Horde maps & Versus maps are same … thats a serious problem imo …
Versus: Competitive pvp, probably designed for escalation 2.0 mode .
Horde: Survival, base defense (kinda), pve
Running two completely different game types on same maps is just wrong !
Fully designed horde maps (which could share a lot with Escape maps) would take the game mode to next level. but TC doesnt have the guts to take steps …
and please dont say they did it with escape, cause that mode looks So F**** terrible.
Well, Epic did that for Overrun and Survival, and people complained of the lack of maps. CoD WW2 had a mode in War, and whilst there was 12 maps in all, (3 for War and 9 for traditional MP), people complained of the lack of maps, and the quality of maps.
TC had guts when they said they would release 24 maps post-launch for Gears 4, and look what happened.
And if you look at the design of Horde maps, they are not too dissimilar to what VS maps are like. It takes a long time to test maps, and create them, adding another workload is not what TC needs, for, in my opinion, very little benefit.
Creating specific maps for 3 modes, Horde, VS and Escape, is difficult, whoever you are, and however big a dev is. Add Campaign onto it, and you have a lot of maps you have to create, and different environments, before you get to gameplay.
Good to see some discussion here.
Keep sharing your thoughts on Gears 5 and Horde respectfully and hopefully TC notice. Its too late for them to fix Horde, as the game launches in less than 2 weeks for Game Pass Ultimate. But maybe at some point post launch they will release a massive update to Horde.
The overall consensus here seems to be more or less the same. Disappointment that we are chained to 5 characters from the campaign. Dont forget, a fellow Gear head has created a Change.Org petition. A few extra signatures being sent to TC will be hard for them to miss.
Keep up the discussion!
And if you have any news or Gears 5 info feel free to add it
There’s nothing to fix.
Except bugs that appear. And glitches.
From what i have seen so far i dont like the look at what they have done either, and iv written that a few times and even though iv stated that iv been a Horde player since Gears 2 apparently my opinion about Gears 5 Horde is completely wrong and i dont know what im talking about. sigh
Expertly articulated arguments supported by well-researched evidence. Surrender the debate, @ll_R_E_D_l 
To be fair, some of your posts look like a half solved Wheel of Fortune puzzle.
Thats all I was saying. In multiple threads his post are barely readable. You can get your point across without people having to play hangman trying to figure out what hes saying
@Stoic_Slab theres no arguing with people like this
Appreciate you handling that other users childish outburst so well. Top lad
Take a shot every time he swears.
I’ll pass on the alcohol poisoning lol
I hate the fact that GOW5 will force abilities based on skins. GOW4 had the classes perfectly IMO. I want to be able to pick my character and class in Horde independently. This is really bumming me out…
Gears 4 classes were not perfect, especially Sniper Strikes, Engie Sentries, Scout picking up Power.
There is no classes anymore. They are simply called roles.
But if you really want to play certain character which I don’t know is, you’re just gonna have to choose that character / hero, even if stuck to a certain role.
We have a thread for Horde thoughts so I’ll move it there.
To anyone that hasn’t seen TC explanation Characters in Gears5 on their FB and website. Please find link below.
Seems like they’re sticking ti the character lock with no intention making a change. Not that surprising considering how close to launch we are now. More characters will be added post launch with the “assurance that our favourites will be added” .
To me this is of no comfort.
“Favourites” is specific to the individual and the time between each for release isnt specified and that doesnt change the fact they cant be used if someone else is using them im the lobby and they may have ultimates or loadouts you didn’t want.
Having said that, watching The Razored Edge and Shadowz post gameplay videos i can say the graphics, gameplay, weapons and the AI (which are ironically characters most would rather be playing as) look fantastic.
This thread is quite active and easy to spot when visiting this site. I find it likely TC has read some of this. Keep it up guys
I’ll give Horde a try because I’m too invested not to at this point. But what I see does not excite me at all.
I didn’t ask for a hero shooter. I don’t want my method of choice to be attached to a character I don’t care about. And Horde is meant to be a base defense, not a run and gun. I feel as though “Horde” as a basic concept has been replaced by something else named the same thing.
This new thing could be good if I give it a chance. But it isn’t Horde. That’s the point.
I played a few matches of horde last night and had lots of fun. One thing confused me though; TC said they wanted us to move away from building huge bases, but to do that we need ammo. They’ve been very tight with ammo crates, gives 3 embar rounds/ 100 rifle bullets. That’s nowhere near enough
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From what i have seen so far i dont like the look at what they have done either, and iv written that a few times and even though iv stated that iv been a Horde player since Gears 2 apparently my opinion about Gears 5 Horde is completely wrong and i dont know what im talking about. sigh
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i totally agree its like a huge downgrade crammed in with Halo crap. Seriously got to pick a class and that class is defined on one character and we are forced to deal with it.
Why TF do we want the watchers from Halo in here, if we all wanted to go play Halo then we would all go play Halo, apparently Gears is having and identity crisis.
Played my first 50 waves of 4.0 tonight. It Was ok .
I need to understand what the taps do and why I couldn’t interact with them at all, save for remaining in the circle while they appeared and repaired. I was playing as Kait/Scout ?
Also I kept giving myself the perk upgrades, is that what everyone will be doing ?
The mode is not fit to lick Horde 2.0’s (and 1.0) boots though. I was no lover of the last Horde but I would probably take that over this one. In saying that at least we have some new enemy types in this one.
Yeah I want a source for that claim too.