FEBRUARY 2022 UPDATE

Developer Note - Over the next few patches, we're making many of our cards more viable for different strategies while also removing tradeoffs that don't meaningfully add to gameplay. 
A few new features are included in the February 2022 Update, most notably the ability to Stay Together at the end of a match if you enjoyed fighting Ridden with your group of Quickplay Cleaners. 
We'll continue to improve the Back 4 Blood experience and look forward to your feedback on our February 2022 Update!Our February 2022 Update goes live on Tuesday, February 8th at 10am - Pacific Time.Follow along with our Trello board (http://bit.ly/B4BTrello) to track upcoming new features, balance changes, and major bug fixes. Note that our Trello Board, and this list of fixes, are not exhaustive.

New Features

• Streamer Mode
  • Players now have access to an audio option that disables copyrighted music in the game.

• Stay Together
  • Ungrouped players can vote to "stay together" at the end of a run when they would have otherwise been split up.

• Walker's Ability Reworked
  • Added Incoming! which functions like Marked for Death.
    • Lowers the marked target's damage dealt.  
    • Accuracy on precision kills removed.

• Increased the limit of decks allowed in the Deck Manager to 16 for each mode, previously 8.
  
• Players now earn Supply Points after failing a mission.
• Added two new tutorial tips in the card draw overlay explaining catch up draws that get granted to players.
  
• Notable Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that caused weapon fire rates to not always be accurate.
  • Fixed campaign objective items being dropped on use.
  • Fixed an issue where muted players were not being unmuted if the player toggled "Unmute All" before loading into the game.

Campaign Updates

• General
  • Players can now interrupt firing by reloading.
  • T5 Grenade crates are now open by default.
  • Shotgun ammo pickups from crates increased to 60 ammo from 25.
  • Rifle ammo pickups from crates increased to 120 ammo from 100.
  • Players are now able to hit the Breaker's weakspots with melee weapons.
  • Global difficulty damage increases no longer affect Friendly Fire damage.
  • Quickplay no longer queues players into finale maps.

• General Card Updates
  
  • Developer Note: The following changes make slow and steady combat more viable. 
    • Evasive Action refactored to Defensive Maneuver.
      • Attacks over 15 damage apply 25% damage resistance for 3 seconds.

    • On Your Marks
      • Instantly gives 15% of max ammo and 10% movement speed while firing.
      • +25% reload and +25% weapon swap for 30 seconds on horde trigger.
      • No longer gives team speed 15% for 30 seconds at saferoom.

    • Amped Up
      • No longer gives temporary health when leaving the saferoom.
      • Now gives team 25 temporary health any time a horde is triggered.

    • Shooting Gloves refactored.
      • +25% swap (unchanged).
      • Added 15% recoil control.
      • Added 15% accuracy.

    • Front Sight Focus refactored.
      • +20% Accuracy (unchanged).
      • Added 10% weakspot damage.
      • Added 15% Aim speed.

  • Mom's revive now fully heals target.
  • Hoffman's ability now includes a 1% chance to find offensive items on any kill and team ammo is increased to 15% from 10%.
  • Admin Reload - No longer has a trade off.
    
  • Ammo for All - Added stats 1% team damage.
  • Ammo Pouch
    • Added 2.5% bullet damage.
    • Added 25% Ammo Capacity.

  • Ammo Belt
    • Added 15% reload.
    • Added 50% Ammo Capacity.
    • No longer has a trade-off.

  • Grenade Pouch
    • Added 25% Swap Speed.
    • Increases Offensive Slot by 1.

  • Double Grenade Pouch 
    • Increases Offensive Slot by 2.
    • No longer reduces damage by 10%.
    • Now slows movement by 5%.

  • Belt Clip
    • Added 10% Use Speed.
    • Increases Quick Slot by 1.

  • Utility Belt Clip
    • Increases Quick Slot by 2.
    • No longer reduces damage by 10%.
    • Now slows movement by 5.

  • Shoulder Bag
    • Increases Support Inventory Slot by 2.
    • No longer reduces damage by 10%.
    • Now slows movement by 5%.

  • Mandatory PT
    • Stamina reduced to 10% from 15%.
    • Stamina regen +10%.

  • Hellfire - Decreased movement speed to 3% from 5%.
  • Stamina - Now gives a flat 10 stamina instead of 10%.
    
  • Compound Interest
    • Updated to affect the whole team.
    • Reduced to 5% from 10%.
    • Developer Note: Rather than obligating the Cleaner using this card to drop their Copper for the team, we wanted the whole team to benefit from the card.

  • Battle Lust - Now benefits from healing efficiency.
  • Face Your Fears - Trigger range increased to 2.5 meters from 2 meters.
    
  • Utility Scavenger - Barbed Wire now properly gets highlighted with this card, instead of Offensive Scavenger.
    
  • Stimulants - Duration increased to 60 seconds from 30 seconds.
  • Optics Enthusiast - No longer reduces stamina efficiency.
  • Trigger Control - Added accuracy on precision kills.
    • Developer Note: We really enjoy Walker's ability and refactored Trigger Control to be similar.

  • Wooden Armor
    • Trauma resistance decreased to 30% from 40%.
    • No longer increases Acid damage by 100%.
    • Developer Note: We made these changes in the spirit of eventually making this card viable.

  • Body Armor
    • Trauma resistance decreased to 20% from 25%.
    • No longer has a trade-off.

  • Overwatch - Distance increased to 15 meters from 10.

• Healing Card Updates
  
  • Antibiotic Ointment
    • Increased Healing Efficiency to 25% from 20%.
    • Now gives an additional 10 temp health to targets any time you heal with an item or ability.

  • EMT Bag
    • Increased Healing Efficiency to 50% from 40%.
    • No longer reduces stamina efficiency.

  • Field Surgeon
    • Targets Heal 3 trauma any time a Medical Accessory is used.
    • No longer gives healing efficiency.
    • No longer has a trade-off.

  • Medical Expert
    • Targets Heal 1 trauma any time a Medical Accessory is used.
    • Added 50% revive speed.
    • Added 15% team healing efficiency.

  • Fanny Pack
    • Added 15% Trauma Resist.
    • Increases Support slot by 1.

  • Fresh Bandage - Returned to full health after trauma heal.

• Corruption Card Updates
  • Toxic Spill - Temp health per kill reduced to 3 from 5.

• Balance Updates
  • Developer Note: We tuned many of the weapons taking the following into consideration:
    • We felt certain weapon qualities weren't scaling well enough and other weapons were scaling too quickly.  
    • Tuning needed to take into account the bug fix for weapon fire rates.

  • Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.
  • AA12 Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.
  • AK47 changes:
    • Aim down sights spread increased to 0.70 from 0.29.
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 2000/2500/2750 from 1750/2250/2500.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.

  • Barret changes:
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 2250/2750/3000 from 1750/2500/3250.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.

  • Belgian changes:
    • Reload time decreased to 1.6 from 2.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.

  • Desert Eagle Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.
  • M4 changes:
    • Damage increased to 11 from 10.
    • Damage falloff rescale to 1750/2250/2500 from 1500/1750/2500.
    • Magazine size increased to 30 from 25.

  • M16 changes:
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 1750/2250/2500 from 1500/1750/2500.
    • Reduced burst delay to .2  from .25.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.

  • M1A changes:
    • Recoil Pitch reduced to 25 from 35.
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 2000/2500/3000 from 1500/2250/3000.

  • M249 changes:
    • Damage increased to 14 from 13.
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 1750/2250/2500 from 1500/2000/2500.

  • M9 - Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.
  • M9 Burst changes:
    • Reduced burst delay to 0.225 from 0.3.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.

  • MP5 changes:
    • Fire Rate increased to 0.07.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.

  • Phoenix changes:
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 2250/2750/3000 from 1750/2500/3250.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.

  • Ranch Rifle changes:
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 1750/2250/2750 from 1250/2000/2750.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.

  • RPK Damage falloff rescaled to 2000/2500/2750 from 1750/2250/2750.
  • SCAR changes:
    • Aim down sights spread increased to 0.94 from 0.29.
    • Reload speed increased to 1.88 from 1.75.
    • Damage falloff rescaled to 2000/2500/2750 from 1750/2250/2500.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.

  • Super 90 Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.
  • TAC14 Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.
  • Tec9 changes:
    • Developer Note: Tec9 was overtuned to almost be like a primary weapon, so we needed to bring it back in line with other Secondary Weapons.
    • Reload speed increased to 2.47 from 2.25.
    • Minimum hip fire spread increased to 5 from 4.
    • Spread add increased to 4.2 from 3.9.
    • Recoil yaw and pitch increased to 12 from 10.
    • Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.

  • UMP 45 Weapon damage scaling per quality decreased to 18.5% from 20%.
  • Uzi Weapon damage scaling per quality increased by 11.5% from 10%.

• Spawning Updates
  • Wandering Specials now have a 12 to 18 second exit cooldown. 

• Bot Updates
  • Bot positioning has been updated to prioritize player line of sight.

• Ridden AI Updates
  
  • Car alarms are no longer triggered by Charred Ridden.
  • Reeker melee damage reduced to 8 from 15.

• Remnants: The Road to Hell
  • The Ogre can no longer spawn in this mission.

• Remnants: The Body Dump
  • T5 grenade cases now can spawn in more locations.

Swarm PvP Updates

• General
  • Added new VFX to Ridden.

• Balance Updates
  • Cleaners now begin each round with full ammo in Swarm mode.
  • Reduced Tallboy's health to 600 from 625.
  • Reduced Tallboy's overhead damage radius to 140 from 160.
  • Tallboy's stun resistance mutation now limits stun time to 2.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds.
  • Removed the ramp-up time for the vomit ability to reach full velocity for Retch players.
  • Hocker's projectile speed reduced to 2000 from 2500.

Controller Updates

• Player strafe, forward, and backward movement speeds are now more consistent between Keyboard & Mouse and Controller.

Supply Line Updates

• New Sprays are now available in Supply Lines.
• ZWAT emblem is now available in Roving Merchants Supply Lines.

Accessibility Updates

• Text to Speech is now implemented for Tooltips.

UI/UX Updates

• Added tooltips for most options to better explain a given option's functionality.
• Icons for buffs given by a card now display on the card as well as the in-game HUD.
• Added a menu option called "Cinematics Subtitles" to disable subtitles during cutscenes.
• Card tooltips now appear during card selection.
• More detailed messaging displays when a player gets kicked from the server.

Bug Fixes

• Matchmaking
  • Fixed an issue that caused users to disconnect from the server after joining a friend's game from another player's Fort Hope.

• Fort Hope
  • General
    • Auto Glock 23 correctly reverts to the default skin.
    • Fixed an issue with "glowing" hair while using certain character skins.

• Campaign
  • Cards
    • Fixed an issue where some player cards were being applied twice on level transition.
    • Fixed an issue where late-joining players would retain Combat Knives and other character abilities after taking over a bot and switching to a new character.
    • Doc's passive is now affected by Group Therapy's healing efficiency.
    • All Burn Cards with "Trauma" now display the Trauma tooltip.
    • Karlee's ability no longer highlights police cars that already had their alarm triggered.
    • Players with ammo buff cards active now start their first map with full ammo.
    • Healing values on medical accessory tooltips reflect the correct increase (50%) when the EMT Bag card is active.
    • Fixed an issue where Burn Cards would persist after a team wipe.
    • Fixed an issue where Power Swap activated when the conditions were not met.
    • Fixed an issue with Doc and Mom's abilities not working after a team wipe.
    • Fixed an issue for players taking over a slot that had played a Burn Card potentially being charged for that card.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Glass Cannon from applying to Weakspots.

  • General
    • Act Achievements / Accomplishments now unlock immediately after completing an Act's finale.
    • Upgrades purchased in the Vendor now persist after level transitions when a player who joined via Quickplay leaves the game.
    • Vendors no longer display duplicates of attachments / weapons.
    • Resolved an issue that caused players to gain trauma damage after a team wipe.
    • Fixed an issue where players could free teammates from Rescue Pods without facing them.
    • Players are now properly positioned when rescuing teammates in Rescue Pods from the side.
    • Fixed an issue where players could use the First Aid Cabinet while not facing the correct direction.
    • Fixed an issue where players could use the First Aid Cabinet while at full health.
    • Fixed pings not going through the doorframe of open Prepper Stash doors.
    • Fixed an issue causing players not being able to reload or fire after being revived.
    • Cleaners will no longer say their boss fleeing lines when the Hag is fleeing with a devoured teammate.
    • Adjusted the collision of the minigun to be more narrow, preventing issues where the minigun could block doorways.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented players from picking up items that were dropped near certain NPCs.
    • Fixed Cleaners saying their mission blocked lines when they were no longer blocked.
    • Fixed an issue causing Horde timers to reset after a Rescue Pod spawns on the map.
    • Fixed an issue on the Failed resolution screen where the map would not reset properly when the host left after a team wipe.
    • Blood and gore effects from melee hits now display properly in third person.
    • Fixed an issue causing the interaction prompt on secret skull trophies to not appear after late joining a match.

  • Weapons
    • Reserve ammo count no longer underflows if the user has -100% ammo capacity.
    • Fixed an issue where the automatic reload animation would not play when using the Phoenix Rifle.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the reload animation to not play with sniper rifles when the last shot is fired using aim-down-sights.

  • Fixed an issue where the "No Ammo" sound effect could play repeatedly while shooting with Full Auto on for all weapons.
  • Fixed an issue where the Combat Knife's second swing hitbox did not match its first swing.
  • Bots
    • Bots now try to avoid dangerous attacks from Ridden such as Abomination tentacles and Tallboy attacks.
    • Bots no longer attack Snitches that are not in combat.
    • Bots no longer slide around after being hit by a Hocker attack.
    • Bots no longer run out of ammo after they die and are rescued.
    • Fixed an issue causing bots to use Barbed Wire while attempting to run up to Ridden.

  • Offline
    • Fixed an issue where a new starting map is not unlocked if a player leaves the game before the level loads when playing offline.
    • Matchmaking preferences are no longer displayed when playing in Offline mode.
    • Accepting an invite in Offline mode now tracks Campaign abandonment.

  • Ridden
    • The Hag's music sfx will now fall off depending on her distance from the players.
    • Sleepers no longer pounce on Cleaners that have been swallowed by the Hag.
    • Fixed an issue where killed Sleepers still appear alive to late-joining players in spectator mode.
    • Fixed an issue allowing Tallboys and players to stand on Sleepers.
    • The Breaker's death gas debuff is now correctly applied to players inside the death gas when it first appears.
    • Fixed an issue where fire effects would remain on Ridden after they stopped burning.
    • Fixed an issue where Ridden could remain frozen in the position they were in when they died.
    • Sound effects for the Ogre during its tumor toss attack now play properly in Online matches.
    • Fixed issues related to common Ridden animations while on fire.

  • The Devil's Return: Pain Train
    
    • The Ogre should no longer get stuck on certain slanted surfaces.

  • The Devil's Return: The Crossing
    • The end of round screen at the end of The Devil's Return: The Crossing will now have the proper background (previously the bridge at the end of the level).

  • Search and Rescue: A Clean Sweep
    • Fixed roll up door sound effects continuing to play when it should stop.
    • Sleepers on the Liquor store should no longer attack players on the other side of the wall.
    • Fixed an issue where Ridden would not navigate properly in certain areas.

  • Search and Rescue: Bar Room Blitz
    • Bots will teleport to Cleaners at the jukebox on the other side of the fence if they are not incapacitated.
    • Fixed an issue where jukebox music would remain off for late joining players after the jukebox was fixed.

  • The Dark Before the Dawn: Special Delivery
    
    • Improved the audio occlusion of conversation between Josh and Phillips.

  • Blue Dog Hollow: Hell's Bells
    • Bots no longer continuously teleport to the player while they are inside the church.
    • Fixed an exploit where players could skip the tow truck horde.

  • Blue Dog Hollow: The Sound of Thunder
    
    • Special Ridden now spawn consistently.

  • The Armory: The Handy Man
    • Cutscene music now properly plays at the end of the level.

  • Plan B: Hinterland
    • The Hag can no longer spawn inside of the saferoom before players destroy the nest.

  • Plan B: Trailer Trashed
    • Fixed an issue with audio corruption and frames per second dropping when entering trailers.
    • Fixed an issue where the Breaker could get stuck temporarily around level geometry.
    • Fixed an ammo pickup that could not be reached near the bridge.

  • Plan B: The Broken Bird
    • Fixed an issue where the Breaker could fall out of bounds after leaping towards players on the ferry.
    • Fixed an issue preventing players from completing the objective after being rescued.

  • Job 10: 22: Grave Danger
    • Fixed an issue where dialogue could play out of order.
    • Breaker death gas no longer appears.

  • Dr. Rogers' Neighborhood: Cabins by the Lake
    
    • An additional conversation will now properly play upon seeing the ferry.

  • Remnants: A Friend in Need
    • Resolved some occlusion issues experienced after reviving Cleaners in certain locations.

  • Remnants: Making the Grade
    • Fixed an issue where Ridden could become stuck inside level geometry.

  • Remnants: The Road to Hell
    • Fixed a bot pathing issue related to Hocker pins between a particular tree and pole.

  • Remnants: The Body Dump
    • Fixed an issue causing players to become stuck after attempting to open a T5 grenade case that has already been opened.

  • The Abomination
    • Fixed an issue where the Abomination's tentacles became invincible after being hit by a frag grenade.
    • Fixed issues with Cleaner Bots fighting Ridden hordes.

• Swarm PvP
  • The leaver penalty now refreshes properly when disconnecting from PvP Swarm Mode.
  • Karlee's "Danger Sense" ability now highlights police cars.
  • Ridden
    • Ridden players can no longer see out of bounds at specific locations on Search and Rescue: A Clean Sweep.
    • Ridden can no longer become stuck inside the gymnasium on Remnants: Making the Grade.
    • Hocker can no longer interrupt her melee with the throw ability.
    • Tallboys and variants can no longer spawn underneath the saferoom and become stuck on The Devil's Return: Resurgence.
    • The Retch's reticle will now properly align with where acid pools are predicted to land.

• Supply Lines
  • Checklist emblem was unintentionally unlocked by default. It is now locked by default if the player has not already met the criteria for it.

• Controllers
  • PS5 trigger effects now play on the proper trigger.
  • Fixed an issue on PS5 controllers where Adaptive Triggers that were turned off would turn on again after loading into a map.

• Accessibility
  • Fixed Text To Speech not playing for some Options dropdowns.
  • Text-to-speech is no longer always enabled in the sign-in menu after changing the console's language.
  • Text-to-Speech now properly reads the practice options for Ridden in Fort Hope.

• UI/UX
  • Console players can now change their output speaker configuration.
  • Difficulty descriptions on the Matchmaking screen now update properly when swapping between Campaign and Quickplay.
  • Personalization screens now highlight the items the player has equipped (emblems/sprays/badges).
  • Players can now skip cutscenes that began while the user had the chat box open.
  • Fixed the placement of the "Hold F to Skip" button on widescreen resolutions.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could become temporarily unable to enter the Social menu after opening up and closing Preferences section on the Campaign screen.
  • Friends on the Xbox Friends List will no longer disappear from the list after entering a multiplayer session with another friend.
  • The card selection outline no longer disappears when the player toggles over burn cards in the card selection menu.
  • Fixed various gradient issues on card selection and post-round for nonstandard resolutions.
  • Damage numbers shown by the Knowledge Is Power card no longer appear in cinematics.
  • Shared card effects now display properly for Burn Cards tooltip prompts.
  • Active cards no longer overlap when pressing the O or B buttons while Corruption cards are being drawn.
  • "Player joined game" messaging no longer appears erroneously while transitioning between maps.
  • Weapons will now stop firing while players are in menus.
  • Fixed an issue where the Mission Difficulty could overlap the tutorial video for Campaigns in Fort Hope.
  • Fixed an issue where the button for Swarm PVP could become inactive after accessing the Campaign menu.
  • Fixed an issue where the vibration option tooltip was showing incorrect text.

  
  

• Playstation Platforms
  • Fixed an issue causing duplicate Player Profile save data files on PS4 and PS5.
  • Fixed an issue where Ridden could stretch while approaching players on PS4.
  • Fixed bugs related to Offline/Online mode selection and starting a PS5 activity.

• PC Platforms
  • Fixed frame rate drop and hitching when the player is pinned by a Hocker for the first time on Epic graphics settings.

• Epic Platform
  • Players can proceed past the sign-in screen when launching the title without an internet connection.

To view all patch notes click here (Latest News - Back 4 Blood).If you find a bug, please report it here (https://bugs.back4blood.com/).