A Jackalpocalypse even? At any rate, a whole lot of beaky wonders!

(6:55) Level 3 ('The Truth and Reconciliation') on Heroic. Prepare for a Jackalpocalypse! Continuing the passage horde battling, I've now got a specially engineered Jackal-heavy horde to play with. Further instalments to follow, after this introduction.

Released August 19th 2026, gameplay recorded August 16th 2026.

00:02 (Play 1 - Horde intro, with AR & needler) In this introductory play, the entire Jackal contingent comes first. That was pretty extreme I think. On some plays I might get a Grunt or two before the entire beak brigade has turned up.

02:43 (Play 2 - Cloaked inspection and fun) Circling around to the rear and using the camo, you can see here that up front, it's nothing but Jackals. I'll be showing some more cloaked play later by the way, so watch out for that!

05:22 (Play 3 - Speed play, AR & needler) Just to end with some relatively intense combat, here's a nice explosive speed play. Could've gone faster if I hadn't been having fun with the needler, but it wasn't really an all-out play. I wanted a good amount of satisfying needle bangs.

The final grunty plasma throw almost got me. The grenade was obscured by plasma explosions, so I only saw it very late. Just missed. Must've been very close to my feet though.

Closing remarks To say a bit more in regard to engineering the horde, I initially used a plasma pistol to kill newly spawned Grunts. When that became impractical I switched to the sniper rifle, but after a while it was too risky to stick my head out (due to Jackal fire), and it had become problematic to target Grunts anyway, as they were getting obscured by Jackals. So then I just let spawning proceed unhindered, for an amount of time which I hoped would result in 50-60 covies. Luckily I judged it reasonably well, only overshooting by 1.

Three more plays coming next!

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