History VideoGame / KillingFloor2

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Due to Tripwire taking things into the account, a lot of things have been added to ease issues:

** You're no longer stopped dead in your tracks when you receive melee damage from enemies. Instead, this was re-worked into clots, and its siblings, grabbing a hold of you, with the game pointing you into the direction of what exact enemy grabbed you.

** Scrakes and Fleshpounds can be this to both new and old players: They are much tougher and faster than previously, and only get worse with less living players.

** Stalkers' are less "clean" and much darker, almost black, in skin colour, making them appear dirty and less "favorable".

** The Commando's starting weapon is not the Bullpup, a much favored gun, but the Vermin Rifle, a slightly less powerful gun, with burst fire or single fire settings, which makes it practically a more potent pistol than a rifle, due to its small clip and no auto-fire.

** Hans really enforces this trope to the point not only does he announce when he wants to go melee, use guns, use a HE grenade or use a Gas grenade to the point it's almost 'hand-holding' since it gives players plenty of time to change plans or run, one of his callouts is "''HERE'S A WARNING FOR YOU!''"

** Of course the old "Drop all your grenades right at your feet" is still a valid tactic if the Zeds manage to surround you; just make sure you aren't the last one alive, unless you're a Medic, in that case it will actually heal you while poisoning the Zeds.

** The Healing Dart hitbox is double the size of the playermodel.

** You're no longer stop dead in your tracks when you receive melee damage from enemies. Instead, this was re-worked into clots, and its siblings, grabbing a hold of you, with the game pointing you into the direction of what exact enemy grabbed you.

* ShoutOut: An achievement for beating the Outpost map on hard difficulty is called This Is What Happens When You Meet A Zed In the Alps, a reference to TheBigLebowski, more specifically the TV dub of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQUdJ6FdUQ0 this scene.]]

** Hans Volter. Oh boy, this guy... this guy is much worse than the Patriach. What makes him much more difficult? He lacks the invisibility of his predecessor, but he is much more mobile, making up for the new player addvantage of sprinting. Oh and he can out-run most players, except for a decently leveled Medic. He also wields dual [=StG=]-44 which gun through your Armor and Health really fast. He also throws 3 different grenades, two of which are very deadly[[note]]One is a toxic greande, leaving a cloud of toxic something, that seems like Bloater bile, and an explosive grenade, that is very effective at ripping you to shreds.[[/note]], along with going berserk when low enough on health, where he'll rip through whatever player he has targetted.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Melee weapons for any class other than Berserker. The katana was moved to a different class (supposedly) which will be in the full version, so it does not give a bonus to the Berserker. And while melee weapons are good for emergencies, you have a melee bash which can be equally as effective, if you're not a Berserker.

** The Commando: Focuses on hitting enemies at mostly any range and dealing a good amount of damage, while both taking out trash mobs and special threats, such as Stalkers.

** Flamethrower: The Firebug Perk is missing, but boy... this thing is almost as effective as a Berserker. Reducing Scrakes to pills of burnt meat in just seconds.

* MightyGlacier: In difference from [=KF1=], the Bloats take a lot more to deal with, even on Normal. Heck, even after shooting their heads off, they'll take quite a while to bleedout. And on harder difficulties, they're the only enemies to gain more health and take longer to bleed out, although headshot health stays roughly the same.

** All players gain money from the completion of a wave, whether or not they survived.

** Perks were remade to fit a better leveling structure, making leveling up more of a frequent thing and made each perk get skills every 5 level that players can choose between.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Melee weapons for any class other than Berserker. The katana was moved to a different class (supposedly) which will be in the full version, so it does not gain a bonus to Berserker. And while melee weapons are good for emergencies, you have a melee bash with can be equally as effective, if you're not a Berserker.
** In general, most weapons that don't get boosted by your selected perk, and is quite effective, is awesome but impractical, either due to lack of bonuses, weight and/or price.

* CharacterClassSystem: As of Early Access launch, there's currently 4 available, with the remaining 3 being released when the game has gone golden.

** The Support: Focuses on dealing huge amount of damage on multiple targets, and making sure big threats, like Scrakes and Fleshpounds, die quick.
** The Berserker: Focuses on high melee damage and taking out the trash without their buddies wasting ammo. The class has been slightly re-balanced to support a couple of guns to make the Berserker less reliable on "running face first into danger and die" tactic.
** The Medic: One of the two re-balanced perks, adding Medic-based guns for almost each weapon category, giving Medical versions of pistols, [=SMGs=], shotguns and automatic rifles. They're less potent then their proper brethren, but still potent enough.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Hans Volter's lunge is much longer than what his animation shows, although this seems to be more of hitbox dissonance, rather than outright cheating. His aim with his guns, on the other hand, sometimes go through the level geometry, as well as being on point, ''every damn time''.

* GenreSavvy: Anyone who's played the previous game will probably be on top of how enemies work. At the same time, this can work against old players.

** Of course the old "Drop all your grenades right at your feet" is still a valid tactic if the Zeds manage to surround you; just make sure you aren't the last one alive, Unless you're a Medic, in that case it will actually heal you while Poisoning the Zeds.

* ShoutOut: One of the new achievements added with the Manor update is called This Is What Happens When You Meet A Zed In the Alps, a reference to TheBigLebowski, more specifically the TV dub of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQUdJ6FdUQ0 this scene.]]

** Enemies no longer stop you dead in your tracks when you're attacked, instead this mechanic was added into a new attack pattern for Clots who will grab you.

** Clots exist in what appears to be 3 variants: The regular one, a "hollowed" one, with gaping eye sockets and mouth, and a third one, that has spikes popping out of the skin of its body.
** Gorefasts seem much more bloody and meaty, while their arms, from the elbow down, have been amputated, leaving just a blade sticking out of its right arm.
** Crawlers have more eyes and look less like they've been strapped into leather BDSM gear.

** Sirens have gotten what seems to be a sonar-machine operated into their gaping throats, explaining their ability to scream people to death.

** Scrakes look more controlled and more muscular than previously. Which isn't much body horror until you open fire and see him rip through teammates with freshly opened wounds everywhere on him, looking like a Gorefast on drugs.
** Stalkers' are less "clean" and much greyer in skin colour, making them appear dirty and less "favorable".
** The new boss, Hans, is less tall and huge than the old Patriarch, but geezus crust on a crutch, he is covered in syringes and tubes, which changes colour as he loses health.

* DiscOneNuke: A Support's 50+ health perk can help you get an AA12, mainly due to the fact that the huge amount of health eliminates the early game need for body armor. The earliest you can get said gun can be wave 2, if you know what you're doing.

** Of course the old "Drop all your grenades right at your feet" is still a valid tactic if the Zeds manage to surround you; just make sure you aren't the last one alive, Unless you're a Medic, in that case it will actually heal you while Poisoning the Zeds.

** Of course the old "Drop all your grenades right at your feet" is still a valid tactic if the Zeds manage to surround you; just make sure you aren't the last one alive, Unless you're a Medic, in that case it will actually heal you while Poisoning the Zeds.

* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Last Game ]]: Know the plot for the last game?[[labelnote:You don't?]]Kevin Clamely was set up to make super soldiers, his son was killed and he was much less ethical about his project as he considered the Specimens his children. As more of the workers at Horzine Labs started seeing things not being completely okay, Kevin did the only thing he could do, before it was shutdown: Use himself as a test subject. Queue Killing Floor 1, the Objective mode update that expanded a bit on the story, concluding that Kevin's own daughter wanted to put an end to the Zeds and that Kevin cloned himself. Oh and the team takes a train to Paris. Queue sequel.[[/labelnote]] Okay, well, you're sent in to kill lots of freak scientist specimens, get money, buy better guns, survive to kill the boss, rinse and repeat until the game gets golden and possibly gets a plot-point like the last game.

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After the successful Videogame/KillingFloor mod gained traction and became a full release in 2009, Tripwire Interactive took a couple of things learned from their other games released in the meantime, and created Killing Floor 2. The game got released as an Early Access title in April 2015, to fix bugs and receive plentiful feedback to improve on the Killing Floor formula, along with letting players experience a bit of the game before it fully launches when it's done.

** Of course the old "Drop all your grenades right at your feet" is still a valid tactic if the Zeds manage to surround you; just make sure you aren't the last one alive.

* BerserkButton: Fleshpounds and Scrakes are much more aggressive and will most likely kill unprepared players on even Normal difficulty. The fact that Scrakes enter a form of permanent rage-mode when damaged enough (along with chainsaw swings that can reduce you to pork chops), it can take up to a whole team with controlled fire to take one down without much loss. And that's not mentioning Fleshpounds when they rage.

After the succesful Videogame/KillingFloor mod gained traction and became a full release in 2009, Tripwire Interactive took a couple of things learned from their other games released in the meantime, and created Killing Floor 2. The game got released as an Early Access title in April 2015, to fix bugs and receive plentiful feedback to improve on the Killing Floor formular, along with letting players experience a bit of the game before it fully launches when it's done.

** You don't need to be alive to get the achivement for completing a map, nor do you need to complete it on 10 waves.

* AxCrazy: Oh boy... Hope you loved the Zeds in the first game, cause they got worse. Oh, and the Patriach might be missing (as of Early Access), but Hans is much... ''much'' worse.

* BerserkButton: Fleshpounds and Scrakes are much more aggresive and will most likely kill unprepared players on even Normal difficulty. The fact that Scrakes enter a form of permanent rage-mode when damaged enough (along with chainsaw swings that can reduce you to pork chops), it can take up to a whole team with controlled fire to take one down without much loss. And that's not mentioning Fleshpounds when they rage.

** Clots exist in what appears to be 3 varients: The regular one, a "hollowed" one, with gaping eye sockets and mouth, and a third one, that has spikes popping out of the skin of its body.

** Sirens have gotten what seems to be a sonar-machine opearted into their gaping throats, explaining their ability to scream people to death.

** Fleshpounds are bigger, wider, and much more aggresive, along with looking like freak accident between steroids, extreme body modification and unrelenting rage.

** The Medic's starting weapoin is a pistol, which is slightly stronger than the base 9mm pistol, but carries less ammo and weighs 1 block.

* BossInMookClothing: In the first game, Scrake and Fleshpounds could be a problem, but still managable by a single player. In this game? Even if you do a solo match, Scrake and Fleshpounds are practically mini-bosses. Even worse on difficulties above Normal.

** The Commando: Focuses on hitting enemies at mostly any range and dealing a goodd amount of damage, while both taking out trash mobs and special threats, such as Stalkers.

** The Berserker: Focuses on high melee damage and taking out the trash without their buddies wasting ammo. The class has been slightly re-balanced to support a couple of guns to make the Berserker less reliable on "running facce first into danger and die" tactic.

* ContinuityNod: A couple of characters from the previous game reappear, with a couple of background (and minor) changes, to either their bacckground story, name and/or face. And voice too.

* ExcusePlot: The game is a follow-up to one in the first place. Outbreak expands to central Europe after a failed experiment. Communication failed and military is crushed. So civilians, along with mercanries, have decided to exterminate the Zeds themselves. Which means... Who cares?! Kill Zeds, Get Money, Buy Weapons, Kill Boss, rinse and repeat. No need for spoiler tags here.

* VillainousBreakdown: The closer you get to killing Hans, the more he will lose it, so much that he even sometimes starts to talk {{Angrish}} in his final phase.
-->'''Hans Volter''': This. Will. not. do. no. Nein. Face everything scum! EVERYTHING!