So I had my nephew over today and thought it would be great to play Gears of War 2 co-op, but sadly this ended in lots of frustration and eventually going back to Gears of War Ultimate Edition instead.
Something very weird is going on and I can’t get it to work. So I start the game and I go to co-op campaign. I choose split-screen campaign. I then get a message about how at least two players need to sign in to play split-screen. Makes sense.
With the second controller I press the guide button, choose add or switch and I log into another account (one that doesn’t have Gold or anything) but I still get the same message. I also tried it by adding a guest, but nope.
I Googled it and one piece of advice was to go to the main menu. Press Y on the second controller which brings up the 360 menu sign in thing. If I choose the same account as before I get a sidebar(not 360)asking who I am. If I choose that same account again, we still can’t play split-screen co-op. Another tip was to select “guest” in the 360 menu thingy, but then I get “Can’t sign in to Xbox Live. Please use a profile with a valid membership.”.
I’m lost. How can we play this game in split-screen co-op? Gears of War Ultimate Edition does work, but that’s a Xbox One game. It’s something to do with this being a 360 game, yet we CAN play Earth Defense Force.
This is on Xbox Series X, I have Game Pass ultimate (secondary user since my sharing buddy wanted to use cloud gaming)
I think there’s something weird there where the second account still has to join the lobby. The old school multiplayer functionality was very much on a game by game basis.
I don’t remember all the details of exactly what the steps are, but I do remember it being a real pain and having to do things in exactly the right order. One of the main pains being it has to be at the very top most level of the Gears Game menu before you go into anything else. If you do anything out of order you have to essentially start back over from the start to get it working again, meaning quit the game and reload it.
I just tried one thing I did (apparently not) today when my nephew was still here. Turns out I already was in the game menu when I logged into the second account.
Now I was on the dashboard, the game was not running at all. I then logged into the second account with the other controller. With my own controller I switch back to my own account. I then start up Gears of War 2, on the main menu of the game I already see the two profiles on the bottom right. I choose split-screen campaign and BAM, I’m in.
I have tested this three times now and it works like this. Next time my nephew is here it’ll be Gears of War 2 time!
One other thing though, even though I did switch back to my own account, the game sees the second account as the host. So my nephew will be Marcus and I will be Dom. That’s not a big problem, but any idea why this is the case?
It must have thought the guest account was the one which launched it?
I installed Gears 2 on Series X. On the Series X I logged in Guest on a second controller. I launched Gears 2. At the main menu it only had the main account showing. I hit Y on second controller and picked sing in as Guest. After a some time of “updating network settings” it eventually showed my main account as 1 and guest as 2. Going into Co-Op Campaign using the Main Account’s controller it was setup as Marcus and Guest was Dom.
When you press Y, you get the 360 popup? For some reason I get a message how the guest account doesn’t have a membership and thus won’t work. Ah well. I’ll be Dom next time, it’s no big deal. I’m glad we can play it next time though. These games remain fantastic.
Yeah, hitting Y pops up the X360 popup to select an account or select a Guest. The Guest account worked.
The only difference I can think why a Guest account may not work for your situation is because your account is not a Primary on GamePass. You’re getting the benefits of GamePass/Core (Gold) through home-console setup. So that’s probably why your secondary has to be an account.
It may work if you pick Guest account for the Primary GPU holder. Though I don’t know if Guest accounts only work if the account is actually signed in. Never used Guest accounts much.
