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Though the list of available weapons is large, they all feel sufficiently different, and are also effective on different types of enemies. You might start with a pistol and a knife, but by the later waves you’ll be popping Zeds like popcorn with your microwave gun, or turning rooms into a Jackson Pollock painting with your rocket launcher. After a wave is finished, you can go on a quick shopping spree, buying more ammo, weapons and armour.

The number of Zeds increases, obviously, and new, stronger types are introduced, including shrieking Sirens and massive constructs of meat and metal, but players can also get an extra edge thanks to the cash they get from kills.

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Tripwire have attempted to alleviate monotony, however, with a wide variety of weapons, both relatively realistic and completely bananas, and 12 maps varying in size, from small, isolated farmhouses to elaborate, maze-like warrens.Ī full round lasts for either four, seven or ten waves, and a lot can change between them. It’s a bit slight, then, and runs the risk of becoming repetitive quickly. Even there everything is wave-based though.

It’s not very popular among the community, that mode, but has improved since Early Access, where there were major issues with balance. Like its predecessor, Killing Floor 2 is all about shooting wave after wave of Zeds, and is absent any other mode aside from a PvP twist that pits player-controlled Zeds against the survivors. It doesn’t seem particularly helpful to the team, and given that Killing Floor 2 is a 6-player game, there are enough players to cover all of the important jobs – you don’t need a Jack-of-all-trades to fill in gaps. Instead, its skills give it bonuses to the weapons usually used by other Perks and it can get experience from using any weapon. The final Perk to be added, the Survivalist doesn’t really fill any role.

And on the harder difficulties, a 20% boost to damage here or a 75% buff to your health there makes an awful lot of difference. Every five levels, you’ll feel properly tougher or more deadly. They hardly set one’s imagination aflame, but they do at least have an impact. Unfortunately, the skills they gain are almost all just bonuses. Every weapon is available to every class, though they are less effective and net less XP when they’re not used with the appropriate Perk. These bonuses inform what tactics and weapons you should use, but they aren’t ironclad restrictions. The Support class can repair welded doors, giving their team extra breathing room, and drop ammo bags, while the Firebug’s fire and damage bonuses make them perfect for clearing whole rooms of Zeds. While a lot of their roles can overlap, most perks have a hook that makes them special. He can also reveal sneaky invisible zombies, because they are unfortunately a thing. The Commando, for instance, favours rifles and pistols, and can get damage and reload bonuses for those guns. Killing Floor 2’s classes are confusingly called ‘Perks’, and come with different starting loadouts and unique abilities that can be unlocked every five levels. But also for cash.Ĭharacters are cosmetic only, so you don’t have to choose a different one when you change classes. These misfits, mercenaries and survivors are deployed across Europe in groups of six to fight mutated zombies, ‘Zeds’, presumably to save the world. There’s no space marine, but there is a slightly eccentric chap who thinks he’s a crusading knight. Beside me, a chatty Australian hipster gleefully torched arachnid-human hybrids with a flamethrower. Today, as a priest, I decapitated a ginormous, chainsaw-wielding monster with my katana. There’s a lot more the two games share, like the grotesque monster design and satisfyingly loud and powerful weapons, but Killing Floor 2 takes things in a sillier direction. But, much like Doom, Killing Floor 2 proves that there’s no shelf life on being entertained by showers of blood, and hordes of the undead accompanied by wailing guitars. It’s absurdly gratuitous, and so much of it is made up of stuff that was perhaps shocking or cool when I was 15. I feel like I should be rolling my eyes, but instead I’m shouting expletives at a mad, German mecha-scientist and whooping as another zombie explodes in a shower of guts and bone. It revels in gore and over-the-top, frenetic cartoon violence, encouraging the mayhem with an ear-pounding metal and industrial soundtrack. Killing Floor 2 is brought to us by the colour red, with the claustrophobic corridors and ruined streets of this multiplayer FPS painted in blood, viscera and the grisly remains of a thousand dead zombie mutants.

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