. :)

However, now I'm at a decision of if I should hold onto the game or not as BULLET MARSH IS MADE OF WIN!
 
Mmmm... delicious outrage.

Epic should be more clear about what is happening with the maps. Will non-season pass and people that didn't buy the DLC be able to play the DLC maps (Azura, Rust Lung, Blood Drive) in Horde mode too or just competitive versus and will future maps available in the Season Pass be made available for free after a period of time or is this just a one time thing?
 
This is great news.

Great great news.

The multi in this game is terrific and free maps for everyone means no split MP userbase.

I hope they do this for all multiplayer maps.
 
Marleyman said:
This is the situation I am in. I played Gears 3 constantly until BF3 came out. Now, I have no time for Gears 3...I need to quit my job and divorce my wife THEN I would have enough time.

Drop the wife...keep the job (you need income to buy new games) and play after work. :D
 
Oh, hell yeah, great reason to get back.
The love/hate relationship with this franchise is really unique :lol
 
So...I bought the season pass at launch. Went to download the Horde Command pack...it tells me it costs 800msp. Am I doing something wrong?
 
Good thing I got the season pass for free during that T-mobile giveaway. They re giving away anything worth a damn in the first paid DLC pack for free 2 weeks later, lol


Z_Y said:
So...I bought the season pass at launch. Went to download the Horde Command pack...it tells me it costs 800msp. Am I doing something wrong?

I thought it was supposed to download automatically? and I hear it's only a 1mb file
 
Z_Y said:
So...I bought the season pass at launch. Went to download the Horde Command pack...it tells me it costs 800msp. Am I doing something wrong?
Got to dl from the game menu.

Also, so my first season pass purchase is basically the characters and weapon skins? Damn, that makes me shake my head.
 
Grisby said:
Got to dl from the game menu.

Also, so my first season pass purchase is basically the characters and weapon skins? Damn, that makes me shake my head.

So you can't download from xbox.com ?
 
ilMikhail said:
So you can't download from xbox.com ?
I dunno. I tried to get it from the marketplace on my xbox at first, from the splash screen thingy and it said to pay 800pts. Loaded up the game and immediately was greeted with a dl this dlc now thing.
 
Grisby said:
Got to dl from the game menu.

Also, so my first season pass purchase is basically the characters and weapon skins? Damn, that makes me shake my head.

Horde fortification upgrades and access to the maps in Horde/Beast and Private Versus modes. (Maybe only early access, it is possible that the Versus booster pack allows the maps to be played in Horde mode - not sure of this)

Upgrade your decoys to Onyx Guard bots
Upgrade your silverback to have rockets and extra levels of repair cost reduction
Upgrade your sentry to have firebolts and deal much more damage (Highly effective against Berzerkers)
Access to the command center fortification (Call in Snipers, Mortars, and Hammer of Dawn strikes)
250 achievement points

So if you play horde mode than this DLC is good for you.

800 MSP - cheaper with season pass

info at link: Epic

Also free MP maps is the good thing if your invested in the MP community, it avoids segmenting people based on the maps they own and it allows you to see new maps more frequently. Its a win win situation, and Epic has done atleast this right.
 
JaggedSac said:
Who says Epic won't create more content for Season Pass than originally planned to make up for this.

Who said they would?

I bought the season pass this morning and i'm kinda pissed off.
 
Figured they were going to resolve the on-disc DLC situation with something like this.

Glad I waited to buy the season pass


superpickleman said:
This is great news.

Great great news.

The multi in this game is terrific and free maps for everyone means no split MP userbase.

I hope they do this for all multiplayer maps.

Well they kinda had to do this, the maps were on the disc, and this is pretty much the only way to have the disc dlc maps in matchmaking proper.
 
This is good news for people who didn't buy the Season Pass. Unfortunately I bought the Pass and it hasn't paid off so far. The Horde pack is basically skins and Horde upgrades on new maps which you can only play on private and judging by the install I'm assuming this is already on the disk and just needed unlocked. If I didn't have the Pass I would have skipped this one and waited for the free maps later this month. Live and learn I guess.

Also, isn't it kind of odd that you can only play the Horde DLC in private games and the free maps that are coming out you can play in public games? I'm wondering if EPIC is having problems with their servers and playlists if everyone doesn't have the same content during matchmaking....I guess we'll see if the next paid DLC can be played in public games or only private.
 
Dai Kaiju said:
Who said they would?

I bought the season pass this morning and i'm kinda pissed off.

You get 4 packs with it. There's a single player one coming out, not like that's going to be free for everyone else.
 
Eh, too late Epic. These maps should have shipped with the game. I, along with all my friends have already moved on.
 
BullseyeMF said:
This is good news for people who didn't buy the Season Pass. Unfortunately I bought the Pass and it hasn't paid off so far. The Horde pack is basically skins and Horde upgrades on new maps which you can only play on private and judging by the install I'm assuming this is already on the disk and just needed unlocked. If I didn't have the Pass I would have skipped this one and waited for the free maps later this month. Live and learn I guess.

Also, isn't it kind of odd that you can only play the Horde DLC in private games and the free maps that are coming out you can play in public games? I'm wondering if EPIC is having problems with their servers and playlists if everyone doesn't have the same content during matchmaking....I guess we'll see if the next paid DLC can be played in public games or only private.


Here's my theory:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=31544711&postcount=163

I assume this means those maps are going to be in public games now.

I also called it:

or just wait a while and let everyone play on them minus achievement unlocking/etc a month from now.
 
Setting up a few private matches on the new maps if people are interested. Only the host needs the maps so anyone can play.

Throw me a message on Live - GT = Shogun PaiN if you want few games.
 
This makes the horde dlc sound so bad for 800 allards now, I am all for free maps keeping the online community together but wow.

I thank epic for making 5 maps free instead of for money.
 
WTF ?

So I bought the Season Pass for fucking skins and fucking gimmick for horde ?
And I don't even care about the Campaign DLC of December.



*** Epic.
 
As someone who bought the Season Pass, I'm glad they went free. This means everyone can play them. I remember on Gears2 I couldn't play the DLC maps without playing shitty game-modes in a playlist nobody cares about. That fucking sucked.

Regardless, we still get a discount on the other 3 DLC packs.
 
Quicksilver4648 said:
Its official, people will complain about anything.
Oh, I don't complain about it being free, I complain about Epic not clearly informing about what the Season Pass is about.


If I had known, I would definitely not bought the Season Pass. It's not worth of it.
 
Reckoner said:
Are they going to put a DLC playlist for the people who got the Season Pass? C'mon Epic. Booted up the game some minutes ago and there was no mode to play the new maps.

Epic didn't do their homework... again.
 
Quicksilver4648 said:
Its official, people will complain about anything.


People are complaining about spending money on a product then they see it given away for free 2 weeks later


you see no problem with that?
 
Zezboob said:
WTF ?

So I bought the Season Pass for fucking skins and fucking gimmick for horde ?
And I don't even care about the Campaign DLC of September.



*** Epic.
You're the one that bought the Season Pass without any knowledge about what the next DLC's would be or what would happen, maybe you should've waited?
 
Zezboob said:
Oh, I don't complain about it being free, I complain about Epic not clearly informing about what the Season Pass is about.


If I had known, I would definitely not bought the Season Pass. It's not worth of it.

I can get behind this. Admittedly, it may be too early to make that call. The second DLC hasn't hit yet, and we don't know what the third and fourth packs are. I think its cool that Epic is trying to hook their fans up for free, but wish that both the communication around what the Season Pass was would of been worded better, or that they show us the value in the purchase of it a little better.
 
Dug said:
You're the one that bought the Season Pass without any knowledge about what the next DLC's would be or what would happen, maybe you should've waited?
Well, till now, all the DLC pack for Gears were coherently priced, and Season Pass was presented as a discount for 4 DLC packs.


800MSpts for 3 maps and skins and horde gimmicks was something coherent with past Gears DLC, even thought that one of the map is a remake.


But 800MSpts for only fucking skins and horde gimmicks and somewhat 2 weeks of exclusivity for maps (not even available on versus !).... that's plain scam. Worst Gears DLC ever.
 
TangoAlphaLima said:
They aren't missing anything, they're just getting less value for their money. When they bought the Season Pass, they thought they were getting these 3 Horde maps as part of the deal. Now those maps are available to everyone at no charge, thereby diminishing the value of the Season Pass. I'm not sure what is so difficult to understand about this.

Well, they're still getting those maps along with the weapon skins and characters that the ones getting the maps won't get. And I'm sure it won't happen again for the three remaining packs considering these were on-disc DLC. If there will be more free maps, I'm gonna guess that they won't be the same as the Season Pass maps.

zoner said:
So the 'discount' I was getting was useless for buying it all at once, so that doesn't entitle anyone to complain? No one would've paid 800 ms for 3 skins and an upgrade normally.

Of course they wouldn't, since the 800 doesn't just give you that. And again, the discount is for four, not just this one. Which I'm sure they were only free because they couldn't figure out to differentiate those that bought the DLC and those who didn't on the dedicated servers.
 
Zezboob said:
Well, till now, all the DLC pack for Gears were coherently priced, and Season Pass was presented as a discount for 4 DLC packs.


800MSpts for 3 maps and skins and horde gimmicks was something coherent with past Gears DLC, even thought that one of the map is a remake.


But 800MSpts for only fucking skins and horde gimmicks and somewhat 2 weeks of exclusivity for maps (not even available on versus !).... that's plain scam. Worst Gears DLC ever.


Epic basically took a dump on all those who purchased the season pass. I got the season pass for free during that points giveaway, but I hope Epic makes it up to those who got the season pass. $10 for skins and weapons, 1mb file, sad lol.

Skilotonn said:
Well, they're still getting those maps along with the weapon skins and characters that the ones getting the maps won't get. And I'm sure it won't happen again for the three remaining packs considering these were on-disc DLC. If there will be more free maps, I'm gonna guess that they won't be the same as the Season Pass maps.



Of course they wouldn't, since the 800 doesn't just give you that. And again, the discount is for four, not just this one. Which I'm sure they were only free because they couldn't figure out to differentiate those that bought the DLC and those who didn't on the dedicated servers.

you are trying awfully hard to justify Epic shitting on their fans
 
hahahahahahahahahhahahaha

can't believe some of you bought that season pass

I wonder if Bullet Marsh will still be insanely dark, I loved that about the map. Hope the Kryll return too.
 
Free maps for everyone is great, but as someone who purchased the season pass based on it being the cheapest way to obtain new maps, I can't help but feel cheated.

Don't you
fucking
dare say, "oh you get the other
shit
", because that stuff is exactly that,
shit
,
shit
I don't give a
fuck
about.

How the
fuck
can you sell a season pass with the premise that it is the cheapest way to get all future maps and then go oops, we didn't actually know how we were going to facilitate it, so now we're going to give them away for free, what a
fucking
retarded discount that is.

It was it bad enough we were having to pay for content that is already on the
fucking
disc, but now paying for content that is
fucking
free!?!
 
I think it's great they are giving out free maps, but it's such shit they weren't specific maps would be free to those who purchased the season pass.

I could not give 2 phucks about some weapon skins and characters. Though I am psyched for the "campaign" dlc, but still.

They should offer refunds for not being upfront about it.
 
Ken Masters said:
you are trying awfully hard to justify Epic shitting on their fans

I'm looking for the shit that isn't there, because the people with the Season Pass still got more than those getting the maps for free, and still get the rest of the three packs without extra cost - at a discount.

But yeah, I guess there has to be something made up to be negative with the free maps and the Alpha playlist available right now. Feel free to keep thinking this if it makes you feel better inside.
 
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