Shooting at big zeds with trash-killing weapons Shooting at a scrake and causing it to rage while your teammates are already fighting other big zeds Below are some examples of dumb aggression vs. Playing aggressive doesn't mean unload whatever you are holding into whatever zed you see at all times.

This being said, you need to be smart about it. It is especially true on higher difficulties. The less time you are fighting a big zed, the less damage it can do to the team. I am here to say: do not be afraid to attack big zeds. If you would have held your ground and continued firing, the FP would be dead already. Now the FP is hunting down one teammate, no one is shooting it anymore, and everyone is running every which way. Everyone gets scared and the team scatters. Everyone is shooting it, but then the FP does big damage or even kills a player. The next thing you know, that teammate is running away and the entire defense structure of the team has collapsed.Īnother example that I see way too often: a fleshpound begins to overrun the team. Often, from a direction they are not even paying attention to because it was being covered. A scrake walks into the room and a player backs away, often letting the zed infiltrate an area that another teammate is defending. Too often, I see players who are afraid to take on big zeds like Scrake and Fleshpound because they cannot kill them on their own.

This has bothered me since the days of Killing Floor 1: people playing like they are afraid, and costing the match for their team.

Killing floor 2 scrake