Gears of War: Judgment

[Smara]

Eu nu regret ca l-am cumparat, insa inca nu mi-am dat seama de ce nu sunt atat de entuziasmat cum am fost la celelalte trei ... Nu stiu ce are ( sau nu are ) dar nu mi-a mai transmis acel feeling .....pare un pic impersonal daca ma pot exprima asa.
Sa spun intai ce imi place :
- mobilitatea de care te bucuri acum ( mi se pare foarte tare sa executi un foc de acoperire de pe un acoperis ) sau sa aterizezi in mijlocul echipei adverse si sa te apuci de treaba cu gnasher-ul
- s-a eliminat avantajul imbecil al sawed off shotgun ( arma asta a fost marele minus pentru mine in 3 ) care nu cerea nici un skill, doar o panda si o descarcare de aproape , precum si al drujbarilor.
- imi place cum se lipesc grenadele atunci cand le arunci in adversar.
- numarul diversificat de arme cu care poti juca pe parcursul unui meci
- Haven este frumoasa intradevar
- .....mai caut alte argumente pro deoarece nu am jucat atat de mult toate modurile incat sa imi fac o parere completa.
Nu prea imi place :
- s-au schimbat unele butoane ( stiu , este o chestie de obisnuinta si se trece peste, insa de ce naibi sa modifici ceva impecabil ?!?!)
- nu duc dorul grenadelor lipite pe jos sau pereti, insa mi-ar mai fi placut sa trimit un adversar la echipa lui cu o grenada in spate pentru a face un pic de curatenie
- preferam Annex (King of the Hill) decat Domination cu ale sale trei cercuri.....imi da senzatia ca mai mult trebuie sa alergi decat sa organizezi o aparare sau un atac concentrat pe un obiectiv
- un mare minus mi se pare lipsa active reload -ului in MP. Fara suparare, insa era o chestie de indemanare sa poti obtine un activ in mijlocul unei lupte cu gnasher-ul, care te ajuta al naibi de mult daca erai rosu tot si aveai 2,3 jucatori din echipa adversa pe langa tine.
- hartile nu ma impresioneaza insa nici nu imi displac, Haven a reusit totusi sa surprinda esenta Gears(insa doar ea) . Sper (probabil degeba) la un DLC in care sa putem juca o varianta restilizata a Clocktower si Gridlock, harti care mi se par de referinta.

Am mai observat ca echipa conteaza mult in Overrun si Domination...nu prea mai poate un jucator bun sa faca diferenta daca nu are si un suport pe masura. Asta nu e un aspect negativ, dimpotriva....
Parerea mea este ca jocul merita clar cumparat, desi recunosc ca sunt un pic subiectiv...imi place prea mult seria(cu poveste cu tot) ca sa nu trec peste diverse aspecte negative....

[Dj Mo]

Cred ca poti face in execution, Bag and tag sau cum pisici se numeste.

[Smara]

Merci, o sa incerc... Momentan ( din lipsa de timp ) nu am trecut decat prin OverRun si Domination....iar in FFA am jucat doar 2 meciuri...

[FallouT]

Am facut si eu rost de joc pot sa intru in gasca voastra?

[vicy]

sall,va ast pe live

[Dj Mo]

LE: din pacate nu da si medalia

[Dj Mo]

Putina lectura pentru fanii seriei (thanks goes to Joveus):

A study of the Lambent, the Sires, the Locust and Myrrah

“Sera’s dying Marcus, the whole planet’s infected. It’s the imulsion that’s killing it. It was always the imulsion, you see, and I can stop it. I understand it all now.”
- Adam Fenix in his message (Gears of War 3 – Act 1, Chapter 1: Anchored)

“At the time of its discovery, there was no reason to believe that imulsion was a living organism. It exhibited no observable characteristics typical of life; no response to stimuli, no apparent method of reproduction, and no metabolic process. It has since become clear that this is not the case.

Though our examinations were sound, the assumptions upon which they were based-our narrow definitions of life-were not. It is very definitely alive, mutagenic, and highly invasive.

Viewed in this light, imulsion exhibits characteristics that resemble the structure and life cycle of many fungi. The bulk of the organism - in liquid form - is underground like a mycelium. The evidence of its existence that we have begun to observe on the surface in the form of stalks is the equivalent of fruiting bodies. Its periodic vapour-like emissions are perhaps best likened to spores. Its behaviour is parasitic yet simultaneously viral; It not only colonizes its host, it also reproduces in the host at the cellular level. Its life cycle appears to be a long period of dormancy followed by accelerated activity before maturation, but I cannot establish whether it has existed on Sera since the first origins of life or if it somehow developed or was introduced during human history.

A successful parasite does not kill its host, imulsion does. It may be inept, but I suspect the death of its host organisms - which appears to be every living thing on Sera, plant or animal - is part of its reproductive strategy, not an unfortunate side effect. Its high-energy content may be part of that.”
- Fenix Research collectible (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

“Why’d they just drop off? They afraid of the imulsion fumes?”
“That… or somethin’ else. Keep your eyes open.”
“Hey, wait. What if we breathe in this ****?”
“Too late now.”
- Dom and Marcus (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 5: Displacement)

In Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 5: Displacement, it could be seen that the Locust barges did not follow Delta’s commandeered barge through the imulsion vapours. In light of the above information it can be known that the Locust were aware that it was the vapours (imulsion spores) that caused Lambency as opposed to the imulsion itself. In Gears of War – Act 3, Chapter 5: Angry Titan, a Corpser is knocked into a lake of imulsion. Instead of turning Lambent, the Corpser simply burns and dies. In Gears of War 2 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Closure, a Brumak stands above many smaller lakes of imulsion and inhales large quantities of imulsion vapour. The Brumak is then seen to mutate quite rapidly and turn Lambent.

The Lambent, therefore, are the former members of other races that have become infected by the imulsion parasite and mutated into another life-form. The exploding nature of the Lambent allows imulsion to cover a larger area, and spores present within imulsion vapour are then released to infect other life-forms.

“Marcus, are we talking about imulsion? Is that it? God-damn imulsion?”
“Yeah, and how was it first discovered?”
“Oozing out of the ground. Pooling on the surface.”
“Yeah. Exactly.”
- Dom and Marcus (Coalition’s End – Chapter 6)

“That luminous substance in the jars. Is all imulsion some form of Lambency, then?”
“I think so. It seems to have a long and complex life cycle.”
“So how much time do we have to beat this thing?”
“I only know that it’s spreading. So let’s assume we don’t have long.”
- Prescott and Adam Fenix (The Slab – Chapter 4)

“Marcus, I gave your father nearly twenty years to deal with the Lambent. He will deal with it, but not at my people’s expense.”
- Myrrah (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

Now, the Lambent were never really the source of any of the community’s remaining questions, since their existence and nature was thoroughly explored in Gears of War 3. However, what we now know about imulsion and the Lambent is important when it comes to answering other questions. Imulsion causes Lambency, and Lambency has been affecting the Locust for at least twenty years. But did imulsion only begin to have mutagenic effects twenty years ago? Or can instances of Lambency be traced back further, back even as far as the early Pendulum Wars or Gold Rush one hundred years ago?

“One thing I still don’t understand. Have the Locust been down here, like, forever or what?”
- Benjamin Carmine (Gears of War 2 – Act 2, Chapter 3: Disturbing Revelations)

“We can’t stop them. We don’t know where they come from. We don’t know what they want. They don’t even seem to want territory. All they do is kill. We can’t even begin to negotiate with them, or work out their objectives, because we just don’t know the first damn thing about them. That’s not an enemy, Mr. Chairman. That’s a monster.”
- Bardry Salaman (Jacinto’s Remnant – Chapter 3)

“We could have cooperated with the groundwalkers for our mutual salvation, but they are humans, and they only understand dominance and ownership. All that we have left is a war to the death. For all their so-called intelligence, humans are blind to the threat right before their eyes. We never stood a chance of enlisting their aid, so now we fight alone. And we will stand on their corpses to do so.”
- Myrrah, the Locust Queen (Aspho Fields - Epilogue)

Certain occurrences and events are known to have taken place regarding the Locust. First of all, the Locust were fighting against the Lambent before E-Day. Secondly, Adam Fenix was in contact with the Locust five years before E-Day, and for a while worked with them to find a way to combat Lambency. Thirdly, when imulsion evolution progressed at a rate faster than Adam’s ability to analyse it, Myrrah led the Locust to abandon the Hollow and colonise the surface of Sera instead.

But how long have they been in the Hollow? Twenty years, since just before E-Day? One hundred years or so, since imulsion was first discovered? Or longer still, thousands and thousands of years?

"Despite her mother’s warnings, and the calls of the friends, Romily left the safe company of her friends and walked deep into the perils of the forest. She thought they would admire her independence, and respect her brave willingness to break ranks with the others. But she did not walk alone. The six-legged demon that had waited patiently beneath her house since her birth followed her, unseen, and joined the rest of his kind who rose from the depths to embrace her."
- Ancient Tyran fairy tale, on the popular and improving theme of monsters lying in wait for disobedient children (Aspho Fields – Chapter 4)

“Didn’t you read Romily as a child? The monster under the bed? How’s the monster always shown? That story goes back centuries, and the monster always has the same features – long front fangs and six legs // All monsters come from some reality. The six legs are a folk memory. Something like that once existed on Sera, and we reduced it to a fairy tale in the end, but now – I think I’ve found its nearest living relative // I think these [rock] shrews may be the remains of a genus that once included much larger tunnel-dwelling creatures.”
- Elain Fenix (Anvil Gate – Chapter 5)

The concept of monsters living under the ground is not new, the story of Romily has been passed down for generations and is often used as a source to argue that the Locust have existed for centuries – or at least as long as the fairy tale has been around. But it is curious, the six-legged demon in the fairy tale does not resemble a Locust. The Drones, Kantus, Boomer and Wretches are all humanoid, and while Corpsers and Reavers have multiple limbs, neither fit the boundaries of the story.

But there is one creature that does – the Polyps.

The Polyps are six-legged, possess large fangs, and come from under the ground in large groups. Elain Fenix compares the creatures in the story to the rock shrew she has found, creatures that live within and around the Hollow. If the name “rock shrew” is any indication, it could be similar in nature or composition to the “rockworm”, another Hollow based creature used as a food source by the Locust.

“The mutated shrew was long dead, but the bioluminescent parasite within it was still biding its time, just as Myrrah had said // [Elain had] thought the six-legged shrew was the descendant of a much bigger and extinct animal that had lived on in folk memory as monster myths. She couldn’t have known then that it was a much more recent mutation. She simply recorded the cell changes. This is what Lambency does.”
- Adam Fenix’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 2)

Elain Fenix was mistaken in one aspect in regards to her discovery – the vestigial limbs on the rock shrews are not the remnant of an old genus, but rather the beginning of a new one. The Lambent are the mutated versions of Sera’s native lifeforms – just as a Drudge is the Lambent mutation of a Locust Drone, Polyps are the Lambent version of these rock shrews.

But if the Romily legend is indeed referring to the Lambent, or creatures that will once day become Lambent, where did the Locust come from? Were they an ancient race, living underground undisturbed and unknown by humanity until the spread of the Lambent forced them above ground? This might well be the case. But there is evidence that may point to another answer.

“Symptom: Ruth is clearly experiencing extreme swelling in her joints and
frequently cries out in pain during the night. She also exhibits rather
erratic and unpredictable behavior, though this is quite understandable
considering her situation and symptoms. There is a strange discoloration
in her eyes, and her breathing often sounds labored. Her nails grow at a
faster rate than normal, though her hair grows at a markedly reduced rate.
I'll keep trying to find some type of medication to alleviate her pain without
adversely affecting our studies.”
- New Hope Medical File collectible (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 2: Origins)

“Uh, what happens when you set off your glowie killer, Professor? Are we gonna feel anything?”
“That depends on how far the imulsion has colonized your cells, Damon. Do you have a fever? Intense muscle pain?”
“No.”
“Then you’ll be fine”
- Damon Baird and Adam Fenix discussing the effects of imulsion contamination (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

The symptoms Adam Fenix describes are the same as those experienced by Ruth at the New Hope facility countless years earlier. These symptoms are the result of imulsion colonising the cells and are the same as those experienced by sufferers of rustlung – an imulsion based illness that is caused by inhalation of large amounts of imulsion-vapour;

"Rustlung, imulsion sickness. Cases have been popping up all over since the Lightmass Bombing. Sure is a horrible way for a warrior to die."
"Uh, contagious?"
"They say it's not, but I would keep my distance."
"No argument here."
- Tai and Dom (Gears of War 2 – Act 1, Chapter 2 - Desperation)

“Driver: Wayne Mitchell
Route: Timgad/Jacinto

Patient #1: 33 yr. old male
Symptoms: Coughing up blood & brown mucus, nausea, minor bleeding from
ears

Patient #2: 21 yr. old male
Symptoms: Nausea, coughing up blood & reddish-brown mucus

Patient #3: 36 yr. old female
Symptoms: Unconscious, blood & reddish-brown mucus coming from nose &
mouth

Patient #4: 24 yr. old male
Symptoms: Coughing up blood & dark brown mucus, complaining of severe
chest pain & trouble breathing”
- Ambulance Driver’s Log collectible (Gears of War 2 – Act 1, Chapter 1: Welcome to Delta)

“Is this how it starts?”
“Yeah. You seen this before? ‘Cause this ain’t just rustlung.”
- Dom and a Stranded (Gears of War 3 – Act 3, Chapter 5 – Brothers to the End)

All the sufferers of rustlung present in Gears of War 2 were in the Timgad area during or after the Lightmass Bomb was used. The Formers in Gears of War 3 turn up in places with large amounts of imulsion – Mercy and Char are both imulsion processing townships. Rustlung, then, is the first step towards turning Lambent, and while knowledge of the disease may not have become widespread until after the Timgad bombing, patients with the same symptoms were being studied at New Hope.

But if rustlung is an indication of Lambency, other questions are raised. If rustlung is caused by exposure to imulsion why have there been no reported cases until now? And if rustlung is the first step to Lambency, why did sufferers such as Michael Barrick and Jonathan Harper not turn into Formers?

“There’d been classified matters that had sometimes woken him in the middle of the night and left him staring at the ceiling, gut churning and unable to get back to sleep again. There were things he’d quietly dreaded becoming public, background things like the real health risks of imulsion exposure.”
- Richard Prescott’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 2)

“And imulsion did cause mutations in humans. He knew that all too well now, as the COG had known for years. But the process by which it changed from an apparently biologically inactive fuel to a live pathogen remained unclear, as did finding parallels between imulsion’s teratogenic effects and its behaviour as a pathogen. Adam suspected they weren’t linear stages of the same thing but evidence that imulsion was evolving, diversifying just like the first life on Sera had done.”
- Adam Fenix’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 13)

The first answer is simple – as seen above, there have been reported cases, Lambency has been observed, and covered up, by the COG for almost a century. And the answer to the second is difficult due to the ever-evolving nature of imulsion. Barrick and Harper may well have turned Lambent given enough time, but the length of time it takes imulsion to colonize the cells and the form they would have taken cannot be known, as imulsion had not reached the stage in its life cycle that caused mutation into Formers.

For rustlung to have been the focus of the studies at New Hope it can mean only one thing – the patients had to have been exposed to enough imulsion to present themselves with the symptoms. Who could have been exposed to so much imulsion? Imulsion miners is the obvious choice, but anybody who worked in-depth with imulsion are candidates, including the families of the miners who would have moved to and grown up around the drill sites, as was common during our own coal mining here on Earth.

“What’s Azura?”
“Nothing to worry about. It’s an island facility built early in the Pendulum Wars because everyone was convinced that the conflict would end in global annihilation.”
- Nevil and Prescott (The Slab – Chapter 3)

“And if that smarmy recorded voice from the PA system started up again, the one they said was Niles Samson himself, he’d lose it completely.”
- Nevil Estrom’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 6)

“Whatever Dr. Samson’s nauseating cheerleading says, we cannot build Sera from the population here [on Azura] alone.”
- Richard Prescott (The Slab – Chapter 6)

“We’ll have to move during the night, in the snow, and Chairman Monroe won’t even authorise the use of vehicles to transport the subjects.”
- A recording of Niles Samson (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 3: Rude Awakening)

“We’re talking about shrugging our shoulders and effectively dissolving a state that’s existed for –”
“Just under a century. That’s all // But the Allfathers were just an alliance of imulsion-rich states looking after their own interests during a fuel crisis.”
- Hoffman and Michaelson (Coalition’s End – Chapter 21)

Before delving into what exactly New Hope did, it should first be established how old the facility is.

The COG was founded during the Gold Rush, shortly before the Pendulum Wars started 79 years before E-Day, and existed for just under a century before it was dissolved in 15 AE. The COG was based on the Octus Canon developed by minor political figure and fanatical socialist Alexiy Desipich (cunoscut in Judgment ca The Reaper - ghost of Alexiy Desipich) some time before the Pendulum Wars. The first leader of the COG was Nassar Embry, Allfather Prime, but at some point rule over the state passed over to a series of successive Chairmen. Niles Samson worked on both Azura and New Hope, and his presence on the PA system of both facilities means that they were in existence at the same time – the early years of the Pendulum Wars. The fact that there was a Chairman when New Hope shut down also limits the facility to being within a century old. The decrepit state of New Hope leads credence to the idea that New Hope was shut down earlier rather than later.

If rustlung was being studied at New Hope, and rustlung is the first step on the road to Lambency in humans, where do the Locust fit in? By looking at all the pieces, a timeline of mutagenic effects can be traced.

“Though many Imulsion miners had a shorter-than-average lifespan during the “Gold Rush” period following the energy source’s discovery, no one has proven that Imulsion exposure is a serious risk to human health.”
- Rustlung section of the Beneath the Surface booklet (Gears of War 2 Special Edition)

“As many of you know, we recently experienced an internal information leak, and
this had led some media outlets to make inquiries of the Department of
Heath. Should you ever be approached with questions by anyone from the
media or from someone who is not an employee of New Hope, I trust that you
will all refrain from disclosing any information about the facility or its
patients.”
- Interoffice Memo collectible (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 2: Origins)

“I would begin exiting the facility if I were you. I tried to warn you. Now it appears that you have awoken the Sires. That could be very problematic // Those are irreplaceable specimens… a genetic bridge to our future. The Sires were not meant to be awakened yet. There will be consequences for a transgression of this magnitude. Severe, dire consequences.”
- The Niles AI (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 3: Rude Awakening)

“But does Lambency kill its hosts? Does it just change them? Is it even a survival advantage?”
“The Locust told Adam that some Lambent began to self-destruct – literally detonate. If you’re thinking it has a future as a defence against the Locust, I suspect you’d have had an interesting conversation with Dr. Samson.”
- Prescott and Bakos (The Slab – Chapter 6)

“Dalyell had always been very cagey about [the Sires] existence and origin. Prescott had been kept out of the loop: it had suited him not to know about mutated humans, poisoned humans, but it was a gap he now needed to fill. All he could do when he took office was keep the New Hope facility quarantined and hope he never had to open the lid.”
- Prescott’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 6)

“And given the inarguable evidence of human mutation, this is research we also need to do in humans. Not cell cultures.”
- Esther Bakos (The Slab – Chapter 6)

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TERATOGENICITY STUDY
(SAMSON)

“// This research into the teratogenic effects of imulsion was sealed years ago, but I think [Adam Fenix] should have access to it // We need to know what happened to the rest of Niles Samson’s New Hope research. The children with abnormalities.”
“If I had it, I would hand it over. We searched for those children for years.”
“We could go back and recover the Sires.”
“No. The facility has to stay locked down.”
“Sir, we know imulsion can cause changes in human physiology, and I think Adam’s established the link between imulsion and the pathogen.”
- Esther Bakos and Richard Prescott (The Slab – Chapter 6)

“Save the children, that’s what they always say. In this case, we’re truly doing it. Or at least, we’re giving it our very best shot. The trip to Mount Kadar won’t be an easy one, not by any means. We’ll have to move during the night, in the snow, and Chairman Monroe won’t even authorise the use of vehicles to transport the subjects. I will be leaving behind a semi-sentient security system to watch over the facility. I would hate for anyone to disturb the Sires’ rest, and we would all like the later opportunity to study them as they grow. I’m almost embarrassed to admit that the security system is based of my personality-”
- A recording of Niles Samson (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 3: Rude Awakening)

“Were you aware of the health concerns about imulsion?”
“Emissions? Yes. Like any combustible material. Particulates, volatile fractions, that kind of risk.”
“I mean teratogenic. Mutagenic. Have I used the correct terms? Causing malformations and changes at the genetic level.”
“Oh. We suppressed those findings, did we? Can’t upset the imulsion companies with health scares. Share prices are hardly our biggest problem now, I suppose.”
- Prescott and Adam (The Slab – Chapter 6)

Imulsion was first discovered on Sera pooling on the surface by an oil derrick. Almost as soon as humanity began working in depth with the substance, Lambency became an issue. The evidence of human mutation was inarguable and infected subjects, people who worked in depth with imulsion such as miners, began showing symptoms such as rustlung. The infected imulsion workers were covertly relocated to New Hope. Here, Niles Samson hoped to find a way to prevent the mutagenic effects of imulsion by studying these Lambent humans – the Sires. Niles hoped that the Sires represented a “survival advantage” as Prescott puts it, a “genetic bridge to our future” in his own words, a way to limit the effects of Lambency to a purely physical change that was capable of resisting further mutation. However, because of what happened next, Niles never finished his studies on the Sires.

In the process of studying the mutagenic effects of imulsion, Niles was brought into contact with its teratogenic effects – genetic defections caused by imulsion on a cellular level in newborns. The children of the Sires, or of Lambent humans who would eventually become the Sires, were born with Lambency in their cells. As they matured, so too did the Lambent mutation within their genes. As the mutations progressed it reached a point where the COG became too fearful of the truth and the effect it would have on both imulsion companies and the general public. New Hope was quietly shut down – while the COG erased all records of these mutated children, Monroe had the staff and subjects moved to Mt. Kadar.

[Dj Mo]

“It was hard not to put two and two together, but it was also unscientific, he knew that much. He tried to meet professionals on their own terms.”
- Prescott’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 6)

“I ask you, how else do we secure our future? What is a culture without hope? It’s a shame. A dirty, rotten shame. // Did they know what was awaiting them inside Mount Kadar? Did they deserve what we did to them? Should we be punished? // When we are fully cleansed, and the truth comes forth, will we listen? … will we listen? Will we… listen? Listen… listen… listen.”
- Niles AI (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 3: Rude Awakening)

The “children” that Niles studied at New Hope were not adult subjects or Lambent humans – they were very literally children, the offspring of the infected.

These “children” are the Locust.

The information on New Hope was sealed and the files restricted to the office of the Chairman and eventually to the scientists on Azura. After the Battle of Ephyra Prescott and Dr. Bakos were made aware of Lambency and both were able to make the, Prescott believes, obvious connection between the missing imulsion-mutated “children” who left New Hope and the race of imulsion-mutated, hitherto unknown, humanoids who emerged from underground one hundred years later.

The Locust as a species, therefore, are already Lambent. They have imulsion in their cells. Even though they are not glowing and mutating and exploding, every single Locust is Lambent on a cellular level.

“Dad, what’s Myrrah up to? In your message you said she didn’t realise you can’t save the Locust.”
“This is a last stand for the Locust too, Marcus. My device will kill the imulsion, but it’ll harm the Locust too.”
- Marcus and Adam Fenix (Gears of War 3 - Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

"Marcus Fenix seems to be as persistent as his father - and just as predictable. If he lives, our entire species dies."
- Queen Myrrah (Gears of War 3 - Act 4, Chapter 4: Hang 'em High)

At this point the evidence is damning. Only one result is possible – the Locust are the result of the experiments conducted at New Hope close to 100 years ago, they are the offspring of Lambent humans, the Sires – all of these species, Locust, Former and Sire, have Lambency on a cellular level.

But if the Locust are less than 100 years old, other questions arise;
How can this explain the age of Nexus and other Locust architecture, surely it is much older than 100 years?

“Hard to believe this leads to a Locust city. Feels too old.”
- Dom (Gears of War 2 – Act 3, Chapter 5: Displacement)

“Still don’t get how they could’ve built this **** so fast.”
“Ah hell, we still don’t know how long they been down here.”
“And all this Imulsion… Are they thriving off of it?”
“Maybe. But that queen of theirs keeps talkin’ about reachin’ the surface.”
- Baird and Marcus (Gears of War 2 – Act 4, Chapter 4: No Turning Back)

The Locust did not suddenly pop into existence on Emergence Day, they have been around for a while, but any species that has existed for a long time would have provided evidence of its existence at some point in its history. As seen with the Romily story, older races that once existed in the Hollow still leave their mark on the surface – the rock shrews found by Elain Fenix were discovered near the Hollow. The Locust do not do this.

Dom comments that the architecture feels too old to be Locust in design, while Baird comments that the Locust seem to have built too much, too fast. Together they ask a simple question – if the Locust are an ancient race, surely there would be some evidence of their existence. If they are a recent emergence, how can they be so large and so advanced?

When travelling through Nexus, a curious mesh of technological advancement can be seen – the architecture of Nexus is old enough to be considered ruinous at first glance, but new enough that the mechanical aspects such as the cable-car system, lever-controlled cover and computer systems are built directly into the city, not tacked on at a later date. The city may look to some to be older than 100 years, but considering the builders, is it not more likely that its construction was crude rather than ancient?

Another question is this – what about the size of the Horde, surely it is much too large to be a bunch of test subjects from New Hope?

“They breed by rape.”
“What, sir?”
“The Locust. I heard the females – the Berserkers – have to be tied down to mate. They’re not exactly willing.
- Hoffman and Tai (Aspho Fields, Chapter 14)

“Baird here.

I guess this could be an invasion map, but it looks more like a kid's drawing
to me. Li'l Locust, do they have those?

I was just asking Marcus about this earlier... Why aren't there any Locust
brats around here? Figured we'd see some grub's grub somewhere around this
place.

Well, guess if the Berserkers are the females, maybe the males just wised up
and quit laying the pipe to 'em. Man, that would be perfect... Locust go
extinct due to the fugly, homicidal chicks they have to mate with.

Hey, one can hope.”
- Locust Invasion Map collectible (Gears of War 2 – Act 4, Chapter 6: The Best Laid Plans)

“What the hell are the Locust doing taking prisoners?”
“They’re locking people up in these things, taking ‘em deeper into the Hollow. They were gonna process me, man. Whatever that means…”
- Marcus and Baird (Gears of War 2 – Act 2, Chapter 4: Sinking Feeling)

“The mice she’s been using – when they’re injected with Lambent cells, their fertility drops rapidly. Litter size fell to two or three pups and thirty percent of those offspring are sterile // Esther says look at the declining family size in southern Tyrus alone. High proportion of only children and childless couples. Siblings aren’t the norm. We don’t have the data because we didn’t investigate the motives, whether couples wanted fewer children or just didn’t conceive and never sought medical help for it.”
- Adam Fenix (The Slab – Chapter 11)

Imulsion exposure causes sterility. This is something that applies to all species, and is noted by Adam to have an effect on human populations. Since the Locust are themselves the children of Lambent humans and are already Lambent it would seem that there are no Locust children, another factor that disproves the idea of the Locust being an ancient race. In Aspho Fields Colonel Hoffman has heard that the Locust breed by rape, but when Baird enters the Nexus in Gears of War 2 there is no evidence of infant Locust.

When the Locust need to increase their numbers they have to resort to “processing”, to create more. But what exactly is “processing”? And how can so many people be kidnapped by the Locust without the COG or UIR noticing?

“Thousands of people are still unaccounted for, and rumors still abound on the whereabouts of the missing. Theories range from the implausible (the Locust eat humans) to the likely (the Locust are taking prisoners).”
- “The Lucky Died on E-Day” section of the Beneath the Surface booklet (Gears of War 2 Special Edition)

“Baird here.

Just found an artifact that looks exactly like the glyph on the back of that
lovely skin scroll.

From other writings I've found, I think I've pieced it together: This is
something called the 'Trinity of Worms,' and it's probably the closest thing
I've seen yet to a Locust religious symbol. They really worship worms. We so do
not deserve to be alive.

As far as I can tell, there's some kind of mantra on the artifact, about the
queen making drones, drones protecting Nexus... and I'll have to work out that
last part a little later. I don't work well under gunfire.”
- Trinity of Worms Artifact (Gears of War 2 – Act 4, Chapter 5: The Best Laid Plans)

As stated in Beneath the Surface, thousands of humans have been taken by the Locust since E-Day. Using the Locust Runes (Locust Runes - Gearspedia, the Gears of War wiki - Gears of War, Gears of War 2, weapons, and more) the Trinity of Worms can be seen to state “The Queen makes Drones, the Drones protect Nexus, Nexus covers the Queen”.

Having seen that the Locust do not breed, the only other interpretation would be that the Queen literally makes Drones. Taking what we have learned about the Locust origins from New Hope and the role imulsion plays in their development, it can be concluded that Drones are created through imulsion exposure.

But there must be more to it than that, otherwise exposed humans would just become Formers. “Processing”, therefore, must include another element. Since the Locust origins were at New Hope, and at least some of the scientists travelled to Mount Kadar with the “subjects”, the method of “processing” must have been passed down. And who makes the Drones? The Queen.

“Here’s what I don’t understand. They never press home their advantage. Is it won’t or can’t?”
“If we knew that, we’d be halfway to beating the bastards.”
“I think they lack capacity and have to keep restocking their menagerie, for lack of a better word.”
“Is that a guess, sir?”
“An educated guess, I suppose. What kind of force launches a global assault that takes out a quarter of the population in a few days, and then spends more than a decade unable to finish it off despite overwhelming numbers?”
“An enemy with its own supply problems, running out of steam.”
- Prescott and Hoffman (The Slab – Chapter 12)

How does the Locust Horde seem to have such overwhelming numbers? Short answer – they don’t. Long answer – as they continuously lose lives to both the Lambent and the COG, the Locust run low on their numbers and have to process more. Prescott is able to figure out how it all works after making the connection between New Hope, the “children” and the Locust – if the Locust did not periodically process more Drones into their ranks, they would have been wiped out early into the Locust War by sheer attrition.

“Diz, are they aliens or something? How did they get here? Did they land? I mean, I know everyone’s saying they came out of holes in the ground – but how come we’ve never seen them before? You don’t just get a whole new breed of things come out of nowhere like that.”
- Milos to Dizzy (Coaliton’s End – Chapter 4)

“What are the Locust? We don’t know what they are… Most scientists believe they’re a mutated version of Sera’s native life forms. A minority claim they’re aliens. Ask any Gear and they’ll tell you the Locust come straight from hell.”
- What are the Locust section of the Destroyed Beauty booklet (Gears of War Special Edition)

The Locust are a mutated version of Sera’s native life forms. So if the humanoid Locust were all former humans, or the descendants of Lambent humans, what about the other Locust species; Wretches, Brumaks, Kryll, Rockworms, Reavers, Leviathans and so on? Were all the other Locust variants also created artificially like the humanoids?

“DNA analysis indicates these were bred by the Locust Horde from smaller native apes.”
- Brumak section of the Destroyed Beauty booklet (Gears of War Special Edition)

“Elain would have been fascinated by their skill at engineering other species into living weapons for their war effort.”
- Adam Fenix’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 2)

“The Locust must be pretty proficient in biotechnology in their own way, given the mutations they’ve bred for their own purposes.”
- Richard Prescott (The Slab – Chapter 11)

“You still feel sorry for them, don’t you?”
“No, but I do respect the extraordinary understanding of genetics it takes to create living weapons that bring global powers to their knees.”
- Dury and Adam (The Slab – Chapter 13)

“Ah, so that’s where Corpsers come from.”
“When a mommy Corpser and a daddy Corpser love each other very much…”
- Cole and Baird (Gears of War 3 – Act 2, Chapter 4: Trench Run)

"We're seeing more of those kryll things at night. The only good news is that the grubs don't seem to like them either, so it looks like it's cut down on their incursions after dark. But that means the things are either one of their own engineered creatures gone wrong, or something else entirely."
- Hoffman (The Slab - Chapter 12)

Yes and no. The majority of the beast Locust did not exist before the humanoid Locust created them, and they were engineered and bred specifically for use in combat – Brumaks, Reavers, Wretches, Corpsers, Seeders, etc. A few, such as the rock shrews, rockworm and Riftworm, seem to have evolved naturally underground and are domesticated in a very fragile way. In either case, all of these creatures are grouped together under the moniker Locust due to their shared trait of Lambency within the cell structure.

All of this information - the declassified New Hope files through to the studies on the Locust - are likely detailed on Adam Fenix's disk (urmatorul capitol prezinta acest disk) witnessed in Act 5, Chapter 5 of Gears of War 3.

One of the plot points left unresolved at the end of Gears of War 3 involved the contents of the disk Adam Fenix gave to Baird. Introduced at the 11th hour, this disk was mentioned briefly in a single conversaton, handed over, and then never addressed again. Subsequent interviews with Karen Traviss, the lead writer of the game, revealed that it was deliberately left unanswered. The reasons for this I do not know but I do believe that, similar to figuring out the Origins of the Locust, the contents of the disk can be unravelled if you know where to look.

First, a little bit of clarification. There are two disks in Gears of War 3; the first was stolen from Prescott by Hoffman during the events of the book Anvil Gate, and Baird attempted to hack into this disk throughout Coalition's End. By Gears of War 3, he had gave up, but a dying Prescott hands over the encription key for the disk allowing Hoffman and company to decript it at Anvil Gate and discover the blueprints for Azura. The second disk is in the possession of Adam Fenix on Azura, and handed over to Baird just before the final encounter with Myrrah.

A. Fenix - "If the imulsion hadn't reached a critical stage, I might of found a way to save the Locust as well and they could have gone back underground."
M. Fenix - "Tell me you don't feel sorry for them."
A. Fenix - "Responsible, not sorry. It's my fault they're here, Marcus. I failed to stop the imulsion spreading all those years ago, it drove the Locust out of their warrens. I tried to pursuade Myrrah to keep her people underground, but they couldn't, so then-"
D. Baird - "Wait, wait, wait, did I hear right? The government knew E-Day was coming, and none of you bothered to warn us?"
A. Fenix - "No, just me. Even Prescott didn't know, not until much later. I had so many ideas, just too little time."
M. Fenix - "Dad, stop this. Come on."
D. Baird - "Whoa, what else don't we know?"
A. Fenix - "You're a scientific man. Look at this later and try to understand what I wanted to do, and what I had to do."
- A conversation between Adam Fenix, Marcus Fenix and Damon Baird (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

In this conversation we can begin to narrow down what the contents of the disk may be. Of importance is the last line - what did Adam Fenix want to do, and what did he have to do? As seen earlier in the same conversation, we already have our answer - he wanted to save the Locust, but instead he had to kill them along with the Lambent in order to save the rest of Sera. The question becomes rather simple - what information could be contained on the disk that is relevant to Adam's desire to save the Locust?

“At the time of its discovery, there was no reason to believe that imulsion was a living organism. It exhibited no observable characteristics typical of life; no response to stimuli, no apparent method of reproduction, and no metabolic process. It has since become clear that this is not the case.

Though our examinations were sound, the assumptions upon which they were based-our narrow definitions of life-were not. It is very definitely alive, mutagenic, and highly invasive.

Viewed in this light, imulsion exhibits characteristics that resemble the structure and life cycle of many fungi. The bulk of the organism - in liquid form - is underground like a mycelium. The evidence of its existence that we have begun to observe on the surface in the form of stalks is the equivalent of fruiting bodies. Its periodic vapour-like emissions are perhaps best likened to spores. Its behaviour is parasitic yet simultaneously viral; It not only colonizes its host, it also reproduces in the host at the cellular level. Its life cycle appears to be a long period of dormancy followed by accelerated activity before maturation, but I cannot establish whether it has existed on Sera since the first origins of life or if it somehow developed or was introduced during human history.

A successful parasite does not kill its host, imulsion does. It may be inept, but I suspect the death of its host organisms - which appears to be every living thing on Sera, plant or animal - is part of its reproductive strategy, not an unfortunate side effect. Its high-energy content may be part of that.”
- Fenix Research collectible (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

The Fenix Research collectible in the same room contains Adam's analysis on imulsion and the Lambent parasite. Since this information is presented here, it is unlikely that the same information will be contained on the disk. In the same vein, does the content of the Fenix Research collectible bear relevance to Adam's attempt to save the Locust? No, it appears not. Something that would be relevant is information regarding the Imulsion Countermeasure itself. The design and specs of the device would be very important, and reading and understanding them could lead to a way to alter the device to save the Locust. Perhaps the disk contains this information?

"You know the island better than I do, Nevil. Is there anywhere inland where we can hide our research?"
"Take your pick, there's a limestone cave network that runs for kilometers."
// "Nevil, take my research and hide it in one of those caverns."
"You wouldn't be trying to send me somewhere safe, of course."
"If I've guessed wrong about Myrrah, you'll need to start rebuilding the device somehow."
- Adam Fenix and Nevil Estrom (Dirty Little Secrets, Part Six: No Hiding Place)

As seen in the final comic, the research regarding the Imulsion Countermeasure is in the hands of Nevil Estrom, Adam's long time co-worker, who fled with it and hid in the cave system of Azura when Myrrah and the Locust occupied the island. Whether he survived or not does not really matter, the important thing is that since the Imulsion Countermeasure research is elsewhere, and so that also cannot be on the disk. So what does that leave?

TOP SECRET
TERATOGENICITY STUDY
(SAMSON)

“// This research into the teratogenic effects of imulsion was sealed years ago, but I think [Adam Fenix] should have access to it // We need to know what happened to the rest of Niles Samson’s New Hope research. The children with abnormalities.”
“If I had it, I would hand it over. We searched for those children for years.”
“We could go back and recover the Sires.”
“No. The facility has to stay locked down.”
“Sir, we know imulsion can cause changes in human physiology, and I think Adam’s established the link between imulsion and the pathogen.”
- Esther Bakos and Richard Prescott (The Slab – Chapter 6)

DRIVE A
FOLDERS:
FENIX_E_COPY
PROJECT_NEW_HOPE
PROJECT_BNO
PROJECT_HOYLE
PROJECT_WHITTLE
AJF_PERSONAL
AJF_FOR_MMF
SELECT FOLDER: AJF_PERSONAL
SELECT FILE: JOURNAL
- The contents of Adam Fenix's computer (The Slab, Epilogue)

“Queen Myrrah. It was an odd choice of title. It smacked of termite colonies and ants, an analogy he knew she’d find offensive, but he suspected she’d chosen it in an attempt to make herself feel more embedded in Sera’s history, more Seran than the humans who’d long since discarded their monarchies. You know that’s not true, Myrrah. You know all about your origins. But this is no time to argue that with you.”
- Adam Fenix’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 4)

Adam Fenix is already aware that the Locust came from Lambent humans, only possible because Myrrah herself told him. And while Adam studied Locust corpses shortly after E-Day, he did not have access to the detailed information regarding the Sires and the early days of the Locust. The New Hope information was declassified to Adam Fenix shortly after his transfer to Azura, 5 years before Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad travel to the facility in Gears of War 2. As seen in the Epilogue of "The Slab", this information resides on Adam's personal computer along with a copy of Elain Fenix's research and other COG projects that have not been delved into within the franchise.

This is the information that is likely contained on the disk. With the New Hope data Adam now has access to studies exploring the state and contamination effects of imulsion from 100 years ago. With this he is able to compare the differences between imulsion as it existed 100 years ago, and the evolved imulsion as it exists today. Adam wanted to save the Locust while at the same time destroying the Lambent, and the only way to do so would have been to find a way of altering the Imulsion Countermeasure so that the radiation affected the evolved imulsion cells, while at the same time ignoring the Locust imulsion cells. Unfortunately, he never found a way to do this and in the end, when the Countermeasure was activated, all Lambent lifeforms died - including the Locust.

And so, when Baird finally looks at the content of the disk he'll find the Teratogenicity Study conducted by Niles Samson, as well as Adam's own research on the Locust. With that in hand it will be pretty easy to understand what Adam wanted to do, and what he had to do.

[Dj Mo]

“Listen to me, Marcus Fenix! I will not let my people die! We have a right to live, a right to this world! Your father must complete his task!”
- Myrrah (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

“Okay, I really need to know what Myrrah was yapping about. She knew your dad before E-Day? How? I mean, she looks human, did she join the Locust country club for ****s and giggles or something?”
- Baird (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 5: Ascension)

"You humans! Why do you think your lives are worth more than ours? Don't you realize who we are? Don't you recognise all your most admirable qualities in us? Oh yes... we are genocidal monsters! Just like you!"
- Myrrah (Gears of War 3 – Act 5, Chapter 6: Threshold)

Finally, we come to Myrrah, the decidedly human-looking Queen of the Locust. The first question regarding her is whether she is human or not.

“You know what we are, Adam. He could hear her voice more clearly than Elain’s sometimes; authoritative, patrician, human. You know where we come from. We deserve to live, we have the right to live, but you’ll never let us. Just remember that what’s killing us will one day kill you. And I shall be there to see it.”
- Myrrah (The Slab – Chapter 2)

"Adam, you knew this day would come." It was a familiar voice: silky, imperial, polished, and utterly human.
- Myrrah (The Slab – Chapter 5)

Twice in the Slab Myrrah is referred to as being human. In Gears of War 3, the queen is unharmed by the imulsion countermeasure activated in at the climax of the story, meaning that she does not possess lambency in her cells. This is important for two reasons – first, it means that she is not in the process of turning Former; second, it means that she cannot be Locust in any capacity since, as has been discussed, each and every Locust has lambency.

A popular idea is that Myrrah must be Ruth, the patient from New Hope whose medical file was present as a collectible in Gears of War 2 and is quoted above. If this was the case though, it doesn't quite add up, Myrrah doesn't have the swelling in her joints, long nails or lack of hair that Ruth did. The physical description indicates that Ruth is turning into a Sire or Locust. It can be seen that Myrrah shares nothing in common with the Sires or Locust and therefore nothing in common with Ruth. If Myrrah was Ruth then she would have lambency, and would have been killed by the imulsion countermeasure.

Another argument states that Myrrah must be the one patient from New Hope who was cured of lambency and immune to imulsion. Unfortunately, there is little that supports this idea – why was the cure not taken to Mt. Kadar when the scientists relocated there? Why were the Sires left in stasis in the first place if a cure had been found? And why would Myrrah not use the cure on the Locust if she was indeed immune to the effects of imulsion?

And just because there’s always one…

“He’d found some of [Elain Fenix’s] remains in the tunnels – arm bones and scraps of fabric he recognised all to well.”
- Adam Fenix (The Slab – Chapter 2)

… She’s not Marcus’s mother.

So how did a human end up leading the Locust Horde?

“Queen Myrrah. It was an odd choice of title. It smacked of termite colonies and ants, an analogy he knew she’d find offensive, but he suspected she’d chosen it in an attempt to make herself feel more embedded in Sera’s history, more Seran than the humans who’d long since discarded their monarchies. You know that’s not true, Myrrah. You know all about your origins. But this is no time to argue that with you.”
- Adam Fenix’s thoughts (The Slab – Chapter 4)

Myrrah is not a Locust. Myrrah is not Lambent. Myrrah is not royalty by succession; she has taken the title of Queen for herself. Myrrah possesses knowledge that allows her to create Drones, something that no other human on Sera has. Taking what we know so far, we can deduce who she must be.

Locust are the offspring of Lambent humans, but considering the high infertility rate caused by lambency, breeding is difficult. In order to process humans and create more Locust large numbers and careful planning is required – humanoid Locust must be bred just like all the other beast-like Locust they command. Myrrah is in possession of knowledge that no-one else has – how to create Locust. The only people who knew how to do this were those who worked at New Hope. The scientists of New Hope moved to Mount Kadar. Myrrah’s palace is at Mount Kadar. Myrrah is not a Locust.

Therefore, Myrrah is a descendant of the scientists of New Hope, imbibed with the knowledge of how to create Locust, her people, her children, whom she was born and raised with deep under the earth. She considers herself a Locust, not a human, and she has taken the title of Queen and the cause of vengeance to fight for a race that was literally forced underground.

A popular theory is the idea that the Kantus are the original Locust, having existed undeground for millennia. This theory states that the Kantus built Nexus, New Hope was set up to create Kantus-Human hybrids, most of the Locust we see in the franchise are failed versions of these hybrids, and Myrrah is the only successful one. The primary arguments for this are threefold;

- The Kantus are too different from the other humanoid Locust to be related.
- Nexus is too large and looks too old to have been built within one hundred years.
- The population of the Horde is too large to have been formed in one hundred years.

While I will not delve too much into these here, I will comment breifly on each point.

First; the Kantus possess similar biological features present on multiple forms of humanoid Locust. Indeed, elements of the Sires, Drones and Berserkers can all be seen on the Kantus. Imulsion's ability to evolve down divergent paths causes multiple mutations from the same source, as witnessed with the Drudges. The Kantus are, like the other humanoid Locust, descended from the subjects at New Hope.

Second; considering the Gold Rush period of Seran history and the amount of people working in the mines, it is not unreasonable to assume the numbers of infected miners were far larger than just the Sires witnessed at New Hope. The Sires are considered the most extreme cases of imulsion exposure, many of the exposed would not have been mutated to this extent. I argue then that it was not the Locust that were moved from New Hope to Mt. Kadar, but instead Lambent Humans - sufferers of rustlung who were walking, talking and on par with the likes of Adam Fenix, Michael Barrick and Jonathan Harper. The Locust did not come along until after the move.

Third; there are no signs of Locust children, something Baird points out while in Nexus, but there are no signs of older Locust either. Given the lambent nature of the Horde on a genetic level, I argue that the Locust do not age at a rate similar to humans. Imulsion exists as a single organism, a hive-mind-like entity, and elements of this have transferred to the Locust - such as their almost telekinetic communication ability witnessed in RAAM's Shadow. The Locust, therefore, age at a slower rate or may not age at all.

[Smara]

Multumiri domnu' !

---------- Post added 19-04-2013 at 12:08 PM ----------

Dupa ce am citit, parca am mai multe intrebari decat inainte

[Dj Mo]

“Gears of War: Judgment” Call to Arms Map Pack Introduces Three Maps and an Intense New Multiplayer Mode starting April 23

The second “Judgment” Map Pack explores the darker side of the “Gears” universe, with three bone-chilling maps, the new “Master at Arms” multiplayer mode and exclusive digital rewards

Microsoft and Epic Studios today announced the second expansion in the “Gears of War: Judgment” multiplayer experience, the Call to Arms Map Pack, coming to VIP Season Pass holders on Tuesday, April 23 via Xbox LIVE, and available worldwide April 30. Developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly, the Call to Arms Map Pack brings players three new multiplayer maps, a brand-new mode called “Master at Arms,” and six armor and gun skins for customizing your characters and weapons.

Set against the backdrop of the Locust invasion of Halvo Bay, all three new maps provide a mix of close quarters and vertical combat, keeping Gearheads immersed in the action. The Call to Arms Map Pack provides 10 new Achievements worth a total of 250 Gamerscore.

New Maps:

· Terminal: The speed and ferocity of the Locust invasion took Halvo Bay completely by surprise. Residents scrambled to evacuate by every means possible, and COG forces were called in to maintain order as martial law was enforced. However, the Locust showed no mercy, and gave no quarter; they swept through train terminals like this one to take advantage of the close quarters and sheer number of defenseless humans trapped within its walls. Sometimes, COG forces could hold the line long enough for a final evacuation, but too many lost their lives in defense of the people and the land they loved.

· Blood Drive: As casualties started to mount, the staff at Halvo Memorial quickly began what would become the largest triage effort in the history of Sera. Their “Give Blood Today” campaign inspired a global blood drive in support of COG forces and wounded civilians. Sadly, Halvo fell quickly, and the hospital became a battlefront instead of a sanctuary. The seed of hope was planted, however, and government-run Memorial hospitals across the country mobilized to keep the effort alive until Jacinto Memorial was the last standing bastion of hope for the people of Sera.

· Boneyard: The concept of traditional memorial services had to be suspended due to the constant stream and alarming volume of casualties as Sera fell victim to the Locust Horde. Memorial grounds quickly became boneyards. Unmarked holes became grave sites and mausoleums were filled with the nameless remains of the fallen, their skeletons piled into heaps. Tread lightly, you never know what, or who, you’re walking on, and one day you’re bound to join them.

The Call to Arms Map Pack will be available on Xbox LIVE for 1000 Microsoft Points. Players who purchase the “Gears of War: Judgment” VIP Season Pass will receive early access to map packs and a 25 percent savings versus purchasing them individually.

New Mode: “Master At Arms”

This new free-for-all game mode exclusive to “Gears of War: Judgment” will test the true range of your soldiering skills. The goal is to get a kill with each of the 20 different available weapons, without resorting to melee or grenade tactics. Every successful kill will automatically advance you to the next available weapon until you have used them all and proven your skill as a true Master at Arms.

[BizZare]

Am terminat campania la single player, insa din pacate nu'mi permite timpul sa bantui pe live

[AndyZ]

Mi se pare mie sau in Versus acum este vechiul sistem cu assault rifle + shotgun?

Initial am crezut ca e doar la Special Event, apoi am observat ca si in Versus pornesc cu Lancer + inca o arma la alegere.. Macar daca puteai sa alegi altceva si in locul Lancer-ului..

[Dj Mo]

Strange sounds from Haven

https://soundcloud.com/user419979103/sets/haven - cum se aud in joc

https://soundcloud.com/user419979103...103/sets/haven - puse pe "reverse"


Cica se poate downloada de astazi. "On May 14th, you’ll be able to download the second MAXIM Map, Dreadnought, available for OverRun players free of charge for a limited time."

[vicy]

am jucat 30 de min pe mapa asta

[Dj Mo]

The Gears of War: Judgment DLC “Lost Relics” is coming in June! The pack will include four new maps, a new single objective gametype, new armor and new weapon skins.

New gametype
BREAKTHROUGH – Breakthrough is a single-objective gametype that features two teams with very distinct roles: one team has possession of a flag that they must deliver to a set location; the opposing team has a purely defensive role and unlimited resources.
The attacking team must break through the enemy team’s defensive line and deliver the flag before their pool of lives run out.

[Smara]

Pentru Checkout ii scot de la naftalina .....

[Dj Mo]

Pope's Final Jungle Tai Giveaway (Cher+)) - Luati si voi pe sarite, poate prindeti unul.

[Dj Mo]

The new Lost Relics DLC for Gears of War: Judgment will be arriving today, June 18th for VIP members! The rest of Gears fans can expect to get their hands on Lost Relics the following Tuesday, June 25th. This DLC includes four new maps, new weapon and armor skins, as well as the new mode Breakthrough. Read up on all the new maps and study the flythrough videos below to get the competitive edge over your enemies.

You Can’t Hide- Earn the Tree House Predator ribbon on Ward (10 points)
Getting it Done- Destroy the generator in under 8 minutes on any DLC map (30 points)
Dread the Rage- Get a multi-kill while playing as an enraged Rager on Ward (10 points)
Drop the Mic- Finish wave 10 of Survival at the first e-hole on Ward on at least Normal difficulty (50 points)
Flag Runner- Score a flag cap on Streets, Rig, Gondola, Library, Lost City, Museum, and Checkout (25 points)
Look What I Found- Get a kill with each pickup weapon in FFA during a single game on the map Lost City (15 points)
Flag Dropped- Kill the flag carrier a total of 20 times (20 points)
Pendulum Wars- Win a TDM, DOM, and BT match with your entire team wearing the UIR Armor skin (40 points)
For Gorasnaya!- Score 5 flags in BT as Paduk (20 points)
Golden Artifacts-Win a public or ranked game of Execution on Museum with all players using the Gold character and weapon skins (30 points)