The third episode of the “Left 4 Dead” series was originally developed, but the final development plan was stopped. The original team of Turtle Rock Studios, the development team, jumped to self-organized company. The players who have been waiting for the L4D sequel have finally arrived. 4 Blood” cooperates to play zombie games. This work inherits the lineage and spirit of the L4D series, and adds various new elements to it, and continues to give everyone a terrifying and exciting experience of fighting zombies. The editor participated in the public beta of Priority Experience, and shared with you the general gameplay of the game.
In the world of “Back 4 Blood”, mysterious parasites host the human body, and human beings become “catastrophes” incarnate as zombies. The player, as an immune “cleaner”, cooperates with other players to wipe out the catastrophe in a single-player game or a multiplayer game.
Card system emphasizes tactical use
The online mode of the priority test this time is very simple. It is to gather 4 players from different places on the Internet to work together to fight zombies. Before the game starts, you need to choose the skills to be used in the game. Each skill is a “card”. You have to organize your card box and choose the 15 cards that suit you best. In the actual battle, Use 4 sheets. These cards are roughly divided into four categories, including Reflex, Discipline, Brawn and Fortune. Reflex cards can increase your speed or stamina, or speed up your bombing speed; Discipline cards can make your attacks more efficient, such as increasing attack power, shooting more accurately, or increasing the amount of ammunition; Brawn cards can Allows you to directly increase vitality; Fortune cards make your team luckier, and it also has the ability to make secondary weapons have unlimited bullets.
Different players can share different roles in the game and require different skills. For example, Medical Expert can improve the efficiency of treatment and is suitable for players who specialize in military medicine. Leading players can use the Marked for death card to specify the target during battle, which can increase the damage rate. Using Support Scavenger, users can more easily find out the support that appears in the battlefield. Tools to make the battle more efficient.
In terms of role selection, the game will eventually have 8 types of cleaners to choose from, and in this test, 4 of them can be selected, including:
Ivangelo
Equipment: Machete, which can break through once every 5 minutes, increase physical strength, and increase movement speed
Walker
Equipment: Glock 23 pistol, precision kill skills can improve accuracy within a few seconds, maximize maximum vitality, maximum ammunition capacity can be increased by 10%, and all ammunition capacity improvement effects can be increased by 10%
Holly
Equipment: bat, can restore stamina when killing an enemy, increase damage by 25% in close combat, increase maximum stamina by 10%, and increase stamina by 10%
Hoffman
Equipment: M1911 pistol, kill the enemy to get ammunition, lethal props and auxiliary props capacity increase by 1, initial equipment ammunition pack
Safe house money system to buy equipment
This time, each weapon has a corresponding ammunition, which means that ammunition is no longer universal. On the other hand, the concept of money is also added. In the “safe house”, you can no longer replenish the blood infinitely. You have to make good use of money to buy these items or weapon accessories to increase your strength in battle. You can also adjust your skill cards in the safe house.
The Corruption Cards that appear in the safe house will have immediate effects in battle, such as temporarily increasing the rewards you get when defeating a certain enemy, or adding temporary special tasks.
PVP mode takes turns to play zombies and humans
In addition to the players fighting zombies together, the game also has a public trial of PVP mode. In this mode, players will be divided into two teams, each with 4 players, one team will be the cleaner, and the other team of 4 players will be the catastrophe. Catastrophe players will control powerful boss characters. The victory or defeat is determined by multiple short rounds. Both sides annihilate each other’s team within a specified time. After a short round, the two sides will exchange the roles of Cleaner and Cataclysm.
Players who play the role of the cleaner will have a short time to explore before the beginning of the scene, looking for the supporting props, weapons, medicine chests, etc. provided in the scene. In addition to facing another team of players, the cleaner also needs to deal with the cataclysm who came to surprise.
Players need to promptly notify their teammates when they find a catastrophe, and work together to respond, and try not to get separated. Players can use command skills to mark the player’s catastrophe appearing in the field, so that teammates can conduct concentrated attacks more efficiently.
The players on the catastrophe side will of course be more powerful than here. Players can choose from a total of 4 categories of Stinger, Reeker, Tallboy, and Common, with 3 catastrophes in each category, and choose one that suits the terrain and attack strategy of the battlefield. character of. You can get several Mutation Points to upgrade elements such as defense, attack, and tools.
As a catastrophe, you need to attack the cleaners together with other players to avoid being destroyed by them one by one. The cleaners gather all their troops to attack a single catastrophe, and its power will be very powerful.
Tallboy will be a more fragile character, but the speed of resurrection is also faster. It and the Exploder can focus on attacking the cleaners hiding in the room in the game, but if you get to a more open space, it is easy to get into a hard fight when facing the cleaners who are attentive to the enemy. Wretches will be more disadvantageous in one-on-one decisive battles, but they can force the Cleaners to gather together, and then use other Cataclysmic players to deal with them together. Stinger catastrophes are not good for fighting indoors, but they can carry out long-range attacks outdoors, which can force the cleaners to return to the house, allowing other catastrophe players to kill them all.
Thoughts: Card system emphasizes tactics, PVP mode emphasizes cooperation
After playing the cooperative mode and PVP mode many times, the editor believes that in the cooperative mode, the number of catastrophes appearing at the same time is large, which gives players a greater sense of tension. However, the blood splattered when the catastrophe fell down made the players of the cleaners turn into zombies in appearance, making it easy to hit their own people. The card system also allows players to be more strategic in battles, and everyone can think about what special skills to use. In the part of PVP, the cooperation between players needs to be emphasized. If you act alone, no matter the catastrophe or the cleaner, you will encounter a lot of trouble.
In the actual PVP battle, many Cleaner players will choose to shoot the incoming Catastrophe from multiple directions on the roof. One advantage of the Catastrophe is that you can decide to resurrect at any position, which means you can resurrect next to the Cleaner. Attack the Cleaner immediately after the resurrection. The catastrophe can be resurrected indefinitely, and can freely observe any position on the battlefield while waiting for the resurrection, which has special advantages.
The game will be publicly tested on August 13th for 3 consecutive days. Players can register for an account on the official website to test the zombie-fighting pleasure of the latest masterpiece “Back 4 Blood” by the L4D team for free.
▲The PS5 version is currently shared with the PC version, so you can add friends to play together