I just had this thought after getting more useless epic score boost cards Why am I even bothering to play for what?
In G2 it was a true test of skill to get to 50 and to a lesser extent 3 with all the variant in enemies the horde was fun
and in G4 you get a lot of credits to go to buying packs but in 5 ? a couple of cards that I will never use
and the headache to finally get a game with a character you want to play with a team that has an unselfish scout and to get that after an hour then sit through 2.5 hours on insane for 7 green cards and 3 purple score boost cards
Had a sad moment realizing my favorite mode kicks me in the balls everytime I finish a match
To me, Horde in G5 does not provide enough rewards to play it.
A horde normal run is 2 to 2.5 hours (Speed Run takes 1.2 to 1.4 hours) to complete a 50 wave run, getting like 10 to 15 cards and about ~10K Exp (Cant remember if itās with boost or not)
In Escape I get 5 cards per run and ~3K Exp (~1.5K without boost) and takes nearly 15 min per run
So that would mean I can complete around 6 runs of escape in master and get around 30 cards and ~18K Exp so it is obviously more rewarding than horde, which also happens to have horrible rarity drop rates.
To be honest, I donāt enjoy playing horde in this game and with rewards and time invested like this is even worse, hope they fix it (I think they wont)
*The XP amounts stated are for characters (donāt know about level values)
P.S: Also tried horde events and I canāt believe I get sleepy in just 20 wavesā¦ that said I did only 20 waves of jingle juvies and wont do the other 80 waves for the skins, since its boring
I enjoy that team talk & chat with gaming friends in horde ā¦ 5 friends did Forefathers on master tonight ā¦ we all went down at 20 due to a miserable Swarmack who was angry re its lack of Christmas pressies and then ran again and finished all 50 waves ā¦ despite same Swarmack coming around at wave 50
Now you sound like Cole pretending to recognize the Swarmak in Settlement 2 that shot down the Raven he was in.
Re the original topic, I sometimes find it hard to find a reason to play 5s Horde other than somehow passing my time cause I often just end up doing the exact same thing over and over, no thanks to the restrictive hero rubbish, and players choosing the same maps 90% of matches(Gears 4 maps, Exhibit, and with Operation 2 Allfathers Arena joined the club - much as I like this last one, only doing it all of the time gets boring too quickly) because they are āeasiestā(except for maybe Lift which I donāt know if itās better in 5 due to categorically refusing to play the maps I just spent 2+ years playing in Gears 4), not mentioning the awful ārewardsā given for completing a Horde match if RNG decides to screw you over, and character imbalances(and atrocious enemy balancing). If it was fun and not a stupidly annoying hassle to try finding a match because of the above mentioned factors Iād be more tempted to play this Horde, but it just isnāt that way.
for putting 2.5 hrs into one match the exp/skill cards your receive is awful in comparison to escape matches. (been playing them more and more recently)
i think they need to permanently introduce a 20 waves match like they do with holiday events.
Horde is starting to really become a chore and this is coming from a long time horde player
Grinding for Classic Baird (need 4k more kills) and Iām out.
That having been said itās kinda relaxing to grind horde with bairdās bleeding spikes while doing something else, like watch youtube/listen to a podcast.
Like others have said horde is a chore to play, iāve started games recently and ended up quitting through pure boredom or once the base it setup I afk and watch tv and iāve played this mode for hours and hours over the years but every game plays the same with gears 4 and 5. The cards you get at the end are rarely the ones you want/need, which makes it even more pointless.
We need more gears 2/3 enemies and remove the robots, more/new base defenses, enemies to have less health on higher difficulties but have more of them and spawn them in quicker, more/new bosses, more/new weapons, more new maps and not remakes, wave challenges etc etc
However, I donāt think horde mode will get much love seeing as gears 4 got nothing added to it except maps but Iāll keep checking here for updates and I may return to actually playing it one day.
Good to know; Thanks. I just picked up the game on sale, was disappointed seeing only a 50 wave horde mode, and since the rewards are lame Iāll stay away from it.
Whenever I have tried Iād sit in the lobby for 15-30+ minutes and perpetually get players leaving and joining or straight up not joining at all, and I donāt really want to take chances of starting it alone and potentially getting low levels into the match, though it may not be as much of an issue if the kick function does actually work in-game as well now.
Played incon run toniteā¦disappointing as cog gear basically saving team revive to help teamā¦lancer with 60% damageā¦whatever pointlessā¦even when i got torqueā¦headshots basically do nothingā¦never has a game like gears 5ā¦and a mode like hordeā¦gone so backwardsš
