Epics Rod Fergusson made a post in the Gears of War 2 forums about a “proposed rank change”, hopefully making the rank system more experienced based whenever a third update comes out. Fergusson writes “”What if, instead of skill rank, we instead showed your experience level.” And over at Kotaku explains how it would work:
Experience would be acquired through individual performance in
public mutliplayer. The experience would be balanced according to game
times, so you couldn’t level faster on the respawning game types.
Levelling would not be a fixed amount for each level, but a
progressively higher amount for successive levels, (“like a typical
RPG.”) up to a 99th level of experience “to show off your leetness.”
Quitters suffer an experience penalty, so that only completed
matches acquire experience. This is to balance the fact that you’re
always acquiring some experience when you play, no matter how well you
play.
Note that this is not an official announcement. He is reading everyones comments to see what they think of the whole idea. Hopefully they make this happen so I can finally get passed the second rank. Been stuck there ever since the release.
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=658236
http://kotaku.com/5149074/epic-considers-remaking-gears-2-ranking-structure