Serious Frolicking posted:

Everyone needs to have a default melee weapon, but there is no reason to incentivize using it for berserker since they automatically start with an upgrade. Berserkers generally need the same stuff as everyone else- survivability and single/multi-target offense.

So then, what do berserkers need perk-wise?
-Attack damage, attack speed and movement speed are already covered by their passives. If any of those are insufficient, then the amount per level needs to be adjusted instead of using a perk.
-They clearly don't need night vision or more starting ammo. Higher max ammo is certainly an option, as it would be for absolutely any class that uses ammo.
-Staggering is only useful for berserkers while using the nailgun, because if they are in melee range of something they can't quickly kill they should be parrying instead of trying to stagger it with damage. Conversely, the ability to stagger things with bullets is highly desirable for other classes, but I don't believe any of them get perks to that effect.
-The most obvious thing would be a bonus to parrying of some sort. Parrying is an optional system, and if you use an eviscerator you obviously don't parry. So, a choice between parrying and something that would benefit eviscerator use would be great.
-A choice between more siren and more bloat resistance would be a pretty good low-level perk, as well as incredibly easy to implement.
-Defense. Defense defense defense defense. Health, armor, damage resistance, I don't care. Berserker is too squishy.

Any other ideas?

Questioner86 posted:

I'm preparing myself for a lot of flack here but I'll give you all the scoop. Paraphrasing myself here from elsewhere.

Yes, mutators aren't yet officially supported and there is no mutator white list. The custom servers that have been running up until this point aren't even really mutators, they're run through server actor commands in the admin tools and totally open to exploitation.

Since we have no way of knowing what the custom servers are doing (you might be running a mutator that makes clots give 1,000 XP each, for example) we're unranking custom servers for now. You're still welcome to play and have fun on whatever creation someone in the community comes up with, your progression just won't save.

There will be a more robust solution implemented once we start supporting mutators in the SDK. With the hacky way mutators are being run right now there's just no way to verify what they're doing and differentiate from Awesome Mutators That Are Lots Of Fun from Bullshit Servers That You Join And Instantly Gain 100 Levels (which would suck to join if you didn't know that was going to happen).

If anyone is familiar with how KF1 worked mutators were reviewed and ones that weren't detrimental to the play experience or exploitable got white listed and could be run on ranked servers. This could include everything up to an including custom game modes. We're pretty chill when it comes to custom game modes but this is one of the major potential security holes we closed with this patch and we'll try and get a better solution for mutators and custom code content as soon as we can.

Slybo posted:

3 words:
Enemy Health Bars.

Maybe make it an unlockable perk. Or make it a secondary function for medical darts.
Shoot a Zed with a dart and his health bar becomes visible for limited time. What do you think of that?

Questioner86 posted:

Preview of our first early access content update for KF2, Manor.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/232090/announcements/detail/231151632201345579

We know people are hungry for info on what we're working on so here's your first taste.

Alteisen posted:

I hope when do they do wipe stats we get like 3x exp or something for like a week.

Krowley posted:

Is there a goon group for this game yet? KF1 was great and this looks nice as hell but pubbies ruin everything

Unclean009 posted:

Adding new content for a game takes more than a couple weeks to complete. Please be patient. They just announced a new map this week.

With those mystery steam achievements I would say there's a chance of other content besides the new map in the next couple weeks but I wouldn't bet my money on it.

Questioner86 posted:

Questioner86 posted:

Given infinite time and money I know I'd LOVE to have a unique-but-totally-mechanically-identical sidearm for each perk. If nothing else but to see people argue because we didn't make their favorite hi-capacity 9mm pistol special snowflake enough in the game by giving it the ability to zoom in further and reload 20% faster because

Questioner86 posted:

Sadly, the limiting factor here isn't the lack of cool guns to choose from.


There's a lot of perk balance talk going on. We'll figure out something. I mean, it might not be something that makes you happy but I can say with absolute certainty that it will be something.

FAUXTON posted:

I got the hang of timing blocks as the berzerker and suddenly this game is way more fun. gently caress you, scrake.

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The update will not drop this month. We are still working on both perks and their weapons plus many system updates (and new features).