Back 4 Blood roadmap reveals a new offline mode and Tunnels of Terror expansion
Turtle Rock Studios has big plans for the rest of 2021 and into next year.
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Turtle Rock’s co-op zombie shooterBack 4 Bloodturned out to be really good—“A triumphant return to the genre it created,” we said in our88% review—and so it’s probably not a great surprise to learn that the studio has big plans for it well beyond its initial release.
A post-launch roadmap revealed today laid out a timeline for both short-term improvements, including bug fixes and quality of life tweaks, and longer-term commitments for December:
And into 2022:
Cleaners, the future is lookin' bright! Here’s a roadmap of what’s to come for Fort Hope. #Back4Blood pic.twitter.com/IHCvGqZXO0November 8, 2021
All of the above will be available to everyone through free game updates.
The roadmap also gives us a look at the first of three story expansions included in the Back 4 Bloodannual pass, which sells for $40/£35/€40. Entitled Tunnels of Terror, it will bring us new Cleaners and Ridden (that’s B4B-speak for “characters and zombies”), a new activity type, new cards, exclusive cards, and of course more weapons. It, and the other two as-yet-unnamed expansions are all slated to be out sometime in 2022. It’s not the most detailed layout of future plans I’ve ever seen, but it’s definitely ambitious.
If you’re just getting started on Back 4 Blood (or plan to jump it at some point in the future), we can help set you off on the right foot with guides to thebest settings, thebest builds, how thecard systemworks, andhow to play the PvP Versus mode.
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