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Back 4 Blood Locks Progression if You Play Solo (UPDATE: Dev responds. See threadmarks)
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So I don't care about stats and achievement unlocking. What are supply points? Do they stop you from getting new kit/skills/maps?
Solo mode explanation
you're missing the context: when you play this offline version, you get a massive number of in-game cards unlocked to toy with and mix/match decks from the start. there's no progression because you play it in a "cheat"/poggers manner.
I'm still mulling how I feel about it, but that context is required to understand what's going on.
EDIT: Since this is threadmarked:
The above use of "offline" is not quite accurate. It means solo play without matchmaking or inviting your friends. This is an always-online game that does not boot without logging into WB Games' servers.
Progression requires entering an online queue, and you can do this with people in your friends list (either B4B's cross-plat list, or your own platform's native friends list), online randos, or a mix of the two.
I'm still mulling how I feel about it, but that context is required to understand what's going on.
EDIT: Since this is threadmarked:
The above use of "offline" is not quite accurate. It means solo play without matchmaking or inviting your friends. This is an always-online game that does not boot without logging into WB Games' servers.
Progression requires entering an online queue, and you can do this with people in your friends list (either B4B's cross-plat list, or your own platform's native friends list), online randos, or a mix of the two.
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Well that's fine in context...
...but that makes it sound like SP is more of a Training/Demo Mode for Multiplayer.
What are Accomplishments anyway?
Yup, yup! People just asked for a Left 4 Dead 3, but they added these cards and other things which made them have to alter Single Player.
They'd best get better at the messaging about the game, then, because headlines like this can kill the game in its crib if they're not careful.
The detailed explanation doesn't seem that bad. "Locked progression" makes me think you're stuck with the starting weapons and a Level 1 character for the whole game, or you even can't unlock the next mission until you do it online.
What a dumb thing to do. Everything about this game has felt forced and anti-player since the beta sessions, and this just adds to that.
Keep it.
Keep it.
but what message did they give, exactly????
this is a random poster, putting a random pic
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They should at the very least give people the option to earn points in SP mode even if it's more difficult as some people may alternate between SP and MP.
Decks? Cards? Looks like I need to read up on this game >_>
I'll be renting this, so it's not quite a deal breaker for me. Yet.
I'll be renting this, so it's not quite a deal breaker for me. Yet.
I think not being able to earn Supply Points really sucks for those who care about cosmetics because at least at the time of the last beta, there were cosmetic things you could get on the lines/paths you spent Supply Points on, so Solo players can just be locked out of cosmetic progression, even if they have all the cards from the get go.
a snippet from my day-one stream yesterday that looks at how this appears in the deck-management menus
Accomplishments are just normal achievements/trophies and ingame achievements to unlock more supply points to buy cards/sprays.
All cards are unlocked already in solomode anyways so it's more like a practice mode.
I like how this went from an almost instant buy from me to wait and see to definitely not over the past few months. It feels like they don't know what made Left 4 Dead so magical and fun. I hope I'm wrong and this game is good, but I got the sneaking suspicion I'm not.
Lol yeh, this is a turn off.
After evolve I would have thought they'd learn their lesson...
Not even worth the gamepass download at this point. Waste of HDD space if I can't progress solo.
Damn so you can't even get achievements in solo mode? That's ridiculous. Oh well guess I'll just jump into random multiplayer lobbies when I have time to play. Not the ideal way to play it - sucks that they don't even give you the real option to play it solo.
Yup, I was interested, but if thats the case....
I hope there is more to this info.
This is neither a PR statement nor an interview with a journalist/media source, this is a screenshot posted on a video game forum. How about put down your pitchforks and agenda against this game and if it doesn't interest you anymore then that's fine. However, I would like to learn more about this game, without a bunch of insufferable posts where people jump to conclusions making it difficult in the process.
