Back 4 Blood December 2022 Update Patch Notes

NEW FEATURES

River of Blood Campaign: Act 6

• This all-new five Chapter Act brings the Cleaners farther from Fort Hope than they have ever ventured since the initial Outbreak.

1 New Cleaner: Tala

• When Tala is with the party, Warped Chests have a chance to spawn during Missions.
• Tala spawns a unique whistle on the map that summons Jeff- a modified Tallboy who fights alongside the Cleaners.
• Tala causes a bleed effect that deals damage over time to Ridden she attacks.

New Game Mode: Trial of the Worm with Leaderboards

• Fight through a series of voted-on maps, selecting Corruption Modifiers to increase scores. The more modifiers selected, the harder the difficulty becomes.
• A final overall score is displayed on Leaderboards within Kenny’s newly opened tent. Climb to the top and be the best Cleaner in Fort Hope!

Melee Attachments

• Attachments aren’t just for ranged weapons any more! Find and use melee-specific attachments to make close-range combat even more deadly for Ridden and Cultists.

11 New Cards

• 8 Player cards.
• • • Developer Note: Previously shown images of some of the new player cards on social media have a slightly altered description than what is now currently up-to-date and in-game. 
• 3 Director cards.

2 New Weapons

• Deal some serious damage with the LAW rocket launcher, or burn it all to the ground with the Flamethrower.

Sentinel Enemy Type

• The Sentinel family of Mutated Ridden are a result of Devil Worms attempting to mimic human forms instead of taking over a host. Anyone who tries to run past a Sentinel instead of killing it will suffer the consequences.

12 New Cleaner Skins

• • 8 Exclusive Cleaner Skins available for Expansion 3 owners.
  • 4 Cleaner skins available to non-expansion owners for Hoffman, Doc, Heng, and Sharice.

5 New Weapon Skin Sets

• • 1 Exclusive set of Weapon Skins available for Expansion 3 owners.
  • 4 Cleaner-themed sets of Weapon Skins purchasable in Skull Totem lines.
• New Banners, Sprays, and Emblems
• New Achievements and Accomplishments
• Holiday Event in Fort Hope
  • The Winter event is back in Fort Hope with more lights, music, and holiday cheer, along with seasonal Supply Lines!

CAMPAIGN UPDATES

General

• Players incapacitated in Saferooms now count as Survivors.
• Bonuses for Quickplay increased to 25% from 15%.
• Various collision improvements made across multiple Maps and Ridden Hives so players cannot navigate to unreachable areas.
• All unused Titles have been hooked up to various rewards.

Card Updates

• • Legendary Cards now apply to all team members.
  • Skull Totem prices have been reduced for several Burn Cards.
  • Brazen
    • Now includes +15% Bow Stamina Efficiency.
    • Now includes +20% Bow Attack Speed.
  • Heavy Attack
    • Heavy attack has been moved to the ADS button while wielding a melee weapon, and is now 1 button press to activate rather than charging up.
  • Hired Gun
    • The maximum amount of Copper gained has now been increased to 1000.
    • Copper per kill increased to 5 from 2.
  • Slugger
    • Now includes +10% Bow Stamina Efficiency.
    • Now includes +20% Bow Attack Speed.
    • +5 Health changed to +5% Health.
  • Smells Like Victory
    • Card text updated to reflect the proper duration.
  • Unnatural Healing
    • Healing reduced to 1 from 5.
      • Developer Note: This change was made because Legendary Cards now apply to the entire team.

• Director Card Updates
  • More difficult Director Cards are now weighted towards later Acts on Recruit and Veteran Difficulties.
  • Ravenous
    • Added a UI icon to the HUD for starving players.
  • Ugly Chachkies
    • Bonuses for Mementos increased to 15% from 5%.

• Weapon Updates
  • Stamina Drain for Heavy Attacks has been increased slightly.
  • Lowest tier reload speed has been increased.
  • The Embezzler weapon now uses Sniper ammo.
  • The Tenderizer now plays reload animations after hitting Cultist Traps.
  • The Minigun in the Fort Hope shooting range is now an unlimited pickup.
  • Bow
    • Now uses melee attachments.
    • Now deals reduced damage and reloads at slower speeds when firing without Stamina.
    • Arrows now travel faster when charged in ADS.
    • Lowered the stamina cost for firing arrows and pulling arrows back in ADS.
    • Reduced the amount of time the player is locked into the firing state when firing arrows.
    • Lowered min and max spread.
    • Increased spread decay rate.
    • Now affected by Bullet Damage and Reload Speed bonuses from cards.
  • Iron Claws
    • Now deals more damage to doors.
    • Max stacks reduced to 20 from infinite.

• Item Updates
  • Duffel Bags can now be found in all Acts.
  • Directional damage indicators have been removed from Bear Traps.
  • The Gold Pipe now drops Warped Copper piles when Cost of Avarice is in play.
  • The Cursed Key now has a small chance to kill the user, reduce extra lives to 0, and destroy itself on failure.
  • A stumble effect has been added to Ridden during the Smoke Grenade‘s explosion.

• Spawning Updates
  • Copper spawns reduced by 2 on No Hope Difficulty.

• Bot Updates
  • Bot Decks have been adjusted to better match that character’s default loadout.
  • Bots no longer have 1 extra life.
  • Bots pick up Toolkits when a player pings them.
  • Ammo drop cooldown timer increased to 90 seconds from 60 seconds.
  • Amount of ammo dropped increased by 50%.
  • Now drops ammo when the player reaches 60% total ammo from 55%.
  • Now heal themselves at 75% and heals others at 76% while out of combat.
  • Now heal themselves at 65% and heals others at 66% while in combat.

• Ridden Updates
  
  • Various Ridden pathing improvements made across multiple Maps and Ridden Hives.
  • Hocker‘s cooldown reduced to 7 seconds from 8 seconds.
  • Retch‘s vomit tick rate reduced to .3 from .25.
  • Ogre
    • 30 seconds added to both ends of the Horde trigger cooldown.
    • No longer spawns out of sight from players.
  • Shredder
    • Health increased by 50.
    • Cooldown reduced to 1.5 from 2.
    • Weakspot stumble increased to 1.35 from 1.25.

• Cultist Updates
  • Trip Wire Cultist Traps now cause the Silence is Golden objective to fail.
  • Cultist HP now scales in Nightmare and No Hope, the same as other Mutation classes.
  • Sniper Base Health reduced to 35 from 75.
  • Pusflinger
    
    • Collision has been adjusted on Pusflingers’ Bait Jars, making them easier to hit.
    • Base Health reduced to 325 from 350.
  • Slasher
    • Can no longer damage other Cultists.
    • Base Health reduced to 450 from 725.
    • Armor reduced to 200 from 350.
    • Now stumble when their helmet armor is broken.

SWARM PVP UPDATES

• General
  • Food Scavenger card added to allow for food item spawning.

ACCESSIBILITY UPDATES

• Smells Like Victory
  • Added colorblind support to this card’s visual effects.

CONTROLLER AND MOUSE/KEYBOARD UPDATES

• Added a 180 Quickturn to the “Legacy” Gamepad layout.

STEAM DECK UPDATES

• Max caption font size has been reduced.

BUG FIXES

• Cards
  • Addressed a bug where Stat, Ability, and Talent Card types could not be sorted properly in the Deck Builder.
  • Addressed a bug where sounds for Improvised Cards did not play on the first Mission.
  • Addressed a bug where Improvised Cards became unusable when they were bound to mouse scroll.
  • Amped Up
    • Addressed a bug where this card recovered health for incapacitated players.
  • Avenge the Fallen
    • Addressed a bug where this card’s effects could stay on permanently.
      • Developer Note: Avenge the Fallen now has a max of 12 stacks.
  • Cost of Avarice
    • Addressed a bug where Warped Copper piles did not have proper visual effects.
  • Experimental Stimulants
    • Addressed a bug where this card granted higher weakspot damage than intended.
  • Expired T5
    • Addressed a bug where this card did not deal damage when a player was pinned by a Crusher or Hocker.
  • Fit As A Fiddle/Well Rested
    • Addressed a bug where the healing preview did not appear correctly with both cards in play.
  • Glass Cannon
    • Addressed a bug where this card did not properly scale health by 30%.
  • Heads, You Lose
    • Addressed a bug where HUD animations did not always show up.
  • Meth Head
    • Addressed a bug where this card stacked too quickly when swapping weapons and swinging simultaneously.
  • On Your Mark
    • Addressed a bug where only one stack was provided with multiple of the same card in play.
  • Ravenous
    • Addressed a bug where debuff sounds did not play during the depletion of Well Fed stacks.
    • Addressed a bug where Hunger stacks did not reset after being incapacitated.
    • Addressed a bug where players could hear teammates’ Hunger debuff sounds.
  • Trigger Control
    • Addressed a bug where this card’s effects could stay on permanently.
  • Ultrasonic Wound Therapy
    • Addressed a bug where this card did not scale with healing efficiency.
  • Urgent Care
    • Addressed a bug where this Burn Card did not work on Bots.

• Campaign
  • General
    • Addressed a bug where trauma was restored after a Mission while in a ledge hang state.
    • Addressed a bug where Armor did not negate projectile damage.
    • Addressed a bug where the player’s camera could snap to a revived player.
    • Search and Rescue: Book Worms
      • Addressed a bug where windows didn’t always appear fully boarded up.
    • Search and Rescue: Bar Room Blitz
      • Addressed a bug where damage effects were blocked when throwing Grenades next to the jukebox.
    • The Dark Before the Dawn: Special Delivery
      • Addressed a bug where HUD elements became obscured when Biohazard was in play.
    • Blue Dog Hollow: Bad Seeds
      • Addressed a bug where invisible collision caused players to fall into the river while navigating over the horse trailer.
    • Blue Dog Hollow: Hell’s Bells
      • Addressed a bug where not enough food items spawned with Ravenous in play.
      • Addressed a bug where windows didn’t always appear fully boarded up.
    • Blue Dog Hollow: The Sound of Thunder
      • Addressed a bug where Corrupted Mutation cards were present at the start of this Mission.
      • Addressed a bug where players could avoid hits from a Tallboy by standing on an unreachable spot near the Mine Arena.
    • The Armory: The Handy Man:
      • Addressed a bug where Mom, Walker, and Karlee would not spawn in the ending cinematic.
    • Remnants: Making the Grade
      • Addressed a bug where two Boss Slayer objectives appeared.
      • Addressed a bug where parts of the environment flickered with the Dark or Gloom cards active.
    • Remnants: The Body Dump
      • Addressed a bug where players sometimes entered a ledge hang state incorrectly on a military truck.
      • Addressed a bug where players could avoid Ridden on top of a cliff face.
    • Blood Stream
      • Addressed a bug where Grenades could be thrown through the Saferoom wall.
    • The Cut
      • Addressed a bug where O2 generators could occasionally spawn on top of players.
    • Light Guide Us
      • Addressed a bug where Mission Items returned to their last spawn point after being thrown into the water.
    • To the Den of Evil
      • Addressed a bug where players could finish this Mission without closing the final Saferoom door.
    • Surrounded by Devils
      • Addressed a bug where not enough food items spawned with Ravenous in play.
  • Weapons
    • Addressed a bug where players could bash and melee through walls.
    • Addressed a bug where guns reloaded themselves after being dropped.
    • Addressed a bug where sight attachments disappeared after spamming ADS.
    • Addressed a bug where certain weapons animated incorrectly while bashing.
    • Addressed a bug where multiple gun models did not have their iron sights in third person.
    • Addressed a bug where ACOG and High Zoom scopes did not render correctly when viewed through ADS in third person.
    • Addressed a bug where multiple scopes used the wrong texture in third person.
    • Addressed a bug where Rare attachments were not spawning frequently enough.
    • Addressed a bug where Damnation had incorrect iron sights in third person.
    • Addressed a bug where Lockjaw’s scope was not scaling properly during the ADS animation.
    • Addressed a bug where the ‘Drop’ button for unbolting attachments from Lockjaw was visible.
    • Addressed a bug where the Minigun sometimes spawned inside of cars.
    • Bow
      • Addressed a bug where a music stinger played when Cleaners were shot by other teammates’ arrows.
      • Fixed an animation issue when shooting while incapacitated.
      • Addressed a bug where the arrow reload animation did not work properly in third person.
      • Addressed a bug where the bow did not benefit from bullet damage, reload speed, and rate of fire modifiers.
  • Items
    • Addressed a bug with EMT’s Jumper Cables where Bleed stacks remained on the player after using self revive.
    • Addressed a bug where the Pipe Bomb did not play correct bounce sounds when hitting walls.
    • Bait Jar
      • Addressed a bug where the hit marker did not display consistently.
      • Addressed a bug where the Bait Jar could hit through walls.
    • Smoke Grenade
      • Addressed a bug where Tallboys weren’t affected by Smoke Grenades during their attacks.
      • Addressed a bug where Smoke Grenades stopped working during hordes.
    • Taser
      • Addressed a bug where crouching and aiming with the Bow broke firing animations for Tasers.
      • Addressed a bug where tracers from the Taser originated from a player’s body instead of the item.
      • Addressed a bug where players could break from grabs and stun Ridden at the same time.
  • Bots
    • Addressed a bug across multiple Maps where players could end up in untraversable areas after taking over a Bot.
    • Addressed a bug where Bots occasionally used more than one Toolkit to open the same door when it was pinged multiple times.
    • Addressed a bug where Bots did not pick up Toolkits when pinged.
    • Addressed a bug where Bots occasionally switched to a Stun Gun instead of their original Utility Item after using a Toolkit.
    • Addressed a bug where Bots occasionally became stuck on objects they could not navigate over.
    • Addressed a bug where Bots did not receive bonus Copper from end of Mission survival.
    • Addressed a bug where only one Bot shared Copper with the player after the first Saferoom.
    • Remnants: A Friend in Need
      • Addressed a bug where Bots occasionally pathed into flames and died.
  • Offline
    • Addressed a bug where the Bow’s hit marker did not display consistently in Offline Mode.
    • Addressed a bug where Legendary Intel particle effects did not turn off after using it in Offline Mode.
  • Ridden
    • Addressed a bug where Ridden occasionally teleported during their mantling animations.
    • Addressed a bug where Charred Ridden could burn players after death.
    • Addressed a bug where late joiners could not view Ogre craters properly.
    • Addressed a bug where Exploder‘s death explosions could bypass and consume Armor.
    • Addressed a bug where the Breaker could be stunned for longer than intended when throwing 2 or more Flash Grenades.
    • The Devil’s Return: Resurgence
      • Addressed a bug where Stingers and their variants could get stuck under a building.
    • The Devil’s Return: Tunnel of Blood
      • Addressed a bug where the Ogre‘s fence tearing animation could get interrupted.
    • The Dark Before the Dawn: Special Delivery
      • Addressed a bug where Ridden occasionally failed to crawl out of a garage.
    • The Armory: The Handy Man
      • Addressed a bug where Tallboys could get stuck in a broken wall.
    • Job 10:22: Heralds of the Worm, Part 2
      • Addressed a bug where the Breaker could get stuck mantling over a fence.
    • Remnants: A Friend in Need
      • Fixed multiple issues with Ridden pathing.
    • Remnants: Making the Grade
      • Addressed a bug where the Ogre suddenly appeared on the roof of the sports hall.
      • Addressed a bug where the Ogre could become stuck on a construction walkway.
    • 300 Below
      • Addressed a bug where players could fall out of world when grabbed by Crushers.
    • The Nursery
      • Addressed a bug where Breakers could not attack players standing on a specific location near the cocoon.
    • Light Guide Us
      • Addressed a bug where the Hag could not navigate through the fiberglass repair doorway.
    • In the Depths
      • Addressed a bug where Ridden could run through a closed gate.
  • Cultists
    • Slasher
      • Addressed a bug where a Slasher’s Claws stayed highlighted after being killed while tagged by The Witness.
      • The Dark Before the Dawn: The Diner
        • Addressed a bug where Slashers occasionally became stuck on a gate.

• Swarm PvP
  • Addressed a bug where initial Ridden upgrades were unlocked for both teams.
  • Addressed a bug where Tallboys had misaligned hitboxes when attacking other players.

• Accessibility
  • Where Me Flock’s Chained
    • Addressed a bug with flashing lights in the penitentiary pavilion.

• UI/UX
  • Addressed a bug where Evangelo’s breakout cooldown did not appear on the HUD.
  • Addressed a bug where the “Unlock up to” button remained highlighted while hovering over unlocked items in Supply Lines.

Playstation Platforms

• Addressed a bug where PlayStation controllers stopped vibrating after a few seconds of shooting LMGs and miniguns.