Your first KF experience.

[Trotskygrad]

westlondon - solo - clotraped

after coming from *gasp* L4D

 

[Kaly]

Well it seems alot of us lost our kf virginity by being raped by clots. Man that's harsh.

 

[n87]

I was shopping and found KF in a store for one euro..
Thought I'd read that name somewhere, so I bought it.
At home I threw it in a corner, and forgot about it..
(Dont lynch me guys )
Some day I was bored so i decided to give it a try.

As I'm used to I started off with the highest difficulty setting.
Also I liked the name "hell on earth".. sounds so happy
Of course I joined modded servers first (not knowing about
the whitelist back then)
And bought Dual 9mms. Thought that would be real badass..

But as you can imagine.. I got killed very fast..

Today everything lvl6, over 500 hours played, and almost all
achievements (90%, only some hoe maps missing).
And many extra copies bought for friends

 

[Deafmute]

I had just purchased the KF bundle right after 2011 Christmas. Twas a dark and stormy night on kf-abusementpark. I decided to solo it on normal.
"I so totally got this" I said.
As things played out, I in fact did not totally got this. I was relentlessly killed and eaten by a batch of clots on the first wave. From there on out, I vowed to be the best there ever was at floors.

Similar, except I purchased KF shortly after it came out and loaded up Biotics Lab, thinking "oh, this can't be too different from L4D, I'll just camp this corner here." It didn't end well.

I also remember the first time I saw a Scrake as a little Commando with only the bullpup. I figured he seems pretty slow and I was in the cave in Manor so I had plenty of room to shoot. I then realized that Scrakes are actually rather fast when they get angry and kill Commandos very easily.

 

[Benjamin]

I pre-ordered it a few weeks before it came out, as per request of a couple of friends that I play L4D with. I think the first map we played was Biotics Lab, and they insisted on playing on the hardest setting. We died pretty quickly. We eventually ended up playing on beginner (or normal? I forget), and every time we got to the Patriarch we wondered why we couldn't seem to kill him when using the rocket launcher. After a couple of weeks they lost interest with the game but I kept playing right through to today.

 

[karsey22]

I wrote this a long time ago. I'll copy/pasta and put it in a spoiler tag to save scrolling space.

Spoiler!

I remember my very first wave of killing floor. My trigger finger still twitchy from mowing down hordes of zombies in Left 4 Dead 2, eager to fill more zombies with lead. It was on manor, with my flat mate at the time. I looked over the perks before pressing ready - decided commando was the way to go. I'd played survival games before and thought assault rifles would be a familiar gun to use while discovering this game. Upon starting, used the 9mm to fill as many clots as possible full of lead as fast as I could click. I almost lived a full minute.

There was no crosshair, each zombie seemed to take way too many shots to take down relative to how many bullets I had in my gun. Me and my friend, fps veterans, were not about to take the ego blow of playing on beginner, no sir, we decided to give normal a couple more shots. We almost made it to wave 2 once. About 45 minutes in, I had had enough. I declared this game a load of impossible horse****. It sat stagnant in my steam inventory for a few months until one bored rainy day I decided to give it another honest shot on some public servers. Maybe the key to surviving that first wave was having more people around to watch your back.

I joined a map that was on wave 10 - an impossible feat for me. "These guys must be pretty pro", I thought. I was wrong, I died about 20 seconds into the wave on some stairs by 2 giant guys in metal underpants that shrugged off my 9mm shots like spitballs. It didnt take long for the rest of the team to wipe either, reaffirming my belief that this game was the hardest zombie survival game ever made. The next map was the one I remember the best.

It was my return to the manor, this time upon spawning, I noticed one of the players had a golden commando icon beside his name. I was informed this meant he was level 6, the top level. I was impressed. I actually survived until wave 4, but mostly due to my teams expertise. I didn't trust myself to stray too far from them but eventually I was overtaken by a surprise group of gorefasts and died in what seemed like an instant. I sat there cursing the game and decided to watch this level 6 guy play. He was a master. He never got caught off guard while reloading. He killed the specimens with precise shots, never spraying into a crowd. He never even stopped moving to aim. This guy finished each wave out - the rest of the team would wipe. Watching him was eye opening. A game I had declared impossible was being played by one guy who seemed to have an answer for everything. Never getting cornered, running out of ammo, or being surprised by anything.

It changed the way I looked at the game. Instead of being impossible, this was now something I was just doing wrong. This one match made me realize that I just needed to adapt and improve or be killed off 2 minutes into eave wave. This game set out a challenge for me, and I was hooked. Eventually I learned that taking that extra second to line up the head shot was more efficient than unloading 5 body shots in the same time frame. Incidentally, I wouldn't run out of ammo. Eventually I learned that taking out the red guys with blade arms was more important than the slower clots. I began surviving waves, and having money to spend. I was able to afford the bullpup. I was progressing in perk levels. I played mostly on west london and biotics lab. I still got surrounded quite easily on farm as the team liked to move around a lot, the offices were confusing and the monsters seemed to come from everywhere. I compelled myself to stick with it.

Eventually after many grinds of the basic maps, I had that golden commando icon next to my name. I knew the maps inside and out. I knew how to handle each specimen - what ones I could take down with a headshot and which ones I had to be more careful with. I could finish out a wave if my team died. I had become the level 6 pro. I felt like a killing floor god, invincible. I had figured out the game. I moved on to the sharpshooter perk, which I leveled up significantly faster than commando. I attributed this to me just being better, and sharpshooter felt even more invincible at level 6. I could take down EVERYTHING with some well placed shots. The only thing I felt ever had a chance at killing me was the patriarch. I even leveled up a few more perks. I was the killing floor king.

Then the Halloween event started. One of the new achievements to unlock the commando chicken was "Beat a long match on Bedlam on hard".

I really wanted that ****ing commando chicken. I knew I had once thought normal impossible, I had since became a 'master', but that didn't mean I thought it was easy, I just thought I was good.

I joined a bedlam match on hard. I died the 2nd wave. I couldn't believe it. The zeds... they moved so much faster. They were overtaking me before I could line up all the head shots. It took quite a few more attempts. We had 2 guys from a clan join and tell us to hold the hallway near the spawn. We made it to wave 10. I had been commando, the perk I felt I had the most mastery of and would be able to contribute with the most on this difficulty. We got to the patriarch and I was introduced to the chainsaw circle strategy. I had no idea if it would work or not, it sounded fishy, but I did as the two clan players instructed and we disposed of him very quickly. I had that commando chicken. I felt accomplished.

My e-peen grew three sizes that day.

But I had enough of hard. It had lived up to its moniker - it WAS hard. I made it my goal to get every perk up to level 6. I did this on normal difficulty. It took a long time. Long enough that by the time I got my last perk, beserker, to level 6. I knew every map inside and out. how many shots took down each specimen. How to get head shots straight from the hip, consistently. Not to shoot scrakes or fleshpounds unless you are going to kill them. Not to put pipes behind welded doors for the patriarch. Little things here and there, little tidbits of knowledge and skill that only come from playing the game. Many hours in, I had every perk to level 6. The game I once deemed an impossible pile of horse**** was now laughably easy. Now what?

Most people would say 'well now you go on to hard, and conquer that, and then suicidal, and then hell on earth'.
I reset my perks back to 0 with some clever file editing to do it all again. I wanted to feel that feeling of desperation again, just clinging on to winning by a hair.

But it wasn't happening. Even with my perks at level 0, I was still dominating. The game was still laughably easy. I knew where to be. I knew where to shoot. I knew what to shoot. I knew what to buy, and when to buy it. The game as a level 0 was not significantly more of a challenge than it was when I was level 6.

I decided to jump to hard. My last foray into hard had been a while ago at this point and now hard did not seem as daunting as it was when I first tried. Even as a level 0, it wasn't impossible, but it was a challenge. I had gotten better at lining up those headshots, I wasn't nervously looking around. I was making calculated shots. Looking where I knew zombies would spawn from. Holding locations I knew to be safe. Playing perks to compensate for my teams weaknesses. It's not your perk level that makes you good at killing floor, it's your mastery of the mechanics.

I had beaten every map on hard. Next I started with suicidal. The jump from hard to suicidal is harder than the jump from suicidal to hell on earth.

Scrakes no longer are instantly decapped or flinch locked with the katana. Fleshpounds have headshot resistances. You don't even come close to out running crawlers, stalkers, or charging gorefasts. The game becomes much less forgiving. You're forced to tighten up your mechanics. You have less time to line up that headshot, that pipe bomb better be out of sirens range, you won't have time to reload when those gorefasts start charging. Sure, strategy and load out were important, it was important before. The challenge now was being able to utilize it all as effectively as possible. It was only a matter of time before I had completed every map on not only suicidal, but hell on earth as well.
And what now? Has the game been beaten?

Not even close.

The curse of challenging yourself to become better is that you become more aware of where your weaknesses are, and I still have many things to improve on.

[snip about experimenting with different loadouts]

So what is there to take away from this long winded rant? I'd say that there is more to this game than appears on the surface as long as you set yourself to the challenge. Have fun exploring those maps. Discovering those kiting routes and safe camp areas. If you find yourself not being challenged, up the difficulty. Disregard your perk level - it takes longer to learn how to play each perk properly than it does to get them to level 6. You will learn the little tidbits of strategy along the way out of necessity and observation, as long as you're open to it. And last but not least, enjoy yourself.

 

[Arblarg]

Well it seems alot of us lost our kf virginity by being raped by clots. Man that's harsh.

Indeed. I no longer feel ashamed to admit it. Clots are tough sh

 

[SkullFinder123]

My first KF experience was on KF-Manor on Beginner (not solo). When the game started I was in a full team, with 2 of the guys being Lvl 6 Zerks. After 10 seconds of running around, everyone went off to do their own thing, then I started seeing Clots moving towards me. I ran inside the manor hoping to find a camping hole only to get slashed up by a Gorefast. On Wave 1...

 

[Kurrus]

I got the game last year during the potato event. Didn't actually pay for it myself, I traded my entire TF2 backpack in exchange for it (more or less thinking "why the hell not") because I was bored with that game.

Loaded Aperture on normal, long game, as commando. Found a bullpup during wave 1, survived it, and bought an AK for the second. Somehow made it to wave 5 or 6, then a scrake showed up and my tactic of shooting things in the face until they died (which had a 100% success rate until then) just didn't prove to be that effective.

The fun thing is, my second game was solo and in one of the 6 core maps and I didn't even get to wave 2.

 

[Amber Glass]

biolabs normal solo, so. many. clots. D:

from that day on i swore i would learn how to play this silly game.

 

[Jario9]

I bought the game back during the a million sales sale, I hosted a game and played on Abusement Park on normal, We died after about 10 zeds...

 

[dvsilverwing]

My first KF experience? La Casa De Muerte or something like that (has anybody made a remake of that yet?). Handcannon was a weapon for the Support perk, and the Hunting Shotgun was arguably the best weapon in the game. Who needs iron sights? Cool people used the Hazmat model.

Oh, and uh, there was a map I sort of barely remember, it was like at the end of each round a new door or curtain would open or something and you progressed a bit further through this big castle thing. Does anybody else remember this map or even better know the name of it and if there's been a remake?

 

[dragon_kid]

My first major experience came around the first of the Summer Sideshows. It was on sale and I had the dosh, so I splurged and got it (I also blame the option of getting some of the character skins for free during Steam's big hoohah). When I first went to multiplayer, my poor Commando was only level 3 perk and we were on... I believe it was Hospital Horror. I spent most the map disoriented and wound up getting owned multiple times, not by clots though. Effin Crawlers, I still hate them to this day. The last wave, I finally had a SKar and was once again disoriented and seperate from the team, and wound up walking right into the meaty hug of a Fleshpound.

Needless to say, I at least didn't feel too bad because everyone else wiped around that time too >_>;

 

[A Civil Engineer]

I had just purchased the KF bundle right after 2011 Christmas. Twas a dark and stormy night on kf-abusementpark. I decided to solo it on normal.
"I so totally got this" I said.
As things played out, I in fact did not totally got this. I was relentlessly killed and eaten by a batch of clots on the first wave. From there on out, I vowed to be the best there ever was at floors.

To this day I still hate abusementpark...and clots.

That funny, because when i first bought the game, I tried the first map on my list on solo for normal difficulty, and it was abusementpark. I didn't know the settings or the controls and I was scared stiff when I was surrounded by those clots. Heck, I felt taken advantage of since I didn't know where they came from, what they were, and what I was suppose to do.


Oh, and when I finally did my first near complete solo run on beginner as a level 1 sharpshooter, I switch to beserker during the patty wave, got me a chainsaw, and ran up to him and hit the main fire key. Needless to say, I felt like Patty was extremely OP and not fair at all.

 

[DarkFalz]

I got the game around Christmas 2009. It was only $5 and I had heard good things about it so I figured what the hell?

Anyway I don't even remember much about my first game. I just remember that it was a normal game on Westlondon.

Though I do remember a couple of other early games on Farm where I would split from the team and camp spawn as a Sharpshooter. Thought I was all that surviving all by myself on normal and blasting the crap out of everything with my Handcannon. Oh how things have changed.

 

[Deleted member 53801]

July 2012

I decided to buy it because it was dirt cheap

I played departed on solo normal, I was raped by clots :C

 

[Tumbs!]

When I first played this game (X-mas 2010, saw it on sale and never actually played before, just some recommendations of friends.
Went and bought it.
I remember playing EvilSantasLair, and said "Hum, there's no crosshair... I like it"
And saw the event-themed clots. Oh my god, it's Christmas!
Aaaaaaand after finishing first wave, didn't knew what was the trader, or where it was. I got lost on the map and then got eaten by Gingerfasts D:

 

[bogospawn]

My first KF experience? La Casa De Muerte or something like that (has anybody made a remake of that yet?). Handcannon was a weapon for the Support perk, and the Hunting Shotgun was arguably the best weapon in the game. Who needs iron sights? Cool people used the Hazmat model.

Oh, and uh, there was a map I sort of barely remember, it was like at the end of each round a new door or curtain would open or something and you progressed a bit further through this big castle thing. Does anybody else remember this map or even better know the name of it and if there's been a remake?

The map you are talking about is KF-oldetower or something like that. It's a mission map.

Anyways, my first KF experience was a free weekend before the lvl up update(maybe it was at the release). I played on farm with a friend and with 4 other guys. It was tons of fun, since me and my friend came from L4D1/2 and found something refreshing that we are still playing to this day.

I remember being killed by sirens, honestly. The team playing was competent but the sirens raped us and we survived until wave 7 I think.

Another thing no one ever seems to mention, when I first bought the game(after the lvl up patch) I had all the stock characters plus 2 characters from outbreak(dj scully and Gary glover). I thought those 2 were free with the disc version, but it turned out to be a bug TWI never fixed. I still have the characters and I am using the hazmat guy up to his day. Another friend also got the disc version with the characters and he mostly uses dj scully. Also, completely off topic, manor will always be my favourite map.

 

[SMIFF]

My first KF experience? La Casa De Muerte or something like that (has anybody made a remake of that yet?).

There's a version for retail KF somewhere

Oh, and uh, there was a map I sort of barely remember, it was like at the end of each round a new door or curtain would open or something and you progressed a bit further through this big castle thing. Does anybody else remember this map or even better know the name of it and if there's been a remake?

KF-Oldetower

 

[Kaly]

I didn't know the settings or the controls and I was scared stiff when I was surrounded by those clots. Heck, I felt taken advantage of since I didn't know where they came from, what they were, and what I was suppose to do.

Another one raped by clots. D: