Update 1038 (Killing Floor 2)

Balance Changes

• Greatly reduced the instances of Zed teleportation. Essentially players should never notice zeds teleport now unless a zed is completely stuck and cannot move, which should be extremely rare.
• Siren can no longer teleport. Added the Siren to the list of large and more powerful zeds that can not teleport.
• Crawlers - It was hard to notice when crawlers were attack you so we adjusted the stationary attack animations. We've also redone their getup animations.
  • You can now jump over and onto crawlers, knocking them down. Refined evade animations for Crawler, Slasher and Stalker
• Zeds now utilize evade animations when trying to avoid grenades

Sharpshooter

• Decreased EBR Rifle stun power to 8 (was 40)
• Decreased Railgun stun power reduced to 50 (was 100)
• Increased Railgun Lock on time for Bloat/Scrake/Fleshpound is now 1.1sec (was 0.35)
• Freeze Grenade radius has been increased to 900 (was 600)

Knockback refinements

• Crawlers
  • Stationary attacks no longer push players
  • lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
  • Stationary attack has the crawler jump up higher so it's easier to see you’re being attacked
• Alpha Clot
  • Stationary attacks no longer push players
  • Lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
• Slasher Clot
  • Stationary attacks no longer push players
  • Lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
• Cyst Clot
  • Attacks no longer push players
• Stalkers
  • Stationary attacks no longer push players
  • Lunge attack now only slightly pushes players

Stun duration refinements - After fixing an issue with how stun durations was calculated the following stun durations should now be applied. This should make it harder to stun-lock large Zeds.

• Cyst
  • Stun length 3.0sec
• Slasher
  • Stun length 3.0sec
• Alpha
  • Stun length 3.0sec
• Crawler
  • Stun length 2.5sec
• Stalker
  • Stun length 3.0sec
• Gorefast
  • Stun length 2.5sec
• Bloat
  • Stun length 1.5sec
• Siren
  • Stun length 1.5sec
• Husk
  • Stun length 1.5sec
• Scrake
  • Stun length 1.2sec
• FP
  • Stun length 1.2sec
• Patriarch
  • Stun length 1.0sec
• Hans
  • Stun length 1.0sec

Difficulty

Hard - The Win rates are still lower in hard then we'd like so we're adjusting the damage mod for some of the zeds for Hard difficulty.

• Stalker
  • damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
• Crawler
  • damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
• Bloat
  • damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
• Gorefast
  • damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
• Siren
  • damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
• Scrake
  • damage mod 0.7 (was 1)
• Fleshpound
  • damage mod 0.65 (was 1)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with the RPG and M79 not causing damage or knocking back Zeds at point-blank range
• Fixed an issue with the Combat Ready skill so that it now applies to the 9mm pistol
• Fixed a bug where stun duration wasn’t calculated properly
• Fixed an issue where a player could jump through the fence in Farmhouse map
• Fixed Rack 'em Up counter not decreasing with Crossbow misfire.
• Draw distance optimization for some maps
• Fixed a bug with light bulbs remaining lit after being shot
• Marksman skill no longer increases shotgun firing speed.
• Members of Zed team should no longer see human portraits on HUD
• Removed huge background volume on Hostile Grounds
• Top weapon Knife icon to display the correct knife
• Changed “Field Medic” localization for Romance languages.
• Fixed Collision Issues with Green Poles on Burning Paris during Versus
• Fixed Rotating Lights being fixed in place on Burning Paris
• Fixed issue in Versus with Husk fireball leaving flames on the floor that knock players back
• Fixed an issue with the Zed Napalm skill not properly lighting other Zeds on fire
• Sharpshooter passive, recoil, now works properly
• Fixed spectator's spawning under the world in Biotics Lab, Evac Point, and Prison
• Fixed Medic Enforcer Perk not giving new max ammo
• Fixed several achievement issues