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Same experience here. We like it too. It’s not L4D and I feel like that is in some way why it gets a hard time. We upped the difficulty and got our arse handed to us eventually. Co-ordination and co-operation are absolutely key. The cards seem to be working out too. They get more interesting as you progress.
It’s a game pass no brainer for me. Crossplay and game pass means the player base will be large but to be honest I can see why playing with randoms is not a good idea. You need to share ammo, stick together and not shoot people in the back. Something your average match made Rando just cannot do.

I was hyped for this as a long time L4D fan, but thought the beta was utter arse. Something feels off about the shooting, the cards and currency stuff made me feel sick, the wait times between levels was horrendously long, and the versus mode is absolute bobbins.

The full game might improve on some of this stuff, but I'm been put right off.

I was a but underwhelmed by the beta, but I think it could end up being fun as long as they sort out the horrific auto aim

I turned that off, no need for it at all. No idea why they thought anyone might want it.

Time to kill some zombies!! And for free! Winning.

Reviews generally very positive.

Tried this and it feels like Left 4 dead from when it came out. It feels like it could have been made years ago and is just a reskin with the deck thing added on which I’ll never get into.

Played a run of the first set of levels, just solo. Seems very much like a modern Left 4 Dead whilst actually in a level. No terrible thing, as I tried playing L4D not that long ago and found it to be very dated. Gunplay is an improvent and general feel is all nice, although neither are anything special or competing with the best.

The level design felt pretty generic. All very linear, with quite limited verticality. The ending sees you needing to blow up a ship, which is a nice variation and if they can mix up objectives then I could see it being interesting. The rest of the opening levels were very forgettable though. A more interesting tone could have helped, but it lacks the more playful elements of L4D. Not to say it is gritty, just all a bit flat.

Can't really say much about the card system. In single player, it seems you have all the cards unlocked right off the bat and it all looks quite daunting. You are given a starting deck for the tutorial, which only has about 5 or 6 cards in, so I didn't really get a feel for how interesting they can get, whilst the thought of wading through all the cards to build a single player deck doesn't sound like much fun.

Didn't really delve much into weapon variety yet, but seems to be a fairly good mix, with a little customisation for cosmetics, as well as attachments you can get during runs. The game doesn't explain it too much, but seems like it is mostly straightforward.

Am I the only one struggling to find a game?

Feels like I'm waiting 10+ minutes to start a run, which can't be right.

Played this for a few hours tonight and it’s entertaining. Seems pretty hard, but maybe I’m just out of practice/shite.

Played a fair bit of Aliens Fireteam recently so the PvE thing isn’t much of a novelty.

Played a bit last night- it's improved since the beta but there's still a fair bit of clutter in there with all the weapon rarities and attachments and so on. Maybe that's good, maybe that's not? I think Left 4 Dead's choice of 'shotgun or assault rifle or sniper rifle for the guy who thinks he's hot shit' was fine. Limited and typed ammo also means you have to co-ordinate with your team over who is taking which gun, which never seems to happen with randoms.

I'll be giving it a proper whirl after work I reckon.

Hey thanks for that. I am wondering what has improved since the beta specifically?

It felt more like an alpha to me, everything just didn't click, but had lots of potential.

I was talking about the beta. It was pretty bad, lots of glitches, the online didn't work, the guns felt awful, the specials were very hard to discern. It felt like it needed another year in the oven at least, so I'm interested to see what's specifically changed since then.

ACG reported the Xbox game crashing 12 times during his review period.

Anecdotally, last night we had 1 of 4 on PC who couldn't join us and had to switch to Xbox One S, the 2 of us on Series X ran fine but the 1 on Series S had the game freeze and kick them out.

Otherwise no in-game glitches or bugs, guns are the same, and special ridden still aren't particularly distinguishable from the chaos - they don't tend to have really unique audio queues like L4D.

ed: you can't drop or transfer attachments. Single use.

Some of the larger ones have a stompy noise, which is fine, and you can see them over the crowds. But that's it so far.
The L4D ones are all very unique and you know they're coming up in advance of seeing them rush you.

The player characters don't tend to chatter and inform you of anything either.