I really agree with the taps not spawning near the base. 99/10 times my team doesn’t move to the new tap, we don’t want to, we already got a base set up here and we like it.
The taps should prioritize spawning near the fabricator so that the base steadily grows with the spawning taps instead of just all over the map…
I actually don’t build a base until wave 11 when the first tap appears. Then i’ll move the fabricator to it and setup assuming it’s not out in the open. Waves 1-10 the only thing i’ll build might be weapon lockers and a forge if Jack is on the team.
As for the statement “People hunker down because they want too” I hunker down because I HAVE too. Once you get to a certain difficulty no one, not even the so called tanks, can go out of their fortified spots and survive. That’s my one issue with horde. Eventually everyone no matter the class or play style will be behind your fences spamming tri shots from weapon lockers.
My gears 5 horde thought is put penalties on people who quit horde, its getting real old now, start a game and then people decide to leave, half way through a horde people decide to quit, making it more difficult for those who want to play the whole 50 waves, and another annoying thing is when you start a horde and one of the players just stand there and do f all
Character being switched is causing a lot of quitting, its not great but if u got forced to switch…at least let that player go in the fabricator to buy his/her preferred weapons…then maybe they might stay…maybe
Probably not because I don’t like being switched to somebody I don’t want to play and if I don’t like it, I have a feeling others won’t either.
The biggest problem is:
Dont see it changing either onyx
I am also frustrated by this flaw. I was trying to focus on one character at a time and in matchmaking I’d get put into a group that had my character and I would as you fear quit. I want to play what I want to play not something random.
Of course it if it were just random that’d be less frustrating than being guaranteed I can’t focus on a popular character.
Worse still… it seemed that Marcus was not as popular as JD, Kait, Del and Jack so I tried leveling him up to have options and I got into a squad then someone else came in as Marcus I was forced to change into something I didn’t want.
So… it’s not even remotely fair either… I can get in first with my choice and still get denied.
Your observation that this mechanic is frustrating is accurate