What's Up Gears - Operation 5: Hollow Storm - PvE Overview

Time to try to run a weird damage/Ult focused build for Robotics Expert?

Watched the dev stream and recap. The daily horde map with the bonuses did they say of that could be frenzy?

Watching the stream again and catching that this pve stuff is basically one man working on it, jeez hats off to him. I don’t agree with the current vision of classes and dupes but kudos to all the work he’s doing.

I don’t remember them saying Frenzy or 1-50. Sure hope it’s Frenzy as spending 3 hours for a small reward isn’t worth the time IMO.

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Unlike Dana he actually seems to care about PvE/the franchise in general.

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I would be shocked if it didn’t include Frenzy, TC cares more about Frenzy than they do about 1-50 if I had to guess.

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It’s not a small reward if it’s a card boost. But yeah I hope it is frenzy.

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It better be in Frenzy. I am not going to be playing 50 waves every single day but I can manage a Frenzy

ONE GUY!

One Guy?

one. guy…

Inconcievable.

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More like Insane.

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I was under the impresssion this entire time that they had like a small team of like 4 or 5 that worked on PvE… Its a miracle we’ve progressed at all just with one dude at the helm. From a common sense perspective you would’ve thought there would be one person for Escape and one person for Horde at least… @TC_MichaelAOS gotta make maps and all kinds of other things too so its like how in God’s name can you expect 1 person to do everything? :sob:

If you look at PvP even that seems to have 2 people working on it, and PvP is (frankly) much much easier to balance as its symmetrical and is inherently more balanced, yet for some reason they thought that a mode with a crap ton of different synergies, variables, strategies and everything only needed 1 guy that off and on worked on it.

Prediction : a year from now all characters will be made into a homogenous unit of nerfed weaklings . Why not just do ‘classic ‘ horde TC ?
Seriously- who in TC is responsible for these decisions? Do any of them actually play their own game?
As if enemies weren’t bullet spongy enough already; small player base which TC expects will work together in horde to make up for each characters ‘nerfs’. Yes- I look forward to TC losing the franchise. Really disappointed with this latest shoddy update.

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The challenges might differ between 1-50 and Frenzy but I doubt the challenges will be playable on Frenzy it would be too easy to get the rewards you only have to do 12 Waves to get 5000 + class xp ? It suppose to be a challenge after all.

Like i say they might alter it and one day it could be frenzy with different rewards but all the daily ones being on both i am unsure :thinking:

Frenzy is less easy than 50 wave Horde so it should not be invalidated from having rewards because it takes less time.

I’m really unsure to be fair. All they did say was the challenges are available in custom lobbies so that would assume both options are available. Either that are when you select the map with the challenge it auto puts you into the type of horde it is.

Supposedly that dude called Michael is the only working on PvE elements of this game so I don’t know why the heck is doing this.
Changing stuffs over and over again is what pisses me, even if I accept the upcoming changes and are the “best” for us, the fact we wasted time, effort and some players spent money to level up cards, and then they come with nerfs changing the play style already established with the classes is more than annoying.
If I’m gonna level up my classes and cards to max level, I’ll do when the lifecycle of this game ends and I’ll be sure they won’t add more achievements or “balances” because they’ll work on Gears 6, and I really doubt if it’s worthy keep spending my time here.

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This exactly what grinds my gears. I can’t get used to anything before more changers are applied. I can’t lvl up my cards because things are constantly changed/nerfed. This is not the way to play. You can’t make people grind just to take it all away.

I like this game, I really do. I’ve been playing religiously since day one but PLEASE! stop the nonsense of the relentless nerfs and changes. Nothing about what’s coming in the next operation is fun. YES! I will play and give a good old Aussie crack at the game…I’m a fan but I’m not having fun!

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Is fun sure specially with friends but almost all of them don’t like this and just pick up another game or they aren’t interested on keep leveling up cards, therefore is more harder to play because they’re losing interest, how many years do we need to wait to see more brand news maps instead of rehashes? But nerfs are the first we get each update.

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I feel like this is one of those “Why are you doing this to us again?” type of updates

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God you people will complain no matter what they do

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Pleased Mr Shannon clarified the stray boomshot concern. Seems the fabricator can take a bit of damage. So you have to figure in some ways it is still a viable blocking tactic? Really interested to see how they balanced the damage it can take vs not using it to block lanes.

I know I’m in a minority but I like Dana a lot on the streams, I don’t follow twitter so not sure about there but he seems enthusiastic and has a horrible balancing act between what he can and cannot say. He’s a middle man and I don’t think he should have to go home and be into the game as us to gather feedback and pass it back. I really don’t envy him his job. I mean I play Gears more than most but if I did that job the community could pull me apart in seconds.

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