Obviously there are exceptions, but that's the general trend.Īs for the gun itself, I imagine it's completely redundant to the Railgun, but TWI is probably saying 'It won the poll so we gotta do it'. This is why hyper realistic games like ARMA or RO are in winter right now (no PUBG doesn't count because it's Battle Royale the game), and the L4D formula, which is predicated on the player feeling vulnerable, didn't take off after L4D2 until, surprise surprise, you attach some badass Warhammer abilities to it. 0:00 / 4:33 Killing Floor 2 Summer Sideshow - Scrake Quotes DJOptikBoss 2.15K subscribers Subscribe 737 Share Save 70K views 5 years ago KF2 Quotes Playlist: Killing Floor 2 S. The most popular games that the most players like are games that make you feel like a badass, and that doesn't jive very well with your weapons and abilities suddenly feeling de-powered (again, from the average 'guy on the street' perspective).

This sidesteps the issue of having the player feel less powerful (which is looked at as a no-no outside of maybe survival horror but even those games tap into the power fantasy motivation a bit, compare Issac with RE1 Chris Redfield). They move so fast when raged that no perk can outrun them so once a Scrake is raged, you have no other choice but to face it down and kill it.

I seriously doubt they'll nerf the railgun, Tripwire seem terrified of upsetting any player by making something weaker/more balanced, but it'd be a bad idea to do it regardless.Well, it seems to be trendy in game development nowadays (and I don't actually disagree with the philosophy) of not nerfing player abilities but bringing other abilities into line with the strongest one, then making the enemies more dangerous. Once Scrakes have taken enough damage, they will go into a raged state where they move much faster and they will not stop raging until they are dead. In HoE 6p KF2 railgun (max headshoot damage, max profile weapon damage, disabled autoaim on railgun for max damage) - one shot scrake, two shots FP.This is my issue with it too. Originally posted by LuckyDude:In HoE 6p KF1 M99 - one shot scrake, two shots FP.

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