"prestige" perks up to level 10?

[timur]

Lets see....here are my rude estimations of the pek requirements for level 10 for each. These are actually severely under what the actual requirments would likely be, but Im too tird for accuracy

Medic: 25,600,000 (aka 25,600K)
Sharpie: 60K headshots
Support:46,500,000 Damage 550,000 Welding
Firebug 46,500,000 Damage
Demo: 46,500,000 Damage
Commando: around 11K stalkers killed 46,500,000 Damage
Zerker: 46,500,000 Damage


This is totally based on acheivement data at the wiki and a few faulty, often underwhelming calculations. This is just a kind of hint for exactly what being level 10 would mean. And that is: you were born with a copy of KF in your hand, and continued to play this game for all of your life nonstop.

Only the :IS2: will ever have all level 10 perks with no cheating.
For more totally unbased and useless math stuff, check the spoiler.

Spoiler!

As for if you took that reoccuring damage statistic and applied it to clots:
It is equal to 357,692.307 clots on normal without any team assisstance for one perk.
Why I just did that calcualtion, I have no clue.

Taking that further, if you wanted to, you would murder a sizable population equavalent to a town/small city to get level 10 in one perk. Totally alone.
Of course, the :IS2:has all level 10 perks. Therefore the :IS2: would have at least killed the equivalent to 1,788,461.535 for the damage alone.
Add the non-damage SS and stalkers and you get 1,859,461.535 dead. At the very least. nearly 2 million zeds grazed down by the rear-mounted machine gun!

And yes, I was bored when I posted this.

 

[Honda]

I like that idea very much!!

It would be a nice incentive, and it would be very easy to implement, wouldn't it?!?

 

[Foxyfired]

And why not 11 levels?
Just for the icon of the perk. You have a red icon from lv0 to lv5, a gold icon from lv6 to lv10 then you will have an unique icon for the lv11 like a diamond's icon or something else.

 

[HaTeMe]

Ive always thought it would be great having more levels but with very minimal rewards that would be worth getting but wouldnt affect the gameplay.

They could, for example, give graphical rewards, such as reskinned weapons or clothing for the characters. Theres already a lot of custom community made skins so why not use them? Some of them are excellent quality too.

See here: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=42074&highlight=skins

EDIT: Ah timur already suggested something like this. But yeah, I agree with it.

 

[Zeron]

Meh, i don't care if people know i have a lack of life. Life is what you make of it, whether you spend all day at a job as a workaholic or spend all day playing games as a gamer. It's still your "life" so make what you want out of it.

 

[Olivier]

Meh, i don't care if people know i have a lack of life. Life is what you make of it, whether you spend all day at a job as a workaholic or spend all day playing games as a gamer. It's still your "life" so make what you want out of it.

What if you work and play at the same time like i do

 

[timur]

And why not 11 levels?
Just for the icon of the perk. You have a red icon from lv0 to lv5, a gold icon from lv6 to lv10 then you will have an unique icon for the lv11 like a diamond's icon or something else.

And when you join a server it would say: All hail the incoming lord of guns!

 

[CandleJack]

And why not 11 levels?
Just for the icon of the perk. You have a red icon from lv0 to lv5, a gold icon from lv6 to lv10 then you will have an unique icon for the lv11 like a diamond's icon or something else.

All perks level 10, you unlock a diamond L11 perk and all gold guns and your character gets a gold crown.

Everyone can see this; along with your perk damage and welding/healing/stalker kills upon pressing tab for the leaderboard.

 

[lawszepie]

Its a great idea and just discuss about the skin stuff!
I really like to see tripwire add this stuff!

 

[Undedd Jester]

Medic: 25,600,000 (aka 25,600K)
Sharpie: 60K headshots
Support:46,500,000 Damage 550,000 Welding
Firebug 46,500,000 Damage
Demo: 46,500,000 Damage
Commando: around 11K stalkers killed 46,500,000 Damage
Zerker: 46,500,000 Damage

Yeah thats the values I got from looking at the trends of perk requirements.

Its kinda why Level 10 to me is a bad idea. I've played about 500 hours of Killing Floor, which is alot for any game. Even so my 2 top perks that I play most (Medic and Firebug) are like 320k and 11.8 Million respectively.

The time it would take me to reach these levels (because I would really want to do it for both) would be ages for the Firebug and never for the Medic. I mean we all ahve to go to work right? Having such a high level would just frustrate me and put me off the game. Its one of the main reasons I hate WoW.

I see no harm in making that Elite perk I mentioned at full bar, which is basically 2x the current requirement for 6. I might stretch to say Elite at 4x that value (Which is 400k for the medic and 22 Million for Damage perks) but values higher than that would just totally bore me and put me off the game.

 

[EonSeig]

No to completely pointless cosmetic grinding that no one will ever accomplish.

 

[sverek]

I would image people cheating just to reach level 10 and present their huge fake balls over internet.

Awesome idea though, I have earned 52203 headshots over 481 hours of playing. So yeah I guess I would love to have it.

 

[=Evanz=]

meh im happy with my gold lv 6 perks took me 500+ to get them all dont wana have to keep going at it . It feels like i have reached the ultimate elite in kf already if i came into server and found some dude with a extra gold star i will loose my elite feeling and cry in a corner on my own somewhere

 

[timur]

I would image people cheating just to reach level 10 and present their huge fake balls over internet.

Awesome idea though, I have earned 52203 headshots over 481 hours of playing. So yeah I guess I would love to have it.

Id love to see that conversation:
Player1:"Look at my all level 11 perks!"
Player 2:"Awesome.....but wait you only have 50 hours? WTF?"
Player 1 has left the game

 

[Spicy]

I don't mind.

Ideally there could also be purely cosmetic customizations (black Mp7, midnight blue LAR with mahogany stock, hot pink Hello Kitty chainsaw) but I think I'm just being silly at this point.

Hello Kitty Pipe-bombs?

 

[timur]

Hello Kitty Pipe-bombs?

I would prefer musical pipebombs

 

[Spicy]

I would prefer musical pipebombs

AC/DC's TNT? D:

 

[timur]

AC/DC's TNT? D:

lol
Thats the thing; the higher the prestige perk, the better the music

 

[Ionik1974]

Waiting for this change since i saw the gold symbol with only one star available. More stars would be very cool and easy to program.

Pls realise this idea!

 

[Undedd Jester]

Waiting for this change since i saw the gold symbol with only one star available. More stars would be very cool and easy to program.

Pls realise this idea!

Nah I personally would get really narked with it. Reminds me too much of WoW. I'd have to really fight the urge to start grinding my perks myself to reach it. But more likely I'd just give up and stop playing.

Like Fifa 11, because I won't get the accomplishmnts I need for the unlocks I want any time soon, the idea of playing the game just irritates me.

Daft I know, but mindless grinding just turns me off of games, no matter how good they are. Fallout 3 being a key example. I just got bored only being able to fight stuff that is tiny, and wound up getting owned by anything that posed a credible threat.

But hey thats just me.