Killing Floor 2 High Level Tips and Tricks - How to get better at Hell on Earth and Suicidal 

THE BIG DOC: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GDpg2mN1l_86U_RaDug0glFx8cZCuErwxZLiBKl9SyY/edit#gid=1502265493

Man, the solo jump from Suicidal to HoE is a doozy. The hardest thing is the trash zeds sprinting around at Mach 12, constantly hemming me in, hitting me by surprise from the side and back, and generally keeping me on the back foot constantly. It hurts my accuracy too, which means I spend too much ammo early waves and end up with low money and low ammo mid-game. That said, I freaking love how KF2 mainly increases difficulty not by the typical lazy method of "more health and more damage for enemies, less health and less stuff for you", but instead adds speed, numbers, aggression, behavior changes, and composition changes to make it harder. For solo, enemies on HoE only have something like 50% more health than an enemy on Normal, which is a very small increase compared to a lot of games that increase enemy health by orders of magnitude to artificially boost difficulty, but end up just making bullet sponges.

SUPPORTS AND DEMOS PLEASE step away from the trader pod when you're done your shopping. Some of your teammates might not have taken your grenade/ammo handouts that wave, and being close to the pod keeps players from grabbing it. You get one handout each wave, so missing one of those can drop efficiency.

Solid video, Rich. I'd be very interested to see a compiled guide based around "tech" that makes this game more efficient and easier on higher levels. For example, shotgun jumping, heal/parry/reload canceling, heal juggling, infinite darts on SWAT, damage surfing and air strafing, things like that. While you go into some detail on your perk-specific guides, they're a tad old and new players might not know about these hidden mechanics.

I feel like "heal others" and "learn to parry" kind of should've been included (not just medics and zerkers). Oh, and bashing, ALOT of people have never found their bash key, and it's super useful. These are basic things, but i feel they're far more valueable on higher difficulties. You can get by on normal and hard never healing your teammates or having pushed passed a scrake by bashing him. I kind of expected you to emphasize the teamwork aspect of KF more, but again, i guess that should be basic knowledge. Just my thoughts! Keep making cool videos!

Here's a few pointers from a veteran SWAT: 1. Ease into the harder difficulties, you'll have a rough time going straight from normal to HoE. Once you find you're able to manage a difficulty, turn it up one level. 2. Learn how to heal and reload cancel. The less down time you have, the less damage you'll take. When I first started doing the higher difficulties I just couldn't stay alive, then it was much less stressful when I learned how to do these two things. 3. Forget upgrading SWAT weapons. The ammo pool is just far too low for only two weapons. I'd recommend running either a MP5/P90/Kriss or H&K/P90/Nail combo. The former being for coop, and the latter for solo

Fun new stupid tactic with the Dragonsbreath since the buff. If Volter is rushing you even in his life-drain charge mode, just shoot the floor between you and him. He'll always juke to the side or run away every single time.

you guy likely know this, but here's a small advice: if you're not shooting or reloading, you can run backward at full speed in this game (not sure about KF1), And if you better at it you can bait a Flesh Pound to miss it hit on you, which calm it down for you to shoot it, then repeat the process until it die.

I can solo suicidal every time pretty convincingly. But the 3x big fleshpound + 4x quarter pounds spawns all at the same time usually always get me killed in HoE

Heres a little tip, if your medics level 25 and its the start of the round, its good to fund them for their next weapon. A medic with their full kit can keep you alive alot longer.

They need to add a warning like in L4D that "You've startled the Scrake!"

Dying in KF2 has taught me many valuable lessons, such as "Don't play Sharpshooter solo, ur slow and can't kill trash gud"

here's a good one form a maxed prestige medic STAY NEAR THE MEDIC! i cant keep you alive if your fisting the fleshpound at the other side of the map!

Pickups: When picking up a new weapon from random spawns on the map, it always comes with a fair share of ammunition. If the game is still in it's early stages, or you figure you can make the T1 weapon you picked up work for at least this wave, spending that ammunition before selling the weapon is more efficient. Whether selling an empty weapon or a fully stocked weapon, the amount of dosh you get back is the same. When you find an ammo box on the map, temptation is always there to pick it up. From my experience these give 1-2 clips of ammunition to every one of your weapons, plus one grenade. If you want to stretch your efficiency, you'll want to have as many weapons as possible in your inventory capable of receiving this ammunition, barring the 9mm. On HoE, though, I highly suggest giving these priority to support roles like Medics and possibly Sharpshooters, as the grenades they get from them (and possibly the grenades for the medic grenade launcher) are worth far more in their hands than, say, a Commando's. Since ammo boxes restore ammo to every weapon in your inventory on pickup, Supports can help with the death penalty a little further by restoring some of the ammo of a teammate's dropped weapon. You shouldn't bank on deaths, as it's something to avoid, but in the event it happens a Support with spare inventory space is around they usually end up carrying dropped weaponry to the trader anyway.

"Nade spamming is not effective on higher difficultys" 5:56 "So Anyway I start blasting"

Also for suicidal you can get away with using the 9mm as a primary until round 3 in a long game .

Easiest way in my opinion is to learn the way zeds move on suicidal by playing a large open custom map. It’s the best way to see their movement, timing on large attacks, how fast they can catch up to you, rage timing etc. On top of this, it gives you room to try out different weapons without shit spawning right behind you or near you. After you get more confident with this, move onto tighter and tighter maps until you get proficient enough on any close quarters map. As for teams, it helps to play with people you can communicate with over comms. You naturally learn through playing with your team. Great video, wouldn’t mind seeing some guides for newer players about more specific abilities like boomstick hopping, off perk C4 for 3 players or less, Railgun cancels, and off perk weapon swaps.

One key to saving money is headshots headshots *headshots.* Headshots cost you the least amount of bullets for a kill. Also, use your knife and pistol whenever you can. IF you are in a position to repeat headshots

I'm moving from Hard to Sucidal on my favorite classes now. Ive used most of these tips on Hard games and they make progression really easy. I hadn't played Sharpshooter at all until today but got a really easy win on hard cause I had a good idea of my late game weapons and had good economy from using the pistol alot in early rounds.

These are not hard fast rules, just general guidelines and misc tips: 1) Throw a couple spare dosh at the medic in the first few waves so they get higher tier weapons faster. 2) Got an extra kilo and not sure what to get? Medic pistol is a great safety net. (Also, unlimited ammo during zed time also apply to healing darts. Could be helpful for gunslingers and SWATs.) 3) Call out scrakes and fleshpounds when you see then approaching. Commonly "sc" and "fp" in chat. 4) He mentioned it but imo it needs a bit more emphasis: scrakes enrage when they lose ONLY 10% of their hp. If your weapon has splash damage or spread, don't shoot at other zeds next to him unless you're very confident you won't hit him. 5) For the first few waves, using up all your 9mm ammo before switching to your primary might be better, depending on your perk. OR switching between the two depending on enemy resistances. 6) Sometimes bashing one or two lone trash zeds is better than shooting it, esp if you're playing a perk with low mag sizes and need to gtfo very quickly. 7) He also briefly mentioned this but: also know your teammates' perks. Got a berzerker being a bro and holding an important chokepoint for everyone? Help him by prioritizing crawlers, bloats, and husks and heal him by pressing 4. 8) Another important thing about team composition: there are perks that rely on getting headshots and perks that disrupt your teammates' aim (demo, firebug). If everyone else is bringing guns, don't be that one guy that chooses the demo just cuz it's more fun. 9) Prioritize large targets during zed time. Leave trash zed for your commando. 10) Give away all of your spare dosh before the boss wave. Don't throw it on the floor. Give it directly to people still on the trader. Just a bit faster that way. 11) Some weapons are just much better when upgraded like the deagle and MP5 compared to other upgraded weapons. Know if your perk has any. 12) You can heal your teammates by pressing 4. 13) You can parry with your melee weapon. Jumping before getting hit can give you a nice push away from enemies. 14) The support has a neat trick with the DBS and doomstick: you can jump and alt-fire beneath you to jump over zeds. 15) Support and demo should stand close by the trader so players can get their free drop. Close enough to be convenient, far enough to not accidentally bring up the trader. 16) If your team is getting overrun, sometimes you can get a better angle and shot placement by going after the zeds chasing after your teammate rather than the ones chasing you. 17) Prioritize the normal zeds during boss waves. Only one or two people should be kiting the boss and juggling aggro. 18) Play on the easiest map to get used to the difficulty spike, which imho is Zed Landing. Nuked, Burning Paris, Desolation, Farmhouse, Prison, and Outpost are also easy maps. 19) Don't shoot headless Bloats. They can explode and obscure vision. Don't get greedy.

Here are some more tips: 1. In the menu enable the kill feed, this will give you more information if you killed a zed or not. 2. In the menu enable crosshairs, the first bullet on a static crosshair always goes through the center. 3. Damage test guns on community test maps, understanding how much bullets you need to kill a zed is crucial in decision making.

Great video man, you always manage to provide helpful info and strategies in such a succinct way 👌Also would you mind linking the intro song?

having an exfil plan at all times if solo, if ur moving they aren't hitting. Bashing zeds out of their attack animations keeps your hp up, accuracy and timing is key, but it's possible to squeeze by a scrake in a hall or doorway without taking a hit.

Here's some advice: TURN OFF YOUR FLASHLIGHT! You're scaring the crawlers from my line of sight!

Also know the maps, trying to escape the zeds could be hard with a slow perk and if you don't know which spawns are closer to you, welp you might get clapped by a crawler

Using the 9mm to shoot clots in the head is a good tip. 9mm bullets are cheap, so you are saving/ earning money by using a low damage weapon to kill trash. Clots are weak, move slow, and their heads explode with 1 shot. Using 9mm as a backup is great for this perks: sharpshooter (1st skill to the right)/ gunslinger, commando or swat (these last two perks: mostly if you are using bonus 9mm damage on the skill tree.)

I feel like ammo management is worth mentioning as well as running out of ammo mid wave on your tier 5 weapon is crushing

Awesome video, thank you really! Really great work ^^ I would be really interested in seeing if you could you do maybe a build up video for each perk maybe focusing on suicidal and maybe another HoE or together. I know you have that in other videos and it's really helpful, but maybe more focused on each type of boss too or situation also. It's so different playing with a full team then being by yourself for example or playing with only a couple of friends.

Hey richard love the content! Can you do some payday 2 builds since a lot of people are playing again?

Nice tips. This will help out a lot. I do prefer armor early on but that's just me.

I'm dying to know what those maps you used to look at the scrake and husk singularly, i am trash and big zed take downs and that looks like a good way to practice

Like in KF1 the Firebugs are supposed to fulfill their role as a "Big Zeds Rager" - not.

pro tip: if you can't shoot a crawler because you're reloading, you can jump on it and stun it most of the time. Also, I don't remember playing HoE but I did do it, it seems. I mained gunslinger on ps4 and was pretty good at it. Also, I think that console is more forgiving with headshots as it seems that bullets track the head more compared to pc but not sure.

Here for the aLgOrItHm Also to say, quality advice and video as usual Richard. Looking forward to more content

Love these tips videos. They always get me inspired to hop back into the game.

I ended up deleting this game because i just stopped enjoying it, But i still love watching richard.

started this game 2 days ago, learned nothing from this, great guide

Takedowns are a hidden gem for Berserker especially. They’re so fun, they really cut down the time on killing a Scrake or Fleshpound if you’re alone or with another trash killer, they’re somewhat technical, and seriously why does a T5 Crovel kill a Scrake in a second?!

Suicidal is pretty chill until a fleshpound or scrake shows up

The problem I have is I play on controller so switching to knife to parry is a no go in some cases

Question for anyone reading this, what do you do with your leftover cash going into the final boss round? If your teammates don't need a donation and your current loadout is already upgraded to the max, what do you do? I always buy a high powered weapon and toss it on the ground somewhere nearby the trader. I have played several games and died during the boss round due to running out of ammo. Nothing sucks more than dying on a boss round with no ammo and a bunch of money.

I would definitely vote to move the Support into Switch Hitter category.

Thanks man. Needed this. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💪🏽

I only play HOE, at some point I pretty much ditched armor as its pretty expensive & I would prioritize offence over def (kill them before they can get to you)

on suicidal I noticed the clots eyes turn red sometimes. is there a specific trigger for this?

Forever stuck in transit, hard I can thrive while suicidal as the name implies is painful.

Gunslinger -> Rack em' up skill, have a good mouse and mousepad(important)

I thought this video might have been more game mechanic wise or something in-between like how to save dosh early by saving ammo with melee and knife kills on first 1-2 rounds.

Great video, nice tips, as always, also name of intro song? It's pretty cool.

Parrying and bash are the most useful tools

I j ust play Berserker until boss. During that time i grab a Katana or road redemmer then buy the Ion Thruster if i have extra dosh i just give it to someone who needs it usualy 1k or 2k

Hey rich I have a question, at which level should I play these difficulties? I'm new at this and it seemed a bit hard to get past wave 4 as a level 3 firebug on suicidal

also in a 6p game, it is wise to buy a medic pistol just to assist teammate on healing, regardless to what perk they using

There's only 1 thing I need. Le Boomstiek

Thanks gonna put this to use on normal

This is what i need

im so used to suicidal i cant play anything beneath it cause its just too easy and boring. im really trying to play hell on earth but not too many lobbies are packed. suicidal seems to be the perfect difficulty with full lobbies.

Real talk

I knew of theese but its good for new players

I thought this video was about getting chicks at first. :p Great video, bro.

How did you display the number of life points from zed and the displayed damage from a shot, for example 2:20

Help the Medic to get his Medic Rifle as fast as possible, if he can heal properly, you will survive

I never though you would say Smol brain.

Lmao I love that your name is Dick Dangles.

Hi Richard, what do you think of the dragons breath now that beta 2 is out and the fire rate change has been revoked?

What is a switch hitter? I've never heard of it.

What about big Zed health regeneration ? how can a medic solo a big zed in HoE ?

Medic is absolutely a Switch Hitter now. The Incision Railgun makes them absolutely devastating against large zeds and damn near replaces Sharpshooter as a perk.

How do you deal with the absolute clusterfuck of enemies from every direction that kill you in 5 seconds

I think you should review maps.

Hey dangles, how did you get the tiny dot crosshair?

Nothing pisses me off more then when I turn around and that white crawler is right on my ass about to explode and kill me.

What a testing map in this video (2:25)?

How bout DOSH UP YOUR MEDIC TILL THEY GOT A FUCKING RIFLE!! Do asap everyone on team help 'em out and they'll help you.

How do you get the neon camo on the deagles

Bit late but got any suggestions for VS mode?, just got the game about a week ago and trying to platinum it on PS4, got every trophy, but "Human win on VS," "Win Suicidal," And "Win HoE." ... I know I'm pretty garbage lol

everyone should play a special HoE and team-tutorial before being allowed to enter a HoE game or even suicidal. there are so many superperktrained idiots that have no idea what to do and ruin the match for all serious players... and they join at wave 8 or 9 or even 10.

interesting that you didn't mention min lvl recommendations.

I mostly play hoe on pub and find armor waste of money & good medic makes it close to useless also berserk's one of those class that dont really need armor on any difficulty

its like killing floor asmr mmmm

Does anyone know the name of the intro song?

Zed agitator = priority?

Instructions unclear, im still dog shit

2:34 what is that weapon ?

Grenade spam should not be used: 5:53

Well I am decent at the game except for fucking cheap boss HANS VOLTER, how do I survive him, how do I get good against him with all classes?

Can anyone give me a link to a good test/practice map?

Got some bloody dosh?

Whats the map at 2:26?

Do not be a spartan when you have medic

Don't be like me and switch to a new gun every two waves cause the current one got boring 🙃

Heh it said the word in thumbnail

The only thing I hate about this game is the fact that I've gotta pay £1.99 for a god damn key to open crates that I earned

Why do I find gunslinger so god awful. I just feel like every third shot will always miss. Easily my least played perk.

Everything i sell only gives back a lot 100$

How are you gonna give tips and use ADS

just in the nick of time

For some of the takedowns, check this channel: ru-vid.com/show-UCAQAIJ0KzioLusAtSG7cfrw

Im not agree with the commando,It can be trashkiller,but also big zed killer

what is your in-game name? we probably met already :D