How to complete the first horde mission (600 infected)

[Kurtino]

I've only got rangers and barricades to place, it says difficulty 1 (the lowest), but every combination doesn't seem close to winning.

Am I suppose to come back to this mission with more to select from talents, or what?

[Shadow]

You need to deal with every single infected on the map is what loads of people are saying but that doesn't seem to work.

[[MNI] Kisune]

Well i just build in both choke points (spaced out gates over the trail tracks and a simple double wall for the other one) and then postet ranger behind that
How many ranger do you have once the horde comes?

[Woudo]

Uh guys, he's talking about the horde mission, not the tutorial mission.

[Kurtino]

Originally posted by MNI Kísune:

Well i just build in both choke points (spaced out gates over the trail tracks and a simple double wall for the other one) and then postet ranger behind that
How many ranger do you have once the horde comes?

I mean the horde mission.

I'm not sure because I've tried different things to no results. Honestly my best attempt was just placing the maximum number of rangers around the tower, every attempt of different numbers of barricades just seems to fail.

[soulguard]

Ah... NVM. NOT the first mission.

[[MNI] Kisune]

A i am sry didnt know Horde missions where seperated (only managed to get to play 2 missions so far)

[Gomez]

Hi,

I suggest you take as soon as possible barricades in tech tree.

Regards.

[ZackElfie]

He's referring to the Infected Swarm missions.
The game type lets you place "Wood Barrier"
The "Wood Buttresses" skill in the tech tree doesn't affect Wood Barriers, so it doesn't look like it would help.

[Roshan Crass]

I don't know the layout of the map, but I won the 1k pop on brutal by placing soldiers, having them run out so they are constantly shooting, and slowly back up towards outpost.

The barricades seem like a waste unless your map is very chokepointey.

[ZackElfie]

In a game type where you can only build before the game begins, it's kind of stupid to have things locked by the skill tree.
I assume we're failing because we haven't unlocked soldiers yet.
Poor balance/poorly explained game type.

[Flokachu]

Do the colony missions you have available first, before you tackle the horde missions.
You get more resources for the horde missions from the colony missions as far as i can tell.

Also feel free to lower the difficulty. Challenging has a horde of 1.000, the horde on normal way smaller (~650). You can change it with the icon on the left of the map screen.

[Kurtino]

Originally posted by Gomez:

Hi,

I suggest you take as soon as possible barricades in tech tree.

Regards.

So these missions are fails unless I've taken a specific tech tree?

Why is there even a choice if this is the case? This wasn't clear at all, it took me 9 defeats to finally overcome this and from the difficulty shift from without using spikes to with it's clear that it's designed with barricades in mind.

[Gomez]

Originally posted by Kurtino:

Originally posted by Gomez:

Hi,

I suggest you take as soon as possible barricades in tech tree.

Regards.

So these missions are fails unless I've taken a specific tech tree?

Why is there even a choice if this is the case? This wasn't clear at all, it took me 9 defeats to finally overcome this and from the difficulty shift from without using spikes to with it's clear that it's designed with barricades in mind.

Hello,

As tester i have played a lot of time all the stages. I only suggest that maybe it can make it easier but i have won them withou it.

Regards.

[everyJonny]

hey its total easy, just finish the 2 Hero Missions before. I got 1000 support points for soldiers and some barricades. Was total easy with so much imperial points and i play on hard difficulty.

[=]

Originally posted by Crass:

I don't know the layout of the map, but I won the 1k pop on brutal by placing soldiers, having them run out so they are constantly shooting, and slowly back up towards outpost.

The barricades seem like a waste unless your map is very chokepointey.

The 600 infected mission are all fast zombies, kiting with soldiers won't work that well.