What is the actual overall goal in B4B?

[JeffMakesGames]

Can anyone tell me what the actual overall goal in B4B is? I mean, what are the survivors trying to do? Where are they trying to go?

In Left4Dead 1, the goal was clear from the start. Head to No Mercy hospital. Turns out not all rescues work out as you progress campaigns but eventually the survivors find the army, and when that doesn't quite work out, they decide to look for a boat to get to an island.

In Left4Dead 2, the survivors are too late to get to rescue but find a map showing New Orleans to be the last holdout for the army and that becomes the overall goal as you go across campaigns searching for rescue to keep progressing forward.

As far as I know with B4B, your goal is..... defending a fort by gathering supplies/resources or something? I am not clear on this.

[Dog]

youre cleaners
youre goal is to go on missions and rid the world of the zzombie freak things

[(N☆G) Jackal ★JJ★]

L4D the entire goal was to survive and they constantly kept going from place to place looking for safety.

In B4B you are already part of a Safety location where people are surviving, your job is to save other outposts at times, clean out infestations, and find a help rid the world of the zombies.... its a meh story overall.

L4D had a lot of mystery on how it started, why it was the way it was, and a grim outlook of everyone just trying their best to live and make it through.... here you are a bunch of mercenaries that are going out to make a better world.

[DAWN OF THE DEAD]

There is cinematics in game its much more clear when you play the game. Both b4b and l4d has bare minimum for story tho atmosphere, char and “plot” will be subjective

[CommitTreezn]

Even after reading all the messages in the saferooms and watching all the cutscenes, I'm still confused as to how the Special Ridden came to be. I feel like B4B has a similar storyline to Killing Floor 2 where the special zombies are the result of military experiments.

My question is though, for what purpose were they creating special infected? Also, what are the origins of the Abomination? They just dumped that tentacle-boi on us without any warning or explanation.

[Cursed Hawkins]

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

I feel like B4B has a similar storyline to Killing Floor 2 where the special zombies are the result of military experiments.

Well that's a stupid comparison, but you'll get your answer at the end of Act 3.

[Cursed Hawkins]

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

Also, what are the origins of the Abomination? They just dumped that tentacle-boi on us without any warning or explanation.

Now your just being stupid because Act 3 literally tells you from Rogers how the mutations came to be.

[CommitTreezn]

Cursed Hawkins님이 먼저 게시:

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

I feel like B4B has a similar storyline to Killing Floor 2 where the special zombies are the result of military experiments.

Well that's a stupid comparison, but you'll get your answer at the end of Act 3.

Enlighten me, I've already finished Act 3 multiple times. Are you referring to the Road to Hell?

[CommitTreezn]

Cursed Hawkins님이 먼저 게시:

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

Also, what are the origins of the Abomination? They just dumped that tentacle-boi on us without any warning or explanation.

Now your just being stupid because Act 3 literally tells you from Rogers how the mutations came to be.

Oh you're talking about the mass grave on the last mission?

[Cursed Hawkins]

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

Cursed Hawkins님이 먼저 게시:

Well that's a stupid comparison, but you'll get your answer at the end of Act 3.

Enlighten me, I've already finished Act 3 multiple times. Are you referring to the Road to Hell?

The nests are the reason why the mutations exist, because they were ALLOWED to breed them, Rogers even says that to you when you go into the finale of Act 3, their arrival was even being hinted at as far back as Act 1 where everyone LITERALLY were caught off guard at their arrival.

[CommitTreezn]

Cursed Hawkins님이 먼저 게시:

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

Enlighten me, I've already finished Act 3 multiple times. Are you referring to the Road to Hell?

The nests are the reason why the mutations exist, because they were ALLOWED to breed them, Rogers even says that to you when you go into the finale of Act 3, their arrival was even being hinted at as far back as Act 1 where everyone LITERALLY were caught off guard at their arrival.

Then my question is, where did the nests come from? Do dead Ridden decompose and combine into nests? Why do some Ridden have armor (are these armor man-made or are they naturally formed)? Also, what was the initial outbreak like?

I compared it to Killing Floor 2 because I thought the Road to Hell was about a military camp that was experimenting on Ridden which caused the mutations. I also thought they were trying to further weaponize the mutations because of armor on some of the special infected. I know that the Ridden plague was (probably) not the result of military experimentation, but that the sudden surge of Special Ridden might be because of the military.

I'm asking these questions because I'm curious about the lore of Back 4 Blood. I admit, I may not have connected all the dots as quick as you, but that's why I'm asking.

[trungking]

take back the world

[CursedPanther]

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

Then my question is, where did the nests come from? Do dead Ridden decompose and combine into nests? Why do some Ridden have armor (are these armor man-made or are they naturally formed)? Also, what was the initial outbreak like?

I compared it to Killing Floor 2 because I thought the Road to Hell was about a military camp that was experimenting on Ridden which caused the mutations. I also thought they were trying to further weaponize the mutations because of armor on some of the special infected. I know that the Ridden plague was (probably) not the result of military experimentation, but that the sudden surge of Special Ridden might be because of the military.

I'm asking these questions because I'm curious about the lore of Back 4 Blood. I admit, I may not have connected all the dots as quick as you, but that's why I'm asking.

A few facts first:
1. Unlike L4D that is some kinda virus outbreak, B4B has this thing called the Devil's Worm parasites
2. Game lore hasn't covered the origin of the parasites so far. Some freak evolution of nature? Abnormal mutation caused by biological/chemical waste leakage? Nightmarish government secret biological weapon development program gone wrong? Or some buried ancient evil entity that is only recently discovered? No one knows yet
3. Dr. Rogers(hazmat suit guy from the mansion) believes the parasites might be sentient, and every ridden is part of a hive-mind network

Road to Hell section isn't a camp for the CDC or military trying to create or enhance the parasites but to find a way to cure the outbreak by experimenting on the already infected people before the camp is overrun itself by the infected. Dr. Rogers is likely one of the staff stationed there who managed to get out in time to carry on the research.

Keep in mind L4D is the events within a few days of the initial outbreak. B4B on the other hand have months gone by and all this time the parasites have been mutating into new types of Ridden.

[Diablerie]

CommitTreezn님이 먼저 게시:

Even after reading all the messages in the saferooms and watching all the cutscenes, I'm still confused as to how the Special Ridden came to be. I feel like B4B has a similar storyline to Killing Floor 2 where the special zombies are the result of military experiments.

My question is though, for what purpose were they creating special infected? Also, what are the origins of the Abomination? They just dumped that tentacle-boi on us without any warning or explanation.

It all started with a worm that was found in a crater in the canadian frozen wilderness. When it was taken and experimented on it was found that water made the specimen highly aggressive and it infected one of the scientists. Once infected that scientist quickly contaminated others due to the worm parasites that quickly multiplied within their brain. The parasite specifically seems to target sources of water in order to spread itself quicker throughout the population. The mutations seem to just happen out of necessity to either protect or more quickly spread the sources of infection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvbK_jcqXnU&ab_channel=WowSuchGaming

it's covered in that video which was approved by the back 4 blood creators.

[Myta]

The "Goal" of the Cleaners is to kill off the Ridden and protect survivors while learning how and why the Devil Worms (the cause of the outbreak) work and how to contain or destroy them, there's countless videos and info dumps from the developers containing documents from the in-game universe explaining how very little is known about the Devil Worms or the Ridden at the time of the in-game story

[CommitTreezn]

Interesting... thank you Diablerie and CursedPanther for the info!