{"id":29576,"date":"2011-12-14T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29576"},"modified":"2011-12-14T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:15:45","slug":"epic-launches-gears-of-war-3-twelve-days-of-gearsmas-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29576-epic-launches-gears-of-war-3-twelve-days-of-gearsmas-event","title":{"rendered":"Epic launches Gears of War 3 &#8220;Twelve Days of Gearsmas&#8221; event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me; a fully-automatic assault rifle with a chainsaw bolted onto it&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And what better to do with it than kill some grubs?<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind then, Epic has launched its festive &#8220;Twelve Days of Gearsmas&#8221; special event, featuring a different theme each day leading up to Christmas Eve. Oh, it&#8217;s <em>just<\/em> what I asked Santa for!<\/p>\n<p>It started off yesterday already, so we&#8217;ve missed out on freebie fortifications in Horde and whatever &#8220;Brothers to the End&#8221; was, but here&#8217;s what&#8217;s coming up over the next week and a bit:<\/p>\n<p><strong>General schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Yesterday]: Fortifications for free (Gift Boxes aplenty)<\/li>\n<li>Day 2: No Team Love (Friendly Fire in Horde Mode turned on)<\/li>\n<li>Day 3: Much Bigger Heads (Big Head Mutator turned on)<\/li>\n<li>Day 4: Squawking Bird (Cluckshots replace Boomshots)<\/li>\n<li>Day 5: Beasts on the Cheap (Tier Beast more common in Beast mode)<\/li>\n<li>Day 6: Boomers Flaming (Tickers and Flame Boomers in Horde mode)<\/li>\n<li>Day 7: Gibbing Comets Ringing (King of the Hill has Comet Mutator)<\/li>\n<li>Day 8: Experience for Milking (4x multiplier)<\/li>\n<li>Day 9: Locust Ladies Dancing (Bezerkers and laugh track added to every wave)<\/li>\n<li>Day 10: Locust Ladies Dancing (more Lambent per enemy wave)<\/li>\n<li>Day 11: Snowman\u2019s Heads a Popping (characters get snowman heads)<\/li>\n<li>Day 12: Mortars Incoming (all weapon pickups swapped with Mortars)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Versus schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Yesterday]: Brothers to the End for all maps<\/li>\n<li>Day 2: Torque Bow Tag<\/li>\n<li>Day 3: Can you Dig It<\/li>\n<li>Days 4-6: Hardcore Weekend<\/li>\n<li>Days 7 -8: Boom Snipes<\/li>\n<li>Days 9-10: This is My Rifle<\/li>\n<li>Day 11: Thanksgibbing<\/li>\n<li>Day 12: One Shot One Kill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your festive on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":27295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[1415,433],"class_list":["post-29576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-epic-games","tag-gears-of-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29580,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576\/revisions\/29580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}