Another Zombie Survival on Steam
<div class="IPBDescription">Killing Floors</div>Its not really a zombie survival, but similar! Killing Floor was a Unreal Tournament 2004 mod that was bought up by Tripwire, which was the same company that did Red Orchestra. Its 25% if you pre-order it and with a price of $15, how can I resist XD. Here are the facts from the steam store.
Here is the Link for the Steam Store <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/1250/" target="_blank">http://store.steampowered.com/app/1250/</a>
And here is the link for the official killing floor site <a href="http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/" target="_blank">http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/</a>
Killing Floor is a Co-op Survival Horror FPS set in the devastated cities and countryside of England after a series of cloning experiments for the military goes horribly wrong. You and your friends are members of the military dropped into these locations with a simple mission: Survive long enough to cleanse the area of the failed experiments!
-Cooperative gameplay for up to six players against multiple waves of specimens
-Persistent Perks system, allowing players to convert their in-game achievements into permanent improvements to their character's skills and abilities
-Over 40 Steam Achievements, including “Dignity for the dead†for killing 10 enemies feeding on dead teammates' corpses and “Hot Cross Fun†for finishing off 25 burning enemies with a Crossbow
-Slow-motion “ZEDtime†to better watch those crucial and violent creature deaths, even in multiplayer
-Solo game mode for offline play
-Nine different monster types trying to eat your face off, armed with everything from teeth and claws, to chainsaws, chain-guns and rocket-launchers
-12+ weapons for the players to chose from, ranging from knives and fire-axes to pump shotguns, rifles and a flamethrower
-Equip your team with welders, medical tools and body armor to help your odds of survival
-Choose which Perks to play with to best balance out your co-op team against the horrors
-Open, non-linear play areas: choose when and where to fight — or run; weld doors closed to direct the monster horde down alternate corridors
-Fully-configurable, allowing players to change the difficulty level, number of creature waves, or even set up their own favorite waves of monsters
-Support for Steam Friends and other Steamworks features
-Includes SDK for the creation of new levels and mods
Here is the Link for the Steam Store <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/1250/" target="_blank">http://store.steampowered.com/app/1250/</a>
And here is the link for the official killing floor site <a href="http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/" target="_blank">http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/</a>
Killing Floor is a Co-op Survival Horror FPS set in the devastated cities and countryside of England after a series of cloning experiments for the military goes horribly wrong. You and your friends are members of the military dropped into these locations with a simple mission: Survive long enough to cleanse the area of the failed experiments!
-Cooperative gameplay for up to six players against multiple waves of specimens
-Persistent Perks system, allowing players to convert their in-game achievements into permanent improvements to their character's skills and abilities
-Over 40 Steam Achievements, including “Dignity for the dead†for killing 10 enemies feeding on dead teammates' corpses and “Hot Cross Fun†for finishing off 25 burning enemies with a Crossbow
-Slow-motion “ZEDtime†to better watch those crucial and violent creature deaths, even in multiplayer
-Solo game mode for offline play
-Nine different monster types trying to eat your face off, armed with everything from teeth and claws, to chainsaws, chain-guns and rocket-launchers
-12+ weapons for the players to chose from, ranging from knives and fire-axes to pump shotguns, rifles and a flamethrower
-Equip your team with welders, medical tools and body armor to help your odds of survival
-Choose which Perks to play with to best balance out your co-op team against the horrors
-Open, non-linear play areas: choose when and where to fight — or run; weld doors closed to direct the monster horde down alternate corridors
-Fully-configurable, allowing players to change the difficulty level, number of creature waves, or even set up their own favorite waves of monsters
-Support for Steam Friends and other Steamworks features
-Includes SDK for the creation of new levels and mods
Comments
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Yeah those stupid time travelling mod developers ripping off L4D before it existed.
I'm waiting for the inevitable free weekend; Red Orchestra has had a few, I believe, so I'll just check out Killing Floor when it gets one. It seems pretty neat though, and Tripwire hasn't let me down so far. All one of their games have been awesome.
Also seems to throw a lot more mooks at you, Serious Sam-style. I approve! L4D definitely had the console port in mind- I played the xbox360 version at my misses' yesterday and the walk-in-the-park bits are a lot more challenging using a controller.
Pro:
-The guns feels powerful
-The gridy look for the weapons and environment help built up awesome horror atmosphere
-Each map fits nicely in the horror survival scenario
-Its not easy, this is important for me because it helps support the strong teamwork and increase the replay value of the game
-Perks system- this just helps you adjust to what kind of player you want to be and its simple
-With the support of SDK, there will be more maps and mods
-No cross hair along with the options to hide your hud, this helps pull in the players to the game
-The iron sight is well done, probably because they did in RO XD
-Solo mode, to prepare for online play- you can work up your perks in solo also
-Cheap price
Con:
-Annoying voice overs- probably be changeable in the next patch
-Same thing with L4D, its more fun if you have people you know playing with you.
Final Thoughts:
For the price of $20, I think it present itself nicely as a horror survival game. If you are still thinking about how it is similar to L4D, this game is very different from its pacing, freedom to explore the map, earning your weapons from kills and these specimens are not 1 shot kill zombies like in L4D. This game fits nicely in my heart for zombie-ish survival game. Also for a game based on a mod with the original mod team, I was more than happy enough to support them. If anything, they are planning a free weekend thingy, but I don't know when is it. Did I mention there is a welder? XD
Things I like:
- Games scaling to player size. One thing I didn't like about L4D was the requirement of having 4 people to really get into the harder difficulties. I generally can only round up a single friend at a time for playing co-op stuff, so the fact that Killing floor works regardless of how many people you have is great.
- The perks. They give me something to work towards while playing and give some fairly substantial bonuses.
- Most of the weapons. A lot of the weapons are really solid. They look nice, their sounds have a good feel to them, the iron sights are pleasant to use, and generally they're just fun.
- Welding. I like the mechanic. Its useful, if not a little overpowered. Unfortunately it only applies to doors (and all doors at that. Even wooden ones) but I'm sure it wouldn't take much to add other weldable objects.
Things that bugged me.
- The perks are essentially classes. Yeah you can work towards leveling up one while using a different perk, and yeah they don't restrict you from using any weapon. But still, they're classes. They function as classes. When I choose the sharpshooter perk I become "ANeM - Level 1 Sharpshooter" on the scoreboard. They're classes, why not just call them that?
- Currently is theres no way to change the map, difficulty or game length. Your stuck with whatever the server admin set it to. I know a lot of people don't like L4Ds system due to the fact you can sometimes end up on suboptimal servers, however I'd rather play on a suboptimal server with the game setup exactly how my group wanted than play on a suboptimal server with settings that are kind of sort of what we wanted.
- There is a 'boss' monster that comes up after all the waves are completed. His abilities are 1-3shot kill melee attacks after sprinting at a player, or a minigun burst that will kill in about 1.5 seconds, or a rocket that will kill in 1 hit. He can also go invisible at any time. Also after getting him down a certain percentage he can go invisible and run away while spawning a small wave of enemies. He can do that multiple times. He stupidly difficult on any setting above Beginner and hes just not fun to fight. Ever. He has an ugly model, a horrible voice and really cheap tactics. You can use mutators to disable him, but doing so means you can't level up your skills. Not that there is any actual bonus to killing him.
- The flamethrower is broken. I like flamethrowers. Everyone likes flamethrowers, but this one just doesn't feel right and has some really bad mechanics. The fire doesn't look good, and it doesn't even look like its coming out of the weapon, the effect appearing a good 2 feet infront of it. The fire goes a little too far, with little to no spread to it, and extinguishes very quickly upon hitting the ground.
Moving while firing lights the player on fire. The burning effect causes your screen to become blurry as if you were being hit, making it difficult to aim and giving very little indication that you're actually on fire, often causing the user to spin around checking for enemies. The perk linked to the flamethrower allows you to mitigate the fire damage but will not actually make you immune to this so you'll run into this issue no matter what..
Furthermore the ammo is limited, the damage seems to scale oddly compared to other guns. Small enemies die in a single blast while larger ones take exponentially longer to kill. The only real application of the flamethrower is using the fire to track the aforementioned boss monster when he tries to invis and sneak off.
And as previously stated, there is a perk, (ie:class) dedicated to the flamethrower. It does nothing but improve the flamethrower.
Generally the best idea is just to sit somewhere with one or two doors and stack up enemies on the other side before letting em in and throwing a ######load of grenades at them.. The patriarch (boss creature) seem to have issues with most things, never really died to him except when trying to chop his head off with a fireaxe (normal difficulty).
I keep clicking RMB when surrounded and unable to move <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
Bottom line, if you got it for 13 dollars while it was cheap, it's just about worth it with a slap of mediocrity and unpolish-ity.