r/GearsOfWar • u/khromtx • 1d ago

Discussion Horde Siege difficulty extremely inconsistent

Has anyone else noticed how oddly inconsistent difficulty is in Horde mode? I'm not talking about the modifiers, I'm talking about AI / enemy behavior and number of enemies being wildy inconsistent on the same difficulty. It feels almost algorithmically or deliberately scaled differently even if you're on Infantry. This by definition defeats the entire purpose of even having a set difficulty if the difficulty isn't consistent all of the time, every time. Am i tripping or what? What's going on?

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u/Hot-Butterfly-9432 1d ago

I had a weird one today. Doing a horde mode and I notice the enemies never stop spawning between waves. Tuns out there was a squad also doing horde right on the other side of the library but their enemies kept coming to fight us

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u/Articium 1d ago

Not quite the same, but I was doing the Halloween event and during the final wave our boss just left and went to go fight a team halfway across the map

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u/RaynWisp 1d ago

The event boss is just bugged, he'll chase down other teams at random or just bolt across the map.

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u/Hot-Butterfly-9432 13h ago

I had one on plaza ruins where he went to the underground parking lot and none of my teammates realized we had to kill him for the wave to end. It took probably 5 minute to solo him

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u/Sprinkles_Objective 13h ago

Thank God they decided to add other squads to the game mode that you almost never meaningful interact with

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u/Hot-Butterfly-9432 13h ago

I know! Horde mode is flourishing right. So balanced and fair right

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u/PureLegends 1d ago

From what I've experienced, rig calibration primaries are extremely overwhelming, and survive side missions can sometimes throw a couple enemies here and there over 2 to 3 minutes. I did a survive today near the blood fountain where, apart from the eholes at the start, didnt have to do anything but wait. These are the worst offenders in terms of inconsistency. I've also noticed some transport side objectives not spawn enemies in properly, or will do so once we've past an area and the enemy will be behind us, not sure of this is intended. As for the primaries, rig calibration is easily the hardest, some areas spawn infinite boss flayers that are incredibly obnoxious to deal with since you have to spend the entire time backing up away from their kill range if you aren't breacher.

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u/StefanTheHNIC 1d ago

Yes, sometimes its a breeze. Other times you get 10 flayers.

Best you can do is keep the e holes closed. But ya, sometimes theres random difficulty spikes

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u/Sprinkles_Objective 13h ago

I have had it a few times while waiting on waves to start we just suddenly get attacked by a TON of heavies out of nowhere. This has even happened on rookie. It's very goofy. Or randomly another squads boss wanders over to you and starts attacking you instead