Uffff. This game is good, really good. It is fresh, nice and original. But make this game free!!! Or allow download for DL owners. This game need community and players. Now we sitting with my friend over 15 minutes in matchmaking. This is horrible - make free 2 play model or max 5€...

Dead af game, but it was amazing during the short life it had. Please integrate this with the main game, don't let this unique pvevp gamemode die out =(

**EDITED 11/12/18**

Devs have made few meaningful updates to the game in the two months since launch.

-Instead of developing content for the game, the devs seem intent on working on the shop. Feel free to look through the patch notes, and notice how every patch seems to add some kind of cosmetic item while being very, very sparse on actual balance changes and lacking new content altogether. Last balance patch, (that also added cosmetics, of course,) was October 29th. 15 days ago. Last new content: October 4th. What was it? A single new type of zombie boss, of which there are now 3 types total. That has been the one and only content update since launch two months ago.

-Still no duo queue.

-Guns still insta-win in 1v1.

-Shield nerf was poorly thought out. The problem wasn't that you could pull it out super quick it (which was the only meaningful counter to a surprise shotgun pull-out at close range,) it was that you could put it AWAY super quick and immediately parry your opponent while they were mid charge up swing. They only needed to nerf that part but instead they nerfed they draw time as well which served as a huge indirect buff to guns.

-Stun recovery time variance still extremely unclear (Why can I sometimes get a heavy attack off on someone after I parry them and othertimes not even when they aren't using DIY shield? Why can I sometimes hit them three times and other times only twice before they can parry again? Lag? By design? If by design what's the variable factor? Nobody seems to know for sure.)

-Player base is so small that people are all but guaranteed to find their friends if they queue at the same time and then they just team up on everyone, and if they banned the people doing this there would be nobody left to play against.

-Still need increased incentive to fight the "hard" zombie bosses due to huge risk of vulturing. (I still suggest making chance of finding legendary weapon randomly while looting very small and giving high chance of drop when killing a demolisher/super-goon.)

-Change weapon stacking. Why can I carry 5 mines and 10 axes but only 1 frag/molotov? Completely arbitrary.

-Why can you still full sprint while out of stamina?

-Why in god's name does throwing a bludgeon stagger the opponent as well as do damage? Bladed weapons inflict a bleed while bludgeons do a full on stagger.

The list goes on... I have very little hope any of these things will be addressed. It's very clear from the amateurish patch note formatting at the beginning (literally "The Kukri is now balanced" and no other info,) to the massive delay between patches, (10+ days or more between tiny, tiny balance adjustments that involve a little bit of number tuning and no actual reworking) to the fact that most of the patches have very few changes, that this game is at the back of the backburner. Oh and it has an average of maybe 35 players at peak hours on the weekend.

Oh well, another one bites the dust.

Okay, have put in about an hour of play. This is not like most BR games that I've played.

1) You fade in from black, landing on a portion of the map. I assume the game spreads you out fairly evenly, or randomly, can't tell.

2) Start running to collect weapons, items and equipment.

3) There are not zombies everywhere. They are located in marked spots on the map, guarding "nests" which you need to get to and extract samples from to upgrade your health and stamina.

4) All the while you are looking out for other players who can make easy sneak attacks on your position (always be looking around and moving).

5) Eventually, when a few players are left, a helicopter icon will signal somewhere on the map and you will have to try to run to it.

6) Only one player can leave on the helo, and in my one hour of playtime I've reached the helo only once, to be killed by a player who was three levels higher than me. Frustrating.

7) There are no moments of boredom in this BR rendition. You are constantly parkouring around the map, looking out for enemies and new zombie nests to harvest for level ups.

8) Although it's in early access, there is a shop where you can buy new clothes for your avatar and customized weapon paint schemes. I don't see anything P2W here.

9) Again, it might be an Early Access title but on my Acer Predator Helios 300 (2018 model) with an i7-8700H and a GTX1060, I'm hitting about 120-144 fps. The game runs like a dream.

10) If you are at all interested in revisiting this world I'd say pick it up!

Would be better if there was at least A duo mode so friends can play with eachother instead of against eachother

techland please remember this game exists

Latest update of the review: 17-10-18

In this review, I will try to be as neutral as possible to avoid any unnecessary spark-ups.

Why not just make it free and leave the founder's pack as an optional purchase? I mean it would be way wiser to put it that way because if people liked the game they would be happy to support it. In addition to that, a bigger player base would be established because right now the game is suffering from an extremely low player count. Look at this if you don't believe me: https://steamcharts.com/app/766370

The matchmaking takes literally forever in the region where I am currently living in (Oceania) and which is starting to get very irritating for me and a lot of other players. Sure, the other regions only take 2-3 minutes to find a match but you will constantly be playing with the same old people over and over again. No matter how good the game may be, if there is no decent player base to support the game, it will surely, soon enough, come to an end.

I already considered the fact that the game will become a F2P in the next few months, but on the other hand, if the trend of the player count continues this way (declining from the looks of it), the game will surely fade out and die.

To original DL players: DL: BB itself is not a bad game at all, however, there is nothing new or fresh about it at all, it is simply the same old DL. The game is basically the original DL + BR, adding the so-called sampling and levelling system, lumping 12 Cranes together to eliminate each other. Not to mention the similarities of the interface from the old DL which we might as well call it a carbon copy and the reuse of engine and map.

I was probably over expecting from DL: BB as a DL player.

Essentially, if we look at the game in from the BR aspect or let's say the aspects of the people who have never played DL, the game has one of the most interesting combat mechanics and gameplay blended in from the original DL game and I am sure that a lot of those people will love the game once they get into it.

I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, especially DL players in its current state because there is nothing fresh or original to the concept of the game other than it becoming a mix of DL and BR. The playerbase trend is also going into decline according to the statistics I've noticed. However, it is for you to decide because, in the end, it might be worth it for some people and not worth it for some people, like me who refunded the game.

P.S. You can wait for the game to become a F2P, but I wouldn't expect a decent player count if the trend declines this way.

i got called the n word on my first game

Don't know why they abandoned the game without telling us why....

DONT BUY THIS GAME!
Now that i got that out of the way let me tell you why. I didn't listen to the other reviews saying that the game was dead and i wanted to help bring the game to life. I bought the game thinking that its ok if there are only 5 people in the game but i was wrong. The map is to big to only have 4-5 people per game. And because the game is dead only a select few play the game so pretty much every one is better than you. I had more fun respawning in the waiting room than dieing to some guy that blocks all my attacks. I give a thumbs up because its not a bad game. Its a really good one. I wish i could play this game for cheaper but i will take my 18$ and play a game with a better community.