I was one of the first people in the entire world to finish Gears of War 4’s horde mode. It took around 4 hours, countless downed comrades, too many emptied ammunition clips to count, and an hour of teetering frustratingly close to failure. Waves 30-40 were so brutal for us that we nearly gave up, despite knowing exactly where we went wrong.
The first few waves were a breeze. We set up our ‘Fabricator’, the box that serves as a menu to let you set up fortifications for whichever section of a map you decide is most defensible, right near our spawn point, and started farming the energy enemies dropped in preparation for the first boss wave - wave 10. We put our slowly-building resources towards barriers to begin with, but everything was placed with the boss wave in mind, rather than just the ‘next wave’.
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The first few waves were a breeze. We set up our ‘Fabricator’, the box that serves as a menu to let you set up fortifications for whichever section of a map you decide is most defensible, right near our spawn point, and started farming the energy enemies dropped in preparation for the first boss wave - wave 10. We put our slowly-building resources towards barriers to begin with, but everything was placed with the boss wave in mind, rather than just the ‘next wave’.
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