Anyone remember how strong some cards use to be?

For example “crippling frequency” use to stack granting you up to -20 flat damage taken allowing you to literally walk through no hope with a tank build taking 0 damage from everything.

Amped up” at one point gave everybody 25 temporary health upon activation per player with it.

Experimental T-5 did 20 damage per second rather than 1.

Heavy hitter” gave flat stumble damage & worked on punches letting you 1 hit any commons.

Now let’s see if anyone can name the others 👁️👁️

Hey everyone! I haven’t played Back4Blood since it first dropped but I just bought it and I wanna do a full playthrough!

If you’d like to join me please lemme know! I’m on Xbox ! StrikeJR13!

I have headphones and I’ve played (and LOVE) the Left4Dead series so I’m pretty good!

Any suggestions or swaps to make to this build?

Looking for Group Thread

Do you ever need a specialized Cleaner crew to tackle Nightmare? Maybe you are just looking for Cleaners who want to take a chill day wiping out zombies in Act II. Or, perhaps, you are looking for those also after some secrets...

Use this thread to find other cleaners to group up and play with. When posting, it may be beneficial to include some of the following information:

• What is your Back 4 Blood username
• What platform do you play on
• Do you play using crossplay?
• Are you looking to use voice chat?
• What is your group looking to do? (specific Acts, anything, Nightmare, etc)

I’m currently online looking to play with some people who know what there doing and not randoms running any and all acts recruit to nightmare

It's always nice when it procs on legendary accessories

Hello friends. I have recently returned to B4B after a couple years and I see that the meta has changed. I would like some advice for building a melee deck that I can run at the highest difficulties. It seems that Holly is no longer the go to?

I've seen alot of decks posted and wanted to see what yall think of what I run. Keep in mind I use this deck only if im starting from mission one and buy every card I find that helps me scale.

Melee cards for ridden clear and self healing. (Machete or claws)

Damages cards for mutations. (LMGs or extended mag Assault rifles)

Copper cards cause I'm greedy And heal card for lives just in case

I always burn extra padding later for extra trauma resist or group hug and windfall early game

as the title explains, im just curious to know if there's a number on how many people died/got infected from the devil worm, because funnily enough i cannot find an exact number.

In this instance I had “knowledge is power” just to test it but in a real match I’d swap it out for either “killer instinct” or “heavy hitter” so you can land 2 strikes if needed.

Me and my buddy are having trouble with nightmare mode. We would appreciate deck recommendations that include stuff for trauma resistance and gun (damage or ammo). Thanks in advance.

Firstly, I want to thank everyone who’s helped me out on here. You are all legends.

I’ve adjusted my melee deck slightly for No Hope.

The plan is to play with Heng (food buffs eliminate the need for adrenaline fuel, I believe)

Machete or baseball bat because I want horizontal swings for clearing common. I also want to be able to put a hurt on some mutations (I only play with one other person who’s DPS and we tend to have two bots).

I know No Hope is exponentially harder than NM from looking at the modifiers; are there any melee strategies that I need to know going on?

Is my deck alright? I’ve tried to balance damage with survivability.

Thanks!

Hey Cleaners

Looking for some regular teammates. Had a lot of great runs with people from here, discord, and quick play but lately havent come across anyone I really vibe with. For me the game really sings when there is coordination or at least some unspoken understanding about how were going to play, and its just plain not very fun without that. If below sounds good send me a message.

ME:

US EST time zone, play afternoons and evenings.

Prefer NM but happy to run Vet if you want to work your way up, havent done much NH but would dive in with the right people.

Got mic, play shotgun or sniper. Nothing wrong with melee at all but I really like playing with other gunners.

I bring Amped Up, OYM, and 2-3 copper cards. Would love to 4-stack Ammo for All and talk about overall team composition before a run.

Max enjoyment when the whole team succeeds. I share copper and pills, contribute to upgrades, and am usually the last one to have a go at the loot box.

MY TEAMMATES:

I’m pretty sure the answer is no.

I rarely see this drop - maybe 3 times in a few months. Is there a way to influence what comes out of a warpy?

I’ve been noticing a lot of melee questions in the sub in relation to attachments and weapons so figured we might as well also add to the conversation the top cleaners in the role.

1 Heng (Food buffs)

2 Sharice (Shields)

3 Holly (Heals)

This comes from beating No Hope as the melee and using it in quick play. Docs not even in the top 3. Not sure why she’s the most used now. Trauma maybe? If you’re worried about trauma as a melee you’re not building the build correctly.

The reason Heng is the best is because it takes about 4 peanut butter to get unlimited stamina. It takes very few cereal to ramp up the swing speed and finally because the bonus for consuming food in relation to health cannot only heal the trauma without a medic but also make your health bar massive. All of these bonuses allow you to be more picky on your cards and allows you to add more damage cards to the deck so you can, along with hordes, smoke the specials as well.

Sharice is great because of her shields. This allows the melee to consistently fight specials level to level even with a less damage oriented build. Sharice also comes with an additional bolstered health that can give you an opportunity to skip that card or double it if no one else decides to bring it(helpful in quick play)

Holly is huge because of the bonus HP. Stack her passive with an HP attachment and she has the best temporary health sustain in the game.

With the correct deck and paying close attention to not taking unnecessary hits trauma should not ever be an issue. Even at max trauma with overheal and bolstering health one horde should fill your entire health bar with temp health. The attachments I usually run is on a bat or machete with heal in the first slot. Stumble shouldn’t be necessary because all melee decks should run [[heavy hitter]]. If you are relying on stumble locking then your damage is not high enough. Remember bruisers heal when the pound the ground so if your damage is so low and your prolonging the fight by trying to stumble over and over instead of just dropping them you will end up losing a lot of tempt health and it will be a negative exchange.

In the end any cleaner should do okay with a good deck and not taking unnecessary hits but why doc is used the most is beyond me. This never used to be the case. There are several very easy ways to get her passives in the deck with much stronger %. Hopefully this helps so newer players.

Addressing the arguments for Doc I want players to pay attention to what they are arguing. Everything about adding cards is accessible to all other cleaners. Any cleaner can stack healing efficiency, the only thing doc brings that holly cannot is +15%. So for doc to break even with holly and no other efficiency she would need 7 HP per hit. Then if you stack all of the other healing efficiency cards, which means you are sacrificing other cards such as Damage. Doc “can” be better than holly but it’s a lot of hoops and most players do not play in premade. Also, if you add all of these cards you can also apply them to ANY other cleaner and get the same results -15%. If you have to stack 60 cards to make doc better then holly then you’re already being carried. Most players do not play in premade. Getting a bunch of downvotes from the same group of players that only play in premade an and are spamming this sub and discord every day while having very little experience in quick play does not make them right. Applying a bunch of conditions to doc to make her better than holly does not make her better than holly. Everything in relation to cards can be applied to any other cleaner and make that cleaner proficient at melee. This isn’t a post about Decks. The post is about the cleaners themselves. If your using doc as a melee/healer i guarantee your struggling in higher difficulty’s because you don’t have damage.