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There’s also the issue that ammo isn’t easily available. Other levels feel like they take forever because making progress is an impossible ask when your teammates are constantly getting pinned by enemies – or, worse, dragged to their death by a huge Hag that appeared from nowhere. Some levels you’ll breeze through, no problem at all. Try as you might, when things are so hectic, it’s impossible not to.
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And, considering the game forces friendly fire on normal difficulty or higher, you’ll constantly be damaging your teammates when you’re in the thick of it. You can never put yourself in a position of advantage, because you never know where enemies are going to spawn in from. You’ll find special enemies suddenly spawning in rooms that were empty when you entered them, and swarms appearing from all directions, surrounding you in a matter of seconds. It ruins any suspension of disbelief and adds to the frustrations. Stare at the same area for too long and you’ll see them just materialise. And forget about trying to explore to find hidden caches.Īnnoyingly, enemies seem to spawn out of thin air, too. It means taking in the game’s environments – which, for the most part, are nicely designed – is something you absolutely don’t get time for. The threat of a hulking Reeker or a giant Tallboy soon wanes to nothing but an inconvenience when you can face several of them in the space of a minute or two. Especially when there’s an endless supply of special enemy types, too. Yes, shooting through as many zombies as you can is literally the point of the game, but when there’s so many of them, it quickly becomes a chore. There’s the fact that, even on the game’s easiest difficulty, it throws a ridiculous amount of enemies at you. But piled on top of each other, they equate to a game that’s disappointing at best, and infuriating at worst. Most of the issues I’ve found with the game are small, and by themselves wouldn’t ruin the experience so much.
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While I’ll never understand why developers don’t choose to cater well for people who prefer to play solo, that’s ultimately the least of Back 4 Blood‘s problems. Even if you set to friends only or private after starting a game, it doesn’t matter. Bots will fill in the gaps, but they’ll eventually be taken over by real players. Set to ‘friends only’, if there’s less than four of you, you’ll never begin a match. It can also be an ordeal setting up a private game with two or three players and bots filling in the gaps thanks to a convoluted menu system and privacy options that don’t quite seem to work correctly. Almost every time I looked at my AI teammates, they’d be stuck on something in the environment, haphazardly running around and generally not being particularly helpful. But there’s just as much chance that they’re currently glitching into a wall at the other side of the map. Can you rely on AI teammates to do the job? Maybe. There are enemies that grab you, or pin you with some sort of webbed goo – and you simply cannot escape unless another player frees you or kills the enemy that has you. Practically every level has some sort of mechanic that requires multiple players, which feels like it’s shoehorned in to prevent single-player enjoyment. And the AI here is so incredulously stupid that you’ll absolutely not have a good time with them. You’ll never be truly solo, either you’ll be placed with three bot teammates. The cards and progress you unlock there remains separate from the ‘main’ (i.e. Yes, there’s a Solo Campaign mode, but it’s placed more as a ‘practice’ run. This is designed to be played co-operatively with four players. Here’s the first problem: if you like to play games alone, Back 4 Blood isn’t for you. To me, it feels like developer Turtle Rock Studios has decided the concept is enough to sell the game – which, in fairness, maybe it is – but then didn’t bother to give it any personality or really consider how engaging its levels might be to play. It’s not that Back 4 Blood is a bad game it’s more that enough hasn’t been done to make this a good game. Of course I do shooting so many zombies that you end up covered head-to-toe in blood and guts is the literal definition of ‘bloody good fun’.
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It’s a real shame too, because I want to enjoy Back 4 Blood. Unfortunately, the more time I’ve spent with this Left 4 Dead-a-like, the more problems have reared their ugly, zombified heads. When I previewed Back 4 Blood back in August based on its beta, I sang its praises.
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