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Killing Floor 2 Officially Revealed!!
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Mr Fahrenheit
Member
Gonna buy this day one and not play it until the Christmas update.
phantomspiker
Member
FUCK. YES.
The first game was amazing!
The first game was amazing!
Gamesadict
Member
I loved everything in this game from the first time I played it.
The voices alone made the whole game for me.
I hope people are able to host servers with large player counts, I spent most of my playtime on one that allowed up to 40 players. Absolute insanity!
The voices alone made the whole game for me.
I hope people are able to host servers with large player counts, I spent most of my playtime on one that allowed up to 40 players. Absolute insanity!
ptuck874
Member
I'd imagine they have a bunch of different voice actors with accents from across Europe. Could be potentially hilarious.
NingenJanai
Member
Yesss !!!!! Loved the first one, hopefully this one is as good and has a nice community.
KaiserBecks
Member
I like Tripwire very much. After RO2 (which I pre-purchased in order to get into the Beta), I was hesitant about supporting their next game day 1 though.
It was released too early, but it was sort of obvious they had to do it because they simply couldn't afford another delay. I guess Early Access could help with that. I'm still not entirely sold on this, but mentioning "Soldier of Fortune" sure does help.
It was released too early, but it was sort of obvious they had to do it because they simply couldn't afford another delay. I guess Early Access could help with that. I'm still not entirely sold on this, but mentioning "Soldier of Fortune" sure does help.
Fattony12000
Member
Ohh, very nice. I wonder how many players a single server will support this time around...
Love Deterrence
Member
Excellent! Had good times with friends in the original. Shame that I couldn't play more, but I look forward to picking this up day one. 
Two quotes for you that didn't make it into the feature:
John Gibson: "When we shipped Killing Floor, one of our goals was to go back to the fun a lot of us had had with games from the late 90s or even early 90s, games like Doom or Serious Sam, these not-super-serious games with just lots of enemies and really cool weapons and not overly complicated game mechanics. There were these types of games we felt just didn't exist anymore. So with Killing Floor we wanted to make something that feel like when we used to play those games in the 90s. But put a modern spin on it. It was funny when it came out, we were like we have this itch, maybe other people do. Millions of people bought it, so we were like okay, people do have this itch. We feel like it's still an underserved genre."
I believe I kinda addressed that second point about leveling in the feature (there are now 25 levels instead of 6), but here's more:
Bill Munk: "To hit level 6 in a perk was a really painful grind. The really hardcore people like that, they have a longterm thing to go for, but for everyone else it wasn't very enjoyable. You could go weeks and weeks, sometimes months without hitting a new level. We wanted to improve on that, you're leveling up while also having a longterm thing. In Killing Floor 1 we also had it so, say you picked the Commando perk and then used a Sharpshooter weapon, I'd level up Sharpshooter even though I wasn't using that perk. That's the same. We've kept that about it so we haven't removed the good things, just the bad things."
One thing is putting weight on good graphics, but on menus and loading screens? I agree they are not the best in the business, but they work and the game itself is pretty much the best coop shooter in existence.
GamingIsDead
Member
Hopefully we get some info tomorrow.
KF was my favourite mod ever and the game was even better. Pc gaming desperately needs more devs on par with tw.
Get the fuck out.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
I am on board with any game outdoing SoF gore.
Owned Killing floor, but didn't pay very much of it.
Owned Killing floor, but didn't pay very much of it.
Teasing_Pink
Member
My knickers are on and my fur coat is in the closet where it belongs. Just tell me when I can wop my wad on the countah Tripwire!
10 perks - any ideas on what the 3 new ones will be, assuming the original 7 return?
I remember the tripwire forums were constantly asking for a "gunslinger" class to deal with pistols and to remove them from the sharpshooters domain since they already have a wide array of viable weaponry, might happen. Other than that it's difficult to think of niches that could be exploited. Heavy MG or something maybe?
I remember the tripwire forums were constantly asking for a "gunslinger" class to deal with pistols and to remove them from the sharpshooters domain since they already have a wide array of viable weaponry, might happen. Other than that it's difficult to think of niches that could be exploited. Heavy MG or something maybe?
Did they mention the engine they would be using?
I would believe we will Gears, Halo 1/2, and Viva Pinata reappear before we would see Halo 3.
It would make a great deal of sense to finish up the trilogy release, including ODST, and then be done with PC entirely. Left us in a cliff hanger there.
I'm glad they are making a change to the leveling system. Makes the game difficult to jump into and play with other friends, and forces you into a class role rather than experimenting with different gameplay styles.
Those are some cool ideas.
Would be very interesting if they included some Parkour elements like Brink to get around the levels or approaching Zombies. I suppose that would directly impact the game design and overall tension as you are intentionally left at a rather slow speed.
Easton Dark
Member
I think my commando class in the first one has been on perk level 3 since around release. Contrary to developer thinking, there aren't that many stalkers to kill per game. Glad they're thinking of changing the leveling system a little bit.
That'd be nice. When they came out with the revolver, I pretty much just used that until the patriarch. What could the gunslinger have though, if sharpshooter has headshots? Fire faster?
That'd be nice. When they came out with the revolver, I pretty much just used that until the patriarch. What could the gunslinger have though, if sharpshooter has headshots? Fire faster?
They did. It's heavily modified UE3.
Rickenslacker
Banned
While I loved the shooting in the original, and popping a head always felt great, I hope KF2 really ramps up the melee combat. It's something I eventually got used to in the original, but while playing as Berserker was extremely powerful, the actual melee combat always felt really light and lacked in impact.
I didn't realize there was a page 2!
The massive dismembering system Tripwire implemented looks to take care of your concerns naturally.
Beserkers will become necessary for a group of players, able to chop off legs to slow down an entire horde.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
This is more me asking to confirm sort of deal, but will Killing Floor 2 have the 6-player limit on it that Killing Floor 1 had, or has that changed at all?
6-player co-op from what I saw. I don't think they're going beyond that.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
The article linked from PC gamers mentions melee has been completely reworked. It now now includes things like light and heavy strikes, combos, 4-direction striking, and more.
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Good to know, but I am guessing it'll be modable again. It's actually really easy to mod Killing Floor to host up to 256 people (it literally just takes a change in in the game's settings/ini file to change the number of max players, and then an input into the command prompt of lobby to change max players to X (up to 256)), but when you do that it turns perks off (like completely, not leveling is okay, but it makes it so everyone goes to level zero unless you mod the minimum level to something else).
Six is definitely reasonable though.
Shmuely Bully
Member
The first one was great fun, I didn't know it was so popular though.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I am so looking forward to seeing that in action. The SoF namedrop has me excited.
I'll dig up a quote on this when I get into the office. Melees is Bill Munk's baby in this game, and he talked about it a lot, very excitedly. I didn't write about it as much because I only saw one melee weapon, the katana. But you can cut dudes, and it looks awesome. Also, you can press reload to shake the blood off the sword or do a little twirl/flourish.
It was part of that indie cross promotion thing for the Portal 2 release (Potato pack or whatever), I think that exposed a whole lot of people to the game. They mention it sold 2.5m copies in the article as well, they kind of community driven long-term growth is exactly how an indie game franchises should evolve.
Incidentally, the 2.5 million number is within 8% of the 2.3 million number that Ars found
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/steam-gauge-addressing-your-questions-and-concerns/2/
Killing Floor had a long tale due to the constant support by Tripwire with free maps during certain holidays.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/steam-gauge-addressing-your-questions-and-concerns/2/
Killing Floor had a long tale due to the constant support by Tripwire with free maps during certain holidays.
With 19 ways to dismember a zed I wouldn't be surprised if there's a class dedicated to crippling them in various ways, imagine a quick draw revolver at the knee caps of a clot or something, a kind of "short range" sharpshooter. All speculation of course.
Well in the PC gamer article they say it won't be as soon as you like but it will be sooner than you think. They also mention it will be out for windows and steamos... so maybe at the launch of that, which is looking like November
Rickenslacker
Banned
I was fine with the simplicity of the melee combat in the original, I'm just hopeful that the sense of impact and weight on strikes is a lot better, and it definitely seems like that'll be the case!
Hah, so like Shadow Warrior you can clean blood off the blade? Cool.
They talked a bunch about the death animations in the preview, and how each character has a bunch of different death animations. Does this mean that their won't be ragdoll physics, or that death animations will play first and then ragdoll will kick in?
Also, Killing Floor 1 was really fun, and this seems to be shaping up really well, excited to hear more about it.
Also, Killing Floor 1 was really fun, and this seems to be shaping up really well, excited to hear more about it.
Dominic_Shade
Member
Time to get the band back together and ring up all my usual co-op buddies. =D Can't wait!
derExperte
Member
The shops to buy weapons are still in there, right? No simplified 'buy via menu'?
And I hope they have improved the server browser, the only bad thing in KF1.