Firebug perk not leveling

[Tremolo]

Hi, I downloaded Killing Floor a few days ago and its been great. But I recently noticed that no matter what map I train at whenever I try to level my Firebug perk no matter how many things I kill it still says 0 damage inflicted with Flamethrower.

I also can only go to the Profile and Achievement page once every game, and about half the time when I try to select a perk I get "Unknown steam error prevented access to this"

Could anyone help me with my problem? Any help is appreciated

 

[Morello]

You probably have a specimen mutator on. Remove it and your perks should progress. If not then Steam is having a problem communicating with the servers where your stats are kept.

 

[Olivier]

Also, make sure the map you are playing on is whitelisted!

 

[Tremolo]

I was playing at Farm with Bloated. So I cant level it if I have a Specimen mutator on? I was playing multiplayer at a Doom2 map and the perk started progressing

 

[Undedd Jester]

I was playing at Farm with Bloated. So I cant level it if I have a Specimen mutator on? I was playing multiplayer at a Doom2 map and the perk started progressing

Yeah recently the specimen speicific mutators were removed from the whitelist

Sadly the mutators were extremely popular not because they were a challenge, but because most people could cheat their way up to higher levels by exploiting. They would typically play in maps where certain types of specimen posed little or no threat and would grind their perks up alot faster than legitimate players.

TWI and KEPT make sure maps aren't made to give players this unfair advantage, but we found alot of maps were being dewhitelisted because using these mutators made them alot easier to exploit. This isn't fair on genuine mappers who worked hard to make their map exploit free and would have recieved a pass otherwise...

So they had to be removed I'm sad to say.

Play in regular games of KF though, you'd be surprised how quickly your perk goes up, and cause you are in constant practise you will also get alot better using that class too.

This link might help you http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=43503