I really wish there was an IdiotFilter mutator for servers instead of NoobFilter.
We do too, but in lieu of that, we went with minimal level restrictions that we felt were appropriate. Preferably we'd just ask a simple question like, "Can you stun lock a scrake with a Katana on normal difficulty from the front?" It would keep most idiots out.
Scrakes can never be stunned by a katana except with backstabs, which are usually a waste of time to go for anyway unless you have a cooperative partner taking agro.
Well that's just wrong. A scrake can be stun locked by a katana from the front on Hard - Beginner depending upon perk level. Here, from the kf-wiki:
A tactic often used by berserkers playing on lower difficulty levels would be to repeatedly flinch a scrake using a katana, preventing the scrake from retaliating. However, this tactic cannot be used on Suicidal difficulty and above, since scrakes can only be flinched by a melee weapon once on that difficulty
I encourage you to take it into a test map and try it yourself. I also encourage you to read the wiki.
None of the MLG leggit pr0 combos in Killing Floor take more than 10 minutes to learn how they work if someone is teaching you, after that it's just a bit of practice to master.
And mastering them is the trick. Mastering them in the midst of a level, not on a testmap. Perk levels are gained via experience as is mastery of the combos.
Alt. accounts, you can try to say they're uncommon but I know a lot of people who use them including myself.
There are exceptions to the rule. Fortunately most experienced players who do such things as alt accounts own their own servers.
Even if someone isn't on an alt and are inexperienced they can learn, help new players don't shun them.
I don't, I frequent my own Beginner, Normal, and Hard servers and play with teams of complete new guys, especially during the free week. I help them with ideas and dosh. I tell them to friend me on steam if they have any questions.
Low levels in a team on HoE don't have to be a detriment if they'll intelligent enough to listen to experienced players. I've had level 1 medics join midway in the past and be level 3 or higher by the end of the game because they did their job and took advice from us / stayed with us to stay alive.
That's an exception to the rule. Most of the time people who aren't ready join HoE servers, get killed, and rage quit. Either that or they get vote kicked.
You found a group of skilled players who knew each other, knew weapons, and who coordinated well. One of whom is karsey. They were also on a personal server where people weren't joining and quitting. They all knew what to do in cases of FPs and Scrakes. You have shown the exception to the rule.
The low difficulties are for learning anyway.
Right, so that's why I go on and help they learn on a daily basis. I care about building the community. That's also why I want to sponsor a cash prize for a community map making contest using the new objective mode. However, imagine the headaches I'm going to get for that if I'm getting this for simply posting servers with minimally restrictive rules. BTW, the suicidal level cap was originally three, it was changed to 4 after speaking to people who frequented the server and listening to community input by people playing the game.
I'm assuming you mean kiting it as a Berserker, and I'm also assuming level 6 since you have almost 1,000 hours playtime if the "Fox Reinhold" I see on Steam is you. .......I can't see a level 6 Berserker dying on Hard unless they did it to themselves getting swarmed for being bad all on their own.....
That is me, creeper. Being as you didn't even know about stun locking a scrake on the lower difficulties with a katana, an extremely basic move, I'm going to go ahead and assume you don't play Beserker. Which is fine. However, a raged FP on Hard is still a threat even to a level 6 beserker, particularly if your teammates keep raging it while your trying to kite it. Level 2 on Hard is not much to ask for and shows a basic amount of experience which we felt appropriate.