Example: In the soldier there is a skill called Resupply.

Classes are good, and having mix and match skills are good, so long as the skills are actually usefulĪ lot of the skills in Gears 4 are good on paper but poor in execution.

Double damage is good, but then again, you have to get to wave 30 to experience that, but everyone’s quit by then and you’ve just wasted 45 min to get there. I mean how much more accurate is a tracker? It just gets close and blows up. Accuracy does very little to increase difficulty. How about instead the enemies gain new skills like now they dodge and charge at you, or they move faster. This not only takes longer for reasons mentioned above but giving enemies 2x health after wave 10 doesn’t make enemies more difficult, it just makes them bullet sponges.

No more 2x health, then 2x accuracy, then 2x damage, then 2.5 everything.

In a 50 wave match that’s 37.5 minutes of just downtime alone. Also, with 50 waves if you actually calculate the amount of time spent between the time a wave ends, to the time you’re fighting the next enemy, its like a good 45 seconds man. Better yet, make it 10 waves that last for longer, with each one increasing in difficulty. You’re going to expect the rest of us to stick around and hash through the remaining more difficult 30 waves with only 3 people? Not a chance.

2 out of 5 people leave, and only 3 are left. I can’t count the number of times people quit at wave 20 because they reached their bounty. Especially if you let them choose a bounty that only lasts 20 waves. I mean, why wouldn’t they? 2 hours is a LONG time to commit to one game. When the mode lasts 2 hours on average to do 50 waves, people almost always quit halfway through. The main problem with 50 waves is that it’s a time commitment. However, if these areas are not addressed in Gears 5, I see no reason to continue my Horde experience as it will feel all too familiar, mundane, problematic and I won’t be purchasing Gears of War 5. I have over 200 hours of gameplay time in Horde (edit: this is just horde in Gears 4 alone, I have over 1000 when combined with all other Gears games.) Below is a list of grievances, in no particular order, of what I feel could improve upon the experience if implemented. But there are major glaring grievances that kill the fun and at times make me question why I play the game. What I liked about Gears 4’s Horde Mode was the introduction of Skills and Classes (partly taken from Judgment) and the Fabricator/Power dynamic. I especially enjoyed Gears of War Judgements’ Survival Mode, to me that was a massive improvement to the Horde formula from previous games and was a little disappointed when Gears of War 4 returned to the old formula. But most of my time spent playing Gears has been in the Horde mode. I’ve played every installment of Gears of War and I am excited to see what Gears of War 5 has in store for us.

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