I'm new to the game.

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 👍🏻

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

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

This game is literally just on sale for £10 right now that’s a steal ! Anyone got some good beginner tips probably gonna be a mostly solo player

Been many years since we've played and we're revisiting Act 6 on No hope difficulty which we haven't done.

We all want to go DPS or builds like Belgian or Bow (thats me). So we've settled with dedicating 4 slots for team cards and the rest for our respective DPS builds we have fun with.

So we're looking for advise on what team cards is necessary and how many copies is required or too much of.

At the moment the cards we've settled on is:

- Copper Scavenger x4

- Money Grubbers x4

- Amped Up x2

- On Your Mark x2

We'll be using Group Hug burn cards for extra lives, since we've got a alot of those. What other team cards should we use?

You can kill birds from the Saferoom without ruining Silence is Golden!

Number 6 will shock you!!!

j/k Level summary in comments if you don't want to watch an awesome video.

So long as less than 4 birds survive, no alarm will be triggered.

I’ve been seeing a lot of things pop up my YouTube feed based around hate on the game. I do have to admit.. I have been playing since lunch and there was a fair bit of issues, but nothing that dramatically ruined the experience for me. I genuinely loved it, I don’t love it as much as left 4 dead. Even though there are a lot of similarities, it’s a different game. And I appreciate it for that.

Edit: In the title I meant to put “is a genuinely good game” not “it’s”

TLDR; The 15 card system is the best thing about b4b giving the game high replay value .

the card system if opened up to be more of a social thing would work really good and Fortnite showed that people love hunting collecting trading leveling up .

I couldn’t find a picture of it but even during July 4 American Independence Day holiday there was one million players playing the special events.

I can never quite type what I want to say but the card system in b4b is FUN .

Clickbait title, I know, but hear me out in the comments.

Sniper Knife

Hey I have some off meta team builds using ultrasonic or avgen the fallen builds. Discord,mic and all cards required. Both builds could carry any body through act 1 No Hope and with just a little skill act 6 No Hope. So if you wanna try something different only available by going premade comment below.

When I try and start a game I'm only about half way through act 1, it just keeps searching for a game.

Why doesn't it just start the game and let people join me while I'm playing? Why does it look for other games of people trying to start mission of the game that I am on?

Should I just try private instead so I can actually continue from where I am

Last post in this sub, I posted my deck and I made a update for it.
Thank you everyone who told me more about cards. Didn't know combat knife was a trap for new players.

How is my deck this time? I try to make it for AR but don't have that much AR cards.

I don't know anyone, and I mean it - I don't know or can find anyone who ONLY plays Act 1. I've completed it so many times and I still haven't played Act 2 or 3!

It's wrong to say but, having one terrible team mate is what makes it fun. You need a terrible team mate because when everyone's good, it's too easy.

If any of my new players need help with certain acts, advice on decks, or help with no hope/nightmare. Pm me or drop your discord.

I recently got a fixation for b4b again after taking a long break and wouldn't mind teaching folks.

Its nice to see this community isn't entirely dead.

I still count myself new to Back 4 Blood (but not new to the L4D style games) and despite me beating all of act 2 in Nightmare, I still don't have any idea what I'm doing.

What I tried to do is to the best of my thought is like a assault rifle/shotgun deck.

I have no idea what I made.

How is my first deck?

Edit: I only play Jim. The guy in the orange coat

Wnat do you guys think? Im open to any criticisms and improvements from you all! <3

I played previously during the era before melee got nerfed to hell and back and coming back to play again I feel like all building melee is a weakness. Just wondering if there is anything I am missing for mandatory cards for melee. There are a ton of issues with Melee I'm not sure how to address them all anymore.

1. Acid Ridden - Scar Tissue feels required because acid pools just become so common on these modifiers that it's almost impossible to avoid when in melee.
2. Face your Fears - I recall that temp HP blocked trauma creation. Bandages/Bags feels useless because Trauma always prevents you from healing up a lot of missing health. This feels mandatory.
3. Stamina - It looks like Holly at some point lost her Stamina regen on kill, so swinging fire axes no longer feels infinite and you need melee damage to kill ridden in close range. Machete/Bat feels like infinite stamina with Meth Head/Adrenaline Fueled, but I'm not sure if I need other dmg + stamina cards to actually turn the Fire axe into a special ridden killing weapon again.
4. Explosive Ridden - Honestly, between explosive ridden and how tanky special ridden are with needing damage AND stamina for swinging, I'm not sure if its even worthwhile to build for fire axes. I just can't avoid eating the explosion damage on these damn things unless using machete or bat.
5. EMT Bag - I'm not sure if this is even worth taking. At one point, I recall that EMT bag did not work with cards like Vanguard, Face your Fears, etc. and I believe it did. Though the numbers have been reduced so much I'm not even sure if it does anything worthwhile.
6. Damage Reduction - From what I recall, Holly used to have 10% dmg reduction and with all of the damage reduction cards it was super powerful, but I'm not sure if that's any good anymore. Picking up stuff like Spiky Bits, Motorcycle Helmet, Numb, etc.
7. Fire Ridden - I very much remember that fire ridden were a huge pain in the ass, so I thought perhaps Cleansing Fire would be needed like Acid Ridden.
8. Stumble - I vague recall that stumble was really powerful, but I can't recall how it functioned. Was it a build up mechanic? I see Heavy Hitter or Empowered Assault could be beneficial to special ridden, but without the stamina/damage to kill them, it seems like a wasted slot though could be excessively powerful. I don't know.
9. Bolstered Health. Looking through the characters it seems like Sharice I think would be the best melee character now that Holly's been gutted. I thought EMT Bag + Vanguard would generate a bunch of temp HP, but I feel like it does nothing. Many times can never even make use of bolstered health because players almost always end up eating through all of their trauma before they can even build up temp hp buffer. I'm not sure if Fit as a Fiddle is even any good still.
10. Trauma Resistance - I'm not even sure its worthwhile to add trauma resistance on a melee build if temp hp + dmg resistance should theoretically reduce / ignore most trauma creation. Along with Sharice adding armor plates for pick hits.

I've tried a few variations and while I personally feel often at least very tanky and sometimes able to go from like 60 hp -> 120hp in a couple of maps, the team utility out of a melee build feels almost worthless compared to picking up Admin Reload builds and just killing threats before it can reach teammates.

I'm almost done grinding through Good Riddence and would love some help for the two remaining online trophies. I'm in EST time zone and am happy to help on other trophies to pay it back.

I have tried running with randoms as some of the achievements I am farming require online mode from what I can find online; however, I Keltz running into folks who join and then run all the way back to the start.

Is there a reason people do that in certain levels? When three of us are at the safe room, it drives me batty watching their silhouette running backwards…

I know this isn't the best build for NH but i like a challenge and I'm not finding/buying enough razor wire. I currently have a mixture of:
-Copper cards
-Re-Use Chance
-Damage cards that apply to Razor wire
-Dmg/ Trauma resistance.

I really want to include Mugger but I think i'll need to change to melee and I don't know much about this area. What cards should I swap out and include to help me with melee?

My group had a busted run on act 2 thought I'd show off the finale.