I don't like it in 3 as much. I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong but I recall 2 being more intense. On 3 it seems like you have way more waves of easyness and it gets very boring after a while. The only hard waves are the boss ones, then the difficult goes right back down for another 10 waves. Gears 2 seemed to really pile it on almost non stop.

It really is brilliant.

Gears of War 3 is like a lovely package of amazing things that just keeps on giving. And I absolutely hate most competitive multiplayer.

@Sooty said:

I don't like it in 3 as much. I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong but I recall 2 being more intense. On 3 it seems like you have way more waves of easyness and it gets very boring after a while. The only hard waves are the boss ones, then the difficult goes right back down for another 10 waves. Gears 2 seemed to really pile it on almost non stop.

The enemy health has been tweaked significantly. Boomer varieties have significantly less health, Kantus have more, Theron Guards have less, etc.. I think the experience is far better paced than Gears of War 2, and an astounding number of enemy types, the randomness adds a ton of variety to Horde.

@project343 said:

@Sooty said:

I don't like it in 3 as much. I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong but I recall 2 being more intense. On 3 it seems like you have way more waves of easyness and it gets very boring after a while. The only hard waves are the boss ones, then the difficult goes right back down for another 10 waves. Gears 2 seemed to really pile it on almost non stop.

The enemy health has been tweaked significantly. Boomer varieties have significantly less health, Kantus have more, Theron Guards have less, etc.. I think the experience is far better paced than Gears of War 2, and an astounding number of enemy types, the randomness adds a ton of variety to Horde.

I found myself getting bored quickly because of all the downtime. Intense boss wave immediately followed by 10 waves of boredom, intense boss wave...rinse and repeat.

I was able to play horde on the second game for a lot longer without getting bored. We just called it quits the other night after getting to 31.

@Sooty said:

I found myself getting bored quickly because of all the downtime. Intense boss wave immediately followed by 10 waves of boredom, intense boss wave...rinse and repeat.

I was able to play horde on the second game for a lot longer without getting bored. We just called it quits the other night after getting to 31.

I think those waves do a great job at: a) giving you a little more spending money, b) giving you a bit of a stress-break, and c) instilling some undeserved confidence in your team. In either case, I think wave variations 7-9 still put plenty of skill to the test. Then, obviously, wave 10-variations are just a clusterfuck of stuff going wrong and people making terrible decisions.

Horde is my favorite mode. I love how crazy it gets. Plus, seeing one dude take out a Lambent Zerker is awesome to watch.

Horde mode is amazing, I'm totally in love with it.
Even the small rounds (#1/5 often) are fun because it allows you to scavenge or expand inbetween.
 
Having 4 mulchers at the ready on a boss wave is invaluable.

Horde mode is amazing. It's like the epitome of what a great Co-op experience is about. 
 
There's nothing better than having a solid team of 5 people who are committed to the cause and everyone is pulling their own weight. 
 
How many different boss wave types are there? So far i've seen
 

Horde Morde.

I'd love Horde more if the matchmaking wasn't so shit. You're checking through 26, 000 people for 4 matches for 10 minutes?......really?

@Sooty said:

I don't like it in 3 as much. I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong but I recall 2 being more intense. On 3 it seems like you have way more waves of easyness and it gets very boring after a while. The only hard waves are the boss ones, then the difficult goes right back down for another 10 waves. Gears 2 seemed to really pile it on almost non stop.

interesting...i played it once a couple nights ago and felt the same way. I was really bored and I loved it in Gears 2. Only got to wave 19 I think before my group died due to boredom more-so than being overwhelmed I think. Not really a fan of the purchasing barricades and guns and what-not either.

The brumack is tight

Been playing a good deal of public Horde, and while it's fun I find the boss-waves sorta disappointing. You almost always run into the same issue they had on TNT of "are we even hurting him?", and most of the base buildings are just pointless. The whole base-thing is sorta useless in general, but I'm guess it's mostly because of public and normal. What's really annoying is how tickers and lambent just do so much damage to your fences, to the point where it's actually better to not stay in the base most of the time.

Me and my friends tried the same thing last night. Go all the way through from Wave 1 - 50 in one sitting on Hardcore difficulty. It took us until 4 in the morning and we quit on the last wave because we just could not do it. I've never felt like such a failure.

Played a ton of this today and  after a  weird start Ive decided this is much better than the Horde mode in 2. The biggest problem is people running off by themselves or attempting bayonet charges in   round 20, 25. It's frustrating to see. The best thing about the mode is that the longer you have been playing Horde the  better you will be. If youre just coming from competitive with level one barriers youre not going to get very far at all, that upgraded level 3 turret fucking destroys everything in it's path. 
It amazes me that so many people run off and get themselves killed because they think using the Gnasher against three Boomers and two Grinders is a good idea, got to level 41 earlier and then  quitty host thing ...made me so "ARGHHHHH!"

@marioncobretti: heh, the last part, I've done that. Mainly because everyone just guards the turrets and racks up the most money leaving you with like, 200 bucks or something while they have 4000...which they use to repair their turrets :|

@hbkdx12 said:

@Ares42: Ah man i couldn't disagree more. The boss battles are intense. They're plucked straight from the single player so you have to implore the same strategy to defeat them all the while dealing with the other enemies. Once you know their weakness it's just a matter of teamwork

As far as the fences, the tickers usually come out in the earlier rounds. I personally don't even waste money until about the 7 or 8th round. In my experience the fences work wonders against the bigger enemies. I watched a 30+ level mauler get stuck in a fully upgraded level 3 fence (blue lasers) for what was about 20 seconds at the very least til i killed him. It was pretty much easy pickings. And the fence still have plenty health to boot.

Gotta remember that I'm talking about public games :P Hell, I haven't even played through the campaign myself yet, and it doesn't seem like many of the others I run in to have either. It just ends up with these overly drawn-out battles of running around and trying to find ammo. What's ironic is that the Brumak seems to be the easiest by far, as it has no special armor. The fences do their job fine, but you even if you build them late in the cycle you can easily find yourself getting either of the zerker bosses and having to abandon base or get everything wrecked. And even then they become a liability through the early rounds of next cycle. The only really worthwhile buildings seems to be turrets and silverback, although from playing Beast it seems lvl 3 sentry might be decent too.

Me and a friend got to level thirty, We were playing with two other random people, both were competent. After the 7th time of trying to beat level 30, we all had died except my friend, and he was up against a brumak. Took him 15 minutes to kill it himself. It was pretty awesome. We gave up after that round, to play some Campaign with his roommate.

@Mystyr_E:

Yep, Thats pretty much me haha

All I have to say is, I LOVE GEARS 3!!!

@Mystyr_E said:

I'd love Horde more if the matchmaking wasn't so shit. You're checking through 26, 000 people for 4 matches for 10 minutes?......really?

Yeah, that is crap.

I played it a bit in Gears 2 with my friends, but they sucked and I did then also. I'm having a lot more fun with it in Gears 3, more due to circumstances than it actually being better.

Either way, fun fuckin time.

@hbkdx12: The silverback is just overpowered :P unlocked it earlier today and the next game after I made it I got like 80% of the kills/money every round, and ye the turrets suck big time. Thought lvl 2 would be decent considering it actually looks sorta high-powered, but it's not. However the level 3 (I think) seems to shoot lightning that stuns, which could be pretty handy.

I joined a public game and we did the whole 1-50. It took us nearly 5 hours but it was so fun. We were cheering at the end of it.

I'm glad that it randomized the bosses that appear. In the first Horde game I played online our team got a Brumak and several Boomers at wave 10. It completely threw our party into disarray.

@hbkdx12: I got two brumacks with my friends today. There were 4 of us and it was only on level 10. To be fair though I think one came, we killed it, and then the other came. I couldn't be sure though because we all focused on the one as it came up on us, then next thing we knew there was one behind us.

The Sentry is worthless. I unlocked the first upgraded version and it sucks about as much as the regular one. Zero damage and very short range.

@hbkdx12: I didn't either! It was on trenches. I am almost positive that after I killed the first one a second one spawned, but as I said I can't confirm that. I just know it was in the same round, and it was crazy.

I too just did 1-50 with randoms however...there were only four of us. Took us nearly four and a half hours. Of that nearly an hour of it was spent on level 50. That feeling as we saw the tanks on Brumak's back burst into flames was indescribable. Can't wait to do it again.

I think Gears 2's horde mode was substantially easier in ways. In any wave you could be like, "Enemy, GNASHER DEATH." As soon as wave 11 starts in 3 on casual...or normal, I know it's one or the other, the gnasher becomes almost useless.

Lambent Zerkers man. Fuck.

@Burns09 said:

Lambent Zerkers man. Fuck.

Getting a Lambent Zerker on wave 10 is a surefire way to get the party to let out a collective "Fuck". And it is always an awesome fight.

I prefer it to shotgun in the face multiplayer.

I'm getting really sick of fighting Berserkers now. Has anyone else had the 2 Berserkers appearing in every boss wave? Last night I played with some people up to wave 40 and we got the 2 Berserkers for every boss wave, and we kept getting them even when we started the wave after dying. It's just super annoying now because they really aren't that fun to fight.

Beat level 50 (playing from level 1) yesterday afternoon on Thrashball, I think it's called. Took south of three hours, but, yeah, Armored Kanti and Serapedes were being bastards. The last thing we had to kill was a Brumak, who had been sitting outside the entire wave. It was me and one other guy still alive. I killed the Brumak with a Torque Bow shot. I think I only had a shot or two left until I was completely dry.

You know what i say when I see two berserkers? Fuck.

Anybody up for some Horde mode right now?

@Sarnecki said:

Anybody up for some Horde mode right now?

I am.

I really love it, and i'm not much for multiplayer.