Epic’s Joe Graf, a lead gameplay programmer, tweeted that Gears of War 3 cannot read the achievements of Bulletstorm, Shadow Complex and Unreal Tournament 3 after all. “Sorry about that all,” he said.
The reason is that, while Xbox Live exposes data through a player’s gamercard, going deeper requires an unsupported manipulation of the servers. Bulletstorm, Shadow Complex and UT3 are classified separately from Gears of War, placing the achievement link-up outside Epic’s control here.
Graf did confirm that achievements in all previous Gears of War games will count toward unlockables in Gears of War 3.
Epic Cancels Bulletstorm Unlocks in Gears of War 3 [Official Xbox Magazine via RipTen]
SunSkorpion
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:18 PMIn the picture, what is the Locust on the right doing?!?!?
Paul Hudson
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:29 PMLooks like it’s going for the shoulder shank, extra juicy
FatShady MBA
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 1:07 PMThat is really bad and funny… Thank you for pointing that out.
Karachi King
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:42 PMWhy would they need to “go deeper”? The gamercard shows the achievements publicly, can’t they just use that?
And if not, it’s a MICROSOFT published game. They could easily give Epic permission to access more info if necessary.
Mr Explody
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 1:21 PMIt might not be a case of access, but rather a case of unexposed or non existant functionality in the achievement/gamercard system.
But agree with @Mr Waffle, they may be able to use saved games.
Mr Waffle
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM…couldn’t they just look for saved game data? Lost Planet 2 unlocked Marcus & Dom, Frank West etc based on what game saves you had…
Alex Cullinan
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 2:04 PMGo deeper?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lzavnaTMJ0U/TEhjSR8I19I/AAAAAAAAAFA/BjkmZeXcZK8/s1600/Subconcious+Security.jpg
Denaz
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 2:48 PMlol looks like I might need to go back to GoW1&2 to finish of some of the achievements!