Craving a Horde Shooter; Back 4 Blood vs. GTFO

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

So, both these games popped up in my feed lately, and I wouldn't mind a new horde shooter. GTFO has a horror theme that is more to my liking and has GeForce Now support, but Back 4 Blood apparently has smarter bots, and I'd mostly be playing solo rather than in lobbies. Both are about the same price at my chosen key-shop ($20 CAD for B4B complete and $25 CAD for GTFO). Or should I just get both?

[Hosenbund]

Messaggio originale di Goon:

Unironically, Darktide if you want a genuine horde shooter. Maybe World War Z?
Most of the games mentioned here, DRG, HD2 etc. Aren't really horde shooters because there's not hordes.

i mean they are horde shooters.. just with more to them than just shooting hordes

if someone likes horde shooters they are surely gonna like games like helldivers 2 too

[DeathRow]

Messaggio originale di Hosenbund:

Messaggio originale di Goon:

Unironically, Darktide if you want a genuine horde shooter. Maybe World War Z?
Most of the games mentioned here, DRG, HD2 etc. Aren't really horde shooters because there's not hordes.

i mean they are horde shooters.. just with more to them than just shooting hordes

if someone likes horde shooters they are surely gonna like games like helldivers 2 too

also darktide is more like a horde slasher

[Ghoul Hunter]

#1 Rule of GTFO: Don't buy unless you have 3 other hardcore gamers who are all committed.

[Dundo]

Messaggio originale di DeathRow:

also darktide is more like a horde slasher

Depends on which class and how you play.

[Злодеюшка]

привет добавишь в др? я поповоду играть в игру гтфо, пати собрать?!

[Onimaho]

Messaggio originale di Fear Denies Faith:

So, both these games popped up in my feed lately, and I wouldn't mind a new horde shooter. GTFO has a horror theme that is more to my liking and has GeForce Now support, but Back 4 Blood apparently has smarter bots, and I'd mostly be playing solo rather than in lobbies. Both are about the same price at my chosen key-shop ($20 CAD for B4B complete and $25 CAD for GTFO). Or should I just get both?

Skip it, much better off buying one or multiple of the following.

Helldivers 2
Deep Rock Galactic
Darktide
Vermintide

Dying Light
Dead Island

are all better games then GTFO's dog trying to remove worms gameplay with a singular loading screen stealth mechanic.

I get better "horde shooter/stealth" gameplay out of playing Squad than GTFO. They are not even the same genre.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Messaggio originale di Onimaho:

Messaggio originale di Fear Denies Faith:

So, both these games popped up in my feed lately, and I wouldn't mind a new horde shooter. GTFO has a horror theme that is more to my liking and has GeForce Now support, but Back 4 Blood apparently has smarter bots, and I'd mostly be playing solo rather than in lobbies. Both are about the same price at my chosen key-shop ($20 CAD for B4B complete and $25 CAD for GTFO). Or should I just get both?

Skip it, much better off buying one or multiple of the following.

Helldivers 2
Deep Rock Galactic
Darktide
Vermintide

Dying Light
Dead Island

are all better games then GTFO's dog trying to remove worms gameplay with a singular loading screen stealth mechanic.

I get better "horde shooter/stealth" gameplay out of playing Squad than GTFO. They are not even the same genre.

I've played most of those except Dead Island, because Dying Light did everything better. I also haven't played Helldivers 2, because it doesn't have GeForce Now support and is still full-price.

[Onimaho]

Messaggio originale di Fear Denies Faith:

Messaggio originale di Onimaho:

Skip it, much better off buying one or multiple of the following.

Helldivers 2
Deep Rock Galactic
Darktide
Vermintide

Dying Light
Dead Island

are all better games then GTFO's dog trying to remove worms gameplay with a singular loading screen stealth mechanic.

I get better "horde shooter/stealth" gameplay out of playing Squad than GTFO. They are not even the same genre.

I've played most of those except Dead Island, because Dying Light did everything better. I also haven't played Helldivers 2, because it doesn't have GeForce Now support and is still full-price.

If you played helldiver 1, 2 is almost the exact same thing except the viewpoint and some stats changes. Also, there is a little bit of stealth gameplay, very minor, that wasn't in the first game.

Dying light 1 was always superior to dead island. Never played the others of those series, so couldn't comment on them beyond review reads.

I would have recommended starship troopers extermination...but, hold off on looking at that game until they fix their optimization ♥♥♥♥ and commit to a design direction (hero shooter vs an actual starship troopers game).

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

There's a reason why this has Low Playerbase. You can't play it with Randoms nor Solo.

[Manbarondenna]

Messaggio originale di CAN U IMAGINE 16 TIMES THE DRM?:

There's a reason why this has Low Playerbase. You can't play it with Randoms nor Solo.

yea u can play it with randoms

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Messaggio originale di Manbarondenna:

Messaggio originale di CAN U IMAGINE 16 TIMES THE DRM?:

There's a reason why this has Low Playerbase. You can't play it with Randoms nor Solo.

yea u can play it with randoms

How many people are in the queue?

[Manbarondenna]

Messaggio originale di Fear Denies Faith:

Messaggio originale di Manbarondenna:

yea u can play it with randoms

How many people are in the queue?

there are a lot of people in the queue

however, mm is janky, you might have to press matchmake more than once because sometimes it finds less players at a time than the amount of ppl you require for full lobby

it looks like majority of ppl who are against mm are either "veteran" players who never bothered to touch it since r8 release, or ppl who are upset it didnt find full lobby first try and call it a day

just give it a few clicks and it finds a team within 5 minutes (which includes choosing level and discussing loadout strat)

[Reqhart]

Helldivers 2 - for democracy!

Left 4 Dead 2 - it's old but still a gem and active community

Deep Rock Galactic - Dwarves, guns, beer, mining and shootin' bugs Very fun game. Free battle passes and TONS of earnable skins.

Warhammer Vermintide 2 - if you like a more classical RPG stle of play in Warhammer universe. Wait for a sale you can pick it up for like $5 and well worth it.

Warhammer Darktide - Good game with issues that have taken some time to address, wait for a sale or wait another 6-12 months for it to polish some more.

Back 4 Blood - Kind of sucks in my opinion. It modernizes Left 4 Dead but lost a lot of what made Left 4 Dead special in the first place. A lot of copy pasta and play the same maps a lot during the campaign.

GTFO - Good game but solo is very hard, especially if you don't have a friend to teach you the mechanics of the game. You will die A LOT learning the game solo. Play it with a friends or perhaps skip it, unless you are up for the challenge.

Ripout - Only played a demo of it roughly 6 months ago, kind of an interesting game. Sort of has a hybrid mashup of Doom, Left 4 dead and GTFO melded into one. Critiques I had for the game were gun play felt shallow but it sounded like devs heard that feedback and were going to work on it. I haven't checked into the game since though.

Killing Floor 2 - In a way it is kind of like CoD zombies, there's are around a dozen classes, good amount of unique zombie designs. It is round based with ability to buy weapons with money earned from killing zombies between the rounds. Think it even goes up to 8 players. With a full lobby the game can be absolute carnage and is a blast to play. Can usually find this on sale for $5 and it is definitely worth it.

This is all I have off the top of my head.

[Swaggaccino]

Helldivers 2 is probably the best COOP horde shooter out right now. I'd say B4B is a distant second although very good and worth playing. World War Z is also up there. GTFO is fun as well but way more technical and slower paced. Not for everyone.

[Currdog]

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