Found this on the EpicGames forums this morning. Apparently Horde is evolving into "Survival Mode" and it is not known for sure what has changed.
The Thread
This is great news for people like me who are huge Horde fanatics. I still play it on a regular basis, though its been a lot harder to find matches for the last several months as Gears 3 has dropped in online players. I can't wait to find out the rest of the details!
The Thread
Gears of War Judgment's Achievement list confirming Survival mode in Judgment. (It's near the bottom of the list)
Survivor 10G: Completed wave 10 on all maps in Survival mode.
--It will be wave based, meaning two things: It could be like Horde 2.0 where you finish a wave, have some time inbetween to grab ammo and such, or the waves automatically start after the previous one has finished. It adds to the whole "fast paced" gameplay Epic wants with Judgment.
--"On all maps." So it either shares maps with OverRun, Multiplayer, or has its own maps. In my personal opinion, it most likely shares maps with OverRun, but they're cut in half so you don't spend 99% of your time finding AI.
Survival WILL be class based like OverRun.
Death to Locust 10G : Killed with all Classes of COG in OverRun or Survival.
--Classes with most likely be the same throughout the two modes. Perhaps, and this is just speculation, but maybe we could pick our own characters and weapons along with the class-based system.
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UPDATE, FEBRUARY 14TH: An article released by oxm.co.uk, confirming that Horde has been replaced, or has at least evolved, into Survival. Here's the link to the full article. http://www.oxm.co.uk/50214/previews/...kers-paradise/
On this front, I bring gladsome tidings. Firstly, Horde isn't actually gone - it seems to have endured in the form of Survival Mode. I've yet to lay eyes on the latter, or receive official confirmation from Microsoft, but there's plenty of evidence to this effect. For one thing, it's a wave-based affair, as these Achievements reveal. For another, one of Microsoft's product managers referred to it as "Horde Survival" during today's campaign hands-on. Reasonably watertight, I'm sure you'll agree.
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Post made by Raczilla, February 1st:
Quote Originally Posted by raczilla View Post
Hey gang, looks like theres a lot of speculation around some of the remaining features well be discussing between now and March 19th.
While were not ready to share everything just yet, feel free to start pulling questions together and well be sure to have some in depth conversation around everything when the time comes. Thanks!
This is great news for people like me who are huge Horde fanatics. I still play it on a regular basis, though its been a lot harder to find matches for the last several months as Gears 3 has dropped in online players. I can't wait to find out the rest of the details!