Favorite GOW2 Horde Maps

Our favorite maps are River and Day One.

On River we always stick to the bridge and the house facing upstream. Someone mans the mortar and the rest of the crew protects the mortaree. The mortar is key do doing well on this map. In later levels the mortar needs to be picked up and brough back in front of the house so there is a smaller area to defend. In early stages of River, a sniper or two in the top of the house work well, but later levels make it very hard to snipe without being sniped or blown up by a boomer.

Sheilds are also key on River. When the bloodmounts appear in rounds 10, 20, 30… the sheilds in the doorway are necessary. It is easy for a drone, genadier, cyclopes to kick the sheilds down. Instead of planting them it has worked much better for two people to hold the sheilds in the doorway while using a pistol. Others stand back further in the house and fire over the sheilds as well. One person stays up sniping and also serves as a medic when needed. If the sheilds fall during round 10, 20, 30… then there is little chance of surviving the wave. The bloodmounts and maulers are hard to fight back and there is nowhere to run. It is also very important for the rest of the team to shoot over the shoulders of the sheild bearers to make sure a mauler doesn’t take them out. The rest of the horde can be held off in this manner (or at least in the rounds I have made it through). There should probably be 4 sheilds in the lower part of the house to help hold off the horde in case one of the first two sheild bearers fall. It is also important to never run for ammo during the start of those rounds (you most likely won’t make it back). Save the pistol ammo for these rounds as well to make sure you can fight off the horde.

More to come…

So it begins…

This blog will chronical the battle of N3RDI3 and his die hard crew as we fight to beat the dirty dirty horde in Gears of War 2 on the XBOX 360. Our goal is to beat the horde as a team. We have played over 200 games so far and have yet to beat the horde (all 50 waves). This journal is going to track what works for us on different maps and what obviously didn’t work. We seem to be learning by trial and error…

Starting over

The http://horde.n3rdi3.com site is going through a little revamping. This requires that my old posts be re-added to the site. Hopefully this doesn’t cause too much trouble.