Ten Player Horde in Gears of War 2

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[[This was only possible after TU6]]

THE TEN PLAYER HORDE
For Gears of War 2

Note: You can't select starting wave or difficulty after the glitch. (To pick difficulty: Start a new campaign and select desired difficulty, skip to your first checkpoint, then exit and continue.)

1. Set multiplayer to custom Annex.
2. Go back to the main menu.
3. Open the Xbox friends window and find any joinable person playing.
4. In their profile select "Join session in progress". (Alternately you can have a friend send you invites.)
5. The moment the window goes away, quickly press "A".
6. If timed right, you will be at a glitched Annex menu with only your name flashing orange. You will see a message saying that there are too many players.
7. Change the game type to Horde.
8. Go back to the main menu and select horde once again. You will get the Ten player Horde menu!
9. You can adjust weapons, friendly fire and bleed-out time. (Friendly fire will effect the Locusts as well!)
10. You MUST start the game with only yourself in the lobby, and invite players after the game has started.

Extended notes:
(1) If you DO start the game with people in your lobby. Half of them will be ghost Locusts. They will be able to watch from the horde point of view, similar to beast mode in Gears 3, but NOT play. The big problem is that when the number of the remaining horde reaches the same as the number of spectating Locusts, they will be null. You will be unable to proceed further than wave one.
(2) Since the Horde changes behavior and begins to rush when their number is equal to the number of remaining Cogs, they will rush quite sooner than you'd normally expect if you have ten players.
(3) We were unable to hammer down whether or not everyone could always hear each other in game. A simple solution to that is to have an Xbox party going. This also makes it easy for the host to invite everyone into the
game after he or she starts it. Sadly there is a limit of 8 to a party, possibly leaving 2 players out of the loop.
(4) During game play when the action is really up, you may notice some reduction of frame-rate. That is to be expected since it's your Xbox calculating all the players movements, Locust Horde activity and assorted weapons
of mass destruction!
(5) Other than the conditions mentioned above, the glitch is surprisingly solid. The custom horde menu survives even if you switch to some other mode. When you come back and select custom horde, there it will be.

Epic is really trying hard to keep this off the internet. They've even banned me for sharing this information. ;(...... -CGI Artist

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[Manishh95]

howd you do this ?

[MetallicMedium]

Click (Show More) at the bottom of the video window and read the description.

[MrBluedodger]

Just did this 2 days ago. A couple of my friends (3 out of the 9 we had in game) needed the Nowhere achievement (wave 50). So i loaded it with all Hammers:)

Now, if only we could get 9 insane bots on our side too...

[MetallicMedium]

@MrBluedodger That combination works well on River also. ;)

[usernameowain]

Looks good if it work... No good to me I haven’t got ten friend to play it with :-(

Don’t understand why this vid has only 3,422 views in 5 months and only 18 likes....

Anywho keep it up...... the vids’ I mean... good stuff. Sub’in to you now.

[MetallicMedium]

@usernameowain Thank you!

[PatrickStar765]

you should try putting bots on your side for the fun of it haha

[HaloHierach]

Someone needs to figure out how to do this in Gears 3.

[Dark21Star13]

thats so dumb, i think its funny that some people are smart enough to twist the game, you could conquer horde with ten players, and for that i give you kudos MetallicMedium.

[xDEADLOCKEDx2468]

@sp33ddriv3r1 Well, I don't, cause I have a right to complain why they didn't make the rest of the Gears of War series for the PC except for the first one.

[sp33ddriv3r1]

@xDEADLOCKEDx2468 I am only warning you , just saying. You can say epic deserves this and then they say you deserved to be banned.

[xDEADLOCKEDx2468]

@sp33ddriv3r1 Epic deserves this, only because they wouldn't even make Gears of War 2 for the PC.

[UncleMcMackDaddy]

fuck yeah. cake.

[sp33ddriv3r1]

@camerbeth1975 nice you put your gamertag in this video , Epic will never find you , read this before posting gamertags : forums(dot)epicgames(dot)com(S­lash)showthread(dot)php?t=7560­30

This means , if epic see's this , you will be banned from the Gears of war 1 , Gears of war 2 , And the Gears of war 3 Servers , Way to go