Everyone, The Killing Floor Free Weekend is now live and will be running from now until Sunday at 1PM PST. Additionally the Twisted Christmas event is also on now and will be running until January 4th.
With the KF free weekend on I have a couple of requests for the server admin community. First, if anyone has any spare hardware could you please put up some extra Killing Floor servers? We expect a fairly large influx of players during this free weekend (the last free weekend we ran for KF had player counts peaking over 24,000) on top of the large influx of players already playing Twisted Christmas. Second, could you all please set up a decent amount of your servers (30-50%) running the game on Normal difficulty. Since there will be a large influx of new players, it would be best if they got to try the game out on the Normal difficulty first, has Hard and above are designed for more experienced players. Additionally I would suggest medium game length for these servers, so the new player get to experience a fight all the way to the final boss without having to play for an hour. If you could please try and avoid using lots of mutators/custom content on these servers, as new players tend to get turned off if they have to download a bunch of new content. For maps, if you want people to get the Twisted Christmas experience I would suggest running the maps Ice Cave and Evil Santas Lair. These two maps are Christmas themed, and also allow players to get the map achievements they need to unlock the special Baddest Santa KF Character during the event. I would also request that some of you please maintain servers running all of the standard maps, so that the new players can also experience the range of gameplay that exists in KF. Thanks you all in advance for your assistance. With you're help we'll give the community an awesome Free Weekend/Twisted Christmas experience! Regards, John Gibson President Tripwire Interactive
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