H.I.V.E Beta Featured Content in upcoming release news

1. More maps to play:

You won't be forced to play only on Security, with upcoming release you'll be able to play on:
- Security
- Outpost
- ClockTower
- Gridlock
- WarMachine

also after couple days I publish other 5 maps.

2. Characters to play:
It will be similar to previous releases but I've changed some things.

Playable Characters:
- From GoW 1: Marcus, Dom, Cole, Baird, Kim, Carmine, Hoffman
- From GoW 2: Tai
- From GoW 3: Marcus, Dom, Cole, Baird, Clayton Carmine, Hoffman, Dizzy, Anya, Samantha Byrne, Bernadette, Prescott, Jace, Griffin, Adam Fenix, Onyx Guard.
All new GoW 3 Characters will be properly voiced - Used Gears of War 3 sounds to voice them, also all corrupted faces will be repaired.

Removed Characters:
Trashball Cole

Not Playable Characters:
Valera
3. New Weapons:
Yes! this will be first modification which would provide new Weapons, but some of them wont work as in Gears of War 3 - hope you know why.

List of new Weapons:
- Hammerburst II
- Gorgon Pistol
- Mulcher
- One Shot
- Retro Lancer
- Sawed Off Shotgun
- New Lancer Model

Also some of those weapons will be using sounds from Gears of War 3.

4. New Locusts to fight:
You would be able to fight custom locusts in previous releases, this part of mod has been changed extremally.

You may encounter this locusts:
- Armored Kantus; He is almost indestructible, can be damaged by explosive weapons or oneshot.
- Corpser Larva; Watch out for his attacks.
- Beast Rider; He will appear in couple variation based on wave progress.
- Cyclops; Like beast rider diffirent variation with progress
- Bloodmounts; Very Though opponent
- Butcher; Slow and angry Boomer
- Bolter; He is like Clint Eastwood - Wields the biggest revolver in game;
- Drones; wields Hammerburst II
- Grinder; Its like armored truck with big gun.
- Wretch; for shooting practise.
- Ticker; Walking Bomb-Boomer; nothing to describe, everyone knows who is he.
- Grenadier; with his Elite Version is primary source of Shotgun Ammo
- Hunter; is stronger version of drone, wields Lancer Mk2
- Hunter Elite; Even stronger Hunter, wields Torque Bow
- Theron;
- Palace Guard;
- Kantus; wields gorgon pistol
- Savage Drones; wields retro lancer
- Savage Grenadier-Savage Grenadier Elite
- Savage Theron, wields sawed off shotgun
- Sniper Drone

Removed Locusts:
- Flame Boomer
- Flame Drone
- Sire

Planned to add until release:
Savage Boomer - Only Skin

Most of Locust are voiced properly - some of them says nothing, Also I've Changed Spawn System, Now its based on difficulty and every locust class has minimum and maximum difficulty appearance.

5.Gameplay Mechanics

Features:
- Money System; very extended from previous version
- Objective System; Now Objective Spawns not every wave so you can feel not overwhelmed by power locusts.
- newer HUD; now you dont hit any button to see what wave is it - and scoreboard has been changed
- Life system; no lives anymore, now if you have cash you can respawn as many times as you want to;
- Achivements - it will be only for show - there are not much of them
- Boss waves: 10th wave - berzerker, 15th wave - RAAM, 25th wave - Myrrah
- new Pickup system - based on HORDE 2.0 pickups - if you have enough cash you can pickup them.
- new Weapon Garbage Collection - every dropped weapons are cleared with every new wave beginning
- Teammates - Respawns every wave start, also they can revive other teammates. Maximum number 5 start number 2 you can buy 1 for 5000$ and if you reach max number for 5000$ you can respawn them.
- Totally changed command center - Now you dont start wave in command center it starts automatically. it will bring some new functionallity
* Buy Teammate
* Buy Heavy Guard - Spawns Onyx Guard with mulcher

Listed but not implemented:
* fortifications
* Silverback
those can be seen in command center but can't be bought

Removed features:
- Hand Console - totally useless tool
- Bullet Time - but it will appear in some later release
- changing teammate equipment - now teammates has random weapons.
- buying new equipment - will be added in later release

Hopefully listed all features of upcoming release(if I missed something - you can see that on videos i posted on youtube),

Important notes:
- All content will be cooked - so you have to prepare for 130MB Maps size and small
versions of packages
- new installation - You will have to remove previous version of mod, but for now wait for new installation tutorial.
- localization - Now some parts can be localized

Ok thats it for now. New version will be published 19th or 20th September. so 2 weeks left for ultimate mayhem :D.

See you later guys.