Back 4 Blood's Beta - Underwhelming & Boring

00:00:08.320so over the last few days i've been

00:00:09.920spending a fair bit of time with back

00:00:11.519for blood's beta the upcoming co-op

00:00:13.599shooter created by left 4 dead devs

00:00:15.679turtle rock studios though i think that

00:00:17.359might be a bit misleading to say because

00:00:19.359i don't think any of that original dev

00:00:20.960team are even still involved by the way

00:00:23.199though this thing's being pushed out as

00:00:24.880a left for dead spiritual successor

00:00:26.880though in most ways it actually

00:00:28.320regresses more than it progresses and i

00:00:30.800think it's the video game equivalent of

00:00:32.480when you copy your mates homework

00:00:33.920because you didn't want to do it

00:00:34.800yourself and you just changed the

00:00:36.480handwriting it's a first person horde

00:00:38.800shooter only instead of it being a

00:00:40.559strain of a flu virus that's turned

00:00:42.320people into zombie-like creatures this

00:00:44.399time it's a mysterious parasite that's

00:00:46.399turned people into zombie-like creatures

00:00:48.879called the ridden but the general gist

00:00:51.039is still the same former humans chase

00:00:53.120after you at high speed snarling and

00:00:55.199flailing their arms around as they try

00:00:56.879to take you out with three other people

00:00:58.559you've got to do your best to survive

00:01:00.079and complete your objective you're

00:01:01.280getting a bit of a brief respite in safe

00:01:03.359rooms in between each level

00:01:08.080instead of playing as a ragtag group of

00:01:09.920civilians now you're playing as the

00:01:11.920cleaners i'm the cleaner

00:01:14.880people again immune to the virus and

00:01:16.560doing their best to reclaim what's left

00:01:18.400of civilization basically what's gonna

00:01:20.240happen in australia at the end of the

00:01:21.920year when we're all gonna be let out of

00:01:23.200stage four lockdown now i know that this

00:01:25.360is still a bait up so you can't expect

00:01:27.439it to be perfect when it comes to

00:01:28.960glitches and bugs and i'm not really

00:01:30.720gonna focus on that stuff i mean it's

00:01:32.320like going to the mechanic when he's

00:01:33.680servicing your car and asking him why

00:01:35.439the bonnet's up but more than that is

00:01:37.200that i didn't really see any major

00:01:39.040problems on that front to begin with the

00:01:41.119game ran pretty smoothly i didn't get

00:01:43.119disconnected from matches i could join

00:01:45.439my friends games easily and outside of

00:01:47.600some wonky ai and being launched up into

00:01:49.759the goddamn stratosphere at one point

00:01:51.680the game seemed to run fine so that's

00:01:53.920not what this video is about

00:01:56.880what it's really about and the biggest

00:01:58.560takeaway that i got from back for blood

00:02:00.399is that it is just so incredibly boring

00:02:03.280and i just don't think that's gonna

00:02:04.640change all that much between now and

00:02:06.240when this thing gets released in october

00:02:08.560that's if it doesn't get delayed for

00:02:10.080another couple of months though maybe a

00:02:12.000delay might give them a fair bit more

00:02:13.599time to sort out some of the other

00:02:15.040issues that people are having with this

00:02:17.120game yeah yikes playing through the

00:02:19.599single player content for the first time

00:02:21.360in the beta took me about 9 minutes but

00:02:23.520it may as well have been 90 hours

00:02:25.680because i lost all sense of time when i

00:02:27.520was playing this and just went into

00:02:29.200autopilot mode shooting the same enemies

00:02:31.680over and over with an assault rifle or

00:02:33.360an smg as i walk through these

00:02:35.200unremarkable looking environments to get

00:02:37.040to the next loading screen

00:02:39.840and i can't think of any other time i've

00:02:41.599played something that's clearly had so

00:02:43.760much money put into it but that's also

00:02:45.840just been so boring before i jump right

00:02:48.800into this thing i do want to take a

00:02:50.239quick moment to thank my sponsor steel

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00:02:54.239play through this with some really handy

00:02:56.080gaming peripherals did make the

00:02:57.599experience a lot better steel series

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00:03:02.640and headphones and it might not seem

00:03:04.080like a big thing but the gear you're

00:03:05.599playing with can make a huge impact on

00:03:07.360how well you do

00:03:08.720with the arctus pro headset for instance

00:03:10.720i'm able to control the volume of the

00:03:12.480game with one dial and then the volume

00:03:14.239of the voice chat with the other to make

00:03:15.840sure they're not drowning each other out

00:03:17.680and that's really important in online

00:03:19.440gaming especially in things like back

00:03:21.440for blood's versus mode where voice chat

00:03:23.599is absolutely pivotal well chuck a g-man

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00:03:34.23912 off back for blood's gonna get a lot

00:03:36.560of comparisons here to left for dead and

00:03:38.480that's perfectly justified in my opinion

00:03:40.799but that's also going to be to its

00:03:42.159detriment because there's just so many

00:03:44.239things this game does worse than it's

00:03:46.000almost 12 year old predecessor on a

00:03:48.159positive note back for blood is actually

00:03:50.080kind of good in the way that the

00:03:51.200characters you choose to play as have

00:03:53.120different passive buffs and you should

00:03:54.640really be playing to that character's

00:03:56.080strengths and trying to help out your

00:03:57.280team

00:03:58.159so it's more of a tactical and strategic

00:04:00.560choice than it is just a cosmetic one

00:04:02.400people aren't just going to be picking

00:04:03.760someone because they like the way their

00:04:05.680hat looks or the funny things they say

00:04:07.840the character named mum for instance

00:04:09.760gives everyone on the team an extra life

00:04:11.519so they can be down an extra time before

00:04:13.280being killed

00:04:14.400i mean we're not keeping score here

00:04:15.840right thank you sir thank you sir

00:04:18.799whereas the john goodman clone hoffman

00:04:21.120increased the amount of ammo that

00:04:22.320everyone can carry on that not too it

00:04:24.240seems that there's much more of a focus

00:04:26.000on ammo conservation here compared to

00:04:28.000left 4 dead where ammunition was a bit

00:04:29.680of a one-size-fits-all deal now it's

00:04:31.759broken down into different categories so

00:04:33.919it almost doesn't make sense for every

00:04:35.759single person on the team to be running

00:04:37.520around with shotguns considering that

00:04:39.360means you're all going to be fighting

00:04:40.639for the spare shotgun shells and that's

00:04:42.960a good thing because four people rocking

00:04:44.800out the aa-12s and this could probably

00:04:46.960single-handedly turn the tide of the

00:04:48.800entire infection i mean seriously that

00:04:50.880gun is so overpowered

00:04:54.560there's definitely a feeling of these

00:04:56.080characters being over designed though if

00:04:58.160that makes sense like carly for instance

00:05:00.320with the i get offended by everything

00:05:02.080haircut the tattoos the jewelry and your

00:05:04.400coordinated leather outfit it just feels

00:05:06.720so out of place to me in a world that's

00:05:08.479really gone down crapper and it's kind

00:05:10.240of unrealistic that someone would look

00:05:12.080so prim and presentable with an outfit

00:05:14.320that's clearly had way too much time put

00:05:16.320into it or look at holly for instance

00:05:18.320running around with a jumper tied around

00:05:20.160her waist which yeah okay that looks

00:05:21.919fashionable but it doesn't seem to be

00:05:23.520very practical plus it seems like the

00:05:25.520kind of thing that a grab happy zombie

00:05:27.520would be likely to latch onto characters

00:05:30.000like walker and hoffman seem more

00:05:31.680realistic but these others they just

00:05:33.919kinda look like fortnite characters and

00:05:35.919they've definitely been designed more

00:05:37.360for flair than functionality remember in

00:05:39.360left 4 dead for instance how louis was

00:05:41.039still in his office attire half of his

00:05:42.880shirt was untucked his pants were all

00:05:44.720messed up and his tie wasn't even on

00:05:46.320properly now i get that these guys are

00:05:48.320supposed to be special zombie hunters

00:05:50.400prepped for going out into the

00:05:51.759wilderness and carrying out these

00:05:53.440important assignments but there's

00:05:54.960definitely a sense of their designs

00:05:56.400feeling out of touch with the state of

00:05:57.840the world yeah let's pick it up but then

00:05:59.759i mean in the same game where these

00:06:00.960people are making cringeworthy

00:06:02.560wisecracks half the time well maybe such

00:06:05.039an impractical outfit makes more sense

00:06:06.800and i'm giving it credit for it

00:06:09.759i guess my point is that i'm more likely

00:06:11.680to relate to realistic characters as

00:06:13.919opposed to cartoon ones

00:06:17.120the most interesting new system that

00:06:18.880back for blood incorporates though are

00:06:20.400the cards and this is something that's

00:06:22.000going to become essential for beating

00:06:23.440this thing on the high difficulties

00:06:25.039right so the whole point of the game is

00:06:26.240to play through all of these main acts

00:06:28.000and each time you finish one of the

00:06:29.360levels of which there's upwards of half

00:06:31.039a dozen you earn supply points then you

00:06:33.600spend these supply points back at your

00:06:35.199camp on buying cards and unlocking new

00:06:37.360decks or as they say in new zealand

00:06:39.600unlocking new dicks

00:06:41.440cards do a whole heap of things from

00:06:43.120increasing your base health points

00:06:44.720making reloads faster to increasing the

00:06:46.800amount of ammo you can carry at the base

00:06:49.199you can create your own custom deck

00:06:50.800almost like the loadouts in call of duty

00:06:52.720or something then whatever the first

00:06:54.319card is in your deck it's automatically

00:06:56.319equipped at the start of a run and then

00:06:58.000each time you finish a level you pick a

00:07:00.000single other card from your deck to add

00:07:01.599to your build savvy then the game also

00:07:04.080kind of throws cards back at the player

00:07:05.919with the corruption cards randomly

00:07:07.759generated handicaps it puts on each run

00:07:10.080like fog to mass player visibility

00:07:11.919you're putting alarms behind every

00:07:13.599single door yeah that's fun so i guess

00:07:15.919the idea here is that the further you

00:07:17.280get into a run you pick these cards

00:07:19.120strategically becoming really powerful

00:07:21.120and creating a really strong build which

00:07:23.360is all just so you can earn more supply

00:07:25.440points and then buy more cards i mean

00:07:27.919outside of the grind of just customizing

00:07:29.759your own deck what's the end game here

00:07:32.080did you do that on purpose i'd be really

00:07:34.080surprised if they don't end up just

00:07:35.520monetizing this aspect entirely where

00:07:37.520they make it so you spend like 12 bucks

00:07:39.599and you get 500 supply points or

00:07:41.360something and honestly that really

00:07:43.039wouldn't surprise me after what they did

00:07:44.720with evolve which i think still has to

00:07:46.560have some kind of record for being the

00:07:48.479most monetized game ever

00:07:50.560hard mode is actually genuinely hardy

00:07:53.120the jump from normal to hard for

00:07:54.560instance feels more like the jump from

00:07:56.400normal to expert in left 4 dead to the

00:07:58.560point that the devs are actually working

00:08:00.240on balancing this out

00:08:03.840the brief time i attempted to play

00:08:05.599through this we could barely make it out

00:08:07.039of the first couple of rooms and i

00:08:08.639really think they need to add in a

00:08:09.919fourth difficulty mode so you've got

00:08:11.360like easy normal heart and expert as

00:08:13.680opposed to just rebalancing the hard

00:08:15.280mode

00:08:16.160trauma is a new mechanic they've added

00:08:17.840in here too which is the more damage you

00:08:19.759take the more it lowers your maximum

00:08:21.280health points and then the only way to

00:08:22.960get this back to full is by using med

00:08:24.879stations found in locked rooms and this

00:08:27.280is going to be a really spicy mechanic

00:08:29.039to deal with on that hard mode one real

00:08:31.120piece of genuine praise that i can give

00:08:32.959here though is to the movement and the

00:08:34.560shooting in the sense that it at least

00:08:36.240feels smooth to control for a game where

00:08:38.560aiming shooting and mobility is really

00:08:40.800key it's handy at least that this

00:08:42.640doesn't feel like cold [ __ ] you can

00:08:45.200vault up ledges if they're not too high

00:08:47.200and about the only thing that i wish it

00:08:48.640had was sliding and being able to vault

00:08:50.480through windows otherwise running

00:08:52.800sprinting and jumping feels responsive

00:08:54.959and aiming down sights and reload times

00:08:56.800can often be inhumanly fast

00:09:06.000though the inclusion of aiming down

00:09:07.440sights also kind of does make it feel

00:09:09.600like any run-of-the-mill first-person

00:09:11.200shooter it's also the most generic

00:09:13.440lineup of weapons too and playing this

00:09:15.360it just kind of reminds me a lot of

00:09:16.880playing call of duty war zone the way

00:09:18.640you'd find all these different weapons

00:09:20.080lying around in crates that all had

00:09:22.080different attachments on them like

00:09:23.760stocks acogs and sciences need this all

00:09:27.519of which make incremental upgrades to

00:09:29.360things like the damage or the accuracy

00:09:31.120of these guns during combat you've even

00:09:33.200got hit markers and the way a character

00:09:35.200holds up their fists when they're

00:09:36.399unarmed looks the same as it does in war

00:09:38.399zone 2. obviously two men like we can't

00:09:40.800be doing all that bad in the apocalypse

00:09:42.800if there's assault rifles automatic

00:09:44.640shotguns and silencers in near perfect

00:09:46.880condition around every corner either

00:09:48.959well what do you know

00:09:51.120instead of just finding guns lying

00:09:52.640around on the ground in left for dead

00:09:54.480now you find them lying around on the

00:09:56.240ground in crates along with that other

00:09:58.399roster of offensive and defensive items

00:10:00.560like med kits pain pills molotov

00:10:02.800cocktails and pipe bombs

00:10:06.480annoyingly too you can't remove the

00:10:08.160attachments you've got for your current

00:10:09.680weapon which is annoying because it's

00:10:11.600really the attachments that make or

00:10:13.279break how good a gun is

00:10:14.959i don't think these are weapons pulled

00:10:16.240from asset libraries but man they really

00:10:18.320do feel like it and it's just the same

00:10:20.560[ __ ] you've seen in every other first

00:10:22.079person shooter there's an mp5 there's a

00:10:24.640vector there's a scar there's a beretta

00:10:26.880you've used these guns a hundred times

00:10:29.120they've always looked the same and

00:10:30.560there's nothing to differentiate them oh

00:10:32.880sweet sanctuary in left 4 dead the

00:10:35.440different weapon types had specific uses

00:10:37.839the shotguns were great at clearing out

00:10:39.519the hordes the snipers were great for

00:10:41.600the special infected especially the

00:10:43.279smoker and the hunter and the assault

00:10:45.040rifles were just good middle ground this

00:10:47.279time though there just doesn't really

00:10:48.560seem to be any significant difference

00:10:50.399between these weapons i think that's

00:10:52.320also kind of the problem of making a

00:10:53.839game like this in 2021 where we're

00:10:56.079really getting to the point now where

00:10:57.600military and horde shooters have really

00:10:59.360been absolutely done to death

00:11:01.440you know what i don't understand though

00:11:02.959is how they can add all of this kind of

00:11:04.800stuff in but then remove the most basic

00:11:07.120quality of life features like the shove

00:11:09.120attack from left 4 dead one of the most

00:11:11.040useful moves you had and perfect at

00:11:12.959crowd controlling the zombies now

00:11:14.720instead of that you've just got a basic

00:11:16.640melee attack which can only hit a single

00:11:18.399enemy not today [ __ ] even

00:11:20.800something as basic as not being able to

00:11:22.560have manual control over your flashlight

00:11:24.720like when did the simple convenience of

00:11:26.480being able to turn your flashlight on

00:11:28.160and off become an oversight about the

00:11:30.160newest thing they've added in here is

00:11:31.680that if you scare a flock of birds it

00:11:33.680somehow attracts the attention of the

00:11:35.360horde which is kind of the same as the

00:11:37.040car alarms in left for dead and i don't

00:11:39.440understand how this is supposed to work

00:11:41.440unless they're supposed to be some kind

00:11:43.120of hive mind birds that all communicate

00:11:45.040to each other but who knows the sheer

00:11:46.880amount of times you scare these things

00:11:48.480without even trying is just countless

00:11:51.519give me a break really annoys me too how

00:11:54.000it doesn't even show you the full stats

00:11:55.680at the end of each level or even the

00:11:57.200entire run part of the fun of finishing

00:11:59.120a left 4 dead campaign was seeing who

00:12:01.040had the most kills or you know seeing

00:12:03.040who friendly fired the most which in my

00:12:05.040case was almost always me still though

00:12:07.279like i said the shooting does feel good

00:12:09.279if nothing else i really like shredding

00:12:11.279through enemies with the vector plus i

00:12:13.120appreciate how the revolver is so

00:12:14.800overpowered that it kills those standard

00:12:16.800ridden in a single hit unloading that

00:12:19.040aa-12 into a wall of approaching enemies

00:12:21.360is satisfying us all hell and you've got

00:12:23.200to watch out for friendly fire a bit too

00:12:25.040so it's not all completely mindless

00:12:27.600but i reckon if you remove the ui from

00:12:29.440this thing and told someone to try to

00:12:31.120guess what game it was well they'd have

00:12:33.040a hell of a time picking it throughout

00:12:34.639the game you're constantly on the

00:12:35.839lookout for copper why it's copper i'm

00:12:38.000not too sure but hey that's the game's

00:12:39.760version of currency then at each safe

00:12:41.839room you've got these cases where you

00:12:43.360can buy new weapons ammo and items from

00:12:45.600yes someone was nice enough to leave

00:12:47.120these small cases lying around that are

00:12:48.959just jam-packed with every single item

00:12:50.720you'd ever possibly need from weapons to

00:12:52.959weapon attachments through the toolkits

00:12:54.800that get you into locked rooms this is

00:12:57.200also a really good example i think of

00:12:58.800how over designed this game is this

00:13:01.040barrage of icons and items to sift

00:13:03.040through i mean it takes a good minute or

00:13:04.639so of staring at this thing to process

00:13:06.480all of this information for the first

00:13:07.839time all i can say is is that i really

00:13:10.000miss those days of a minimalistic heads

00:13:11.920up display

00:13:13.040seeing as this is a first person shooter

00:13:14.959coming out in 2021 it also had to make

00:13:17.040sure it filled the requirement of

00:13:18.399running on the unreal engine 4. and one

00:13:20.560of the biggest problems you're going to

00:13:21.600have when making something run on the

00:13:23.200unreal engine 4 is that it's going to

00:13:25.120look a lot like every other game running

00:13:27.120on the unreal engine 4. most notably

00:13:29.120during the bush and forest areas where

00:13:30.959it just looks like the same looking

00:13:32.560trees grass and sun flares you've seen a

00:13:35.040dozen times before

00:13:36.720this is another big part too where back

00:13:38.399for blood is lacking i mean there's just

00:13:40.240no flare to any of these environments

00:13:42.160it's just generic looking trees

00:13:44.079buildings cars and so forth you could be

00:13:46.240somewhere in the midwest of america or

00:13:48.399you could be somewhere in eastern europe

00:13:50.079for all i know there's just nothing

00:13:51.680striking or memorable about really any

00:13:53.760of the locations you visit in the beta a

00:13:56.160lot of the sequences also just kind of

00:13:58.000feel like they're copied across from

00:13:59.360left to dead i mean that opening level

00:14:01.360in the beta reminded me a lot of the

00:14:02.959first part of no mercy and then the

00:14:04.800ending sequence reminded me a lot of the

00:14:06.800end of blood harvest even down to an apc

00:14:09.120comet to pick you up there's a section

00:14:11.120holding out in a church which is kind of

00:14:12.959similar to death toll in left 4 dead 2

00:14:15.120then you're having to run across a

00:14:16.320demolished bridge again similar to the

00:14:18.240final level in the parish

00:14:20.160despite the ridden being host for an

00:14:22.079alien parasite as opposed to a virus

00:14:24.320they're really still just your basic

00:14:26.320standard cookie cutter zombies and i

00:14:28.399know you can't really expect much from

00:14:29.839zombies they're just supposed to be

00:14:31.279fodder and little more than a

00:14:32.800distraction for whenever these special

00:14:34.720riddens show up only the special ones

00:14:36.560aren't really all that great either not

00:14:38.399to mention they lack a lot of the subtle

00:14:40.079design touches from left 4 dead that

00:14:42.000made those infected so memorable

00:14:44.240remembering left for dead how when one

00:14:45.519of those special infected was around

00:14:47.199you'd hear these very unique sound cues

00:14:49.120which gave them away before you even saw

00:14:50.880them

00:14:59.920you'd hear the wheezing of the smoker

00:15:01.680the growling of the hunter or that

00:15:03.440mountains you burp at the boomer and get

00:15:05.120yourself prepared the witch was also

00:15:07.360another classic example here in her

00:15:09.199sobbin off in the distance and that

00:15:10.720music slowly built into a crescendo the

00:15:12.959closer you got i mean it was terrifying

00:15:14.480at the time

00:15:18.240which

00:15:20.160well back for blood has none of that you

00:15:22.480just find yourself suddenly under attack

00:15:24.240by this special ridden without even

00:15:25.920knowing they were around

00:15:27.680[ __ ]

00:15:30.320those short quiet tense moments in

00:15:32.560between fighting the next horde are just

00:15:34.320completely gone here too and now it's

00:15:36.399just this constant steady stream of

00:15:38.480enemies removing any tension or

00:15:40.399atmosphere the game could have possibly

00:15:42.079had you just go from one room to the

00:15:44.000next shooting enemies the entire time

00:15:45.839with no real sense of pacing in between

00:15:48.399the music in general is also just

00:15:50.079completely lacking i mean i've still got

00:15:51.680that victory song from the end of left 4

00:15:53.360dead 2 stuck in my head to this day but

00:15:55.440the ending music for back for blood even

00:15:57.600after finishing it like 4 or 5 times now

00:15:59.920i couldn't sing it back to you if you

00:16:01.360had a gun to my head even the animations

00:16:03.680for some of these special written

00:16:05.120attacks is just kind of lazy like when

00:16:07.040your character gets constricted by one

00:16:08.880of the hawkers they're just locked in

00:16:10.320place in the standing position almost

00:16:12.160like they're t posing without the t and

00:16:14.480look again i hate to bring it back to

00:16:16.160left for dead but i will compare it to

00:16:17.839when you grabbed by the smoker for

00:16:19.440instance or the way the hunter would pin

00:16:21.279you down and start ripping you to pieces

00:16:22.959like it's the small things like that the

00:16:25.199rika is back for blood's version of the

00:16:27.120boomer he's a giant fat [ __ ] that

00:16:28.959vomits up bile and explodes when he's

00:16:31.040killed

00:16:35.759the tall boy looks like something out of

00:16:37.600resident evil lumbering around with a

00:16:39.199giant arm that makes me think that guy

00:16:40.959spends a lot of time home alone on his

00:16:42.639computer masturbation jokes i love him

00:16:45.440and this is about the most effort it

00:16:46.880seems they put into the animations

00:16:48.480because this guy can outright pick

00:16:50.160players up and then jack them off to

00:16:52.160death and then back for blood's version

00:16:54.240of the tank is the ogre a giant mini

00:16:56.320boss that stomps around and i think this

00:16:58.320thing kind of looks like what would

00:16:59.519happen if the stay puft marshmallow man

00:17:01.680was made out of someone's butthole but

00:17:03.440again very minimal animation work

00:17:05.280outside of it just lumbering around and

00:17:06.959having a couple of different attacks

00:17:10.240so overall i feel like these enemies are

00:17:12.160kind of boring and just not very

00:17:13.679memorable i know they're supposed to be

00:17:15.199adding in more for the final build and

00:17:16.799i'm just hoping these things are going

00:17:18.160to be more creative than the current

00:17:19.760lineup because right now these guys are

00:17:21.760underwhelming and just disappointing

00:17:27.199probably the most disappointing aspect

00:17:29.360in back for blood though is the gore or

00:17:31.280the lack thereof and i still don't

00:17:33.039understand man how a 12 year old game

00:17:35.039like left 4 dead 2 running on an

00:17:36.880inferior engine can still somehow look

00:17:39.360better here when it comes to the

00:17:40.480violence than a game made in 2021 does

00:17:43.440that's not to say there's not going to

00:17:44.880be a high body count in back for blood

00:17:46.640though you're gonna be killing upwards

00:17:48.000of a thousand ridden per run here but

00:17:49.919the gore itself just feels so basic

00:17:52.240about the best you're gonna get here is

00:17:53.600a bunch of blood spatters when shooting

00:17:55.280things one of the most underwhelming

00:17:57.120things is when you throw out a pipe bomb

00:17:58.880which beeps like an alarm clock as it

00:18:00.799attracts all nearby enemies and the

00:18:02.559explosion in the aftermath for this

00:18:04.240thing was so dreadful in comparison to

00:18:06.400left 4 deads that i wanted to go and

00:18:08.160take a hot shower after it went on

00:18:12.310[Music]

00:18:25.360also another lackluster weapon too

00:18:28.960i'll kill you if you do that again

00:18:34.630[Applause]

00:18:38.799reloading

00:18:42.210[Music]

00:18:48.400reloading

00:18:53.600to contrast with this is the absurd

00:18:55.520amount of blood that gets on your

00:18:56.880character during combat an almost

00:18:58.480laughable amount which ironically ends

00:19:00.640up kind of looking bad despite the

00:19:02.559technology and physics behind it

00:19:04.400probably being quite detailed now if

00:19:06.320there was some kind of tactical

00:19:07.600advantage to this like maybe when you're

00:19:09.280covered in blood or something you'd be

00:19:10.640harder to spot by zombies that would've

00:19:12.240been a cool idea but that would require

00:19:14.160them to actually put some effort into

00:19:15.679things and it's far easier to just make

00:19:17.840a game where all you do is shoot things

00:19:19.440the entire time

00:19:22.080the second mode the game offers is the

00:19:23.760versus mode which is going to be very

00:19:25.440familiar to a lot of people who spent a

00:19:26.960bit of time with the left 4 dead back in

00:19:28.480the day and i'd argue that's going to

00:19:30.080bring over a lot of those sweat lords as

00:19:32.080well for a short period of time anyway

00:19:33.840it's a pretty similar format it's

00:19:35.360primarily pvp gameplay where one team

00:19:37.840places the survivors and the other

00:19:39.360players is the special ridden the team

00:19:41.520that goes first has to survive for as

00:19:43.120long as possible and then when they

00:19:44.559finally lose the other team has to try

00:19:46.480to beat their time and you do this for

00:19:48.160three rounds to decide who's the winner

00:19:50.240and this mode's also got its own card

00:19:52.080decks to help customize the experience

00:19:54.480compared to the vs maps in left 4 dead

00:19:56.400though we could actually follow the

00:19:57.600other team around during the campaign

00:19:59.120and [ __ ] with them these are instead for

00:20:00.799some reason smaller arenas

00:20:04.080with a battle royale style bubble that

00:20:05.919slowly shrinks in as time passes to make

00:20:08.320it easier for the attackers to win on

00:20:10.480top of that it's also in third person

00:20:12.240now when controlling the ridden instead

00:20:13.919of first person which not only is that

00:20:15.840less interesting i mean not being able

00:20:17.520to see the world from their perspective

00:20:19.120but it also allows you to cheese out the

00:20:20.960camera by being able to see where the

00:20:22.640enemy team is without being in their

00:20:24.559line of sight and it's way too easy to

00:20:26.799just hang back on a roof somewhere and

00:20:28.640spit at people from the other side of

00:20:30.080the map before you can move in safely

00:20:31.919for the kill

00:20:33.039they're really gonna need to sort out

00:20:34.480the matchmaking for this mode too

00:20:36.080because if you're at all decent at this

00:20:37.679and playing with other people over voice

00:20:39.280chat you'll pretty much wipe the floor

00:20:40.880with the other team every single time

00:20:43.440the first match i played in this mode

00:20:45.120two people from the other team rage quit

00:20:47.039after we beat them in the first round

00:20:48.720and then a third person left shortly

00:20:50.320after uh yeah boy is that enemy teams

00:20:53.039left so it was just a 4v1 for the

00:20:55.360remainder of the match and that's not

00:20:56.880really fun for anyone involved

00:21:00.370[Music]

00:21:02.080it's [ __ ] stupid it shouldn't happen

00:21:03.840like that i think the reason for this is

00:21:05.919that people would rather just quit out

00:21:07.440and start a new match than stick around

00:21:09.200and get their asses handed to them which

00:21:11.039makes sense but that's going to be a

00:21:12.799thing then they at least need to include

00:21:14.559bot support so the people willing to

00:21:16.320stick around don't get entirely screwed

00:21:18.240over

00:21:21.520i think overall back for blood will

00:21:23.120probably do pretty well in the short

00:21:24.480term because if nothing else it does

00:21:26.400function okay as a shooter but this is

00:21:28.480not going to be something people are

00:21:29.600going to be grinding out for years to

00:21:31.280come and i can't see much point playing

00:21:32.960it after finishing the campaign or after

00:21:35.120buggering around a bit with the versus

00:21:36.480mode oh come on the characters are

00:21:39.039forgettable the special ridden are

00:21:40.720unremarkable and the weapons and

00:21:42.159environments

00:21:43.280at the mill the best way i could

00:21:44.799describe back for blood is that it's a

00:21:46.799video game it's definitely a video game

00:21:48.960of that much i'm certain the one good

00:21:50.880thing that came out of back for blood's

00:21:52.559beta is that it made me want to go back

00:21:54.240and replay left 4 dead 2 with the boys

00:21:56.320and if it does nothing else but

00:21:57.760introduce a few new fans to that old

00:21:59.600series well then i guess the whole thing

00:22:01.039won't be a total loss

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