Unlike most other games that add or feature a micro-transaction market, KF2 is not a full released product, still sitting in the nebulous release window of Early Access.

Co-op game – everyone starts out equal! Our goal is for any such weapons to be side grades anyway, so they won’t provide an edge over the current tier of weapon power.” -via Destructoidįan reaction, regardless, has been overwhelmingly negative, and rightly so. This means that, if any player on the server has a weapon (like the Chivalry Zweihander now), then every player on the server will be able to use it. In the future we may be adding weapons with new gameplay for sale, but this will appear in the “Shared Content” area on the server. All of the content added in Trading Floor at launch will be cosmetic only and not affect gameplay in any way. “Q: Will I have to spend money to remain competitive?Ī: No. Tripwire VP Alan Wilson has been quoted KF2’s Trading Floor Update Players can spend real-world money to unlock these skins, or hope to unlock skins via drops in-game.īefore we delve any further, I do want to stress the point, and Tripwire and their supporters, are eager to do this as well: the paid content is purely cosmetic, and does not affect the gameplay at any point.

Not only did Tripwire completely drop the ball with KF2, but with it’s most recent update they may have just signed it’s death sentence.įor those not in the know, probably a lot given KF2‘s relatively low playerbase and sales reports, KF2‘s most recent update, the Trading Floor Zedconomy update, added in, among other small updates, a new micro-transaction marketplace for cosmetic weapon and character skins. I knew the risks, but surely a well reviewed publisher like Tripwire could do what so many indie developers, or over-hyped Kickstarters fail to do right? Maybe this was going to be one of the few Early Access success stories we always hope for?Īs it turns out, no, not quite. It was because of this that I took a risk and purchased Killing Floor 2 for early access.

Red Orchestra remains one of the most interesting multiplayer shooters I’ve ever played, and Killing Floor is an excellent alternative to Left 4 Dead in terms of pure, unabashed zombie slaying. There was a time where I admired Tripwire Interactive.

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