There's also a second new map, Endless Lockdown, created by the community.
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A lot of fuss for very little reward, but when you've already played the game to death, I suppose it looks tempting.
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Less important (but I suppose fun for the super-veteran players) is a Call of Duty-inspired prestige system, whereby you can reset your persistent level back to scratch in order to claim special weapon skins. My brother swears by the Static Striker gauntlets, though. While you can see them all in the trailer above, the most exciting has to be the Support class' Doomstick, a quad-barreled shotgun, because there's really no such thing as 'too much buckshot' when you're dealing with the undead. There's some fun new weapons added to the pool of upgradeable hardware, with four new additions. This should greatly increase the variety of guns seen in the field. While previously you picked a weapon and then upgraded in fairly linear style from one gun to the next until you hit your best-in-slot gear for your class, now you can pick a favourite gun and spend your hard-earned blood money on tweaking and tuning it all the way up to the end of the match. The other big deal here is a major new gameplay feature. Rather than just being a horde/survival style deal, it's an objective-based mission with players moving from point to point, locking down areas and completing jobs around the airship to keep it aloft and slightly less overrun by zombie clowns, mutant monsters and a bunch of angry retro-styled robots until it can make a safe landing at its secret island hideout.
KILLING FLOOR 2 PRESTIGE UPDATE
The headlining addition of the Treacherous Skies update is the Airship map, following on from last year's Tragic Kingdom summer circus map. Oh, and Claudia Black voices a playable character now.
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Maybe it's the ridiculous steampunk hats and vengeful zombie clowns that gave it away? Either way, the game just launched its big summer event, and it's bringing a lot of chunky new (and entirely free) content to the game, including a steampunk airship map which plays host to an all-new game mode. For all its gore-drenched mayhem, I'm starting to think that Tripwire's co-op FPS Killing Floor 2 might not be the most serious of games.