I like some of your idea. I do think they need more enemy type. They need more melee enemies. In the story the locusts turn into the swarm but i was wondering if the BEAST the locusts control survived. The Giants Serapede, ticker, blood mount and savage corpser. Mabye the locusts didnât control all the beast and some off the beast escape away from the locusts and lambent. Reduce in number due to the war but mabye slowly repopulate and may return.
P.S. Ive though of one enemy .
Swarm saboteur- main focus is to destroy fortifications. Doesnât attak player Intel it the last enemy. Just mainly a enemy for horde. Mabye they get a special gernade that disabled the sentry turret , shock turret and lazer barrier for about 10 seconds.
I donât see the old Locust beasts coming back, but they could be riding things like Pouncers
I think Pouncer Riders would be cool
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With the pouncer pouncing around Iâd doubt the riders will stay on top of the pouncersâ:joy:
The idea you just put into my head is quite amusing, seeing Swarm fly off Pouncers that leapt into the air. Or Scions attempting to ride Snatchers that spotted a downed target and jump ridiculous distances to it.
People need to stop stealing Danaâs catchphrase. I get it, itâs almost become meme material at this point, but still.
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Put a cowboy hat on the swarm riders, itâll make it like a mechanical bull machine
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They would get impaled or backstabbed when Pouncers do the quill attack.
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Like to add lancer,this way we might get some more ammo,when ammo boxes have been usedâşď¸
Iâd rather see juveniles of the Pouncers (which are themselves juveniles of Snatchers), and the Carriers.
Something makes snot doors and glues weapons to walls/ceilings. Something digs the Nests and fills them with biomass. And what do those things look like? What makes them so stealthy thus far?
Stealthier enemies and larger enemy waves would do a lot to make the Swarm as interesting as the Locust.
Oh no please, remember the drone elites in gears 4? You know how many times i survived the impossible only to get chainsawedđ
Oh I forgot about gears 4 
sorry my friend,so did I when on 25 waves with elites no wonder they are called that for some reason,sorry again my friend
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Lol no worries, they also grenade tagged us, they were extremely over powered.
About the ammo, marcus has ammo regeneration perk, that with a weapon locker would be enough.
I wish every character can build and upgrade his own locker, in that way if the engineer doesnât care or is new to the game, other players will still be able to keep their heavy weapons and refill ammo
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Thank you my friend,for the info on Marcus regen perk,I will add this next time I play him,Iâm really still learning the card system getting it right.thanks again
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Scions would be riding Snatchers, they are simply too big for a Pouncer. I remember at one point i kept forgetting what the Pouncer was called, so i re-named it baby Snatcher.
Well, I never said a Scion would ride a Pouncer(unless misremembering). That just wouldnât work. Although a Pouncer also isnât the most ideal creature to ride as it was mentioned before that its quills would probably hit whatever Swarm Drone was riding it if it tried to fire them.
And a Scion would have a hard time riding a Snatcher and not getting flung into space before falling back down and making one heck of a gory mess on the ground if the Snatcher jumped 20+ meters into the air and a ridiculously far distance after a downed target.
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The Scion could just ride the Snatcher from inside⌠but that means Snatcher wonât be able to kidnap people.
âBigger on the inside, smaller on the outside.â - Doctor Who.
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I donât see what use it would be. The Scion couldnât shoot from inside the Snatcher or it would kill its own ride.
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Youâre very welcome. A proper tutorial shouldâve been made for horde and escape to explain everything, but unfortunately it never happened.
It seems like everyone wants to see swarm riders nowđ¤Ł. I think the only enemy capable of riding a pouncer or a snatcher would be a juvie or many of them. They are small so they wonât fall in line of fire when on the creature, and they are so fast and evasive so i think theyâll be able to hold on without falling.
Haha, maybe a popper riding a pouncer, the pouncer shoots the popper with the spikes and sends the popper flying towards us then blowing upđ. But no donât add that itâs just a joke, the entire community will hate me if something like that gets addedđ
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It would be possible to have a carry on, the Snatcher itself can jump, well, what is the record so far, i have seen one jump from one side of Allfathers to the other . Anyone seen the thing jump further.
And look at how the Snatcher is designed, technically it should not be able to jump more than it own body length, double at most, the legs are just wrong, almost dagger like at the tips. Anyone, or anything jumping any sort of length with that body, the shape and weight, it would sink in to the ground, even if it bracers for the landing, which is another thing, how come the bloody thing never bouncers when it lands, after all, it has a low lying belly. I am over thinking this, am i notâŚ
Imagine this:
A harnessed Snatcher with two sets of stirrups, and two hand-holds on either side. It can carry four drones on its sides, or two scions. The enemies hold their weapons with one hand, and hold onto the Snatcher with their other hand. As soon as the Snatcher enters the battlefield, the smaller enemies hop down and start fighting as normal.
EDIT: Also, these armored Snatchers could have their armor shot off. The armor would make the beast even more resistant to shots, and stop the first headshot from an explosive weapon.
Or
Two Pouncers pulling a chariot for a couple Scions or several drones. The chariot could hold a turret (maybe a mulcher). As soon as they enter the battlefield, the Swarm unleashes the Pouncers and either dismount from the chariot, or they use it as turret platform.
This lets the Swarm move heavy weapons around quickly, and traverse large open spaces faster.
Heck, the Swarm could just bio-engineer Barge Beasts to ride around on. Put a bunch of Scions, turrets, and mortars around the side. Treat it as their equivalent of a Covenant Scarab. Thatâs way cooler than a Swarmak.
And then thereâs the possibility that the Swarm could bio-engineer something like Reavers, then fly those around.