Wakaatu in Horde(Frenzy) - Information/discussion thread

Gears 5
#52

Jeez, Pepper. Watch those words or Ghost will come edit your post! Really though, as with other bosses, once you’ve figured it out in Horde it becomes far too easy to beat again, as long as you either freeze it with the Cryo(hard counter, completely immobilizes and prevents it from attacking, doesn’t take long to freeze), or find a spot where it won’t surface on you until the wave is cleared. I also find the venom glands are far too easy to destroy, but it isn’t even necessary to do that.

Unless your team is terrible. I’m honestly finding that the lower or mid level difficulties played with others who are not very high levels using a class with some skills not unlocked or leveled very highly can be rather fun while not being super easy either, without the BS of high difficulties where if a boss instantly charges for the base or appears near/in it, you’ve basically already lost most of the time unless the AI does derpy things. Well, unless it’s Beginner or something like that.

Also, please provide more details to your statement, right now I just get the impression it managed to throw a bucket of salt on your meal, figuratively speaking and you’re letting it out.

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#53

I was just farming a couple of boss kills solo using JD and it basically one shots you with the acid breath even with just one mutator on. Also on one occasion it just disappeared from the map. I hadn’t killed it, and somehow it got to the last enemy which was a grenadier but the Wakaatu had disappeared. Waste of time when it comes to farming for daily objectives.

#54

Frankly, for farming boss kills I’d go on a map like Overload that will only spawn Snatchers, Wardens, Carriers and Matriarchs(on Frenzy, from experience), where the spawns are easily predictable.

But yeah, the acid damage seems a little excessive for lower difficulties. Then again we know that for the PvE damage/health balancing, TC aren’t known to be the best. Which is strange to me because they manage to do a far better job of it in the Campaign for the most part where tough enemies are tough while those that aren’t supposed to be overly spongy, well, aren’t. Then again the bosses get obliterated by flame/burning and bleed effects in Horde too… when they probably shouldn’t be, but that’ll risk getting the anti-nerf crowd on my neck when I simply find it boring to wipe the floor with a boss that’s supposed to be hard to bring down.

Fun fact : Since audio clues in Horde can be inconsistent(while I don’t have this issue in the Campaign for it), I was once standing right where the Wakaatu surfaced behind me while it sounded like it would be in front. Instant death so yeah, don’t be there.

#55

I have faced this boss a few times since it was added to the roster and have to say I really like going against it. It appeared on Clocktower for my team and I have to say it was an intense fight because we had no demolitions formerly known as JD and no tactition formerly known as Keegan lol. The only thing we could do was clear the field while we did our best to evade all its attacks. It was intense but we had to make a united stand against and all in all it was a whole load of fun.

Really enjoy going up against. I love when the boss round starts and no boss appears and then the ground shakes and you just stand there going “well … sh**” lol

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#56

You get that same on Frenzy except it’s usually accompanied by a lone Snatcher or Carrier standing there being like “Where’s my backup?” before the Wakaatu makes its presence known.

Atlhough honestly, if you have someone using a cryo cannon and/or anyone who can put a slightly stronger bleed/burning effect on(even if it’s just a Brawler using Play With Fire, but not Infiltrator or Demo/Tactician levels of bleed), the thing becomes roasted too quickly. But just another side effeft of having good teammates, which sounds wierd to say as if it’s bad. And as I’ve said a few times I find its venom glands come off far too easily. Or you can just hide somewhere it’s unlikely to pop up at and ignore it until last.

#57

I like the idea of this new boss…BUT! Is it really Gears? A bit Avatarish to be honest.

Why not have that beast that Queen Myrrah was flying on in GOW 3 as a boss?

Ahhhh TC…The idea is always there but the mark is always missed.

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#58

Slugger’s ultimate works very well on Waakatu but best catch her while fling and ultimate just stuns the b.stard your teammates finishes her off

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#59

Okay… I’ve just experienced another instance where the Wakaatu just disappears from the map. Except this time the enemy counter remains at 1 - there’s no other enemies left and I’m stuck on a wave with nothing to kill.

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#60

Which maps did this happen on?

#61

The first time was on Allfathers; and the second time was on Bunker.

EDIT:
Just to add, on both occasions the Wakaatu was bleeding, and I believe it had burrowed underground. I can’t remember the health for the first one, but the second one only had about 10-15% health left. I wonder if maybe it had somehow bled out while underground and it caused some sort of glitch? It’s one to watch out for.

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#62

I wonder if this will be a problem on every map or just a select few? Time will tell, but I’ll stay away from those for now.

#63

At the moment it seems like it happens on every map, I’ve had the same thing happen to me on Nexus and Clocktower in the past few days.

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#64

I’ve faced it once on Nexus and I didn’t even know it was added. We thought the game glitched because it was wave 30 and it didn’t send us a boss. We killed everything and thought the last enemy was stuck underground. Then we went looking for it and this thing popped out of the ground.

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#65

Oh great… :sweat_smile:

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#66

Same lol. Thought we were going to have to start over because there was no boss and then after we moved from base the thing came out of the ground and took out our tactition in one strike lol

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#67

Yep happened to me on Clocktower the other night. I guess its an instakill if it spawns under u.

#68

We also had that problem on Bunker. Luckely we had Surviver off and restarted the wave and got Kestrel

#69

Has anyone figured out the Wakaatu boss waves for Frenzy yet? The one time I got the Wakaatu he spawned in with a Sentinel.

#70

For us it usually spawned with carrier or snatcher.
You know it’s coming if either of those bosses spawn on their own.

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#71

So a minor addition to the thread, I found the Wakaatu does enter the control room on Forge when I was messing about on the map a little. Not sure why it didn’t when I first tested which maps it appeared on, because then it only surfaced near the entrances when somebody was near there.