10 Video Game Difficulty Modes That Are Utterly BROKEN

Though it was largely marketed as a casual squad-based multiplayer zombie shooter, Back 4 Blood actually offers a surprising amount of pushback even on lower difficulty levels.

The game's highest difficulty setting, Nightmare mode, however, proved to be so unacceptably, brutally, cheaply difficult that fans went to social media in droves to beg Turtle Rock Studios to nerf it.

Nightmare massively raises the difficulty several different ways, by having the undead spawn in far greater numbers, introducing a larger abundance of Corruption Cards which result in unfavourable gameplay modifiers, and massively boosting friendly fire damage.

Many complained that crowd control was simply impossible with this amount of enemies, especially as they now took more damage and the game's audio didn't sufficiently alert players to enemies emerging behind them.

Turtle Rock did eventually nerf Nightmare's difficulty to be more tolerable, though many fans nevertheless insist it's still a total mess from a design and pure entertainment perspective.