Killing Floor 1-Retail Image Comparison

[N1ck]

I like that rustic appeal of the first KF (takes fork)

Agreed. It looks very dark & gritty, suited to KF's gameplay style and content. A mod for retail KF could be in order for this type of texturing, perhaps? Is there any reason why the dev team changed the visual style?

 

[myles lambert]

The reason, I belive Killing Floor changed its art style is because darkness and gritty textures are normally linked with lazyness, the darkness to mask the uglyness and the grit to add easy details, we would have been slated by reviews if it had gritty textures and was dark in anywhere that didnt have enough detail.

Also that amount of grit is simply unsuitable, the game is only played days after the outbreak, and in general things dont look that ****ed up until atleast 10-15 years of unuse.

Although a new version of the maps with a different style could be interesting

 

[Gregs2k2]

The reason, I belive Killing Floor changed its art style is because darkness and gritty textures are normally linked with lazyness, the darkness to mask the uglyness and the grit to add easy details, we would have been slated by reviews if it had gritty textures and was dark in anywhere that didnt have enough detail.

Also that amount of grit is simply unsuitable, the game is only played days after the outbreak, and in general things dont look that ****ed up until atleast 10-15 years of unuse.

Although a new version of the maps with a different style could be interesting

Having spoken to Alex about it, my take on Version 1's grittyness was both the desired art direction and his/the team's limited technical knowledge at the time. I'd love to see ports of version 1's maps and story mode though.

 

[Raj]

Yeap, it would be fun to have a mod or something for gritty maps,

featuring the England after decades of the outbreak.