A:CM "Bug Hunt" Mode [GBX Posts: #240 / #433]

[Bloodshot12]

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Originally Posted by ChrisF

Some clarification on this...

- Coming in March, Bug Hunt is a wave-based cooperative multiplayer game type that includes three new maps exclusive to this mode.

- Bug Hunt is included with the Season Pass. The Season Pass bundle contains four upcoming DLC packs (encompassing both new campaign and new multiplayer content) and offers an almost 40% savings over buying each add-on individually. Of those four DLC packs, Bug Hunt is the first.

- Those that pre-order or purchase Aliens: Colonial Marines from Walmart will (while supplies last) receive a code for a free download of the Bug Hunt DLC. This code will not be active until the Bug Hunt DLC becomes available in March.

Originally Posted by ChrisF

In general, each DLC we produce (regardless of the game) has a development / production schedule and budget that is separate from the main game, and that content would not exist otherwise. We don't cut completed content just to sell it later on.

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So, this should confirm some suspicions people had here.



Now, it says a "$14.99 value" - there is a very very slight chance that it could be free DLC considered to be worth $14.99, though I doubt it.

Thoughts?

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[PVTDukeMorrison]

God ******* damnit

So it looks like horde mode is out march 19th

[EyeBelieve]

Apologies, but what a joke or should I say an insult to those who paid the full price for the 'full' game to have to pay extra for something that should already be in the game. I bet they will use the same existing maps in the 'initial' release.

[Shev]

Would this be included in the season pass?

[Mkilbride]

Yes, this is one of the 4 DLC that come with the Season Pass.

I cannot ******* believe they have this. SURVIVOR = HORDE MODE. EVERY GAME HAS SURVIVOR...be you, some allies, VS waves of AI enemies.

Now this comes along...geeze. Gearbox...you ****** up.

[XENOnymous]

Originally Posted by Mkilbride

Yes, this is one of the 4 DLC that come with the Season Pass.

I cannot ******* believe they have this. SURVIVOR = HORDE MODE. EVERY GAME HAS SURVIVOR...be you, some allies, VS waves of AI enemies.

Now this comes along...geeze. Gearbox...you ****** up.

SEGA did this. not GBX.

[affinity]

Originally Posted by Mkilbride

Yes, this is one of the 4 DLC that come with the Season Pass.

I cannot ******* believe they have this. SURVIVOR = HORDE MODE. EVERY GAME HAS SURVIVOR...be you, some allies, VS waves of AI enemies.

Now this comes along...geeze. Gearbox...you ****** up.

Survivor in A:CM is not Horde mode. It's a players team driven mode, which is actually in some ways better than a.i. enemies, in some ways not as interesting as actual horde mode (especially considering with actual horde mode, more players could co-op together instead of just 4.)

People should be grateful Bug Hunt mode is made as the official proper mode instead of not coming at all (RE Operation Raccoon City to this day does not have a proper horde mode, RE6 doesn't have horde mode either.)

Don't assume Survivor means the same thing in all shooters.

It's like in R6 Vegas 2, no respawns team deathmatch is called Team Survival.

It's "horde mode" is called Terrorist Hunt (well there's no waves/respawning enemies, but still a type of cooperative horde mode since there's no respawns.)

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Originally Posted by Katten

Hope in Bug Hunt there will be a standard mk1 Pulse rifle, and a bigger map of hadleys where you fight infinit waves of xenos! that would be so fun

don't you mean M41A Pusle Rifle?

[XENOnymous]

what..
the..
frak...

[Bloodshot12]

Well AvP 2 had survivor, and it had no AI, so not every game

[theonerayman]

In the last hour I have been in touch with several major videogame websites (including but not only, Kotaku, IGN, Gamespot, 1up) informing all of them about the news many of us found shocking just a few days ago on these forums. That news of course is the fact that Survival mode is in fact not a horde style mode but just another 4v4 game mode. The reason for this was two fold. First and foremost is people should know what they are getting before they buy it. If a person was to google Aliens Colonial Marines RIGHT NOW they see dozens of websites implying or just telling them survival is a horde mode. There is a great chance they would not see the one post from a gearbox employee on these forums saying what it really was. The second reason is to get some kind of response from Gearbox as to why all of these stories were left out there without some word getting back to them that "Hey, this mode really isnt that. This is what it is, thanks" Up until Monday I had argued tooth and nail that Gearbox was the best developer hands down in the industry. And that Randy Pitchford was the best president in gaming. But this changes everything. I honestly feel like gearbox has lied to us. It may be a lie of omission, but a lie none the less. People need to and deserve to know the truth before buying not just this game, but any game.