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I found the best way was to head first of all to the left hand side of the town behind the horseshoe Inn, there is a bit of a ravine there so I threw in an attractor and then pretty much followed it with a napalm.
Run back away and shoot the few that follow you, then pretty much do the same again and that takes maybe a quarter of them out.
Head down then past the horseshoe Inn and hide in the bushes near the main horde, again lob in an attractor whilst still hiding and then a napalm straight after. Let it die down a few seconds and same again.
I did this three or four times and it took the vast majority out, then used a the attractor bombs to take a few more out then took the rest out with my sniper rifle.
Once I figured guns were s
t for it I did it on my second attempt.
I'm now mopping up the smaller side stories to increase trust and just generally improve my character ready for more hordes
Run back away and shoot the few that follow you, then pretty much do the same again and that takes maybe a quarter of them out.
Head down then past the horseshoe Inn and hide in the bushes near the main horde, again lob in an attractor whilst still hiding and then a napalm straight after. Let it die down a few seconds and same again.
I did this three or four times and it took the vast majority out, then used a the attractor bombs to take a few more out then took the rest out with my sniper rifle.
Once I figured guns were s
t for it I did it on my second attempt.I'm now mopping up the smaller side stories to increase trust and just generally improve my character ready for more hordes
hucumber said:
Thankyou! I did know about the napalm, but never seem to burn enough of them to make any useful difference. I think getting pissed off with it made me lose any sort of tactical thought, will have another go at it tomorrow 
You have to run through gaps - like the fences and between lorries etc. Get enough of them to follow and napalm the gap, you can get quite a few with each bomb. If they are spread out it won't work so make sure they are going between gaps. Before attacking the horde scout around, there are fuel cans, gas tanks (which you can shoot or put a bomb by), oxygen cannisters etc. I find the large cannister in the petrol station if you can get enough near it before you shoot can take about 50 at once, then you can run through the fence behind the station and napalm. Then back across to the right and through the fence then into the house. Once in the house they congregate there and then you can kill a few then leap out of the roof and run to the right across the road (which has collapsed) and napalm the gap between the cars then the gap in the road. From there head into the railway yard and through the railway cars - napalm that gap... Rinse and repeat...
blue_haddock said:
I'm getting close to the end and Jesus that horde as you go to get fertilizer makes the earlier one look like a walk in the park!
I think this horde is programmed to chase you, and keep chasing. The first time I took it on I made a right mess and ran away, and kept running...still running...run to the bike, jump on the bike, drive away...oh they're still after me, drive some more...keep driving...After a while I took the time to survey the area and scope out the correct tactics on how you're supposed to take them out. Once you work it out it's actually one of the easier hordes. Every now and again I fire up Days Gone and reset the hordes just so I can take this horde and the Sawmill on, great fun.
Days Gone is one of the few games I've played that actually engenders a genuine feeling of trepidation and the need to hide to survive. It has captured the sense of post-apocalypse and isolation better than any other game I've played. Even H:ZD (which I also love) feels fairly civilised. Days Gone is just a ruined world with the remains of humanity scrapping for survival.
PhilboSE said:
I think this horde is programmed to chase you, and keep chasing. The first time I took it on I made a right mess and ran away, and kept running...still running...run to the bike, jump on the bike, drive away...oh they're still after me, drive some more...keep driving...
After a while I took the time to survey the area and scope out the correct tactics on how you're supposed to take them out. Once you work it out it's actually one of the easier hordes. Every now and again I fire up Days Gone and reset the hordes just so I can take this horde and the Sawmill on, great fun.
Days Gone is one of the few games I've played that actually engenders a genuine feeling of trepidation and the need to hide to survive. It has captured the sense of post-apocalypse and isolation better than any other game I've played. Even H:ZD (which I also love) feels fairly civilised. Days Gone is just a ruined world with the remains of humanity scrapping for survival.
I've now got to go to the sawmill as my next mission so I'm currently out scouring the area for supplies to ensure I've got plenty of goodies as I presume it's going to be rough!After a while I took the time to survey the area and scope out the correct tactics on how you're supposed to take them out. Once you work it out it's actually one of the easier hordes. Every now and again I fire up Days Gone and reset the hordes just so I can take this horde and the Sawmill on, great fun.
Days Gone is one of the few games I've played that actually engenders a genuine feeling of trepidation and the need to hide to survive. It has captured the sense of post-apocalypse and isolation better than any other game I've played. Even H:ZD (which I also love) feels fairly civilised. Days Gone is just a ruined world with the remains of humanity scrapping for survival.
blue_haddock said:
I've now got to go to the sawmill as my next mission so I'm currently out scouring the area for supplies to ensure I've got plenty of goodies as I presume it's going to be rough!
Yes, if you do it wrong! As ever, survey the area for aspects of the environment you can use to your advantage. Also, you take them on in daylight so they give up the chase more quickly which you can use. Look for opportunities to funnel them into narrow gaps. There's a couple of particular areas that may life much easier if you use them correctly.You can survey the area reasonably comfortably during daylight to see what you have to play with. There are lots of traps you can use around the place, these won't kill many of them but can buy you a bit of breathing space.
blue_haddock said:
I'm getting close to the end and Jesus that horde as you go to get fertilizer makes the earlier one look like a walk in the park!
Some of the Hordes are huge, I would always check my bounty stock before and after, smallest hordes are about 60 or so, the biggest horde (if I remember correctly) was about 300.This is the best thing about this game, being open world etc you can explore so many tactics for dealing with Hordes, more many of them, I'd wait until night, then go into the sleeping area and lace with with remote bombs, wait for them to go to bed and BOOM!
There is another that has an entrance to the cave in the ceiling of the cave, you can't climb out that way, but can get in, just drop an attractor in swiftly followed by napalm. The hardest horde for me when I did the first run through of the game as at the college I think.
For the smaller Hordes, I'll just use he poison darts in the SF rifle as they come out of the sleeping place. That'll reduce the numbers a fair bit.
There is another that has an entrance to the cave in the ceiling of the cave, you can't climb out that way, but can get in, just drop an attractor in swiftly followed by napalm. The hardest horde for me when I did the first run through of the game as at the college I think.
For the smaller Hordes, I'll just use he poison darts in the SF rifle as they come out of the sleeping place. That'll reduce the numbers a fair bit.
Ash_ said:
Some of the Hordes are huge, I would always check my bounty stock before and after, smallest hordes are about 60 or so, the biggest horde (if I remember correctly) was about 300.
Sawmill is 500 on the hardest levels - don't know if they vary in size with difficulty.There's a few which are 300 I think - the couple in Chemult, Iron Butte and the one hiding in the railway tunnel by a Nero checkpoint.
Think the smallest horde is about 25, that's the one on O'Leary Mountain.
Ash_ said:
This is the best thing about this game, being open world etc you can explore so many tactics for dealing with Hordes, more many of them, I'd wait until night, then go into the sleeping area and lace with with remote bombs, wait for them to go to bed and BOOM!
There is another that has an entrance to the cave in the ceiling of the cave, you can't climb out that way, but can get in, just drop an attractor in swiftly followed by napalm. The hardest horde for me when I did the first run through of the game as at the college I think.
For the smaller Hordes, I'll just use he poison darts in the SF rifle as they come out of the sleeping place. That'll reduce the numbers a fair bit.
I had not thought about the remote bombs nor the poison dart options. I must try them at some point. I'm fairly simple minded, I tend to wait until daylight, chuck a couple of napalms at the sleeping horde, then machine gun from a distance and use the Chopper as they get closer, then roll, run, rinse and repeat...There is another that has an entrance to the cave in the ceiling of the cave, you can't climb out that way, but can get in, just drop an attractor in swiftly followed by napalm. The hardest horde for me when I did the first run through of the game as at the college I think.
For the smaller Hordes, I'll just use he poison darts in the SF rifle as they come out of the sleeping place. That'll reduce the numbers a fair bit.
Well I've gone and done it on my second go!
Started off at the Nero checkpoint end and kept running back up the hill and taking some out with the rod and then went round to the train tunnel and used that as a great bottleneck.
Still involved lots of running away and shooting at them from afar!
That was actually pretty epic!
Started off at the Nero checkpoint end and kept running back up the hill and taking some out with the rod and then went round to the train tunnel and used that as a great bottleneck.
Still involved lots of running away and shooting at them from afar!
That was actually pretty epic!
That was my tactic too but once the numbers dwindled I went up on the gantry between the main and circular buildings (some sort of silo?) and took out the rest from there. It got a bit hairy when I realised they could climb the up the circular building even though there’s no ladder.
Edited by benny.c on Monday 1st February 20:54
So I've now completed it on the normal setting, not sure if I should go straight back into doing it again on a harder setting or give one of the many other games I've got another go.
It did definitely get better as you got into it and I think knowing how it progresses will make playing not again more enjoyable.
It did definitely get better as you got into it and I think knowing how it progresses will make playing not again more enjoyable.
Try NG+ on hard II, it's a slightly different experience as it's a faster playthrough by keeping all your perks, decent weapons and bike, you don't have to be so damn scared of the freakers initially. It's quite refreshing just beating them up the whole time. You can skip most of the cutscenes, there's just a few tedious scripted on-rails bits of gameplay that you have to plod through.
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