It's literally been like that since launch? Has more to do with people opting out of crossplay than anything. Meaning theres not a giant pool of players for me to access.
On top of how shitty me and all the people I play gears with were turned off by changes they made to horde, and the overall leveling system. Let's just say they all got it via Gamepass and are glad they didn't pay $60 for it.
Game is quality for sure, but I feel all the changes just don't work for everything being tied to character stat wise, MP is great the best it's ever been IMHO. But alas PC doesn't have the player pool that console does.
Would like to know what modifiers you and Betty have used difficulty wise. Unless you level the charcters up especially offensive ones like JD, you won't deal enough damage on much harder difficulties. While in gears 4 even though I hated the card system, you at least knew what stacked, and what could be combined for damage output.
Meaning if you knew your sniper did 150+ explosion damage and had other cards that stacked on top of having Ping, you with a heavy, soldier could easily beat 50 waves on hard like it was nothing. insane and iron man you need at least a engineer.
This game is weird. Instead of having just straight different difficulties they are modifiers some of which affect not just the enemies but you.
It's another design decision to basically make it so you can't on your own through trial and error find ways to crush.
We use to exploit Mercy map because there was one specific spot where most than half the horde populated in that we would build fences around it and have a soldier plant grenades and watch swarm blow up like fireworks.
Was so fun.
My friends who I have a giant list of for gears specifically non of them are sticking with this gears which to me tells me you either like the changes or you hate them.
The grind for high level cards is just something that also in gears 4 was annoying. Make it all just expierence based, if you use a gun a lot you level up your skill level with that weapon. Makes you want to master every weapon.
This seems since it;s also connected to escape for some of the characters wants you in this continuous grind for cards. And is fucking sucks.
Not everyone liking Horde
Horde 4.0
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I'm not alone in my distaste for how they have turned horde into something else. Gears 3 had it perfectly and some of the changes like with fabricator for 4 worked well for making a base anywhere in the maps instead of being locked down like in 3.
I agree a lot with those threads, Horde 4.0 doesn't promote team reliance. It makes it so everyone can do what they want which is counter intuitive. Why then have specific classes locked to specific characters then if people are going to go and just do what they want?
I was able on Bunker on Intermediate
to make it by myself to wave 40 before I got tired. With ease.