Epic Games has recently announced two big changes for Gears of War 2. One of them is a title update for the people who have been complaining about the rank system and the other is a new map pack containing four brand new maps.

Players will now be earning points by playing online in public matches and ranking up levels, max is 100. Basically the more points you get, the more experience points you will get to level up. Players who reach a certain level will then unlock more achievements:

Rookie Gear (level 5)
Seasoned Gear (level 15)
Battle-Tested Gear (level 25)
Battle-Hardened Gear (level 50)
Veteran Gear (level 100)

The last two achievements are said to have the new Snowblind Map Pack in order to unlock. It is also said that there are four more unlisted achievements that will be added to the update, leaving you with 250 gamerscore points to collect.



About the Snowblind Map pack, it will be released on March 31st and comes with the maps Grindyard, Under Hill, Courtyard and a remake of the classic map Fuel Depot from the first Gears.

The title update will be free, but nothing has been said about the map pack. I'm just going to assume it's 800 MS points just like the other map pack that came out.


Gamespot