Once in a while this question is brought up on “Killing Floor 2” related internet boards. “Steam” reports that we have many KF2 players online, typically thousands or even 10K+ playing it concurrently. But do we really have as many players in KF2 as Steam reports we do? Valve Corporation’s “Steam” is a digital video…
Author: CC
Quantifying the KF2 recoil & rate of fire & reloads on FPS dependency
There’s a computer game available for rent in Steam and Epic game stores called “Killing Floor 2” (based on Unreal Engine 3), or KF2 for short. It’s a game in the “Killing Floor” franchise and it was developed by Alex Quick and John Gibson, with some help from “Tripwire Interactive LLC” or “Tripwire Interactive, Inc.”…
Killing Floor 2 (or any Unreal Engine 3) dedicated server on RedHat/CentOS/Rocky/Alma Linux DDoS defense with the help of iptables/firewalld
An important update to this post from 7/3/2024 is that it’s here mostly for historical reasons, because the DDoS had ceased in the end of February 2024. None of my servers or other KF2 server hosters I keep in touch with experience it anymore. My speculation is that a good share of the server hosters…
Reverse engineering and homogenizing KF2 fleshpounds
This longread pertains to analyzing a particular monster in a PvE game Killing Floor 2 and expands on some game design principles. I’ve written the bulk of this post back in 2019 and shared among the group of CD players I’ve played with back then. The goal of this post was to analyze such a…
Tamari’s servers: the cyberattacks against competitors
Hello again, I’m Carl, I’m a player in the “Killing Floor 2” game, a “Controlled Difficulty” mod player, a KF2 modder, and a KF2 server hoster. This is the third and the last installment of the biggest drama of all times in the KF2 community history. It’s a great noir style detective & crime story,…
Tamari’s servers: the petty tyranny
“I typically like to keep these type of ordeals private” – Tamari on how he bans players This is the 2nd part of the biggest drama of all times in the KF2 community history that covers the bans on Tamari’s servers as well as his community building principles and practice. Although arguably these bans aren’t…
Tamari’s servers: the stolen code profiteering
“Good luck finding any Forrest code that was stolen” – a prominent member of the KF2 community Hey everyone, I’m Carl, I’m a player in the “Killing Floor 2” game, a “Controlled Difficulty” mod player, a KF2 modder, and a KF2 server hoster. Here I’m going to try my luck at finding the stolen code…