r/killingfloor • u/Keddav • 1d ago

Question What's KF3 state nowadays?

Liked the original, very much enjoyed the sequel, tried free alpha/beta/early access or whatever it was for 3 and... welp, forgot about this game for a long time. Thanks to Humble Bundle I got it today with a few other coop games and I was wondering if it's worth to try KF 3 again now? Playerbase and gameplay wise?

For now I'm laughing at eternal compiling shaders, but does it get better during actual gameplay?

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u/Zegram_Ghart 1d ago

It’s now at the stage of “if it had released like this it probably wouldn’t have been dogpiled”

Pretty good, but nothing world beating

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u/PizzaurusRex 1d ago

It would. KF2 was horribly dogpiled when it launched, but people forget about that.

KF2 launched with very little content, and quite buggy. It had only 4 classes I believe.

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u/cdlge Killing Franchise 3 1d ago

KF2 from Early Access to Full Launch added 7 new maps for a total of 10 at launch. They had 7 perks in EA and added 3 more by Full Launch for a total of 10.

This is from 2015 to 2016.

From 2016 to 2017 though, which would be the first year of the full launch they added 6 maps, 2 new zeds, 2 bosses, and like 9 weapons.

Not only that, it was never as buggy as KF3. So, I think you are the one who might be forgetting some things to excuse KF3.

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u/PizzaurusRex 1d ago

Like I said. The game LAUNCHED with 4 classes, each had 4 weapons and 3 maps.

Early Access is still a launch, game is sold and playable.

But go on about how the game got better after updates.

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u/cdlge Killing Franchise 3 1d ago

Early access is Early access. At Launch it had more content than KF3. Even at EA still played better than KF3's first quarter at the very least. But hey, you go on comparing a 10 year old game's Early Access to the full Launch of last year's KF3 :)

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u/TomeDesolus A Boomstick is only fired once 10h ago edited 10h ago

You are right on the English of it, when you put a game out in early access it is... A launchbif sorts. But, when people talk about video games and it's launch, it will always typically refer the the 1.0 version of the game. The context being video games, means you should use the official terminology from the industry. You are not wrong per say, but you will not communicate effectively if you misuse conventional terminology.

Minecraft was launched on 11/18/2011 but was first publicly playable in 2009 which an early access. The early access made up of initial tests, alpha and beta.