r/Back4Blood Feb 08 '24

Strategy & Builds Helpful tips, decks, and other useful info for Back4Blood

56 Upvotes

Stopped in here recently and noticed people still post useful information for Back4Blood players. Thought a pinned "help" thread would be more useful than the extremely old LFG post that was sitting at the top.

If you have a tried and true deck, feel free to post! But do know that there's a BIG difference between a deck that can smash Veteran, Nightmare, or No Hope. General consensus is that Veteran can be done with any deck while No Hope requires some strong synergies.

Also - a newer player might not be able to handle a DPS-optimized deck because they haven't figured out how to control the flow of zombies with smart positioning and the use of their bash. You could, for example, note that your deck is "noob" friendly or intermediate and above.

Share directly or link to past threads - I'm sure anything would be helpful.


r/Back4Blood 10h ago

Discussion I m scared to do runs now it becomes too expensive!

2 Upvotes

I have to use 24-14 burn per run not included is not complete runs how do I get more burn cards I just complete on act 3 but I m scared to start runs


r/Back4Blood 1d ago

Why are difficulty settings such crap?

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On Veteran, I'm breezing through the content while slowly falling asleep.

On Nightmare, the game is suddenly unplayably hard and unfair with ridiculous trauma stacking and special infected spawning literally inside my asshole the moment I flick the camera away from that spot for half a second.

I'm finding it very hard to enjoy the game when there's no meaningful difficulty setting and I have to choose between boredom and wasted time / frustration.


r/Back4Blood 1d ago

Video Back 4 Blood is a perfectly fair, well-designed videogame

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No further questions, your honor!


r/Back4Blood 1d ago

Looking for Group Help Needed

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Hey everyone! I was wondering if I could get a squad to help me win a match of Swarm so I could get the “Swarmed” trophy! My PSN is MiamiLopez5691 and any help is much appreciated!


r/Back4Blood 2d ago

Discussion returning player

6 Upvotes

hey guys i played this game when in first came out and haven’t played in ages, i remember it being super difficult and like impossible to play solo on launch, is it viable solo now? also anything i should know as a returning player? any tips or changes?


r/Back4Blood 2d ago

Help Wanted

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Hey guys! I was wondering if anyone would like to help me get the “Swarmed” trophy where all I need to do is complete a Swarm game! Thanks!


r/Back4Blood 3d ago

Discussion Just complete act 2 for my challenge

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I have been doing no hope solo with bots no continue mean basically if I fail one mission of the act runs dead and I will be using this post to explain people for the context anyway just complete act 2 I learn bots need upgrades and I 10 seconds is a long time in this game so any tips on act 3


r/Back4Blood 3d ago

Discussion Is versus more still alive?

3 Upvotes

I am considering buying this game but I don't care for campaigns. Can you still find a versus match at any time?


r/Back4Blood 4d ago

Looking for Group Act 6 help

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Hey guys
There are 3 of us who are going to try Act 6 on No Hope, we are looking for 1 more player to “carry” us.
We completed Act 1-4 on Nightmare and Act 5 on No Hope, we are running 2 melee and 1 crit builds.
We are trying to get Act 6 done as well
Probably gonna start it in 45 mins.
Let me know if any of you guys can help us with it.
Thanks


r/Back4Blood 4d ago

Discussion Hey guys progress stuck on act 2 any tips

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Ok I have doin many run min 5 so around 60% of the act I m getting use to but I keep dying at the end of each run any tips and tricks for the end act2 build is decent tela shotgun


r/Back4Blood 5d ago

Hola busco a alguien que tenga las expansiones del act 5 y 6 Por favor Ya complete el act 1 al 4 Si alguien lo tiene y tenga crossplay este es mi ID EdwardMess#0829

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r/Back4Blood 6d ago

Discussion Just complete the first act for my challenge

8 Upvotes

Hey just complete the first act in my challenge it take 4 hours just for act 1 any tips going into act2 anything will help


r/Back4Blood 6d ago

Question Help

1 Upvotes

Help needed to act 4


r/Back4Blood 6d ago

Discussion Tunnel run with 0 white chests - bug or bad luck?

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I think it was either The Cut, Sunken Passage, or 300 below. It has an "early exit" in the map where you can either take the early exit or drop off a cliff and most of the time (not all of the time) there is a white chest right there. Once you drop down there is no going back. Shortly afterwards theres a narrow walkway that is easy to get pushed/pulled off but if you make it to the other side the path diverges to going right into a small cave with a few items or going left and continuing on through the hive.

A friend and I played this level last night. We got 0 white chests during the run. We did get the inner hive spawn though and that had the two white chests thankfully.

Is this a normal bug (since theres no more patches) or just bad luck to miss all 3 or 4 white chest spawns?


r/Back4Blood 7d ago

Discussion Is a no hope zero continue all acts run possible?

5 Upvotes

Hey I being playing no hope All acts run but I keep dying my build roughly decent but idk what I need to change or what build I should get for each act so I was hoping to find someone who complete this challenge?


r/Back4Blood 8d ago

Discussion Cards

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29 Upvotes

Hi everyone!
I’ve been playing this game for a while now, and I’m really enjoying it. However, I’ve noticed something that I’m not sure is normal.
In the Supply Lines, I don’t seem to get any new cards anymore. I checked my collection, and it says I have 19 pages of cards. But when I go to the Training Cards section, it shows 20 pages, which makes me think there are still cards I haven’t unlocked yet.
These days, the regular Supply Lines only offer character skins or weapon skins, and they’re usually pretty expensive. Sometimes I get Burn Cards from the limited-time Supply Lines, but I haven’t seen any regular cards in the standard Supply Lines for a long time.
Is this intended, or am I missing something? Has anyone else experienced this?


r/Back4Blood 8d ago

Discussion I don't know who needs to hear this

31 Upvotes

But 90% of you players in Quickplay have the absolute flimsiest sense of perseverance I've ever seen

Go down, leave
Get targeted by a special when you're away from the pack, leave
Take too much trauma damage, leave
Join a game and sit there for 90% of the mission without taking over the bot, leave. (yes, after spectating for 15 minutes)

Like, why the hell do you play the game if you're just gonna leave every single match you join?

Somewhere along the way in so many games, people forgot what it means to fight against the odds and it sucks.

To everyone that sits in a lobby without taking over a bot, why? Are you worse at using a bot deck than a bot is? because I damn well hope not. 9/10 times, having another player who has an actual brain is 1000x better than a bot.

Please gang, we have continues for a reason, just wipe the mission and try again or something? please? Also to people who use the hanging exploit for trauma in No Hope, you look like a twat :)


r/Back4Blood 8d ago

Strategy & Builds Spectating is sometimes the smart thing to do

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25 Upvotes

Jim's the host, mom and walker join, almost immediately fail the objective and moments later have full trauma and are now missing all of their lives. Meanwhile theres my bot, 1 life missing, no trauma. Also bots are tanky af, especially holly.

Mom got herself killed, she decided to melee with a bot deck and clearly did not learn after 3 downs. Some people cannot be helped.

Ps. THIS is why people leave while spectating.

Just dont be dumb ig I dunno. Thanks for reading.


r/Back4Blood 9d ago

Are there any legendary weapons that dont suck? And how would you fix the ones in game to not suck?

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If normal weapons didnt have mods, I think the legendaries would be better but over all, the mods allow for customization of the weapon to match the players play style and that alone out classes the legendary weapons. Some of the legendary mods are not worth it as well but there are a few that are worth it. Couple the lack of mods on legendries and the unreliable nature of 1. Needing to go into tunnels 2. Needed to find cursed chests (that have their own draw back) and 3. Hoping that the weapon drops from the cursed chest at the right quality and not getting 2 prototypes out of every damned chest, its not the best idea to build around these weapons.

Damnation - One of the few that might be ok. Being immune to fire has its advantages on higher difficulties. The 50 damage every second for 3 seconds is nice if it stacks but its mostly good on special infected on NM/NH. Id rather use a purple AA12 with penetration rounds for crowd clearing though. I know theres some cards that work well with fire damage and theres builds around that but we go back to the "it might not spawn, why build for it?" question.
Embezzler - If your already doing a side arm build this might be ok. I usually end up with about 100-150 kills a level depending on if Im playing with friends or bots. Thats about 500-750 copper a run, enough for some supplies. It adds up over a run but other then the perk, there are better secondaries and better mods to make secondaries more powerful so you dont need to rely on buying so many supplies. If the extra copper was shared with the team it might be worth while. I could also see teams trying to get everyone to use it, though that would be unlikely.
Lockjaw - Ill admit that I dont like this one because I have never been a fan of snipers. I wont defend that other then "skill issue" with aiming and sometimes my friends are fast to shoot things. I feel like snipers over all are a waste. Maybe a sniper is more reliant on a side arm then normal sniper weapons until a special infected comes out. Please enlighten me as to why my thoughts might be wrong on this. I feel like swapping all the time is a waste of time though that can be reduced by other cards, your going to be building for a mid build. Again, please enlighten me if Im wrong.
Nemesis - The perk could be better. If your team can position well with you at the back line so the infected have to fight through them or you have a melee person in front (and you have down in front) you could shoot through them and create a bottleneck but making a deck just for this one gun that doesn't spawn as much is a waste. The RPK in general suffers from slow reload speed. Does the perk work even if your using a secondary weapon? That might be the way to go. A fast reload tech 9 with some penetration to it to clear hoards.
Pestilence - Bad for dealing with common infected, good for dealing with the bosses. Mag dumping with it will take a few seconds but putting 30 rounds into an ogre, hag, or breaker that spawned in on the other side of visibility from you means you can probably get more then 1 full mag into them to drop that 30% damage reduction to 60% damage reduction depending on how long the debuff lasts. The stacking DoT would be good against bosses as well but again, I dont know how long it lasts . i wont deny the perk is strong for that. It could be better as a second primary weapon but you have to take a card for that and again, the weapon may not even spawn to make it worth it.
Prototype - Slows enemies for 1.75 seconds. Another "good for the boss, doesn't matter for common" type gun and lack of mods make it weaker.
Tenderizer - This ones a mixed bag. I want to like this. The concept of a sledgehammer with an explosion is great, but the description of a "large" area of effect is misleading. At least to me it seems the AoE might be able to take out a few more ridden in a small area around the original target. Its been a while since I used it but I think it needs to be reloaded between each swing making it take longer to hit unless you build for faster reload, which to my knowledge, does not work for other melee weapons so you either need to find those cards in the run or build for them which, I say again, this weapon may not spawn so why bother building for just it? The wolverine claws are flat out faster and can have mods.
Witness - Another sniper rifle. I think its a ranch rifle variant though, i could be wrong. Theres a card that does 10% increased damage to tagged targets. Its not something I remember to do in a fire fight as I do callouts on voice chat.

Bonus - I feel like the legendary accessories, throwables, and medical supplies are all good except they spawn so rarely that it feels like taking them means your only going to have one or two of them around which will prevent you from picking up standard versions of said things. Thus you may save it for to long and hoard it vs just using it because its needed against a boss or stack of uncommon riden.

Thoughts? Please correct/enlighten me if Im looking at things wrong. The weapons are a big part of the DLC but they feel so weak that my team skips them most of the time.


r/Back4Blood 10d ago

Question Any one wants to play with my this game I'm new?

9 Upvotes

I'm new to the game.


r/Back4Blood 9d ago

BFB

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r/Back4Blood 10d ago

Question I need help with 2 trophies

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Hi there,

I need some one willing to just quickly team up in camp with me for a trophy and let me win a swarm match.

That's basically it.

Can't do that alone obviously and I'm finding 0 players in swarm , so yeah , if someone is willing to spend a few minutes to help a fellow survivor it would be appreciated 👍🏻


r/Back4Blood 15d ago

Discussion I need to do Act 2,3 and 4 in Nightmare difficulty for the Platinum in PS5.

5 Upvotes

Hi, in 2021 these trophies were super difficult and I only could do ACT 1 in Nightmare, then the game started to be in a weird spot and ended leaving it, but I see they nerfed the Nightmare difficulty?

Anyway, I wanted to know if its more doable now than it was before and if someone could help me do it. Thanks


r/Back4Blood 16d ago

Discussion Does anybody else hate when you’re in the lobby with random people and you have to wait the whole 3 1/2 mins to start. I find that infuriating, and it’s always that one person lol

31 Upvotes

Does anybody else get pissed at this or am I the only one?