Killing Floor 2’s Gary “Badass Santa” Busey is dangerous on your elf

Co-op zombie splatterfest Killing Floor 2 does pretty seasonal occasions. Sometimes it’s a bizarre steampunk airship journey, typically Santa is battling the Krampus to the demise. For this festive Seasons Beatings replace – reside now – Santa has been ousted from his north pole workshop by his demonic nemesis, and is returning for some chilly vengeance. Old Saint Nick can also be voiced by Gary Busey for some reason- no, I don’t know why, ask Tripwire Interactive. Check out the nonsense, the brand new story-mission map, the bundle of recent weaponry and the person himself within the video under.

While Gary Busey’s Santa is a playable character on this new replace, he’s a paid merchandise. Those on this to take heed to his, err, dulcet tones gained’t be dissatisfied, as he’s additionally taking part in the function of the dealer in-between rounds of elf-slaughter. All the monsters are, after all, festively themed for the occasion – gingerbread males, nutcrackers, toy robots gone evil. I respect the studio’s dedication, actually, and it’s the sort of silliness that retains individuals round. The game has been particularly nicely populated since October, so discovering a six-player crew ought to by no means take various seconds.

The new map is an objective-based, story-driven factor, extra structured than the standard Killing Floor 2 horde mode, and a second, community-made vacation mall map is included too. There’s a bunch of recent weapons, together with a Thompson SMG, M32 rotary grenade launcher (coming back from Killing Floor 1), and a pair of axes. Players who additionally personal enjoyable Road Rash-alike Road Redemption may also get the spiked baseball bat pictured up high. There’s a bunch of recent beauty goodies to be earned or purchased throughout the occasion too, as a result of vacation extra needs to be a year-round factor.

New content material apart, Tripwire might not have dropped loot crates from Killing Floor 2’s drip-feed of beauty goodies, however they’ve made one main optimistic change to it in latest updates: Crates gained’t include duplicate objects anymore. Not splendid, however it does at the very least get you nearer to the objects you need with every roll of the cube.

The Seasons Beatings occasion is reside now in Killing Floor 2, which can also be 67% off on Steam right now, bringing it all the way down to a stocking-stuffing £6.60/€9.24/$9.90.