Bored of playing campaign and playing online with noobs? Here is solution for ya!! H.I.V.E Mode is an Horde variation game mode, no more mindless shooting to Grunts and Wretches, now you have to defend strategic points, protect VIPs and assasin locust commanders and many more, of course it will be senseless without swarm of angry and bloodthirsty locust :)

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After finishing enough rounds of versus, waves of horde, and chapters of escape in Gears 5, I got bored. Then, playing other games got me bored too, but getting a new PC was the main reason I got back to this mod.

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I've recreated my code and started to patch most visible bugs at the end of 2020. Then I thought - Maybe it needs something new, I had ideas back then. So I started to add things. Almost moth passed And I want to show you some clips. Get Ready:

New Weapons:

New Fortifications:

And Many fixes are awaiting publishing - but that is not time for it now. More of What will be changed in H.I.V.E will be posted in Future. Cya guys.

PS.: Full Gameplay is here

FIRSTLY - Thanks for Bobfuria for sending me some of old classics that were vanished from web - without his help those maps could be forgotten forever.

This map pack will contain some very old maps made by Gears community. Maps are:

1. Bloodstrike made by FoxHoundcn map was Submited for Make Something unreal contest Phase 4 in categories:
- MSU Phase 4:Best Level for Game Mod
- MSU Phase 4:Best Graphics in Map

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2. Construct made by Kantham. Map has really similar art design as GFoW 4 Foundation - but it would be more fair to say that Foundation was created AFTER Construct.

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3. Crash made by Kantham - map located in some desert area, where the wreck of Raven Helicopter is located.

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4. Old City made by M3rl1n - you are at the site of and old castle - use its advantages to beat locust horde

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5. Valley made By ISMIK - map based on some fragment of Goriginal Gears Campaign -currently I can't recall on what time this battle is situated in Campaign - Warning only uncooked version of map works.

Thank you Guys that you're enjoying my mod, I appreciate that. This Map Pack will be Available on 08:00 PM CET on 16th October.

Firstly, Thank you guys for making that avesome clips/vids etc. This isn't my videos, this is list of videos made by fans of H.I.V.E and Gears. There's no time to waste so lets start our countdown.

1: SASxSH4DOWZ - he made a tons of videos for H.I.V.E on couple maps and he wants to make more vids - keep up good work SH4DOWZ

and many more here Youtube.com

2. Burka Ninja - Nice Gameplay on RIVER, a GoW 2 Map

3. DiamondRyce - Really nice Gameplay Impression on RavensNest

4. Dio94 - Really like when someone plays on my map, this time its Strife

5. Arlucroak- On beta Asylum map

6.Killtrocity And another Ravens nest Gameplay

I'm waiting for more videos and people making it. It's pleasure for me to watch how you enjoy H.I.V.E

CYA!

Firstly, I want to thank all of Gears players that supported me while developing this mod, played my mods and maps. Without you most of my projects wouldn't come out to you.

For about 2 months I was fixing all reported bugs for H.I.V.E, and already I can tell you that is a lie. Actually I spent on fixing bugs about 5-6 hours of that time. It's quite inefficient what I've did while fixing.
Here is the list of what has been fixed or I think it was fixed but never has been checked properly.

  1. Someone told me that sentry attacked the onyx guard with the minigun you buy, this should be fixed now;
  2. Now to deploy fortification push use button instead of reload;
  3. Revised Stalk Rise wave objective code for lost circumstances - now there should not appear any bugs you've reported;
  4. Sofia Hendriks does not have any skeleton issues while in cover;
  5. SKORGE - with this is small problem, I've added damage dealing while you touch saw when skorge is doing his kung-fu ninja move, but did not fixed anything;
  6. Myrrah Texture is no longer missing;
  7. Sentry guns is no longer attacking Jack on Hi Jack wave objective;
  8. The digger gun has issues when you try aiming - still have issues;
  9. The onyx guard that you buy from the command center stopped engaging locust after one wave was finished - this should not happen anymore, but who knows;
  10. Revised chainsaw duel code - don't know if there is anything fixed;11. Lambent berserker physics asset has been replaced by default Berserker physics asset - it should not make any new problems;
  11. I've turned off ability to pickup Cleaver for optional fixing;
  12. Now Timer for building fortification works fine;

I really wanted to get things work 100% as it should but with lack of free time I was not able to do so.
Patch will be pulled out with new Map Pack called Hydrophobia. Mappack will include:

  1. River, GoW 2 map ported by footslep
  2. November Rain created by SportingSCP
  3. Subway by Epic Games
  4. Mansion by Epic Games
  5. Dreadnaught2 (map taken from 22 Map pack, it's quite small map and want to test it if it isn not too small map for mod) by unknown mapper

So you will get 5 new maps, and another 4 maps after release of map pack 04 ( yes, there will be Map Pack 05 and I've already have chosen maps for it - need only to port them). Also Don't forget about maps ported by carloskillar3675 (more info in mod description).

But this is the last good news for H.I.V.E players. These 2 Map packs will be last thing I will do for this mod. After that you can consider this mod as finished mod. After map pack 5 there won't be any new content updates. Only 1 patch and if I'll find some time for it i'll add Loomis and another one guy from judgement as playable characters. They will be pulled with map pack 5 or the last patch for H.I.V.E, which should be out this year.

Also those things will be last things I do for Gears PC. I am no longer feeling to be able to do some awesome things with this awesome game. I think it is time to let go. Move on to new things. I won't abandon game modding. If I find something interesting you can be sure I do mod for that :)

BTW someone just did a gameplay from H.I.V.E

Anyway I won't leave Gears PC community and I will help any mapper, modder if someone will need my help. Also, I'll be glad if you'll be porting new maps for H.I.V.E.

This was a fine trip with Gears but my time with Gears modding is coming to an end. Once again, Thanks to all modders, Kantham, JUGGERNUT, CowboyLocust, Bob, LambentVeteran, BurnedInternal, carloskillar3675, darksin/darkelfsin/darkelf and any username you had :D, ardeadnui, xOutlaw and all Gears PC players. And thanks to Epic Games and Epic Games Poland (formerly People Can Fly) for creating such a great game series.

This version bring a lot of new content, abilities and other stuff that you had occasion to see during development process. I know it is half year since last update, but I think it isn't wasted time for H.I.V.E. It's quite unfinished version but you will see it. I've made such decision to publish it with some bugs for one reason, I have less time for developing this mod, as only person which do it, progress drastically slowed down. There is a lot of bugs that I haven't occasion to fix. Now It's time to present what's new with Lambent Edition.

Main new feature is of course Lambent. They Appear at Wave 15 and are present to the last wave. You can encounter Lambent wretches, formers, drones and Drudges, Gunkers and Lambent Berzerker. They are exploding after death so be aware how close you are standing. Bigger Lambent Can kill you while dying. Alse there is a new Wave objective related to Lambent - Stalk Rise. When objective is active stalks rises from earth and spawn lambent creatures. You have to shoot pods to stop spawniong lambent and being able to damage stalk. When you kill stalk - you win. you loose if you run out of time. Last thing to mention is that Lambent and Locusts are enemies, so you can see they can fight each other.

Also you can play with new characters that made their apperance in other Gears Games. Since last update you can play as Sofia Hendriks, Alex Brand, Barrick and Alicia Valera. In next patch I'll Add Loomis and one more character. Also Locust team got some new soldiers. You can Encounter Mauler, Flamer, flame boomer, nemacysts and new Boss - Skorge*. With nemacyst there is a Wave objective related to them - Nema Rain. You have to survive attack of nemecyst, if you die you loose if you survive until timer is over, you win.

Also what this update will be without new weapons? Worthless. So you can burn out locust with Scorcher, Blow them out of cover with digger, slice them with cleaver, Poison them with Ink Grenade, and duel them with Chainsaws. You have to hit melee button fast to win chansaw duel.

Another feature that makes it another apperance in GoW PC are fortifications. You can build fortification between waves. You can place them anywhere you want, there aren't any fixed points on map to build them up. Wanna build a fort? Do it. place 5 sentries near you and make a circle out of razorwire. You need to take into account that placing fortificaton can be difficult. If you want to rotate fortification just hold fire and rotate mouse to rotate fortification. to place fortification press R.

Also you can play on new maps. Forsaken Dream and Strife are maps made by me so currently only playable version of those maps are for H.I.V.E. Another maps are Sanctum and Ravens Nest. Also you can play on old maps without redownloading them - all thanks to unrealscript.

I got many messages about making video tutorial for installing H.I.V.E - so here is an occasion to make it and you can watch how to install H.I.V.E properly and enjoy it every minute you play.

Hope you gonna like new version - not counting evey bug and problem you encounter as something bad, if you can help me catch those bugs, I'll be able to fix them. And that is all for now, have a nice time killing horde of locusts and Lambent.

H.I.V.E Mode: Lambent Edition
H.I.V.E Mode: Lambent Edition

*Skorge is unfinished so if you see him not doing anything or just does not any damage to you- I know about it.