That kind of extreme gatekeeping is just gonna drive players away. That’s exactly what it did to me when Gears 5 launched and I discovered I stood absolutely no chance at leveling up my epic and legendary skills unless I grinded for literal days at difficulties that were absolutely no fun to play on. It was only by pure chance I got curious and logged in to check operation 5 and found out that it was actually playable now.
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Or simply put certain lvl 10 perks as passives or make some tweaks for some of the cards. Actually horde is easy and some don’t need a 6th slot. I really don’t need It, just select the right cards for a specific game style for example planting 7 grenades and see how they explode or using only boomshot or Lancer GL
I play on Master btw and almost all lvl 6 cards and all lvl 20 classes, knowing the best card combos for each class helps a lot and most importantly those cards than can help the team like good kill.
That’d make it all too easy.
GIT GUD, asking for more card slots, people really wanna make Horde easier than Coalition made it
One idea I had, was for PVE modes to have a more RPG-esque system which incorporates a points system. It may still lead to exploits though.
The best way to explain it is in relation to the current system - we can equip up to 5 skill cards up to level 6 - so this constitutes 30 individual levels, or points.
This idea enables players to equip any combination of cards up to 30 individual levels, but they are capped at up to 30 levels.
So hypothetically I could for example, opt for this combination for say, the Tactician (Keegan):
Shredder - level 6
Resupply Amplifier - level 4
Resupply Duration - level 4
Resupply Healing Module - level 6
Interrogation - level 6
Cooperation - level 4
So the above combination of cards, I have equipped 6 different cards, but some are on lower levels, but they only amount to a maximum of 30 levels.
Equally I could opt for equipping more skill cards, but I would have to compensate for this by having lower level skills which would be be capped at 30.
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Well increasing player power without increasing the available difficulty.
Yeah kinda op actually,(Mind you wouldn’t be for me but there is much better people)
If it would come with another difficulty level then yea maybe…
Good idea but would be a really complicated UI to implement. Probably too much work to accomplish. Edit: actually Fallout 76 has something like this, lol. So it is possible but TC aren’t exactly RPG experts.
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Before OP 5 I may have agreed but after I welcome the idea of having a gate lol. Honestly if your not willing to take the time to learn a class or game mode then this game is not for you at all and if “extreme gatekeeping” drives those players away then so be it lol.
Also a no on more cards slots. Horde is easy enough already with 5 cards slots, level 6 caps and perks. The game is fine with that number.
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I have also thought about a system like this and would like it, problem is that it would almost certainly lead to some characters having an overpowered combination of skills and I put it beyond tc:s abilities to manage to balance it before Gears 5 is vaulted for Gears 6.
“Overpowered” is subjective. I guarantee that if Horde 4.0 existed exactly as it does now except with no cards at all, just perks, passives, and ultimates, and the card system was proposed, someone would think it would be overpowered.
Is that not what happened when they increased the card level cap from 5 to 6?
Yes, sure it’s subjective but still. Think back on JD at launch, everyone who had played at least a few horde matches agreed he was truly overpowered. Should TC at that point just have said Oh it’s just someone thinking he is overpowered or should they (as they did after a long time) actually have listened to a crushing majority that knew JD was overpowered? Saying overpowered is subjective, while true, is under those circumstances just sophistry.
Edit: reread your comment and it occured to me that I might have misunderstood your comment and you might have misunderstood mine. When I said overpowered I meant solely overpowered/unbalanced compared to other characters or skill combinations, not overpowered in relation to the challenge in horde.
In my point of view, it’s a big no for a 6th card slot.
It will drastically change most of the classes setups eventually resulting in Horde and Escape becoming even easier than it already is (sorry I’m that guy 
). There’s 8 difficulties in this game and in my eyes, the last one is supposed to be extremely difficult. Allowing a 6th card will most definitely lower that difficulty.
Yes some cards are reliant on other cards, they can however also be combined over multiple classes (especially looking at Stim). That’s just the nature of how they designed it and you’ll have to judge yourselves, which kind of cards work well together as well as with which classes combined.
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Rather than a 6th card slot, i would prefer the option to save a few preset card loadouts.
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6th CARD SLOOOTH GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE MEEEEE
Thanks
So you want a card sloth as the 6th that only sometimes works and is lazy otherwise doing nothing?
Why would it be sometimes work ?? Most classes have many good skill cards that can be combined with as 6th card but you can not use it because of card limit
There’s a joke about the typo in your post.
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