Counterbalancing these are Corruption cards. These can do things like modify your base health or help you reload faster.
Players can earn and build decks of cards that are drawn at random before a mission. The biggest change that comes with Back 4 Blood is the card system. However, there are some new concepts that Back 4 Blood introduces that make the experience more dynamic and gives it more replayability. The main goal is simple: make it to the safe room. It’s made up of acts, which themselves consist of four chapters. The PvE campaign plays out exactly like those in Left 4 Dead. I didn’t notice many significant changes since then besides some polish, but it’s still a blast. I also had a chance to play the PvE mode in the Back 4 Blood alpha test late last year, and it returns in the open beta. As the match goes on, this circle closes, which also helps to prevent camping. If human players enter this zone, they start to take damage. A swarm of infectious insects circles each map. To also encourage movement, Back 4 Blood’s PvP borrows a mechanic from battle royales. Using a combo of one Hocker, a creature who can stick a human in one place with a loogie, and three Retches, who are similar to L4D’s Boomers, we were able to annihilate the whole team quickly. Our human opponents decided to shelter together and fortify a structure that didn’t work out well.
For example, during one of our rounds playing as The Ridden, we were on a map featuring several park cabins. Back 4 Blood heavily encourages movement and has several mechanisms to discourage any camping. The only thing we found to be a sure death sentence was standing still. While the game will inevitably get more balancing passes, we found no strategy that’s overwhelmingly effective compared to anything else. Rounds went by quickly, and the maps we played were varied enough that we had to switch up strategies each time. Of course, the undead will eventually take down the humans, but the low amount of downtime doesn’t make that eventuality feel as penalizing as some other games. I really enjoyed this kind of asymmetric gameplay. After that, the teams swap, and the second team tries to beat the first one’s time. The Cleaners get one life and set the bar during the first round, by seeing how long they can withstand a horde of AI-controlled zombies and four player-controlled monsters, who can continue to respawn after death. In it, two teams of four take turns competing as the Cleaners (the humans) and the Ridden (the zombies). The big highlight of the play session was the PvP mode. We got an opportunity to take an early look at the open beta for Back 4 Blood, and it’s shaping up to be exactly what L4D fans have wanted for years. Yet, despite attempts, nothing else has come close to capturing the frantic, team-based gameplay Turtle Rock Studios pioneered. Tens of thousands still play Left 4 Dead daily ten years after launch.
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