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The Twelve Days of Gearsmas – 2012

It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the season of Gearsmas. Once again this year, we will be having twelve days of fun events in Gears of War 3 and we will also be randomly awarding the fans with Gears of War and Epic Swag! We have an Epic Edition, a Retro Lancer, a Gears of War board game and much, much more!

The events start tomorrow morning. Last year’s events were so popular, we’re going to do it all again. Events are subject to change without notice.

We hope you all have a safe, happy and wonderful Holiday Season!

  • Day 1- Fortifications for Free (First upgrade is free)
  • Day 2- No Team Love
  • Day 3- Much Bigger Heads
  • Day 4- 4 Squawking Birds
  • Day 5- Beasts on the cheap
  • Day 6- 6 Boomers Flaming
  • Day 7- Gibbing Comets Ringing 
  • Day8- Experience for Milking
  • Day 9- Locust Ladies Dancing
  • Day 10- 10 Lambent Leaping
  • Day 11- Snowman Heads a Popping
  • Day 12- Mortars Incoming

 

Gearsmas Versus Schedule

  • Day 1- Brothers to the End on all maps playlist
  • Day 2-4- Hardcore Weekend – No rifles, gnasher/pistol only, map pickups limited to boomshot, digger, torque bow, sniper rifle. There will be NO infinite ammo mutator this time.
  • Day 5- Can You Dig it?
  • Day 6- Torque Bow Tag
  • Day 7 and 8- Boom Snipes
  • Day 9 and 10- This Is My Rifle
  • Day 11- Thanksgibbing
  • Day 12 One Shot One Kill
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    • http://twitter.com/dibils dibils

      any weapon skins for the xmas period?

      • Princess

        I’m looking forward to those weapon skins too.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

          same as last years ??

    • II Optimuz II

      Nice to bad I am getting surgery so I cant contribute my gearsmas holidays.

    • Jared Morales

      You left you 100x experience on Gears of War 2.

      • http://twitter.com/dibils dibils

        is this true? if so i am off to gears 2

        • http://twitter.com/JoeyBVCR Joey

          Me too

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

            hope they do the same with gears 3 lol

    • Mindless

      Yes! Love Gearsmas.

    • MikukeyuShirubi

      This game Multiplayer is gonna suck dick watch and see….

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bobby-Kim/100000792478642 Bobby Kim

      One reason to come back to Gears.

      • cheezmo619

        Come back? Loyal gearheads never left

    • Victorknight

      how I can participate?

    • johnyrainbow1

      Nice one Epic but will there be any xp treats for us?

      • Michael

        Experience for Milking is 4x xp.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

          where does it say that ?

          • Michael

            It’s what it was last year.

    • http://www.facebook.com/michael.purvis.1088 Michael Purvis

      Happy gearsmas everyone

    • http://twitter.com/LinkSmash LinkSmash

      Tomorrow, Thursday?! Because omg fortifications for free!!!

    • Cantankerouspinner45

      I could really do with some double xp, the last 10 levels of my red re-up are going soooo slow!

      • http://www.facebook.com/Dstar08 Darrin Milton Jr

        play 15 private matches of koth and dont worry about the rings just kills youll get atleast 500 kills and up to 35,000 xp it takes about an hour

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

          or play hardcorde / insane horde… with at least 1 buddy/second controller.. with two hard mutators…

    • http://www.facebook.com/ted.hinderer Ted Hinderer

      Can we get some knew maps love what we have but why not bring back snow blind map packs or something.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

        there are no more gears 3 dlc they said so ages ago.. it’s all about judgement now…

    • http://www.facebook.com/matt.litterst.5 Matt Litterst

      any chance of getting some unlockables from the beta testing for xmas

      • The Dukenator

        Don’t think so

    • Michael-Wants-Maps

      Sounds awesome Epic, thank you! I’ll pre-order lack-luster-looking Judgment if you make gears 2 maps available for gears 3!!!

    • cheezmo619

      Love it

    • Flossy6310

      what modes are used in the first Gearsmas schedule?? Horde, beast etc?

    • http://www.facebook.com/neil.pezzula Neil Pezzula

      thanks for another great Gearsmas event , and the giveaways look awesome

    • My Mom

      I can has some bonus xp, The_Real_Cliffy_B style?

    • http://www.facebook.com/juan.talavera.58 Juan Talavera

      im a super fan hope to get some goodies this gearsmas XD

    • Kronolus

      This is gonna be ameezang!

    • http://forums.epicgames.com/members/1423973-magsithlord008 mag sithlord

      Sweeet! I missed it last year!

    • http://www.facebook.com/paula.r.wilkes Paula Ramey Wilkes

      What fortifications are free? I’ve not come across one yet. Thanks Epic, treat us to something that you don’t really give us?

      • http://www.facebook.com/kyle.kaczmarczyk Kyle J. Kaczmarczyk

        Command Posts are free (you can build the max # for free) as well as the first upgrade for spikes and dummies.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ThEpHoNeLiEs Michael Hooper

      yea, I agree with those peeps below me! bring the Snowblind maps to Gears 3, while you’re at it, add scorge as a playable character for multiplayer! I MISS HIM!!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/clayton.lautzenhiseriii Clayton Lautzenhiser III

      Absolutely the best time of year, gearsmas again….OUTSTANDING. Bring it on

    • http://twitter.com/AR_ASSAULT Promethean Knight

      WHy can you not give horde some love with the classic horde sheesh :(

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

        cos it’s boring… just play gears 2…

    • leponder

      ‘tomorrow’ and no dates, that won’t confuse people lol

      • Michael

        Date under the tags

    • Jay_wax77

      DBL XP maybe?

    • http://www.facebook.com/Patriotsfn Jeff Shoup

      Funny how this says it starts tomorrow but no date of when this was posted so was this posted last week or last night???????

      • Michael

        Date is under the tags. Dec 12th

    • http://www.facebook.com/Gaagie Axel Pettersson

      Are the fortifications only free if you play in matchmaking? They’re not free for me when I play private..

    • Number 73

      Locust ladies dancing? XDD when will this be?

    • berserkers

      fortifications for free.

    • VILLE HIPPI

      Happy Gearsmas everyone :)

    • http://www.thetechtemple.com/ The Tech Temple

      4 Squawking birds…what’s that do/mean?

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670131673 David Pickles

        cluckshot ?

    • alessio

      the event is free fortifications so cool why did not you do it more often?s’too good this event that i want to play back the horde :-)

    • calendermanfail

      Please clarify the dates. Particularly, is day 8 the 19th or the 20th?

    • Vanessa Castro

      double XP??

    • http://www.facebook.com/taylor.harvey.771 Taylor Harvey

      gears 3 is EPIC best game evevr

    • Shogun

      Sad still reusing events… Epic you promised so much and fail :( The events haven’t been update since since… well, its all DLC crap not even events. The playlist are so bad!!

    • chupita85

      HELLO MY NAME IS MARLENY, IM FROM NEW YORK AND MY GAMETAG IS CHUPITA85, I AM WRITING YOU TO ASK AND BEG YOU COOL THE MINDS THAT CREATED GEARS THAN PLEASE WHICH GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS OF GEAR TO PLAY THE
      ‘BETA’ I FEEL VERY BAD BECAUSE I PLAY THOSE GAMES ALL DAY AND MY DREAM IS TO BE ABLE TO SEE HOW THAT GAME. MY FAVORITE GAMES ARE EPIC BECAUSE THEY ARE UNIQUE AND LOOK REAL. I LOVE YOU EPIC GAMES.

    Posted by Flak Dec 12, 2012 Last Updated Dec 13, 2012
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