History of Expert: Mothyards

Overview

Expert: Mothyards is the Expert 50-wave difficulty of the Mothyards map of Onslaught, a three-player wave-defence Seasonal Arena activity where fireteams defend an Advanced Defensive Unit (ADU) against 50 waves of Hive or Fallen (Eliksni) combatants. The map is set at the Cosmodrome (Mothyards). Listed power is 2000 (original Onslaught maps; Expert-tier 'Vanguard forces' defence variant).

Launching

Select Onslaught from the Director and choose the Expert tier once it is unlocked. The two Onslaught difficulty types are the playlist/10-wave set and the full 50-wave run (ten waves per set, five sets).

Map notes

Mothyards has a large arena with no clear chokepoints, and widely spread bonus objectives that can be troublesome.

Mechanics

• Earn Scrap by scoring kills and spend it on turrets, decoys, sweeper bots and tripmines between waves; throw ADU Cores at defences to repair them.
• Waves 2, 5 and 8 of each set are bonus-objective waves (these supply Heavy ammo), waves 3 and 9 are augment waves, wave 6 is a rift wave and wave 10 is a boss wave. Extinguish activates by default on higher difficulty.
• Bosses drop chests with BRAVE Arsenal weapons and Tokens of Bravery.
• Tips: pick Hive over Fallen (fewer damage-immune units), run Machine Guns for add and Tormentor control, and swap to single-target damage before bosses.

Rewards

BRAVE Arsenal weapons and Tokens of Bravery from boss chests (Onslaught Mastery triumph tracks completion).

Related

Sibling Expert maps: Expert: Midtown, Expert: Vostok. Salvation variants: Expert: Kell's Grave, Expert: Widow's Court, see Onslaught: Salvation and Onslaught: Playlist.

Notes

Sources describe the base Onslaught maps; the exact Expert power and modifiers for the original maps were not confirmed beyond the listed power 2000 in game data.