Update 1036 (Killing Floor 2)

Highlights:

• Sharpshooter Perk
  • M14
  • Railgun
  • Liquid Nitrogen Grenade
• 2 Community Maps
  • Containment Station
  • Hostile Ground
• Added Basic Training - Tutorial (cosmetic items rewarded for completion)
• Resistance/Weakness System
• Incapacitation Changes
• Updated Perks
  • Demo
  • Commando
  • Berserker
• VS Survival update
• Updated Hans Fight
• New Character - Rae
• 32 New Achievements
• Menu/UI Design Updates
• 2 crates 2 USBs (new precious items)
• Several battlescarred weapons updated to look better
• Steam market item view inside Trading Floor
• Support for Double Byte Character sets
  • Chinese Localization added
  • Japanese Localization added
  • Wider range of special characters
• Performance Optimizations

General:

• All incapacitations (knockdown, stumble, etc. ) will now build up and fall off over time unless they reach the triggering threshold
• Resistance and Weakness system added per weapon type - See wiki charts for more information

Menu/UI

• Weight added to the HUD
• New kill alert added when human teammates die
• Interaction widget updated, will now resize itself to fit the text inside it.
• Info text added to matchmaking and solo game menus
• Loading Screen Tips
• Perk menu layout changed to make reading passive bonuses and skills easier
• Menu bar updated
• Added boss health bar
• Players can now choose to recycle all their duplicates of an item at once (leaving one behind)

Perks:

• Added Sharpshooter
  • Level 5:
    • Sniper - Inflict 25% more damage while stationary with sharpshooter weapons
    • Marksman - Shoot 25% faster and move 10% faster with sharpshooter weapons
  • Level 10:
    • Stability - Inflict 30% more damage while crouched
    • Ballistic Shock - Stun power increased by 100%
  • Level 15:
    • Rack ‘em Up - Each consecutive headshot increases your damage by 5% up to 75%
    • Combat Ready - Reload your weapons faster
  • Level 20:
    • Deadeye - Reduce recoil by 10% and increase headshot damage by 10% when aiming
    • Always Prepared - Get 25% more ammo for sharpshooter weapons and grenades
  • Level 25:
    • Assassin - Headshot will knock down any Zed
    • Ranger - Headshots will stun any zed

• Demo Changes
  • Level 5:
    • Bombardier - Explosive demo weapons now do 25% more damage
    • Grenadier- Demo weapons fire 20% faster
  • Level 10:
    • High Impact Rounds - Do 25% more damage on a direct hit with demo weapons, but lose 3 ammo from the max ammo count per weapon Extra Rounds - Increase max ammo by 5 for every demo weapon
  • Level 15:
    • Sonic Resistant Grenades - Demolition weapons have a 100% chance of avoiding siren scream destruction
    • Fragmentation Rounds - AoE of your explosions increase by 50% but AoE damage is reduced by 30%
  • Level 20:
    • Armor Piercing Rounds - Direct hits to a critical zone will do an extra 50% more damage
    • Concussive Rounds - The hit reaction, stun, stumble and knockdown of all demo weapons is increased by 50%
  • Level 25:
    • Destroyer of Worlds - Previously nuke, this has been tweaked slightly
    • Mad Bomber - Shoot and reload in near real time
    • Passive Changes

• Commando Changes
  • Level 5:
    • Tactical Reload - Reload 20% faster with commando weapons
    • Large Mags - Commando Weapons have 50% increased mag size
  • Level 10:
    • Backup - Pistol and knife do 60% extra damage and 50% faster weapon switch
    • Impact - Commando weapons have 150% increased stumble power
  • Level 15:
    • Health Increase - Increased health and Armor by 25%
    • Ammo Vest - Carry 2 extra mags per commando weapon
  • Level 20:
    • Hollow Point Rounds - Commando Weapons do 25% more damage and have 50% less recoil
    • Eat Lead - Get another 50% increase in mag size for CommandoWeapons
  • Level 25:
    • Professional - Reload weapons at full speed and switch weapons twice as fast
    • Rapid Fire - Do 3% more damage with commando weapons and shoot 3x faster with all weapons
  • Passive Changes

• Berserker Changes
  • Level 5:
    • Dreadnaught - Increased health by 50%
    • Skirmisher - Move faster, sprint faster, regenerate health every second
  • Level 10:
    • Vampire - Heal yourself 4 points of health for every zed you kill with a Berserker weapon, also attack 15% faster with Berserker weapons
    • Butcher - Attack 20% faster and do 25% more damage with Berserker weapons
  • Level 15:
    • Resistance - Gain 20% resistance to all damage, gain an extra 20% resistance to poison and sonic damage
    • Parry - Parrying an attack will increase melee attack speed by 5% and damage by 35% for 10 seconds
  • Level 20:
    • Smash - Hard attacks do 50% more damage, plus an extra 25% more damage on headshots, which have 200% more stumble power
    • Massacre - Light attacks do 20% more damage and are 5% faster
  • Level 25:
    • Spartan - Attack in near real time and gain 25% of your total health
    • Rage - Move and attack in real time
  • Passive Changes

Zeds:

• Reduced gorefast headless damage 50% and reduced the attack speed
• Hans fight Update
• Hans shield can now be broken
• If broken before his heal, he won’t heal that phase
• If broken during his heal it will be interrupted
• Hans now has more overall health to compensate for how the fight plays out

Weapons:

• LAR - Sped up bolt time
• Crossbow - Reduced stun power
• HX25 - Modified spread to more reliably hit the target that was aimed at

Versus:

• New ZED awards
• Scoreboard and match layout UI
• Team Swap every match
• Player Zed Spawning Decoupled from AI Waves
• Updates to Player Zeds
  • Health, speed and damage changes
  • Some can now block: Scrake, Fleshpound, Bloat and Gorefast

Maps:

• Added Containment Station
• Added Hostile Ground
• Updated Buring Paris art assets to bring it more in line with later produced maps

Weapon Skin Revisions:

• Battlescarred Weapon Revisions on the following skins to look less battlescarred
  • SCAR | Spray Can
  • Katana | Cyberbone
  • Scar | Horzine Elite Red
  • Scar | Horzine Elite Blue
  • Scar | Horzine Elite Green
  • Scar | Horzine Elite White
  • 9MM | Tactical
  • AR15 | Tactical

Bug Fixes:

General:

• Fixed an issue where spawn prediction checks would fail allowing zeds to spawn within sight or potential sight of a character (behind their backs)
• Fixed an issue where Zed would get confused about who to target (and constantly switching targets) leading to them not attacking
• Fixed a case where a mis-sized Steam avatar would crash the game on launch
• Fixed another case where players would enter a solo versus game
• Fixed crate opening animations getting into an endless loop
• Fixed ultra bright gore for Flex High settings
• Fixed grenades not bouncing in Black Forest grass
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to keep trader menu open during a round
• Fixed Crossbow bolts disappearing when hitting a destructible item
• Fixed Gamepad - Voice chat receive volume slider breaks when pushed all the way to the right
• Fixed an issue with the hammer staying up on the Winchester 1894
• Fixed audio issues with the Winchester 1894’s running and melee sounds not triggering
• Fixed audio issues with the Crossbow’s melee sound not triggering
• Fixed an issue with blood not showing up on the Bowie Knife
• Fixed an exploit that allows players to keep more than 15 weight when switching from Support perks using Strength
• Fixed an issue when receiving grenades/ammo from other players prevents the player from receiving grenades for the rest of the game
• Fixed an issue with the Lacerate skill not functioning with heavy and stab attacks
• Fixed the trader menu not correctly updating with the Experience and Level of the player
• Fixed an issue with the Trader giving too much armor to Medics when purchasing armor
• Fixed an issue with players not being able to parry/block behind the spawn points

Versus:

• Fixed Player Crawlers been able to be killed by others after they had triggered their suicide

Map Fixes:

• Various Map Fixes
• Outpost
• Black Forest
• Burning Paris
• Biotics Lab
• Prison

SDK:

• Fixed landscape de-vised patches block grenades and paths, and don't allow player to stand up when crouched

Known issues

• Bosses do not lose the freeze grenade frozen texture effect after thawing out
• Players are able to parry unparryable attacks from player controlled ZEDs in VS mode
• Some particle effects do not render when looking through scoped weapons
• Fire induced panic causes Sirens to stop screaming in some cases
• Doors on Containment Station map missing sounds
• Some visual issues on dynamic objects after swapping teams in VS mode
• Interaction messages on HUD (Opening doors, etc) will sometimes stay on screen until a new interaction message is prompted
• Some cosmetic items do not fit correctly on Rae
• Cosmetic item preview images are low resolution