Horde Class Guide - Robotics Expert (Gears 5)

[@connor_hoxton_petrenko5745]

Man, this chad still responds to his comments even a year later for his vids.

[@connor_hoxton_petrenko5745]

Great guide as usual

[@gnperdue]

The first class I got to 20, mostly because if you go into random lobbies, nobody is willing to step up and be the engineer, LOL. And in the meantime, RE is a pretty legit sniper.

[@stephenmccann8904]

Nice video as always, thanks! Robotics expert is my current main for 1-50. I run Combat Engineer and Global Overclock. Then, Inspired Sniping, Bloody DR1 and Precision Repairs are an unbelievable combo. Have got ULT 2/3 times on some waves while keeping base at 100%

[@StephenYuan]

I prefer this class to Mechanix because I am kind of a Marksman main who likes to help with repairing. Generally I ignore the ult unless it's to create a distraction to avoid getting downed. My horde build: Bloody Support, precision repairs, global overclock, combat engineer, experimental weapons Escape: Melee resistance, heavy resistance, bloody dr-1, experimental weapons, enforcer porting I like to build a locker and put a torque bow, Longshot and other precision weapons in it. In my mind I am mainly there to get kills/repair. RE is great for maintaining taps as well because it repairs so much faster than the mechanic. Imho bloody support is mostly worthless in escape because it takes so long for your ult to charge. By the time it happens the run is usually almost over. And precision weapons aren't always available in quantities that make it worthwhile.

[@gnperdue]

FWIW I find Bloody Support and the Bloody DR1 to combo just fine. Unless there is a reduced bleeding modifier on, of course. But Bloody DR1 just does insane damage and can pull you out of a pinch in late waves if heavies get out of hand and it just owns certain bosses. Meanwhile the consistent wave to wave damage of Bloody Support (especially paired with Experimental Weapons) is really strong. It is easy to lead your team in damage as an RE, unless you have a Demo or a Tactician that goes off with their ults very effectively.

[@Ser_Locke]

Thank you for all the great tips and guides, they really helped and motivated me to play more

[@grandmasterbruce]

Great vid as always, didn't know you can use the trishot with this one with the db card

[@tatterz4042]

As far as I know, Experimental Weapons also increases Active Effects of DB weapons by 30% at Lvl 6 - similar to Mechanics Custom Robotics. This damage buff doesn’t even require enemy health to be below 50%. The card doesn’t say this.

[@tatterz4042]

Also I should add - if any engineer is using Sentry Upgrade cards, I DO NOT want to play with them.

[@hollowstrife8220]

I didn't know about the extra active effects this provides, never even thought to test for that. When it comes to engineers building sentries though, what's your logic for not wanting to see that? I do think that a lot of engineers put too much emphasis on them, only a few are needed at most, depending on the map. Some of the gameplay in this video was done on master with only 2 sentries, the rest was barriers, decoys and weapon lockers

[@stephenmccann8904]

@@tatterz4042 I agree. Engineers should build minimum sentries and only when base is set up (I normally built the first one at some point after wave 30 if at all). If an Engineer uses sentry damage cards, he is incentivised to build more to get maximum usage. Then he just builds loads and very early, making the game boring and frustrating

[@StephenYuan]

While we're on the subject, I wish TC would fix the card text to be more complete/accurate when it is wrong or incomplete. It would save a lot of time and trouble.

[@xvc918x8]

7:55 thats what i needed to know ugh what a bummer

[@caramelthunder1980]

Just recently got Gears 5 and have been doing nothing but Horde. I do the daily map that's 12 waves. I've found, with PUGs, it's actually better for me to pick up something like a lancer to do more damage since the loadout weapons have little ammo. I basically pick up two rifles, replacing my two starting weapons. I build some barriers and then some turrets, and put my points into repair skill. I might try the builds in this video to see if maybe I can get it to work better, but I'm not hopeful with PUGs.

[@apothecary1725]

I like how the mechanic and the robot engineer can play off of each other but if you want to save money on fortifications get a mechanic to level 15 and it has a turret as ultimate so when you reach level 14 you'll get two cards caught efficient fabrication which reduces the amount of fortification cost and an overload which anything over 50% health does more damage depends on how you level up the cards it gives you a small discount with the pass of ability so like for me I got 25% at lv 3 and off with the card for efficient fabrication and a 15% off for the passability which is 40% off and horde mode with my mechanic

[@sSOLDIERrr]

Easily my favorite/best class. Remember, players don't have fun if they're not killing, so don't set up sentries everywhere and take people's kills. Set up level 2 barriers, a locker for every player, snipe from a distance, and let your teammates get kills too so they're enjoying the game.

[@HookahOtaku]

so be less efficient for happiness points. *kicks*

[@ricodvorsky3844]

I do the same thing, barriers and lockers but also shock sentries. They dont take ppls kills but help a lot by stunning enemies, especially heavies and bosses.

[@sSOLDIERrr]

@@HookahOtaku what's the point of playing the game if you're not having fun, or "happiness"?

[@TemplarDG]

This used to be my favourite class, but surprisingly; I now find the Architect is a better choice for me.

[@sSOLDIERrr]

Why is Architect better than Robotics Expert for you?

[@richardhofmann6625]

Hi, Thanx a lot for your genius vid! I love the Robot Expert. and cant understand, why x35 Earthwalker grades this as worst of all classes... Actually I mean these kind of comparing classes are senseless at all, but IF I compare I mean: playing solo here I have that wonderfull "leave me alone"- Superforce pressing y. The Mechs Tower is absolutely insane, but carrying it is pain. And the Holo of Architect is ... not useless, but it is not attracting enemys strong enough in my opinion. Thx again - maybe see you in the Battlefield - (Gul Dukat 111)

[@hollowstrife8220]

Cheers dude, appreciate the kind words, I bounce between the Mechanic and Robotics Expert as being my favourite, they are both great in their own way, Architect definitely needs some love compared to them 2 though. Good luck in horde though! 👍

[@richardhofmann6625]

@@hollowstrife8220 Thanx for answering. 😀

[@grandfred1364]

Actually i think it's quite hard to find good informations like that on internet. Thank you ! I wonder if the locker skill card does stack with the mechanics one ? (Sorry if my english is wrong)

[@robertgreen2765]

Does the perk buff not buff the engineers builds to??

[@oknice8325]

Hi may I ask some questions please : 1. How to lvl up classes xp efficiently 2. When a turret or barrier gets a kill, who gets the kill? 3. You mentioned u can upgrade taps, how do you do this? 4. Do you think you can make a forge video elaborating more on how much each gun gives in power for the forge? 5. Is the forge worth upgrading or just keep it at lvl 1 if playing jack? 6. Why are promotional characters called promotional category? Thank you in advance, T

[@StephenYuan]

1) do escape and horde dailies. Be sure to utilize special xp events, days when you can get 2x xp, sometimes more. 2)the one who built it gets the kill. If you do some damage you can get an elim and some xp. 3) you "upgrade" taps by collecting power. Each time you collect it increases the amount next time you collect until it maxes out at a certain point. 4) and 5) are forge questions. I haven't played a match with a forge in a long time. I consider it uncommon. Anyway I am going to defer to Hollowstrife or someone else on this. 6) the "promotional" classes all seem to be based on characters from other non-gears intellectual properties. This is back classes were associated exclusively with one character. Architect (Kat) and Protector (Emil) were from Halo Reach, Slugger (Sarah Connor) and Striker from Terminator Dark Fate,

[@oknice8325]

@@StephenYuan thank you so much for all that information. I really appreciate it. Also if I were to host a match would I lvl up faster in terms of class xp if I played solo or with other players? I only care about lvling my class and not the account level.

[@hollowstrife8220]

@Perry Stroika pretty much covered everything else, nice one. In terms of the forge, when I make a class guide for Jack, I'll cover even more since it is most relevant to him. It is definitely worth leveling it up if you have someone playing Jack. Last time I checked, a level 4 forge gives about 8 times as much energy as a level 1 forge, but that was a while ago. If you play horde with a team, you are going to complete it faster, but I'm not sure if you earn more as a solo player, not sure if anyone else in the comments section would know. Usually, the harder the difficulty, the more exp you would get.

[@oknice8325]

@@hollowstrife8220 ty also how to get not class xp in a match? Is it by score, damage, length of tim, etc...?

[@hollowstrife8220]

The higher the difficulty, the more exp you will get. Also, doing later waves also grants more exp than earlier waves, wave 50 gives more exp than wave 1. Someone else commented that getting more eliminations gives more exp as well. Time shouldn't have anything to do with it, as a lot of people like running some of the smaller maps on harder difficulties to get through it quicker, levelling up faster. When starting out, advanced difficulty is easily doable even for a level 1 class to help out, push for inconceivable or master once you get to level 16 with a class, and you will level up faster.

[@keepingitrealwithrooglemur3372]

I find it really frustrating when somebody else buys fortifications when I'm engineer class and they are not. Its the main reason I used to quit out on gears 4

[@alastorrd7653]

Dude I'm planning on buying gears 5 . So wanna ask what the hardest class to learn. Because I want challenge

[@noblechief9078]

The parting gift is use for on some escape maps that has alot of shock grenades but yeah in horde it's trash

[@StephenYuan]

Question for Hollow Strife. Do the perks effect all fortifications or just the ones the RE builds? Sorry if you addressed this in the vid. I didn't hear you mention it.

[@hollowstrife8220]

Last time I checked, it was only on fortifications YOU build as the Engineer. This may have changed, but I would have to test it and get back to you

[@MrToxicBacon]

You said an active longshot headshot reduces ult cd by more than 23seconds. Where does that passive come from I’m confused?

[@hollowstrife8220]

All classes get their ultimate back faster as they deal damage. About 10'000 damage works out to give around 30 seconds of cooldown, without taking anything else into account, hope this helps

[@MrToxicBacon]

@@hollowstrife8220 Yeah! that's a perfect explanation. I didn't know about that. Thank you so much for the reply! Love the vids, I've watched almost all of them. Keep it up. I'd love to see some of your runs if you stream or decide to post some sometime.

[@locomojoboy2]

How do I make my DB1 ultimate not be so damn useless and get destroyed almost immediately?

[@hollowstrife8220]

Simple, you don't! The AI in the Summon DR-1 is terrible, you can mark enemies to make your DR-1 prioritise that target, but there's loads of mutators in the game that counter this ultimate

[@REALKAIN]

I know this been a year but, the DR1 is only attaking marked enemies that are close to YOU using bloody Dr actually shredds most bosses when you use the ult. the right way. I usually use it for Flocks/Wakatuu because most randoms tend to struggle with them when you also using a Cryo-cannon (triples the damage) they melt in seconds.

[@locomojoboy2]

@@REALKAIN thanks