Killing Floor 3 News

Killing Floor 3: The Start Of A Journey And The Year 1 Roadmap

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[/p][p]The release of Killing Floor 3 is just a day away and we couldn’t be more excited! Fans of Killing Floor and other Tripwire games know that launch is just the beginning, and tomorrow is no different. Introducing the Killing Floor 3 Year 1 Roadmap:[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]New free content including maps, weapons (and their mods), challenges (enemies and difficulties), and a new perk and specialist are headed your way![/p][p][/p][p]Starting with the Rearmament Update players can look forward to several new tools of the trade joining their arsenal:[/p]

[p]M14 EBR Mod 0 (with 4 new mods)[/p]
[p]MKR-350 Assault Rifle (with 4 new mods)[/p]
[p]Streik Dual Defender Shotgun (with 3 new mods)[/p]

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[/p][p]Along with these new additions, players can expect the perk and specialist decoupling work to be completed, allowing the choice of any specialist to be any perk, and several major quality of life improvements based on player feedback.[/p][p][/p][p]We’ll be sharing more details and sneak peaks at many of these items as we get closer to them landing in player hands.[/p][p][/p][p]Looking into the more immediate future, players can expect a series of hotfixes in the days and weeks ahead as we work to address items that have shown up in the stress tests as well as new items that come up around launch. One of those key items is performance on many systems.[/p][p][/p][p]Currently the game is fairly CPU bound and that will be many systems performance bottleneck. The team has been working to optimize various systems as well as figuring out the cause of performance spikes and hammering them down. In the meantime, we do have several performance improvement suggestions available on the KF 3 Support Site.[/p][p][/p][p]We look forward to seeing you on the Killing Floor, now let’s go slay some Zeds![/p]

Brutal FPS Killing Floor 3 offers one last chance to play for free before launch

Tripwire Interactive certainly likes to keep its testers on their toes. It also seems to love doing things in threes. The Killing Floor 3 developer has announced that its third and final stress test will be dropping for a hot second, as the studio looks to gobble up as much data as possible for those final pre-launch fixes.

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Killing Floor 3 Tuesday Stress Test Details

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[/p][p]With the reports we have gathered from this past week's test,we have been working on addressing several key items including:[/p]

[p]Improved Client and Server Stability resolving a crash related to blood and gore[/p]
[p]Improving late wave blood splatter performance (a major contributor to frame spikes)[/p]
[p]Optimized foliage rendering[/p]
[p]Reduced Shader permutations to speed load and lower memory use[/p]
[p]Fixed player auth issues encountered during the previous stress tests[/p]
[p]Fixed several issues players experienced when trying to form a party and matchmaking[/p]
[p]Players are now prevented from being matchmade in during the boss wave or after action report, players that join via invite should no longer end up in a broken state[/p]
[p]Adjusted several PC options that were defaulting to incorrect values which could result in input lag on some hardware configurations. Some of these do not yet have player facing controls.[/p]
- [p]Mouse Smoothing (now off by default)[/p]
- [p]Vysnc (now off by default and can be turned back on by the player)[/p]
- [p]FSR Frame Generation (now off by default), FSR Super Sampling remains available[/p]

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[/p][p]Stress Test Details:[/p][p]Day: Tuesday, July 22nd[/p][p]Times: 12 PM to 10 PM EDT (-4 UTC)[/p][p]Participants:[/p]

[p]Steam: Those who had previously requested access to the Stress Test retain access and new applicants can apply by: Visiting the KF 3 steam page to request access[/p]
[p]Playstation 5 and Xbox Series: Those who had previously signed up and been granted a key to the previous Closed Beta test in February[/p]

[p][/p][p]Regarding Stress Test NDA[/p][p]While we're unable to update the build to remove the message, we've made the decision to not enforce the NDA for this next playtest session. So please stream and share to your heart's content![/p][p]
[/p][p]Special Notes:[/p][p]Killing Floor 3 performance and stability work remains of high importance and is something the team will be continuing to address and work on along with other critical fixes that we hope to deploy in a hotfix post launch.[/p][p]
[/p][p]We are also continuing to action player feedback that did not fit into our current launch window which includes:[/p]

[p]Nightfall Specialists (characters) being able to pick any Perk[/p]
[p]Enhanced and Refined Third Person Animations for character movement and weapon handling[/p]
[p]Making Text Chat available for in server communication[/p]

[p]We’ll be sharing more details and our post launch roadmap in the days ahead.[/p][p]
[/p][p]Known Issues:[/p][p]There are also a few known issues that the team is already aware of and working to resolve in our launch window (which could be post launch). These items can be found on our Support Site here:[/p][p] https://support.killingfloor3.com/en/knowledgebase/article/known-issues[/p][p][/p][p]
We have also added new articles to help players who are experiencing other issues, such as around performance or input lag.[/p]

Killing Floor 3 Release Time and Preload Information

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Killing Floor 3 Launch Trailer

[p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]The Battle Begins at Nightfall.[/p][p][/p][p]It's 2091. Join up with Nightfall, the last line of defense against megacorp Horzine's inhuman army of monstrous zeds. The future is in your hands… if you can survive long enough to reach it.[/p]