Acheivement Fix for Seriously 3.0

[Matus_Fenix]

I have to be sometimes realistic with myself. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get seriously 3.0 acheivements. But sometimes working your way up to get level 100 and getting all onyx medal is just way to murderous to get there.

I'd rather get acheivements for embry star medal and at least get to level 100 acheivements.

I'd rather see seriously 3.0 to be just earn all onyx medal.

[IM i IM o U n]

I think that it's almost impossible to get all Onyx Medals without becoming level 100. You get experience for every single thing you do you know. Even boosting in
private matches. And if you sure will play a few online games now and then when you're having enough of the medals, which will earn you a couple more experience
points (:

[Matus_Fenix]

There is onyx medal for being at level 100. I'm pretty sure you can be at level 100 and not have all onyx medal.

[WildCard Zen]

The biggest problems with Seriously 3.0 is not the rank 100. I'm a guy that works 40 hours a week and also has a private life. I've managed to hit rank 59 already (compared to almost 2 years to hit rank 100 on Gears 2.)

The real problem is how Seriously 3.0 makes you play game modes I despise - like Wingman. It also makes you have to play in private and boost certain medals because there's almost no chance to get medals like "Vengeful" or "Sapper" in public play. Not to mention, there are a lot of gaming forums filled with advice on how to "AFK" (a new popular term these days meaning "Away From Keyboard" - or in this case, "Away From Controller") the match based onyx medals - essentially letting the game play with unused controllers so people can tally-up their Wingman, Execution, etc. Medals while they work or sleep.

To me, this is a dangerous fire hazard, as well as a crappy way to wear out your Xbox and run up your electric bill.

I'm definitely on the "let's change it side." It should be patched to:

A. Change the Game Mode Medals to count "Rounds" instead of "Matches." I'll even support increasing the count to 10,000 if they change it to rounds. This way, people will be more encouraged to play in public instead of AFK boosting. Also, remove, lower totals, or replace Vengeful, Sapper, and Guardian.

or B. Since there is little to no real reward for earning an Onyx Medal a second time (other than replacing stars with numbers) why now allow player to use that 2nd onyx as a credit to purchase a medal upgrade. Example, if you get a 2nd Onyx for "Medic," you can cash that in on a Bronze "MVP" to make it a Silver "MVP."

or C. Simply change the Seriously 3.0 requirement from "Onyx all 65 medals" to "Collect any 65 medals" allowing those earned 2nd Onyx to actually be worth something.

[bendermacV2]

rank 100 is no problem compared to many of the medals. many of them need to be toned down. untouchable medal is so to speak impossible -> 1500 untouched as leader... yeah right.

or C. Simply change the Seriously 3.0 requirement from "Onyx all 65 medals" to "Collect any 65 medals" allowing those earned 2nd Onyx to actually be worth something.

now this would make a hell lot more sense

[xTZAx]

I wish they were consistent in that they all took about the same amount of time to onyx, and it would take maybe 6 months for hardcore Gears fans to get Seriously 3.0. The way they have it now, a lot of the medals just encourage boosting and private idling. What is the point?

If they halved some of these things it would be much better. 1500 total matches instead of 3000, 750 untouchable instead of 1500, etc.

I know it's meant to be a long haul challenge, but this isn't a game that's immune to profile corruption, so going for Seriously 3.0 is like playing Russian Roulette.

[bntyhntr]

its called seriously for a reason if its the final game then i dont blame them for giving us fans something to hope to achieve before realising the harsh reality in 2 years with 30 onyx's, no friends and no idea what the concept 'outside' is XD seriously though screw the achievment i didn't get seriously 1 and 2 and i'm not even trying for 3

[b3nje909]

the numbers required are idiotic and quite frankly excessive..

if a company expects its customers to invest that much time into its product. it had sure better provide the goods.

CTL is not the goods. it is a crap game type, and the fact that it has 7 medals associated with it, is even worse..


the number of games required, does not promote challangeing play, but rather grinding and worse, boosting.

[ODD Dr McNastee SD]

anything that requires you to get EVERY ONYX medal is way over the top.. there should just be a "Seriously" for each game type or something. 50000 kills for tdm should do it.

[WildCard Zen]

Two quick corrections on my post. Make that "Any 65 Onyx Medals" - but I think most of us caught my drift. And as for Rounds instead of matches - I meant 5,000 not 10,000. All these pumped up Onyx goals have me too desensitized to big numbers.

Now, I like the fact that the Seriously achievements are hard to get. It's nice to see some of the achievements out there that truly are bragging rights for us gamers. But all this one does is promote boosting and grinding - which all that says to other gamers is - I HAVE NO LIFE. I will forego a personal life, food, sleep, and hygiene in order to grind out an achievement faster than anyone else.

And sad to say, I've already found a few people with Seriously 3.0. Yes, I know that War Supporter is glitched - but the only way anyone can have it that fast with a glitched War Supporter is to go 22 days non-stop without sleeping, eating while playing, and probably wearing Depends if their bathroom is not right next to their TV and Xbox. Or they glitched it somehow.

If that's the case - anyone with it before the end of the year should be a red-flag for an Xbox Live Banhammer.

[Skully Papa]

Video games are for enjoyment not for achievements most people these days have lost that sense of enjoyment and achievements have ruined the fun in games who care relax some nerd really cares about his achievement once he gets it and he trys to brag about it no one gives a flying locust about it now thats some SERIOUSLY reality. so for those getting the achievement good for you ill just enjoy the game while you stress over your polygons. NOOB

[R1VE7HEAD]

I have a problem with the following medals.


For the untouchable onyx medal I think you have to get 1500 of them? WTF! That's way more than the 500 you need for Sovereign which is to win as the leader. Why have two medals that are for the same game type but one is way harder than the other.

The odds of getting leader should be roughly 1/5 so that means a minimum of 7500 rounds of capture the leader and then you have to be uncaptured in those. Out of the 50% of the capture leader rounds you win (statistically both teams have equal chances to win) you might be uncaptured 1/2 or 1/3 of the time which means 30,000 to 45,000 rounds of capture the leader. What was epic thinking of with that one? That medal is only possible with boosting.

The next impossible medal is the vengeful which they said they are changing.

3000 medals in each game type doesn't make sense when you combine them with retarded 45,000 rounds of capture the leader medals as well. For capture the leader you have the following

First will come the 3000 games played
Second will be the 500 sovereign medal
Third is the 1500 leader medal

Three medals for the same game type with ridiculously harder and harder to achieve requirements. It's no wonder people would boost this. Even boosting this would take a retarded amount of time.

Curb stomp 3000 enemies, really? Why 3000? Why not 1000? Why not 50,000? It's such a randomly high number. Playing public how often do you curb stomp somebody? It's either you GIB somebody with the gnasher, or SOS, or you execute them another way or lancer them down but to have to walk up to 3000 enemies in public and curbstomp them puts you at a big disadvantage in public that doing it 3000 times is probably not going to happen without private boosting.

3000 shock troopers? Really? There is a 1 in 10 chance of getting this in public which implies 30,000 rounds of game play which will probably happen naturally during the 45,000 rounds of capture the leader you have to play but still, it's not going to happen without boosting.


6000 heavy weapons kills are far too many. You just don't have enough time to get one of these in a regular public games. There are 9 other people running for the same weapons. There are not enough of these or opportunities to use these. This probably has to be boosted.

2500 skunkers is a crap load considering it's limited to a subset of the game types.

Capturing 500 leaders will take forever as well but you have 45,000 rounds of capture the leader to play so it might happen.

600 button up ribbons. How fun is that? On purpose hide in cover more than the 9 other players.

Sapper medal is retarded. It doesn't happen that often IMO.

3000 last man out ribbons will take boosting or way more than the 18,000 matches to onyx each game type because it's limited in game types.

[xKiLL ZoNEx]

I think the achievement is fine except I think they should reduce the amount of games you have to play to get each game mode medals to onyx. Maybe from 3,000 games to 1,000 games or 1,500 games.

Also reduce the amount of a lot of other medals.

[Dmang]

I really hope they will change it