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Does it matter what difficulty you play Horde on as to how much the upgrades cost? I've spent three hours on casual but my Silverback bar is only on about 1/3 even though I spent about $150,000 on it. How much do you have to spend for the rocket upgrade?

NM - The Gears wiki has the details

Level Fortification Build Cost Spending Requirement
1 Silverback $12,500 Level 8 Barriers
2 Silverback Repair 33% Less n/a $200,000
3 Silverback Rockets $10,000 $500,000
4 Silverback Repair 11% Less n/a $900,000
5 Silverback Repair 11% less n/a $1,500,000

Plus I also found this -

Difficulty and Mutators affect how much money spent on fortifications actually goes towards upgrading your barriers, turrets ect. Try play on a high difficulty with hard mutators for maximum gain to XP and levelling up. Avoid casual with easy mutators.

Casual: 60%
Normal: 80%
Hardcore: 100%
Insane: 120%
Easy Mutator: -25%
Hard Mutator: +10% (Friendly Fire is +5%)
Fun Mutator: No Effect
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Which means by casual + instagib + super reload + infinite ammo (60 - 25 - 25 - 25), I was actually spending $115 to get $1 worth of upgrade. D'oh! :mad:
 
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Yeah that's a pain tbh, I use Instagib, zero ammo and friendly fire on, skill level normal.

That gives me a mutliplier of 1.5 and a negative of 0.9 for the mutator. I had to spend $300,000 to get to the 200k for level 3.

The trouble playing alone is the 12500 for buying the SB doesn't count, on public matches it does. I just redo wave 9 and instagib everyone as they are pretty much all heavy units.

I see no benefit now in taking the silverback upto 1.5m spend I don't use it apart from for achieves.

Screw double XP fortnights, they should give us a doubel horde cash fortnight ;)
 
The command center is the best edition for me, once everyone has finished ranking up it will be very useful and used every round I reckon.
 
Bit annoyed that i bought the Season Pass and they're releasing the maps for free...

Maybe the game hasn't gone to plan for them online so need to bump numbers up...urgh!
 
BEN_UK said:
What does it allow you to do ?
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Allow you to call in one time support, snipers, then mortars and then Hammer of dawn. Once per level then you rebuild it.

Logsi said:
Bit annoyed that i bought the Season Pass and they're releasing the maps for free...

Maybe the game hasn't gone to plan for them online so need to bump numbers up...urgh!
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This is the best idea yet, so when people play versus everyone can play. Instead when I play COD all my friends that bought the map packs cannot play them when I'm in the party.

This was a horde command pack and you got the additions. They are also going to give away 5 maps for versus for free. Over the year you will be getting your moneys worth. The Raam pack is going to be sold for 1200 points, so everything else is costing you 1600 points. When you compare that to the cost of 3 maps each COD map pack release it's a good deal I reckon.
 
dannyjo22 said:
The command center is the best edition for me, once everyone has finished ranking up it will be very useful and used every round I reckon.
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Yes, the sniper upgrade seems to work OK on the early waves with the normal drones, the mortar seems rubbish unless you wait until you've got a clutch of enemies struggling at a fence or something and the hammer of dawn is a bit hit and miss. The best I've seen is the vulcan team being used in Rustlung. That took down a lot of enemies.
 
Jeez, I'm busy grinding to get the Vampire mutator. I've been at it for about eight hours now and only got 60/100 execution ribbons.
 
ic1male said:
Jeez, I'm busy grinding to get the Vampire mutator. I've been at it for about eight hours now and only got 60/100 execution ribbons.
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Quickest way I found was warzone I think with the one life. 1 minute rounds and get at least one execution is usually enough.

Don't do it on execution because sometimes the AI will get more than you. I've still got loads to get though.
 
I'm just doing it on team deathmatch (10 spawns). It'd be my luck on the games with 1 life to end up dead. But I've got 20 to go so I might switch and try warzone.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Allow you to call in one time support, snipers, then mortars and then Hammer of dawn. Once per level then you rebuild it.



This is the best idea yet, so when people play versus everyone can play. Instead when I play COD all my friends that bought the map packs cannot play them when I'm in the party.

This was a horde command pack and you got the additions. They are also going to give away 5 maps for versus for free. Over the year you will be getting your moneys worth. The Raam pack is going to be sold for 1200 points, so everything else is costing you 1600 points. When you compare that to the cost of 3 maps each COD map pack release it's a good deal I reckon.
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All the content is on the disc already that is why others can play epic didn't want to pay out extra money for each server to control the game types to filter maps and modes like horde/beast don't even use servers.

It's not a good deal at all people with season pass have really been screwed over and basiclly paid for some rubbish skins.

You can't compare cod packs to gears packs the cod ones have always been over priced compared to other dlc.
 
From my games so far, it seems the super reload mutator (where you get powerful bullets by active reloading) is critical to finishing horde mode. Last night without it I kept getting owned on wave 47. The silverback was getting destroyed. I was horrified to see the rebuild cost at $15,000 after the rocket upgrade.

Vampire is quite good. You can go toe-to-toe with a grinder, both firing the mulcher at each other and beat him. Ordinarily you'd die but you're healing as you're firing.
 
edGfaCTor said:
All the content is on the disc already that is why others can play epic didn't want to pay out extra money for each server to control the game types to filter maps and modes like horde/beast don't even use servers.

It's not a good deal at all people with season pass have really been screwed over and basiclly paid for some rubbish skins.

You can't compare cod packs to gears packs the cod ones have always been over priced compared to other dlc.
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It's the first lot of content, they won't be getting any SP content, they don't get any of the horde upgrades. I agree is not great but I prefer to be able to play versus with everyone rather than dilute what I can play when only 50% of the people buy the packs.

I agree it's not that great value YET but people better get used to this fast because soon every game will require season passes or such like. CODs elite service is an awesome. They talked about a monthly sub and the world went nuts. So they charge for a season pass roughly $4 a month and it's getting eaten up. I imagine the next step will be to only give you access to the maps and content while you have a season pass/elite membership. When the new one comes out and you stop paying your stuff dissapears.


ic1male said:
From my games so far, it seems the super reload mutator (where you get powerful bullets by active reloading) is critical to finishing horde mode. Last night without it I kept getting owned on wave 47. The silverback was getting destroyed. I was horrified to see the rebuild cost at $15,000 after the rocket upgrade.

Vampire is quite good. You can go toe-to-toe with a grinder, both firing the mulcher at each other and beat him. Ordinarily you'd die but you're healing as you're firing.
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Vampire sounds awesome, I've been desperate to unlock it for ages. Adds a whole new element. I want to try Vampire, regen for locusts and active reload or unlimited ammo :)

I'm almost level 5 on the Silverback now and only have a couple of grand to spend on decoys then i'm maxed again!
 
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