Killing Floor 3 - Killing Floor 15th Anniversary Developer Diary 

Crawlers…. In the walls!

You know in game they’re gonna be on the ground, hopefully this time they can actually crawl on the walls and ceilings

This reminds me of the hype for Payday 3 when we saw the Cloaker wallrun

@@ReeceRacc noooo please!!!

One is a gem but 2 got all the critic it deserved.

Underapreciated? No. Both KF1 and KF2 were highly regarded upon their launch respectivelly (and KF1 stood strong for years after) ... but eventually, Tripwire jampacked them with microtransactions and broken weapons gated behind dlc packs, which naturally a large portion of their playerbase protested against and many still do to this day. It is not without reason that the franchise faded away in popularity overtime.

@@krixtorei KF2's general playerbase is still relatively strong and consistent, and though I agree somewhat with the microtransactions and the gated weapons - everyone has access to them provided only *one* person has it, which is far better than what most other studio's would do with microtransactions of that sort. And besides, there are custom servers that provide players with all the DLC weapons (and more) - not to mention any cosmetics which you could want (which, personally speaking, idc about the microtransactional nature of cosmetics)

@@krixtorei thank saber, the game was handed over to them a while back i'm pretty sure and they're honestly not bad at keeping games "alive", and won't really fundementally ruin the game, but they also don't really add much and really like their microtransactions. this one doesn't seem to have them working with them, so that's a good thing

Yes I agree the Casuals like L4D because it's easy lol

It was a bit bareboned on release but it got a lot better with updates

killing floor 1 was somewhat alright but killing floor 2 got pretty outrageous towards the end, it's probably managements fault, the developers deserve all the praise

I don't mind the microtransactions really, new guns or skins are completely optional. Also players can share the DLC in the lobby so really, only 1 out of 6 players needs to own them. It's also priced pretty okay for it being shareable.

@@froireier the thing is, everyone wants new guns, especially when they have unique features or playstyles which would benefit the overall replayability of the game if they would be accessible to everyone, only 1 person needing the DLC is good but that's still not enough imo

Nobody cares about Skins tbh, and the dosh vault thing literally hands you skins for free. As for the weapon DLC's, I agree with that, but you can still get it so long as 1 other person in your lobby has the DLC's. And if not? Custom servers let you use the DLC weapons + modded ones which can be just as fun to use

Plus they still released free weapons along with the dlc. They were honest with us and said "hey, we cant keep a profit doing what we were doing before, this is how it will be going forward." You get nothing but my respect for that (and also my money)

I get what you mean but cod hasn’t been mainstream in awhile. It could be more like helldivers 2

Agreed. No modern gaming elements needed. Just make it fun. I’m hoping they won’t go down the current day route.

I'm hoping that mainly means QoL additions like a polished UI but I agree with you that fishing for COD players is a bad move.

Yes, paired with the fact that they look to be going 200% with the science-horror direction of KF2 and really minimalizing the grunge that gave 1 and 2 character worries me, at least from the screenshots I've seen. So far, its raising the same concerns I had in regard to creature and environment details that Back 4 Blood had when they came out as a spiritual successor to L4D2

@@mistermorphescarnoe2898 KF2 is very, very heavily steeped in science-horror I feel. Though debatably I don't think KF2 holds a candle to the grungy horror aspect that KF1 originally had. My personal hope is that by "science-horror", they mean to indulge in the best of both worlds with KF1/KF2. Grungy horror from KF1, while retaining the science/cult-based theming of KF2.

it looks like they're mixing both, even better.

WIE BIDDE?!

KF2 used to have optimization problems in the beginning (and some server-side issues 2~3+ years back), but I'm not aware of any persistent performance issues these days? Me and all my friends play it fine with no issue, beyond the occasional crash when they Alt+Tab while loading into the game trying to do a bunch of other processes

@@WhiskArlington I didn't buy the game until a few years after it's release. Can probably find old forums about the issue if you Google it. it was a recurring problem for a lot of people. Nobody ever figured out why it happened or how to fix it. All the suggestions to delete temp files or change launch options etc, all that didn't work. Would just get some type of error upon launch. Wish I could remember the specific error. Everyone it happened to probably just stopped trying to play altogether at some point

@@WhiskArlington my point is, I'm willing to bet if I were to fresh install the game right now on the same machine I used originally it still wouldn't work regardless of any fixes theyve implemented.

i think that's a you problem

@@TwoGunToast I very, very, very (very, very) highly doubt that honestly. And if it does, I genuinely, 1000% believe it would be an issue with the machine you used to use in that case. I've got a degree in game design and development, and I can't stress enough just how pivotal optimization can be to helping a playerbase run the game. If there's a memory leak (where a game allocates a function or data but fails to terminate or loop the process properly), that can literally stop people from even *loading* the menu in some cases! I can all but whole-heartedly guarantee that KF2 has since fixed every major issue that used to plague the games' early release years. I would know, myself and many friends of mine have consistently played KF2 all the way since around mid-2017. Of course, back then issues and crashes weren't super uncommon whenever a new patch or update released, but these days it's VERY rare to experience an issue, and is almost always a client-side problem.