I'm not yet sold on the deckbuilding layer of Back 4 Blood. Glancing at the cards in my premade medic deck, I spotted mostly modest health bonuses that, when used with a coordinated team, could probably keep us alive longer. Turtle Rock hopes that building a deck of trait cards will make things more interesting. I buy that argument, especially as a deterrent to rage-quitting, but I prefer the beginning-middle-end story of L4D's old Versus format, still. Turtle Rock told me that the idea behind Versus is to have a shorter, more digestible mode than Back 4 Blood's main campaign missions. When death is an inevitability, victory feels more like losing less than the other team. So far, frantically defending an enclosed arena as zombies flood in from every direction isn't as fun or interesting as pushing through a full campaign map. Health values and attack synergies are balancing details that Turtle Rock can surely tune in future updates, but I have larger issues with the mode's basic premise. On the survivor side, the bullet sponginess of enemies got annoying pretty fast, especially when I was hit with the popular combo of "ensnare me in place and spit acid at my feet at the same time." With such surefire ways to melt away our health bars, I wish the zombie roles came with a little more risk. Unless two or more survivors focused fire on me immediately, I practically couldn't be stopped. Dumping credits into my defense stat with the mid-match upgrade system only made me more survivable.
I felt so tanky that I hardly had to worry about smart positioning. The durability of these special zombies is a big question mark for me. The role felt similar to L4D's boomers that spew horde-attracting goo upon detonation, except my exploder can shrug off entire clips of ammo while a boomer would pop after a bullet or two. In one round I played an exploder whose literal job is to sprint into a crowd and blow up. As a zombie team, we didn't feel penalized for rushing in blindly and dying a lot. The game releases on October 12th on current-gen and next-gen consoles as well as PC.Back 4 Blood, with its tighter spaces (the small map actually shrinks further over time, Battle Royale style), feels inherently chaotic. THE CHEAPEST PRICE TO PRE-ORDER BACK 4 BLOODĬurrently, all pre-orders of Back 4 Blood will include the Fort Hope Elite weapon skin pack which includes the M4 Carbine Rifle, Uzi SMG, 870 Express Shotgun and RPK LMG.
You’re also able to explore Fort Hope to take aim in the shooting range, or hang out with your squad mates.
You’re also able to check out the all-new rogue-lite Card System mechanic which creates different experiences every time you play, allows you to build custom decks, equip special skills to your characters and also engage map mechanics that change the way that you play. During the open beta there’s two maps to play through in the Swarm mode and a good amount of different Ridden characters to try out. There’s also the PvP Swarm Mode where two squads of four face off in a best-of-three series of rounds swapping between playing as the Cleaners and the Ridden. You can mix and match between the available characters for a number of different weapons and abilities. The beta provides a really good amount of content that you can play through including two co-op campaign missions From Act 1 that allow you to see a good variety of locations and enemies. WHAT CONTENT DOES THE BACK 4 BLOOD OPEN BETA CONTAIN?īack 4 Blood is the latest game from Turtle Rock which is the team that created Left 4 Dead so things will feel familiar right off the bat. You can get ready and download the beta at the below links: You’ll be able to play the Back 4 Blood Open Beta from 5am Friday, August 13th until 5am Tuesday, August 17th, so there’s a great amount of time to download and jump in. WHEN DOES THE BACK 4 BLOOD OPEN BETA START AND END? You’re able to play with up to three mates and there’s cross-play in the beta as well, so it doesn’t matter what platform they’re on. Pre-order and get the Fort Hope Elite Weapon Skin Pack when it releases on October 12th.įollowing last week’s closed beta, this weekend, the Back 4 Blood beta will be open to anyone with an Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4 and PC. Play free this weekend in the Back 4 Blood Open Beta, from August 13th to 17th, available on Xbox Series X & S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4 and PC! Come slay with us in Back 4 Blood, a first-person co-op zombie shooter from the creators of Left 4 Dead.
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