How to Participate in the Back 4 Blood Open Beta Weekend

Back 4 Blood, the upcoming co-op zombie shooter game from Turtle Rock Studios, is nearly here. But before it formally releases, theyre doing a free open beta weekend. Heres how you can participate.

From August 12 until August 16, a Back 4 Blood Open Beta will be available for players on both PC and console. This is free to play and available to everyone. This is in contrast to last week, where only folks who pre-ordered could play the open beta.

How to Access the Open Beta

Since its available to the public, accessing the beta is fairly easy. First, visit THIS PAGE HERE. Thats the official Back 4 Blood beta page. Once there, select the platform you intend to play on from the list at the bottom of the page. For consoles, youll be directed to the store page for a Beta game that is free. For PC, however, youll be directed to the main game store page. At the time of writing this, Steam does not have a beta option available, but this should change by the date of the beta itself.

Once you have the game in your library, its simply a matter of waiting until the start date. The beta starts on August 12 at Noon PST and lasts until August 16 at Noon PST. Be prepared for some trouble getting in within the first few hours, however. The game servers will likely be experiencing heavy traffic from everyone trying to play at once.

Recommended PC Specs for the Back 4 Blood Open Beta

If youre playing on PC, they recommend the following PC specifications.

• CPU Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
• GPU GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 590
• RAM 12GB
• STORAGE 25GB SSD
• OS WINDOWS 10 64-bit
• DX DIRECTX 11

Some Things to Keep in Mind

There are a few things about the beta you should keep in mind.

• Progress made will be deleted at the end of the beta and will not carry over into the full game release.
• The game supports cross generation and cross platform gameplay
• Being an open beta, expect to experience bugs and other technical issues. Thats what betas are for, after all.
• Behave. While this is not the full game release, misconduct that leads to a ban COULD overlap into the main game when it releases.

Accessibility Options in Back 4 Blood

The open beta will have a list of accessibility options to help make the game more comfortable for those who need them. They can be available as follows.

• Text to Speech - On and Off
• Text to Speech Voice - Male/Female
• Text Language
• Speech to Text
• Profanity Filter
• Caption Options (full, gameplay only, conversations only)
• Caption Font Size
• Background Opacity on subtitles
• Different Color Gameplay Captions (protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia)
• Camera Motion Strength
• Waypoint Opacity
• Screen Space - change how close the in-game HUD is to the edge of the screen
• Cross-play enable or disable
• Voice Chat Matchmaking Preference (yes or no)
• Reset Game Coach
• Remappable Keys on Controller and KBM
• Reticle Options
• Reticle Color (7 colors)
• Lower Game Audio for Voice Chat Toggle
• BG Audio is lowered during dialogue
• FOV Adjustment
• Toggle all weapons to be full auto.

We plan on participating in the open beta. We hope to see you there. And with any luck, theyll have taken out that racial slur issue they had in the early access beta.

Back 4 Blood will formally release on PC and consoles on October 12.