Let's talk about the swarm, I'm at the start of chapter 5 so no spoilers.
So people think they're a good replacement to the locust? I personally find their bigger units boring, bland and dull to fight compared to the locust.
Snatchers suck compared to th giant spider things, pouncers sucks. Likewise in locust we saw those cstspilar things, those armoured kanka things which were great to fight etc.
I actually couldn't disagree more with this.
The juvies, pounchers, snatchers and carriers are far more fun to fight anything in the previous game. They've all got multiple attacks and can be dangerous at any range.
Snatchers can spray acid at you, down you in one hit using their tail attack, pounce on you from across the battlefield, slash you at close range and - in a cool twist - abduct you or a teammate to end the fight early.
Pounchers can hit you from distance with their tail quills, jump on to your cover to stagger you and, of course, pounce on you and maul you.
Carriers are again effective at both ranges. Shooting it's airborne pods as they come out of their chest for extra damage adds a cool little bit of depth.
Juvies, in combination with the aforementioned enemies, drones, grenadiers and snipers, might be the scariest enemy of the lot.
The Scions always have dangerous weapons such as the buzzkill, dropshot or mauler and have the frustrating ability to buff nearby enemies. They essentially take the place of the Kantus but rather than revive enemies, it makes them even harder to kill.
Some of the enemies we have lost, like the ticker or reavers, are actually smartly integrateed into the DeeBee faction.
Look at the original Gears of War, you had boomers who were essentially big bullet sponges with no other characteristics and therons, which when all was said and done, were just tougher drones with better wepaonry.
Gears of War 2 and 3 obviously added more, but none of those new enemies have the variety of move sets the Swarm have (who likes the Lambent?).
And I say all this as you someone who adored the original trilogy.
It helps that the AI is MUCH smarter in Gears of War 4.
One of my biggest worries was how diverse the enemies would actually be in this game considering The Coalition only had two and a half years or so to make it from scratch, but they totally delivered.
