[PSA] Power Leveling Doesn't Make You A Better Player...

[RuMan]

Since the hard achievements are all locked me and my girl are trying to get the Suicidal achievements and we can't ... not because we can't play ... believe me we are decent players and we know the game very well ... the main reason are those power levelers. Any single game we try to beat we have about 3 or 4 people joining at 6 or 7 or 8 wave ... begging for money ... then dieing and then quitting leaving us with a ****load of specimens spawned from everywhere ... and when we try to kick them no one is voting (???) ... it is so hard to find a good team to play on harder dificulties on servers where there are no people joining at late waves just to die and leave the game.

I must have been really lucky to get into a game with other decent players and to get some HoE achievements like Icebreaker and Abusement park but that was a long time ago ... now I don't even want to start playing HoE ... on Hard at least I can survive any wave on my own so any noobs and powerlevelers can't piss me off ... except when they wield doors that they aren't supposed to ... I think that the "wield the bloody doors" message should be substituted with "Don't wield the bloody doors, stupid!" ...

 

[2Clicks]

Power levelling = meh!

 

[SkullFinder123]

Since the hard achievements are all locked me and my girl are trying to get the Suicidal achievements and we can't ... not because we can't play ... believe me we are decent players and we know the game very well ... the main reason are those power levelers. Any single game we try to beat we have about 3 or 4 people joining at 6 or 7 or 8 wave ... begging for money ... then dieing and then quitting leaving us with a ****load of specimens spawned from everywhere

Lol. no matter what difficulty you play, there will always be boosters, noobs, and trolls.

... and when we try to kick them no one is voting (???)

Really wish more people knew how to kick, seems like 80% of all the pubs I have seen didn't even know you could press k to open the kickmenu o.o

... it is so hard to find a good team to play on harder dificulties on servers where there are no people joining at late waves just to die and leave the game.

Feeling is mutual

except when they wield doors that they aren't supposed to ... I think that the "wield the bloody doors" message should be substituted with "Don't wield the bloody doors, stupid!" ...

Or, you could just create a bind for that. For example, type into the console this:

set input j say Don't weld the bloody doors!

 

[Hades+]

Since the hard achievements are all locked me and my girl are trying to get the Suicidal achievements and we can't ... not because we can't play ... believe me we are decent players and we know the game very well ...

Maybe hosting your own password-protected game? Only invite your friends you know can play well. Me and my friends are playing mainly suicidal nowadays. It's plenty of fun and not that serious as HoE games usually are. If you want just add me as your steam friend: http://steamcommunity.com/id/hadesplus

We have our own dedicated KF server which we fire up around 3 times a week.

 

[silverlighted]

lol you can allways tell when someone has power leveled, especially if he is lvl 6 playing on normal ...

That's a bit unfair. I'm 500 headshots away from lv6 sharp...and I haven't powered leveled. I still play on normal cause I'm not that good at the game =P

 

[Sintaxx]

lol you can allways tell when someone has power leveled, especially if he is lvl 6 playing on normal ...

I'm level six in all of my perks, and I've mostly played on hard or normal. Not because OMG I GREINDED MY PURKS LUL, because I feel like relaxing, as others have stated. Not to mention friends of mine are still getting the game even today and are wanting me to play with them.


It wouldn't be very nice of me to tell my friends I won't play with them because I'm level six, and that people who are level six ONLY play on Hell on Earth, right?

 

[Gregs2k2]

That's because you're a noob.
Zeds on normal can barely move. Normal was too easy for me even the same day i started. And why would you help to someone? This is not a game you can help to someone. If you kills zeds for some noob and help him finish the wave and map that doesnt make him a better player, you're not helping him, you're making him even bigger noob.
And normal diffi is so easy that even my cat can beat it with machete.

Oh bully for you and your cat's leet machete skillz.

Just because somebody has legitimately peaked on their perks doesn't make them a noob because they sometimes prefer to play on lower skill settings. I rarely play below suicidal these days but I'll gladly play with lower perked players on a lower skill levels, to help them out. I've often set my server to normal/hard for friends/new people who want to learn the game.

 

[Escadin]

To be honest I powerleveld commando and supporter because I never cared to level them up the honest way. The problem here is just that I never felt my the team could need a supporter more than me as the usual SS or demo and I didn't want to hear about normal or hard mode after 300h played anymore xD

Eventually I thought to myself well **** it! you got enough perk progress on your sharpshooter alone to level up half of the perks to 6. You deserve it.
Not that a commando is hard to play if you can just aim and use semi fire most of the time you're already better than 80% of pub randoms -apparently.
Supporter is a bit tougher so I kind of focused on playing it since then (starting at lvl 6 but just to keep up with my usual difficulty mode). It's still not my strongest perk but it probably wouldn't be much better if I had level it "legally".

The most annoying powerlevelers are those who play lvl 6 bers and sharpshooter. If you're one of those SS who never kills or even hits a single scrake go ** yourself.
Berseker is the hardest perk to play properly imho. The timing for each weapon to avoid being hit (especially by crawlers) is cruicial and requires alot of practice. Don't powerlvl berserker pls. You need that time playing it.

All other perks can only suffer from bad aim, needless panic, bad loadouts and unawarness of the situation or your job. This is more a general lack of survival shooter skill than powerlvling. You can basically train this even playing other games than KF so I don't see what speaks against powerleveling these as long as you're a decent player.

 

[Johnnymode]

Power leveling doesn't make you better player, but it wont stop newfriends from trying.

Personally, i hate that whitelist is gone, but its for the good of community and modders.
What WE can do, as long-time Killing Floor players, is to teach them. Not to be Elitistic inbred community, like some games have.

Iam very pleased with the community we have built withing KF, and few powerleveling jerks wont change the fact that the forum houses the main core of the community on KF.

 

[silverlighted]

That's a bit unfair. I'm 500 headshots away from lv6 sharp...and I haven't powered leveled. I still play on normal cause I'm not that good at the game =P

Speaking of this...I think I was being mocked for being a power leveler cause I started as a sharp lv6, then switched to commando lv0 (then shortly, lv1), and was asking all sorts of questions like "can i take on a scrake with my bullpup" and stuff like that. But I'm just nooby, not a cheater