As he slowly dies, he’ll eventually cloak, run away, and recover health if you and your team don’t focus and keep on his trail. One boss, The Patriarch, punishes targets with a minigun that shreds armor and health bars in seconds. Because of their huge health bars, brutal attacks, and tendencies to single out one poor player (#justmedicthings), bosses rip apart teams that don’t work together or that have a poor balance of classes. The final wave culminates with a boss fight, a difficult battle with tons of potential for crushing letdowns and clutch finishes. You’ll quickly learn how to deal with all of them, even though they keep things interesting through sheer, overwhelming numbers. Some get right in your face, some cut off your mobility by grabbing you or spewing bile, and others get you just when you feel safe. Aside from a few types of standard fodder, there are bloated vomiters, invisible melee Zeds, huge dudes with chainsaw arms, screaming witches, and more. You’ve already seen all of Killing Floor’s enemies before if you’ve played other zombie survival games, though what’s there works very well. It’s fun to test yourself and see what you can get away with. It’s tempting to spend the first few rounds using only a pistol or melee weapons, though on higher difficulties you’ll risk getting overwhelmed, and if you die because you’re hoarding the good ammo you’ll lose your Dosh survival bonus for the round. There’s a constant friction between struggling to survive by spending your precious resources or conserving your goods for the next (tougher) round. Sometimes ammo can be found around the map, and certain classes stock you back up but it’s not common enough, nor is the resupply large enough, to let you be totally reckless. “Despite the trigger-happy approach to combat, it becomes much more tense and tactical the more you play. So fun that, if you’re not bothered by a lack of variety (think MOBAS, which are often played in one mode), there’s enough here to keep you entertained for a long time. Everything is frantic and on fire, and pulling through with your class abilities, limited weapons and ammo, and some good old-fashioned teamwork (and yelling) is incredibly fun. The heavy-duty commando is holding his own for now, but his ammo’s low and he’s about to be vomited on by a huge, bloated monster. The sharpshooter up on the ledge doesn’t see the cloaked enemies sneaking up behind her. You might look around and see that, over by the bus, a zombie is gnawing on the medic’s leg while others close in for a bite. The Walking ZedKilling Floor is great at replicating those moments in movies where everything is going very wrong for our heroes. Gearing up, putting together a balanced team, and seeing how well you do remains fun time after time. Once you do find a few classes you like, you can really dive into what Killing Floor is all about: killing stuff with your friends, earning money (or “Dosh”), buying better guns and armor between rounds, and doing it all over again. If you’re into Killing Floor for the long haul, it might matter, but the bonuses I saw from this throughout 15 hours of play were negligible. You can level up classes you aren’t even playing, which is a good touch, but that progress is very slow and it forces you to buy odd weapons or play in ways that don’t line up with your equipped class. “So, if you’re interested in a class but you’re not sure if it fits your style, you can easily put in the time of a short-ish shooter campaign only to learn that you don’t care much for it. I felt incredibly strong and useful, as I did with each class given enough time to unlock their abilities. The first class to hook me was the Field Medic, which passively gains armor and movement speed, wields weapons with secondary-fire healing darts, and gains the ability to self heal while healing others. With that mindset clearly front and center for developer Tripwire, Killing Floor 2 delights on the back of its great gameplay.Killing Floor’s 10 classes, awkwardly referred to in-game as “perks,” are distinct and fun to play, and putting together a good team has a huge impact on whether you’ll succeed. It’s not a buffet though it’s comfort food, meant to be eaten again and again and again. However, zoom out from the gorefest a bit and you’ll see Killing Floor 2 is also an online shooter with only two modes, two boss battles, and some unnecessary time sinks. It’s a fast, fun co-op shooter with cool classes, satisfying guns, and aggressive, grotesque enemies, all doused in fitting heavy metal music. The few things it does, it does boldly and unabashedly well. Killing Floor 2 wears its heart on its sleeve-a bold move considering there’s no ace stuffed up there.
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