Killing Floor 2 fans have a good reason to jump back into the game. Recently, the developer released the Christmas 2022 Update and it brought a lot of new content. Get your friends together and try out the new limited winter event called Polar Distress.
The patch also introduced Crash, a new community map compatible with Survival, Weekly, VS, and Endless game modes. Four new weapons are added as well, and a weekly mode called Perk Roulette is now active.
A small portion of the patch notes is mentioned below.
New Additions and Highlights
- 1 New Community Map
- Crash
- Compatible with Survival, Weekly, VS, and Endless Game Modes.
- An industrial plant where a Horzine cargo train has crashed.
- 1 New Weekly Mode
- Perk Roulette
- Players start with a random perk.
- At the start of Trader Time between waves, a new perk is randomly assigned.
- Zed spawns are modified.
- More dosh per kill is granted.
- Length: 7 waves.
- 4 New Weapons
- HRG Ballistic Bouncer for the Support
- An alternative version of the Mine Reconstructor for the Support perk.
- A tier 3 weapon that charges up rubberized ballistic gel that bludgeons Zeds on impact and bounces rapidly around the environment with high knockdown power.
- Holding down the fire button loads the projectile with more force.
- Trader price is 900 Dosh.
- HRG Medic Missile for the Field Medic
- An alternative version of the RPG-7 for the Field Medic perk.
- A tier 4 rocket launcher whose projectiles create a healing gas explosion on impact.
- Trader price is 1,600 Dosh.
- Zed Eradication Device MKIII for the Demolitionist
- This is a paid DLC weapon. This weapon can be shared amongst players through our weapon-sharing system.
- A tier 5 heavy weapon that fires a continuous stream of energy rounds while launching swarm auto target rockets at set intervals during automatic fire.
- Comes with the same tracking radar as the MKI.
- Trader price is 2,000 Dosh.
- HV Storm Cannon for the Sharpshooter
- This is a paid DLC weapon. This weapon can be shared amongst players through our weapon-sharing system.
- A tier 4 rifle that fires a charged electric shot.
- Headshots spread an electric lightning to other nearby Zeds in domino fashion.
- Trader price is 1,400 Dosh.
Besides new content, Killing Floor 2 Polar Distress Winter Update also brought several QoL and balancing changes, combined with a plethora of bug fixes that made one hell of a patch. You can read more on Steam.
