Gears of War 3 Unlock tree

[Wonderpill]

I found these stats on a page from people who already have the game


Starting Characters:

COG: Marcus, Dom, Cole, Baird, Anya
Locust: Drone, Savage Drone, Grenadier Elite, Savage Grenadier, Myrrah

Gears 2 Rank Progression Characters:

COG Gear - Level 2
Miner - Level 3
Sam Byrne - Level 4
Beast Rider - Level 5
Dizzy Wallin - Level 7
Hunter - Level 8
Jace Stratton - Level 10
Theron Guard - Level 12
Clayton Carmine - Level 14
Classic Dom - Level 17
Spotter - Level 20
Classic Cole - Level 23
Flame Grenadier - Level 26
Classic Baird - Level 30
Benjamin Carmine - Level 34
Grenadier - Level 39
Civilian Anya - Level 45
Victor Hoffman - Level 50
Hunter Elite - Level 60
Anthony Carmine - Level 75

Medal/Miscellaneous Unlock Characters:

Classic Marcus - Silver Veteran Medal (Play 200 Matches)
Unarmored Marcus - Complete the Campaign, Any Difficulty.
Superstar Cole - Gold MVP Medal (MVP 100 Matches)
Chairman Prescott - Silver Allfathers Medal (Play 200 Matches in all 6 Game Modes)
Golden Gear - Bronze War Supporter Medal (Play in 5 Gears Events)
Savage Theron Guard - Beat Beast Mode, All Difficulties.
Kantus - Gold Medic Medal (Revive 150 Teammates)
Sniper - Bronze Headshot Medal (Get 100 Headshots)
Golden Hunter - Gold Master-At-Arms Medal (Get 300 Kills with all 5 Starting Weapons)
Golden Miner - Gold Rifleman Medal (Get 300 Kills with all 3 Rifles)
Griffin - Facebook Promotion or Gold Big Spender Medal ($300,000 in Horde cash)
Cole Train - Through the Beta or a currently unknown way in the Retail.

Pre-Order Characters:

Commando Dom - GameStop Pre-order Exclusive
Mechanic Baird - Bestbuy Pre-order Exclusive
Savage Kantus - Amazon Pre-order Exclusive
Savage Grenadier Elite - Walmart Pre-order Exclusive
Adam Fenix - Exclusive to Limited and Epic Editions (Or if you redeemed your Gears Infected Omen Controller code before 9/9/11)

DLC Characters:

Bernie Mataki - Confirmed for 1st DLC in November
Onyx Guard - Confirmed for 1st DLC in November
Tai Kaliso
Ming Young Kim
RAAM
Skorge
Michael Barrick

Weapon Skin Unlocks:

Crimson Omen Lancer - 12 + 2 XBL Gold Card Promotion
Crimson Omen Hammerburst - Welcome to Beast (Survive all 12 waves of Beast mode)
Crimson Omen Retro Lancer - Welcome to Horde (Survive the first 10 waves of Horde mode)
Crimson Omen Gnasher - Welcome to Versus (Kill 10 enemies in Team Deathmatch)
Crimson Omen Sawed-Off - Welcome to Arcade (Complete 5 Arcade Campaign chapters in co-op)

Team Insignia Retro - Bronze Veteran Medal (Play 100 Matches)
Team Insignia Lancer - Silver Veteran Medal (Play 200 Matches)
Team Insignia Hammerburst - Gold Veteran Medal (Play 300 Matches)
Team Insignia Shotgun Set - Onyx Veteran Medal (Play 400 Matches)

Flaming Hammerburst - Unlocked if you played the beta between April 18th - April 24th.
Flaming Lancer - Unlocked if you played the beta between April 25th - May 1st.
Flaming Retro Lancer - No information at the moment...
Flaming Sawed-Off - Unlocked if you played the beta between May 2nd - May 8th.
Flaming Gnasher - Unlocked if you played the beta between May 9th - May 15th.

Gold Lancer - Play Gears 3 online between Sept. 20th and Sept. 27th or Download codes from Gears of War 2 (Carries over if you already have them).
Gold Hammerburst - Play Gears 3 online between Sept. 20th and Sept. 27th or Download codes from Gears of War 2 (Carries over if you already have them).
Gold Retro Lancer - Unlocked in beta (complete 90 matches and get 100 kills with the gold Retro Lancer) or can also be unlocked by getting Veteran Gear in Gears 2.
Gold Gnasher - Unlocked by getting Veteran Gear in Gears 2 and playing in the first week of play in Gears of War 3.
Gold Sawed-Off - Unlocked via the Commando achievement in Gears of War 1 (Complete Gears of War 1 on Insane).

(NOTE - Veteran Gear Achievement in Gears 2 unlocks the gold skin for all five starting weapons)

Chrome Lancer - In Gears 1, finish a ranked match with the highest amount of points.
Chrome Hammerburst - Complete 10 waves of Horde, on any difficulty, on any map, in Gears 2.
Chrome Retro Lancer - In Gears 1, complete 10 different co-op chapters as Dominic Santiago on any difficulty.
Chrome Gnasher - Complete the campaigns of Gears of War 1, 2 and 3, on any difficulty.
Chrome Sawed-Off – Have at least one achievement from Gears of War PC.

Onyx Lancer – Get 6000 kills with the Lancer in Gears 3.
Onyx Hammerburst – Get 6000 kills with the Hammerburst in Gears 3.
Onyx Retro Lancer – Get 6000 kills with the Retro Lancer in Gears 3.
Onyx Gnasher – Get 6000 kills with the Gnasher in Gears 3.
Onyx Sawed-Off – Get 6000 kills with the Sawed-Off in Gears 3.

Gold Omen (all 5 starting weapons) - Reach level 100 in Gears of War 3.
Infected Omen (all 5 starting weapons) - Included with the Gears of War 3 Epic Edition, LE Console or LE Controller.

Liquid Metal Black (all 5 starting weapons)- Included with the Gears of War 3 Season Pass.
Liquid Metal Green (all 5 starting weapons) - Obtained (for free) through a yet to be announced promotion.
Liquid Metal White / Ivory (all 5 starting weapons) - Exclusive to Epic employees or those who are close friends with Joe Graf.

[^APEX^ALPHA]

Hmm... From what I'm seeing I should have quite a collection in no time...
What I have so far...

Characters:

All progression characters
Commando Dom
Griffin
Adam Fenix
All unlockable characters from the beta.

Weapons skins:

All starting weapons Infected Omen skins
Flaming skins for all starting weapons except the Retro Lancer
Gold Lancer, Gold Retro Lancer. Will have the rest as soon as I'm done spamming Horde...
Chrome Hammerburst
All unlockable skins from the beta. Working on the Chrome Retro Lancer...
Not a bad start!

[^APEX^Cove]

Yup you're off to a good start, but will you have this one? Chrome Sawed-Off – Have at least one achievement from Gears of War PC.

[^APEX^ALPHA]

Nope! Not happening...

[^APEX^Sokar]

I'll also have one you wont have - Savage Kantus ;D

I'm sure there are also profile badges for various things. Which is why after I get Veteran Gear I'll finish off Seriously 2.0. Probably finish off VG late tomorrow or early Saturday morning then its riding the Brumak for 8-9 hours

[^APEX^ALPHA]

The Savage kantus is cool but Dom is my Boy... Commando Dom that is. Just got my VG cheevoo, on to seriously 2.0. Little more than halfway there.

Also I want to complete Gears 1 with Dom... Anyone up to helping me? Althought I've done upto the search for Alpha squad by myself with 2 controllers it would be more fun with a live ^APEX^.

[^APEX^ALPHA]

Adding this just in case in includes aything not in Omega's list.


Gold Omen Skin

Reach level 100 in Gears of War 3 to unlock the Gold Omen skin (gold with red highlights).

Onyx Weapon Skins

Get 6,000 kills with any of the five starter weapons to unlock the Onyx medal and an Onyx skin for that weapon.


Chrome Weapon Skins

Perform the following actions in previous Gears games and to unlock Chrome weapon skins for Gears of War 3.
•Chrome Lancer - Earn the Don't Hate the Player Achievement in Gears 1 (Finish with the highest points in a ranked match)
•Chrome Hammerburst - Earn the Dirty Dirty Horde Achievement in Gears 2 (Survive the first 10 waves of Horde)
•Chrome Retro Lancer - Earn the Domination Achievement in Gears 1 (Complete 10 different co-op chapters as Dominic Santiago on any difficulty)
•Chrome Gnasher - Complete the Gears 1, 2 and 3 campaigns (Any difficulty)
•Chrome Sawed-off - Earn any Achievement in Gears of War for the PC.


Gold Weapon Skins

If you have the Veteran Gear achievement in Gears of War 2, in Gears 3 you will unlock the following:
•Gold Gnasher
•Gold Double Barrel Shotgun (Don't have Veteran Gear? Unlock it by having the Commando Achievement in Gears 1.)
•Gold Lancer
•Gold Retro Lancer
•Gold Hammerburst
•"Member of The Old Guard" Medal
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Note: Veteran Gear (Gears of War 2) is a Snowblind Map Pack (DLC) Achievement -- Reach level 100 and win a match on each of the 4 Snowblind Map Pack maps (Public only)

Commando (Gears of War) is a regular Achievement in the first game -- Complete all acts on Insane Difficulty



Beta Unlockables

Perform the following actions to unlock weapons and more in the Gears of War 3 Beta. Note: Some unlockables will be immediately unlocked for use in the full Gears of War 3 game, while others have additional requirements that make them available after the Beta.
•Flaming Hammerburst - Complete one match by Sunday, April 24
•Flaming Lancer - Complete one match during the week of April 25
•Flaming Sawed-Off Shotgun - Complete one match during the week of May 2
•Flaming Gnasher Shotgun - Complete one match during the week of May 9
•Beta Tester Medal - Complete one match in the Beta
•Thrashball Cole - Complete 50 matches in any game type to unlock for the Beta / To permanently unlock, complete 10 matches as Thrashball Cole during the Beta
•Gold-Plated Retro Lancer - Complete 90 matches in any game type to unlock for the Beta / To permanently unlock, score 100 kills with the Gold-Plated Retro Lancer during the Beta

1 Easter Eggs

Fire Alarm Switches

Pull the fire alarm switches on Checkout to drop a secret weapon (a lame Smoke Grenade in the Beta).

[^APEX^Sokar]

Well got my Veteran Gear achievement this morning. Though I would need to get the wins on the maps but guess not. So that means I'll have all the Gold guns.

The only weapon skins I really do want are the Onyx and Liquid Metal ones. I think I read somewhere that the White Liquid metal one would be a virus unlock? or I might have it mixed up with one of the achievements.

[Wonderpill]

well... it turns out... that the unlock tree, is not Gears 2 based... the whole first part anyway...

only the stuff that specifically says GEARS 2 or GEARS 1 is stuff that you are not doing in GEARS 3... meaning... you don't Unlock A. Carmine for getting to level 75 in Gears 2... its in Gears 3...

UGH I played Gears 2 again for nothing...