Back 4 Blood just received its first update yesterday, two days after its release. The patch brings a lot of balancing changes, especially to the Swarm. However, it doesn’t bring any new content. Some tweaks to the Campaign mode have been made as well. The update decreased the Roaming Special Spawn rate for all difficulties.
As mentioned above, the Swarm received most of the changes. Bruisers max health is reduced to 800 from the previous 850, and damage is reduced to 15 from 20. His burst delay is increased to three, and the Weakspot multiplier increased to 1.65 from 1.5.
The update has increased the damage done by Tallboy to 20. Hocker Projectile received a major nerf. Its speed is decreased to 2,500, and the cooldown is increased to seven.
The rest of the changes are mentioned below:
- Roaming Special Spawn rate decreased on all difficulties
- Adjusted Supply Point earning rates for Blue Dog Hollow: The Sound of Thunder to better account for level repeats
- Bruisers max health reduced to 800 from 850
- Bruisers damage reduced to 15 from 20
- Bruiser Burst delay to 3 from 2.65
- Bruiser Weakspot multiplier increased to 1.65 from 1.5
- Tallboy damage increased to 20 from 15
- Hocker Projectile speed to 2,500 from 3,000
- Hocker Projectile cooldown to 7 from 6
- Stinger Projectile spread reduced to 20 from 30
- Stinger Projectile speed increased to 5,500 from 5,000
Back 4 Blood was released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 12. The game received positive reviews from both fans and critics. As of this writing, it’s sitting at an 83% positive rating on Steam. You can consider B4B a spiritual successor of the Left 4 Dead franchise. It is made by the same developer.
So what do you think? Are you interested in these balancing changes? Have you been enjoying Back 4 Blood? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
