AltogetherAndrews
Banned
After not having fun with the co-op in the otherwise brilliant The Ascent, I’m super happy about this one. Never realized how much I had missed L4D. Sure, there are warts but that’s forgivable.
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cormack12
Gold Member
What phase you struggling with? I'm guessing the bollicks in its mouth? I was in a matchmade group and we did it. That's one success from four attempts. Good ratio for PuGs. Make sure everyone is picking up the purple weapons from the ground at the beginning. Ammo capacity always good cards, plus bullet damage and bullet penetration. Health are good, buy the extra slots at the start for the team.
Ultimately though it's about co ordination. And getting a bit lucky with the horde in the lair.
Spaceman292
Banned
I noticed this too. There's a small amount of acceleration for aiming. Whoever keeps putting this in games needs to be slapped in the face. It just ruins the whole thing.
MaximusPayne
Member
I turned off aim assist and it seemed to help a lot. Hopefully some updates to gameplay are incoming very soon.
Inuteu
Member
thanks
some guys got Ace of Spades
Im trying to get the achievement and no Ace of Spaces so far...
Spaceman292
Banned
I tried that and it does help. I guess you don't really need aim assist in this game. Just shoot in any direction there's probably goibg to be something there.
saintjules
Gold Member
The Friendly fire becomes a problem, especially during the horde rushes my teams encounter. Having a decent time with the game otherwise.
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Sygma
Member
had Tick Tick Boom by The Hives lmao
It's fun. Played with a group. Idk how randoms would be tho.
The aiming, just adjust ur settings straight off the bat is all i can say. Some of that improves as you add attachments and unlock cards.
Feels like a next level L4D. Its lacks some of the suspense that L4D had. But overall its worth the download for sure.
The aiming, just adjust ur settings straight off the bat is all i can say. Some of that improves as you add attachments and unlock cards.
Feels like a next level L4D. Its lacks some of the suspense that L4D had. But overall its worth the download for sure.
TheMan
Member
Yup, not gonna even bother playing on xbox. Feels fine on PC with good o m/kb
Zathalus
Member
Got Black Betty here, man that made it seriously fun.
Lol same. Loud too, adds a little something
JimboJones
Member
Not sure what to think, feels like they over complicated Left4Dead.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Krappadizzle
Member
Played a few hours with a few buddies. Really like the card system in place. Looking forward to playing more. Anyone wanna play? By all means message me. Playing on PC with my Xbox buddies is an awesome feature and makes me feel like a god. Let's play if anyone is down. Send me your GT/B4B name and we can party up and play!
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Played a little of this, surprised at what I perceive to be a generally negative vibe around the game (but I see why now, looking at this thread 
) . Game seems solid to me.
) . Game seems solid to me.
Sygma
Member
Huh? Movement is completely fine, you get indefinitely staggered when hit in the back tho
Reave
Member
ah, that explains why the gunplay feels off and weird
Krappadizzle
Member
Gunplay is fantastic on PC. Can't speak for consoles, but I love it, kind of has a Far Cry feel to it with a cool attachment system in place.
Elder Legend
Banned
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tylrdiablos
Member
I understand the Cards and Supply Lines systems are there to add a little re-play value but it's got to the point where my friends are just pissed off with it.
They don't want to micro-manage things, they just want to shoot zombies.
They don't want to micro-manage things, they just want to shoot zombies.
Krappadizzle
Member
And you can do those things without the card system. You can ignore it, if you want to specialize, you use it.
cormack12
Gold Member
That's what recruit is for really imo.
That level with the prison doors is bullshit. You just have to try and run past them? Has anyone tried that on veteran? We onyl got one in the safe room on recruit because we were downed. Wtf, shitty level that.
Kev Kev
Member
Updated the OT! Hope it is GAF worthy
How is everyone enjoying the game this weekend?
After struggling to get though act 2 I decided to take a different approach to this game. Instead of struggling to beat every act, and likely be em sick of the game by the end of act 4, I’m going back and really trying to master each level in each act.
Knowing myself (read: a horde shooter whore) I will likely being playing this game for several more years and I’d rather get a good handle on how to beat each level with the most efficiency, and know where all of the cache locations may or may not be. So I’ve done that with act 1, now I’m working on act 2 and will be moving onto act 3 soon.
How is everyone enjoying the game this weekend?
After struggling to get though act 2 I decided to take a different approach to this game. Instead of struggling to beat every act, and likely be em sick of the game by the end of act 4, I’m going back and really trying to master each level in each act.
Knowing myself (read: a horde shooter whore) I will likely being playing this game for several more years and I’d rather get a good handle on how to beat each level with the most efficiency, and know where all of the cache locations may or may not be. So I’ve done that with act 1, now I’m working on act 2 and will be moving onto act 3 soon.
Kev Kev
Member
no, i actually forgot about them. i saw one in the beta and was hoping it was going to be a collectible type of thing but havent seen any since the full game released.
edit: appears they are collectibles and there are ten of them, one for each level, and you get an achievement/trophy for finding all of them. i love finding collectibles even if they dont give you anything so thats a plus for me
Back 4 Blood golden skull secret locations
All ten locations for where to find the golden skulls hidden in the Back 4 Blood campaign
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Concern
Member
no, i actually forgot about them. i saw one in the beta and was hoping it was going to be a collectible type of thing but havent seen any since the full game released.
edit: appears they are collectibles and there are ten of them, one for each level, and you get an achievement/trophy for finding all of them. i love finding collectibles even if they dont give you anything so thats a plus for me
Back 4 Blood golden skull secret locations
All ten locations for where to find the golden skulls hidden in the Back 4 Blood campaign
Yea i just found one and got an achievement but was wondering if it did anything else. Game is a lot of fun so far regardless of some issues. Aiming really sucks with the acceleration too.
dorkimoe
Member
I forgot how much i hate coop games. Knowing the gaming community its the last mode that should ever exist. Just constant morons. 1 guy who didnt know how to heal and would just run around with no health, 1 guy who would just sprint way ahead leaving everyone else behind, then you get the guy who just steals all the loot. Stupid, guess im playing with bots
Kev Kev
Member
Guys I’m not going a lie, I’m having trouble getting through this game even on its easiest difficulty lol (playing with randoms). Like seriously? There isn’t anything easy about this. What’s with this new fetish devs have making games Uber difficult. I’ve only played this game for a week and I’m already feeling exhausted with how non stop every moment is. It’s like there is no pacing and the they just throw wave after wave at you.
I’m sure with good team mates and everyone having a mic it’d be easy. But With randoms it feels near impossible lol. There isn’t enough done in the game to encourage you to stick together, or notify the player they are leaving team mates behind, and when you couple tat with the terrible job the game does at telling what direction a horde or special is coming from, it’s just makes it annoying af:
at least if it were an easier mode than all the problems playing with randoms wouldn’t be an issue, but as it is now I couldn’t get past act 3 if I was even trying. And I’m not anymore! Lol I’m just trying to build a better deck so I don’t have to struggle.
But damn, why do games have to be so ADHD now? I what happened to pacing? This game just feel non stop, which is what I hated about doom eternal, and a lot of other games recently.
ok rant over. Hopefully they tune this game up over time. Right now I’m just not feeling like I’m going to be able to put up with it much longer.
I’m sure with good team mates and everyone having a mic it’d be easy. But With randoms it feels near impossible lol. There isn’t enough done in the game to encourage you to stick together, or notify the player they are leaving team mates behind, and when you couple tat with the terrible job the game does at telling what direction a horde or special is coming from, it’s just makes it annoying af:
at least if it were an easier mode than all the problems playing with randoms wouldn’t be an issue, but as it is now I couldn’t get past act 3 if I was even trying. And I’m not anymore! Lol I’m just trying to build a better deck so I don’t have to struggle.
But damn, why do games have to be so ADHD now? I what happened to pacing? This game just feel non stop, which is what I hated about doom eternal, and a lot of other games recently.
ok rant over. Hopefully they tune this game up over time. Right now I’m just not feeling like I’m going to be able to put up with it much longer.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Concern
Member
You're not alone. Its hard af even on recruit. And even worse is I lost all my weapons and upgrades after dying on abandoned. Im playing with a full squad too. Its definitely hard. One of my friends even asked if I bumped up the difficulty lol.
SpecialAgentZ
Member
Installed the game again bacause a cousin asked me and my gf to play together with him. I must say, after I got over the stupid card system, I think the gameplay is pretty solid. Starting to like the game. We are going through act 2 now. This game is better with friends/family. Had a lot of fun yesterday. We have a Series X and a Series S and our cousin is playing on PC. The crossplay worked just fine, no issues whatsoever. Pretty amazing. Do we play with Playstation owners when we have crossplay enabled or it's a Microsoft ecosystem thing?
MiguelItUp
Member
The deeper you go into the game the more you realize the difficulties really are off, lol.
Crossplay is everyone. PC, Xbox, game pass, steam, PS
Concern
Member
No lie lol. How far are you in?
I took a break after getting destroyed at abandoned in act 1 a few times lol
MiguelItUp
Member
I'm at the very last stage of Act 1, right before Act 2. God man, the mine stage was SO wtf, lmao. The pals I was playing with were like, "How is this recruit?!" Lmao.
Concern
Member
Lmao exactly where Im at. My friend asked if I had bumped up the difficulty on it. Its frustrating I lost all my weapons and upgrades.
The ridden are fuckin relentless there
Bridges
Member
Having a good time so far. It was weird at first because I still think Left 4 Dead & 2 nailed a lot of things way better than this does like the writing, enemy design and level design. But getting over the thought that this should be Left 4 Dead 3 there's a lot of fun to be had with the new mechanics, like the card system that's super fun once you unlock some of the better ones. But even with two other friends having a random on your team who doesn't know what they're doing is enough to tank a run (had a guy who just kept running through birds and taking all the loot and got us wiped). It is wild to me this doesn't have the ability to vote to kick like Left 4 Dead did.
EDIT: Defending the jukebox blasting The Hives has for sure been the coolest part of the game so far
This can happen if you died before the ending of any of the levels, like if your team got to the safe room or escaped but you weren't alive when they did. The game still counts this as a completion but it doesn't count it towards the achievement. You'll just have to finish whichever one you had died in again (assuming this is what happened) and it'll pop next time you return to the hub.
EDIT: Defending the jukebox blasting The Hives has for sure been the coolest part of the game so far
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
That level fucked us up the first time because we didn't understand how you have to quickly push and destroy the openings, and run through certain segments. The shipyard with the ferry is the same way. Gotta run 'n gun.