Chasing the "Hero Shooter" trend - yay or nay?

[Scruffman]

I'm not a fan of this whatsoever - a major part of the appeal of KF1&2 was that you could choose any character and play as any class. "Hero Shooters" limit the amount of freedom a player has and I find being forced to play as a specific person just kills any interest I have. Which is all a huge shame because, so far, many aspects of the game seem like a vast improvement over KF1&2.

[DuckieMcduck]

You can't even mix n match guns lol. Each specialist has their own shop.
Berserker can't use pistols just shurikens

[zen]

Nobody was/is a fan of it

[WhiteLezard]

Rather than copying hero shooters, it's copying Deep Rock Galactic's class system.
Well, if I wanted to play DRG I would play DRG, not Killing Floor.

[Dr. Doctor PHD]

Originally posted by DuckieMcduck:

You can't even mix n match guns lol. Each specialist has their own shop.
Berserker can't use pistols just shurikens

You can buy guns from other classes. I've been running around with a flamethrower as a medic.
On the top of the shop there are toggles for weapons from other classes (or by pressing Q or E while in the shop).

[.:Jj:.]

It brings nothing of value and takes away a sizeable amount of customization and gameplay variety (even if it's surface and cosmetic) and sours the experience for a lot of small groups of people, who happen to not like a certain pairing of a character and class.

The character creator would be awesome, but not perfect as it comes with downsides of its own. Premade characters better be well-written and voice-acted, otherwise, it's a big problem for a game where they're exposed for the entirety of every single game.

[Krezzin]

Welcome to the Generic Floor, you tosspots!

[Khrul]

Female firebug was the lamest choice ever.

[Zargas]

I HATE premade characters in games.
I want to select my own character and then class, that way i can either look or sound the way i want.
Not be stuck with some horrible character due to the class.

Going for premades after 3 games is stupid, its honestly just baffling how backwards it is.

[DuckieMcduck]

Originally posted by Dr. Doctor PHD:

Originally posted by DuckieMcduck:

You can't even mix n match guns lol. Each specialist has their own shop.
Berserker can't use pistols just shurikens

You can buy guns from other classes. I've been running around with a flamethrower as a medic.
On the top of the shop there are toggles for weapons from other classes (or by pressing Q or E while in the shop).

oo nice, thanks for the notice

[Funpire]

Originally posted by Scruffman:

I'm not a fan of this whatsoever - a major part of the appeal of KF1&2 was that you could choose any character and play as any class. "Hero Shooters" limit the amount of freedom a player has and I find being forced to play as a specific person just kills any interest I have. Which is all a huge shame because, so far, many aspects of the game seem like a vast improvement over KF1&2.

They have a fully functioning cash shop in the beta. It's apparent why the hero shooter system was chosen. It's basically like Helldivers, except each character has their own cosmetics. IMO, it was a really bad hill to die on considering it's using a helldiver-esq system. Just let us pick whatever character we wanted with whatever class. Now I have to look at 3 Luna's or 3 fosters, etc. every game.

[Kayfabe Games YT]

Nay.

[Jam]

Originally posted by DuckieMcduck:

You can't even mix n match guns lol. Each specialist has their own shop.
Berserker can't use pistols just shurikens

You can mix and match guns. There's nothing stopping you from buying any gun from any other list. Your character upgrades also don't actually effect that particular gun line so it doesn't seem to even be suboptimal to cross-perk.

[eXpx]

nay

[Vetr]

Not a fan of it. I agree with many posting above that part of the charm of kf was picking who I wanted to play as and do what I wanted to do. I am hoping it's just a beta test thing to them locked.

[ihazcarrot™]

Yup, it stinks of back 4 blood generic character vibes.