Xbox 360 Fanboy

This just presents a new problem. Instead of people taking multiple headshots, they are going to do one, then go looking for the shotty kill, or chainsaw, etc. You've eliminated 1 problem, but created another.

Agreed. I wish Epic would read this.

STUPID IDEA.

That is a good point.

i agree. if they do this, they should make it that you have to get some 30 or so headshots...not 100...because that would require you to play 100 games and get at least 1 headshot in each. that's a LOT of games...

i agree dustin. if there are weapon specific achievements this will force players to switch weapons up every round forcing them to get better and work for these achievements. it also makes for a fresher experience when you aren't being sniped by the same guy all the time.

i expect 20-50 shots with the sniper rifle and like do 30 melees with the chainsaw. 1 action per match, you can net all the achievements in 30-60 matches possibly that way.

Here's my question: Why the hell does there need to be weapon-based achievements anyway? Call of Duty 4 is played religiously and they don't feel the need to complicate the multiplayer experience with achievements. Limiting players on what counts towards an achievements? That strikes me as extremely contrived. Honestly, let people play the games the way they want to. Why is it that Epic is so insistent on controlling the way we play Gears, what with the whole not letting us play with friends in ranked matches.

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who says you can't play the way you want to.

you don't have to abide by some "law of Achievements"!

play how you want to play.

@Gary Harwell

Just because they aren't called achievements in CoD4 doesn't mean they don't affect gameplay like achievements. You do realize that in CoD4 people switch to non-sense weapons for the particular map and avoid killing guys with guns sometimes so that they can get their knife kill progress. CoD4 is not immune in any sense to people playing only for their particular wants and needs and ignoring the team.

agree. a max of say 3 or 4 per match/game would be much better...

That's a good idea. If it wasn't kill related, or maybe all in single player. I liked that I didn't have to worry about cheevos in the multiplayer of COD, something that infuriated me in Halo.

Multiplayer without cheevos let me enjoy the game more, and not concern myself with getting X amount of headshots or killing 4 people in 4 seconds.

Get 1000 assists.
Survive an entire round with all of your teammates.
Shut out an opposing team in a match with 5 rounds or more.
Rescue 100 teammates about to be executed.

Not:
Get 100 headshots.
Stomp 100 enemies.
Pick up boomshot 7 times in a row.