I love Tripwire and I love Killing Floor. Killing Floor is honestly one of the best solo online experiences I have ever played. What I mean is, I can join a game and for the most part, get things done without having to deal with too much crap from everyone else. That's nearly impossible to do nowadays online with how FPS communities have changed and evolved. I appreciate what you guys do.
There are two big things that hold KF back from being completely perfect for me though. It may just be me, but I hope it isn't.
1. Not being able to see exactly what wave a server is on, or being able to set what wave you would like to join.
This isn't a huge problem, but after 225 hours, joining a game, to see that it is on wave 8, disconnecting instantly and that repeating maybe 3 times before an acceptable game is found, is getting really old now. I've been forced to guestimate approximately how far a game is by the amount of money people have, but with the influx of people from the summer sale, level 6 perks are roaming normal games for some reason. And they cause a definite skew in being able to pinpoint what round the server could be on. Is there ever going to be an honest attempt at rectifying this problem?
2. Port/LAN with friends issues.
My game runs fine with others, but this game seems to go completely dumb when you try and join a game through your friend's list, or even through steam. Sometimes it works (rarely), often times it's "server is not responding" when joining through steam, and joining in game through the friend's tab, a game is not there, regardless of boxes checked below. It's as if the networking for this game is a spoiled child and only wants to work with completely random people online. "OH YOU HAVE FRIENDS TO PLAY WITH MUST BE NICE WELL FORGET THAT I'LL JUST NOT WORK"
Me and my friends both aren't idiots when it comes to networking either. We've changed ports, IPs, fiddled with Mac list allowances, restarted computers, restarted kf, restarted steam. Often then not though, we can get one game in, then it's like the networking for this game dies, and refuses to comply with what you want.
And the LAN is even worse. My network port's always have to be fiddled with every single time, that takes 15 minutes sometimes before the game even hints at wanting to work. Game is up, server is dedicated/listen, no password, other people can join, but the friend next to me literally 5 feet away somehow can't join it. This happens way too much and it's honestly starting to piss me off now. So many nights have been ruined with my friends because of these problems with the networking.
My friend said that the game seems to only run on one port, where multiple other games run on all different types of ports, which is why two steam clients running it or heaven forbid more than two, on the same connection, is why it's so terrible.
Is anyone ever going to attempt to fix this either?
Sorry for the long rant. Also, don't bother asking for router specs, isp specs, etc. We have tried everything and several different connections between friends, all running different modems, routers and isp areas spaced out over 45 to 50 miles. It isn't our networking. It's this games networking. Have their been any honest attempt at fixing this?
There are two big things that hold KF back from being completely perfect for me though. It may just be me, but I hope it isn't.
1. Not being able to see exactly what wave a server is on, or being able to set what wave you would like to join.
This isn't a huge problem, but after 225 hours, joining a game, to see that it is on wave 8, disconnecting instantly and that repeating maybe 3 times before an acceptable game is found, is getting really old now. I've been forced to guestimate approximately how far a game is by the amount of money people have, but with the influx of people from the summer sale, level 6 perks are roaming normal games for some reason. And they cause a definite skew in being able to pinpoint what round the server could be on. Is there ever going to be an honest attempt at rectifying this problem?
2. Port/LAN with friends issues.
My game runs fine with others, but this game seems to go completely dumb when you try and join a game through your friend's list, or even through steam. Sometimes it works (rarely), often times it's "server is not responding" when joining through steam, and joining in game through the friend's tab, a game is not there, regardless of boxes checked below. It's as if the networking for this game is a spoiled child and only wants to work with completely random people online. "OH YOU HAVE FRIENDS TO PLAY WITH MUST BE NICE WELL FORGET THAT I'LL JUST NOT WORK"
Me and my friends both aren't idiots when it comes to networking either. We've changed ports, IPs, fiddled with Mac list allowances, restarted computers, restarted kf, restarted steam. Often then not though, we can get one game in, then it's like the networking for this game dies, and refuses to comply with what you want.
And the LAN is even worse. My network port's always have to be fiddled with every single time, that takes 15 minutes sometimes before the game even hints at wanting to work. Game is up, server is dedicated/listen, no password, other people can join, but the friend next to me literally 5 feet away somehow can't join it. This happens way too much and it's honestly starting to piss me off now. So many nights have been ruined with my friends because of these problems with the networking.
My friend said that the game seems to only run on one port, where multiple other games run on all different types of ports, which is why two steam clients running it or heaven forbid more than two, on the same connection, is why it's so terrible.
Is anyone ever going to attempt to fix this either?
Sorry for the long rant. Also, don't bother asking for router specs, isp specs, etc. We have tried everything and several different connections between friends, all running different modems, routers and isp areas spaced out over 45 to 50 miles. It isn't our networking. It's this games networking. Have their been any honest attempt at fixing this?
