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[Ozyton]

It's 13:30 where I am now, just got home from lunch and refreshing to see if I got a key... though I'm not liking my chances if 143,000 people entered =o

[nenjin]

Patch notes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

General
Game will now read the server game port from the command line when setting up the Steam server
Changed "Zynthetic" to "zYnthetic"
Flamethrower now ignores damage scaling by difficulty and deals the full damage amount to player that fires it
Ana now comments on her favorite weapon (flamethrower)
Updated server .ini's to default to normal difficulty
Changed EndOfGame delay from 20 to 10 in default ini
Increased online framerate cap for clients from 90 to 150
Tweaked down Pulverizer Damage on Alt Fire
Safe Guard skill now applies a 15% bonus
Added in voice detection with option to turn it on and off in the audio menu. Off by default.
Economy Changes
Made changes to spread out dosh earning over the waves and more evenly between classes
Reduced the trading time in normal to 75
Zed Changes
Made changes to several zeds health, damage and aggression based on feedback and stats on different difficulties
Blocked accepting invites at times when they would be problematic to other processes
Adjusted MaxRespawnDosh up to 1250 to match better with our higher weapon prices
Hans XP grant should be higher to compensate for the time it takes to kill him
Added the ability to scale how much extra damage a zed gets when they are vulnerable to a damage type

Maps
Adjusted all maps based on feedback and stats
Tweaked spawn times
Added additional spawn zones
Cleaned up geometry

Optimizations
Adding depth bounds test support (AMD and NVIDIA) to speed up deferred lights.
Disable rigid body collision events for giblets for low and medium settings.
Add Setting to turn off footstep sounds on low FX setting.
Misc optimizations from main game thread
Set small and canbecomedynamic asset detail mode for min spec perf optimization
Turned off obliteration gibs for low settings
LOD'd out collision events on blood particles
Disabled CanBecomeDynamic objects from being activated from bullet impacts on low setting.
Added setting to disable blood splatter decal on low and medium settings. Just use persistent blood splat for those.
Removed all smoke particles in the tank and set clot and track animations to only render on medium detail settings
changed all particles in character cust room to medium detail level
Optimized collision on some meshes.
Collision optimizations.
Min spec optimizations
Removed aurora particles but left the mesh for less awesome aurora
Removed all physics flags
Removed all remaining snow particles.
Removed half of the animated cameras
Removed half of the interp actor wind turbines
Optimized Persistent blood traces
Tied max blood splats per frame to graphics settings.
Do not busy wait for server to reduce idle time CPU utilization

Bugs
Fixed bug where Medic weapons wouldn’t lock on at angles
Fixed issue where the flamethrower will spawn a ground fire at the origin of the map if a trace failed
Fixed sound not playing online for the metal detectors
Fixed some debug spam
Fix for mono looping echos not getting cleaned up
Fixed door pound sounds not playing on dedicated client
Fixed case where bloats would puke through the door in an attempt to attack the player even though they could not reach them
You no longer die if you're tired of being an admin
Fixed molasses bug (where players would be set to a lower speed)
Fixed an issue where Zeds would not properly select spawn volumes not viewable by players
Fixed other client hearing the Medic weapons beeping lock on
Fixed Commando rapid fire skill not working online
Fixed Professional skill not working online
Fixed Menace Skill: Attack Speed not applying during zed time
Fixed missing heartbeats
Fixed missing mesh log errors.
Fixed Server browser only showing top 100 servers by player ping
Fixed Hans gas grenade not always rendering correctly
Fixed shutting doors on players and zeds causing them to get stuck
Made sure door close sounds are heard on clients (different from previous door sound issue)
Fix for bad mouse sensitivity
Healing Surge now gives the proper amount of health
Fixed players pausing the game online
Fixed a bug with the Husk where he wouldn't fire his fireball or flamethrower attack if he was newly spawned until his cooldown had passed
Fixed Flamethrower flame not showing up if player couldn’t see the player shooting it
Fixed issue with large bounding region on fx
Fix for third person fire effects not appearing if Instigator was 50 meters away from where they spawned in
Fixed Server Browser not properly filtering older versions out of the list
Attempted Fix for a server only memory leak


Crashes
Fixed issue which would cause an infinite loop
Fixed audio related crash

They've tweaked/turned off a lot of graphical features for low settings.

[Ozyton]

Does anyone other than you even have it yet?

[Spehss _]

Watching the first look video on PC Gamer Show that's linked in the OP.

First impression: damn noice grafficks. I'll need a better graphics card. First person running animation looks silly though.

Anyone know what the engine is? I'd hope if it's on a more recent engine then the game would play better. Ok, they said it's Unreal 3 with Unreal 4 stuff added in. Whenever I played KF1, which used Unreal 2, there seemed to be...eccentricities. Like shooting a shotgun seemed to not shoot the proper spray. Or not shoot at all. Or shooting a pistol, or lever action rifle, or whatever. Maybe the issue was due to my computer or my internet connection. Controls generally felt clunky at times though. Hopefully KF2 will feel a lot smoother.

When this comes out could I expect to be able to play with you guys? Only other thing that kept me from getting into KF1 was that I could never find good servers that are always populated, or find a group, and as a result finding multiplayer games to play with proved a hassle.

[Metalax]

Something I spotted buried in that, MaxRespawnDosh. Does that do what it sounds like and mean you can no longer keep a cushion of dosh to rebuy your full gear if you die in a late wave?

[nenjin]

Does anyone other than you even have it yet?

Anyone from Bay12? Not that I've seen.

[Ozyton]

From the sounds of it a majority of the PCGamer keys were taken by spambots and are being sold for things like TF2 items...

Somehow not surprised.

[nenjin]

From the sounds of it a majority of the PCGamer keys were taken by spambots and are being sold for things like TF2 items...

Somehow not surprised.

Well, if they hand out any more keys I'll see what I can do.

[nenjin]

Smashing ZEDs with your weapon is awesome.

[nenjin]

Spoiler: Ultra Settings, 1920x1080, 110 FOV, MaxDeadBodies=100 (click to show/hide)

I'd try to do it at 4k but I think that'd drop my frames to the point it'd affect gameplay. I'm already getting little hitches happening at really inconvenient times, so.

[Ozyton]

MaxDeadBodies=300 from the steam community screenshot page

[nenjin]

As I said, you have to have a monster rig to handle that.

But it is fun watching bodies literally form a wall in doorways.

[Metalax]

The minimum and recommended system specs for running the game have been posted up on the KF2 steam community page here, along with a link to a system checker if you are not sure what your actual system specs are.

One thing to note, it requires a 64bit OS so if you've been a bit lazy like me and not swapped from the 32bit version of win7 you will need to do so.

Spoiler: minimum (click to show/hide)

CPU:    Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz or Phenom II X2 545
RAM:    3 GB
OS:    Win7 64-bit, Win8/8.1 64-bit
Video Card:    GeForce GTS 250 or Radeon HD 4830
Free Disk Space:    10 GB

Spoiler: recommended (click to show/hide)

CPU:    Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz or Phenom II X4 955
RAM:    4 GB
OS:    Win7 64-bit, Win8/8.1 64-bit
Video Card:    GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950
Free Disk Space:    10 GB

[nenjin]

Game still needs some optimization work I think. Seems to have a memory leak somewhere that shows up after several hours of playing, and I'm getting some herky-jerkiness despite blowing recommend specs for "High" out of the water. It probably has something to do with turning up MaxDeadBodies, but I dunno. Seems weird that I have hitching issue.

That aside, the beta has been a blast. Some people lament the loss of KF1's two-entry corridors, and camping in a line of guns for 7 to 8 waves. But as Medic, I'm really appreciating the chaos and bedlam the new game has brought to your typical camp & spank-fest. I spend as much time running through packs of spawned ZEDs to line up heals on my teammates as I do actual killing. While the game looks and feels like KF still, it's picked up a few additional tweaks, like sprinting, and melee bash to break yourself out of corners where you've been pinned by ZEDs, that the whole game feels like a step up in terms of fluidity and professional shine.

There are things here and there than KF1 vets might not like as much in the sequel: maybe you miss the sexual innuendo trader. Maybe you preferred the old "drunk guy at a pub" voice overs for characters. Maybe you thought the old Scrake was more threatening looking than this one. Generally though, I'd challenge any fan of KF1 to not enjoy this game. When you start playing beyond normal and the waves get longer, the enemies get tougher....it becomes a frantic fight for survival every wave, and I love it.

[Spehss _]

I've seen gameplay of Killing Floor 1 on harder difficulties with multiplayer where teams roamed the map as a group, stayed mobile, and killed things as they found it. It wasn't always camp in a corridor.

Don't tell me they changed the cheesy brit accents. D: