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[Hide] (160.8KB, 369x493) I wrote this a couple months ago when I played the Back 4 Blood beta. I had meant to clean it up and go into more detail, but I doubt the game will deserve the effort. I’ll just post what I have now and people can ask me more about what I remember from the beta or share their own experiences.
Introduction
I recently played the Back 4 Blood beta with some friends and it was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had. I wanted to rant about it and the topic came up in the QTDDTOTT so here we are. The game will be releasing on October 12th, but I doubt the devs will be able to fix the underlying problems with it in time for release. It might have an initial surge of popularity, but there’s no way the game will have a lasting player base.
Broadly speaking, B4B is a 4-player co-op horde shooter FPS that takes a lot of inspiration from Left 4 Dead. B4B is developed by Turtle Rock Studios, whom you may remember as developing the 2015 opus Evolve, a game famous for misunderstanding the dynamic of the Tank fights in Left 4 Dead and its shill campaigns destroyed by monster porn. B4B has been marketing as “from the makers of Left 4 Dead,” but that isn’t really true since L4D was made by a small team of Valve employees who later went on to form Turtle Rock, and Turtle Rock is now an independent mid-sized studio. I also believe that none of the original L4D team works at Turtle Rock, but I haven’t confirmed that and I don’t care enough to go dig