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Thankfully, you won’t require a PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live account in order to enjoy this. Will the Beta of Back 4 Blood Have Cross Play Support?Ĭross-play will be available in Back 4 Blood, and its Beta, between PC, Xbox, and PlayStation gamers (including cross-generational support between older and newer PlayStation and Xbox consoles). You will be able to play as the human classes, known as ‘Cleaners’, and also the zombie classes, known as ‘The Ridden’.

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This starts at 12:00 PST (15:00 EST, 20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST) on August 12th, and ends at 12:00 PST on August 16th.īoth beta weekends will give players a first look at different gameplay features launching in the full game.

The second is the Back 4 Blood Open Beta.

This is accessible for people with Early Access Beta keys. This starts at 12:00 PST (15:00 EST, 20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST) on August 5th, and ends at 12:00 PST on August 9th.

The first is the Back 4 Blood Early Access Beta.

Despite that, I did have fun with it, and the difficult was definitely higher than campaign, as the area gets smaller and smaller as cleaners survive waves.There are two different beta weekends for Back 4 Blood (though technically these last longer than weekends): Today, when I tried to play Swarm again, I ended up with 3 players on my team, and 1 player on the enemy team, and they promptly quit. I am hoping this is something that will change as the Open Beta goes on and more players have completed the campaign mode. So, I’ve had very little success finding a match in Swarm mode, the PvP mode of Back 4 Blood. Each time I’ve joined a lobby, it hasn’t been full. I especially miss the Witches–I can still hear the music that accompanied their appearances in my head to this day! The exploders in Back 4 Blood especially remind me of Boomers, but without the dangerous added effect of hordes spawning once a survivor is hit by their vomit. The new Ridden designs are pretty okay, but I can’t help but miss the familiar faces of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead. This gives players four days, including a weekend, to test Back 4 Blood. Plus, I’m not sure if the cards I unlocked in Open Beta will actually transfer over to the full game. I also don’t really think the rewards of the utilizing the corruption cards, which are a bit like challenges, are all that worthwhile either. The beta period is not as long as many expected or hoped. I have the sneaking suspicion that there might be some grinding involved to get “good” cards and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

So far, my favorite perk by far is the one that turns the melee attack into a combat knife. However, I must say that I don’t think these perks make as big of a difference to one’s survival as the perks like Juggernog or Speed Cola do in Zombies in Call of Duty, or at least not the ones I’ve encountered yet. I am a player that needs a lot of health and defense, so it’s nice that I can equip cards, which are like perks, to help me out. After playing more today, I did find that I liked to be able to customize my gameplay a bit. At first, I really didn’t see the point to the cards. Not quite sure how I feel about the card system yet. But to my dismay, two of my friends quickly grew bored of the open beta, even after I obliviously triggered the crows and we got swarmed–making things instantly more interesting. I don’t know if it’s because I’m older and I’ve played so many zombie games since then or if perhaps it is just because the open beta is only showing a portion of the actual game, I don’t really know. Maybe I have my nostalgia goggles on when thinking of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, but I remember those games to be more exciting than Back 4 Blood. But on normal mode, I can easily bludgeon normal Ridden to death with Holly’s nail bat, or one shot them with the knife, if I’m using that card. So imagine my surprise when I found Back 4 Blood to be easy on normal mode, and still pretty doable on the second hardest mode, called veteran. When I play Zombies on Call of Duty, my friends know that they all need to buy quick revive for me.

Unfortunately, I haven’t had as much time to really delve into the beta as I would like, so consider these my very initial first impressions of the open beta, which offers a look at campaign and swarm mode.įull disclosure, I am not good at video games–I just enjoy playing them.

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When I heard that Back 4 Blood, the spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 and also one of my most anticipated games revealed at E3, had an open beta, you bet that I immediately fired up Twitch to watch a streamer with drops, and to get a code for the beta.