How to defeat the horde?

[Hyperion]

Hey there! I started the game on hard since I wanted a challenge without it being overwhelming, but now I’m towards the end of the game and I can’t defeat the only horde I actually have to fight against. I heard online of a building you could lock yourself in but I somehow already knocked over the entrance and it can’t be redone. I can always restart on normal and 100% it, but I was wondering if you know any tips or how to cheese out the AI to get to the ending since I’m not too far. Thanks!

[Ashley]

Consumables, guns with big clips, do your nero checkpoints and supply drops. Shoot, run and reload repeat. Use whatever terrain traps around the area.

[Hyperion]

Originally posted by Amo Gus:

Consumables, guns with big clips, do your nero checkpoints and supply drops. Shoot, run and reload repeat. Use whatever terrain traps around the area.

I would, but I got past the point of no return...

[kubson☂]

if you are really lost, search up days gone fling trainer and enable god mode or at least unlimited ammo so you can get past it

[Fordfahrer]

Play in easy mode, when you failed three times you get the chance to continue the game without having to kill the horde.

[Jhea]

Originally posted by Hyperion:

Hey there! I started the game on hard since I wanted a challenge without it being overwhelming, but now I’m towards the end of the game and I can’t defeat the only horde I actually have to fight against. I heard online of a building you could lock yourself in but I somehow already knocked over the entrance and it can’t be redone. I can always restart on normal and 100% it, but I was wondering if you know any tips or how to cheese out the AI to get to the ending since I’m not too far. Thanks!

only 1 horde...?
well i had to fight at least 3 to get to the end

usually i just lay a lot of traps, look for a chokepoint or 2 in a row (like that wooden bridge near the saw mill) and then just unload everything.

first few freakers i get with bombs, lures and those napalm molotows.
the rest just 3 autoguns.
machine gun as special.
the chicago thing for main, and the SMP-9 for secondary.

works best for me...
also park your bike behind you several dozen meters and make it face 'away from danger' (always face it away)
so you can just hop on, and drive off if the hordes is too much, just drive several hundred meters and repeat till horde is dead. D E D!

[JTWibble]

I find throwing explosives at your own feet works a gem. Run from the horde look down and drop grenades or pipe bombs at your feet, by the time they go off your clear and the horde is on top of them.

[GubbyTheChubby]

i dont get it how ppl are not smart enough to figure it out to defeat a simple boring horde....they are all far too easy even on the hardest difficulty if u use the terrain wisely

[Mr Geek]

Yes, after 100 hours in, really taking my time and having a blast with this game, I hit that forced horde mission with the sergeant from Diamond Lake and the fun disappeared. I see there are 3 or 4 more forced horde missions coming in order to complete the story so I am pretty much done, but it's been fun, great game until now. I wish they had made horde elimination missions as side missions, then you could do them when you felt capable, well equipped and ready, that would be fun, where they don't block progress as they do now.

[Ashley]

They give you more than enough time to prepare probably should make you fight them earlier. At that point you should have access to all the land mimes, best throwables, guns and all the skill points or most of the ones that matter. And in all the forced horde fights there's plentily of explosive barrels and cars to shoot as well. Plan a better route, change your guns if needed and make your supplies.

And outside of that first forced horde fight you can honestly dip at anytime. They're open world after the first. I don't know about dipping from the first one but any after that you definitely can.

[p00se2]

would the game softlock itself if you - on purpose or without knowing - enter a mission that has a huge horde with the wrong guns and no ammo on hard (+) difficulty ?


since you stuck in the mission unable to access gun locker / leave mission area and get the required gear to beat the mission the only option is to go back to earlier safegame ?

[Hyperion]

Originally posted by Mr Geek:

Yes, after 100 hours in, really taking my time and having a blast with this game, I hit that forced horde mission with the sergeant from Diamond Lake and the fun disappeared. I see there are 3 or 4 more forced horde missions coming in order to complete the story so I am pretty much done, but it's been fun, great game until now. I wish they had made horde elimination missions as side missions, then you could do them when you felt capable, well equipped and ready, that would be fun, where they don't block progress as they do now.

Yeah well I mean I might restart it on normal in a few months, I liked it though I could always have done more side stuff in the first half of the game before I got blocked in the last zone. But oh well…

[Mr Geek]

Originally posted by Hyperion:

Originally posted by Mr Geek:

Yes, after 100 hours in, really taking my time and having a blast with this game, I hit that forced horde mission with the sergeant from Diamond Lake and the fun disappeared. I see there are 3 or 4 more forced horde missions coming in order to complete the story so I am pretty much done, but it's been fun, great game until now. I wish they had made horde elimination missions as side missions, then you could do them when you felt capable, well equipped and ready, that would be fun, where they don't block progress as they do now.

Yeah well I mean I might restart it on normal in a few months, I liked it though I could always have done more side stuff in the first half of the game before I got blocked in the last zone. But oh well…

BTW like you I also had already explored that one building you can lock up in to fight the horde from. Basically the FIRST time you enter/explore that building through a hole in the side, furniture falls down to block subsequent access in, you get out through the roof if I recall. The problem is once explored/entered you can't re-enter the building, as you know....really sucked :)

[Hyperion]

Originally posted by Mr Geek:

Originally posted by Hyperion:

Yeah well I mean I might restart it on normal in a few months, I liked it though I could always have done more side stuff in the first half of the game before I got blocked in the last zone. But oh well…

BTW like you I also had already explored that one building you can lock up in to fight the horde from. Basically the FIRST time you enter/explore that building through a hole in the side, furniture falls down to block subsequent access in, you get out through the roof if I recall. The problem is once explored/entered you can't re-enter the building, as you know....really sucked :)

Yep :/

[Mr Geek]

Originally posted by Hyperion:

Originally posted by Mr Geek:

BTW like you I also had already explored that one building you can lock up in to fight the horde from. Basically the FIRST time you enter/explore that building through a hole in the side, furniture falls down to block subsequent access in, you get out through the roof if I recall. The problem is once explored/entered you can't re-enter the building, as you know....really sucked :)

Yep :/

Well I just finished my 4th horde and hopefully am nearing the end of the game. I took time to add a couple skills I needed, like carrying capacity for materials and throwables and buffed stamina regen to help when running like a sissy LOL, that helped a lot.

What I really dislike are the horde missions with invisible walls, those "Leaving Mission Area" boundaries. Just did the mission for O'Brian (Nero guy) that was in a meandering dark cave. The horde triggers with you at the very bottom in darkness getting swarmed in this dark confined map. I finally found a wooden bridge I could funnel them onto for napalm or proximity bombs but that was out of bounds. So the option is to slog it out in darkness and hope you can survive the confined space.

The fun hordes to kill are ones where you can hit and run, like at the college. Hop on the bike and mess with them, find places for bottlenecks, etc. as they chase you all over the map, it's actually pretty hilarious. But the that sergeant mission with the glitchy building (once explored) and this O'Brian one were annoying as hell for me. All that whining aside I am glad I stuck with it and am looking forward to starting a new game.

Something else I did not fully realize is that resource items/nodes respawn after a couple days...that totally changed how I played the game where I started experimenting and using throwables much more freely. Up til then I had been conserving anything I could not buy at trust level 2, basically just not using them at all unless I had to. It was frustrating because that first horde mission used up more than I could replace...now I see that doesn't matter since materials respawn.

Anyway, just sharing stuff that changed things for me. I hope you stick with it, it's an excellent game for sure.

[Fordfahrer]

When i finished the story i killed all hordes just with the big machine rifle and a few napalm molotows.

The only annoying thing is that you have to find ingredients for new napalm molotows every one or two hordes.