Killing Floor ARG

Yesterday, Tripwire posted the following message on the Killing Floor 2 community page:
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this ciphertext was decoded to:

I hope this message makes it out! Horzine is up to no good and the world needs to know! With any luck you'll decipher this and find the clues I'll be leaving. You are the only hope we have to stop this before it is too late!
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This message led us to the following link:
media.tripwirecdn.com/fromafriend/thestart.png

which contains an image named thestart.png
and this is as far as we've got yet.
Does anyone have any clue? I thought I would post this here in case anyone is interested in Alternate Reality Games and Killing Floor (or both).

this is the image found in the link above

what a shitty way to start an arg

>Does anyone have any clue?
its arg to get back all the refunded money from their fiasco

I got all my friends (except the retarded ones) to refund after it went out of EA

>you refunded KIlling Floor 2

Steam punk guy
The old man in steam land

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I don't get it

>you refunded KF2
>bought it for cheaper

nice blog guys, where can i sub for more of your exciting life?

Maybe an expansion versus more free updates.

They really fucked up by not making the martial artist class, survivalist is shit and boring as hell.

Wait, what fiasco?

B-but we're changing the industry.
Faggots like these are why there's shitposting every thread. I don't own KF2, played the free weekend a bit ago so I checked the thread, and (You) hungry faggots need their "YOUR FACE WHEN YOU CONFORMED TO Sup Forums'S STANDARDS AND DID EVERYTHING THEY ASKED XD, GIVE ME (You)S PLEASE

i gave a copy to my niece and the stupid cunt forgot the password to her account

i can never ever refund KF2

mfw

>They really fucked up by not making the martial artist class
not really, swat was a stretch at best for a perk, MA wasn't added because of how completely unnecessary it is with the zerk reworks
though survivalist was a fucking terrible idea

GIbson plase. Your game is huge pile of shit. Go ban some folks on your steam forum if it makes you feel better

convert it to sound
see what picture you get from the spectrum view
look at the hex decimals
combine it with the pictures of the kf2 cards

i dont fucking know, just do some of that shit

@374706835
>someone disagrees with me HE MUST BE A SHILL XD
you're not even worth a (You).

Symbol matching time baby! Wonder what its related to, i wonder what horzine is planing, they already went full blitz.

Who cares? Everyone with half a brain refunded this trash the day it left early access.

I don't care. I'm glad Sup Forums refunded this shit game, that's all that matters after all. Now go work on RS2 you lazy fuck

Fuck those lying faggots

They will fuck up RS2 just like RO2 and KF2 then beg the community to bail them again

To shitpost or not to shitpost. That is the question.

Regardless its more than adequate for a sequel to the current version of killing floor.

>@
fucking kek

go back to plebbit shill, no one want your game

I bought the day it left early access and it's great. Maybe you shouldn't have paid to be a beta tester.

Did they do something stupid again? All I remember is a few years ago when a Tripwire dev said on their forums that they would permanently cd-key ban people if they were mean in multiplayer in KF2. Is that still the same reason people are mad or is it just because KF2 is pretty shitty in general.

Literally me. Got it 30 dollars cheaper.

the development cycle was fucking terrible in EA, they did this whole "EA done right" shit before they started and it ended up being a slow disaster
the game itself is fine but the EA process was retarded, not just how slow they were but their priorities were all fucked up
it's worth playing though

stupid shill shoo shoo

it's a meme. all majors flaws are fixed now and the game is fine.
people were anally pained that they had a cash shop in a EA game and that they didn't deliver ONE (1) perk and are still salty about it.

>stop talking about video games shoo shoo
FUCKING kill yourself, useless nigger

>cash shop in a EA
That's pretty fucking terrible, user.

>All I remember is a few years ago when a Tripwire dev said on their forums that they would permanently cd-key ban people if they were mean in multiplayer in KF2.

lmao what

Guess I'm not going to buy any more Tripwire games.

Dawg I don't even have the game, it's CoD zombies but sold as a standalone title.
I'm just tired of attentionwhoring faggots.

Now game have super serious tone, way more easier, lost it's unique vibe from the first game and since Gibson doesn''t like rude people there is no option to insult players which is a big fucking deal. The game is just painfully boring

>Sup Forums overwhelmingly loves KF1
>Sup Forums despises KF2 despite it having more content and being better in literally every single way now
I dare you to try and tell me this place isn't a fucking hivemind hug box

Who cares? KF2 is shit.

Fucking ARGs are so retarded. Why do companies keep doing this instead of making in-depth treasure hunts in-game?

No it isn't.

>oh this completely unique perk that we were hypying up before release? Well its hard to implement so fuck it
>heres a perk that is dedicated offperking 100% recycled. Enjoy!
No, fuck off with that bullshit. The game is passable now but sont let shitty practices go just like that. Medic is even now still ao shit and useless two giys offperking to the medic pistol is all you need

the EA process put a lot of people off the game for good reason
is it fine now? sure but it's a lasting effect for those who got the game in EA

KF wasn't cool when it came out. KF was cool when KF2 came out. If you use that as a guide you can predict where the general Sup Forums shitstorm will be headed with 100% accuracy.

They did fuck up on the teleporting enemies though.

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>MA
>unique at any point
don't be delusional

Being upset about that still would be like holding a 30 year grudge on your mom because she didn't bring home chicken nuggets one night

>oh this completely unique perk that we were hypying up before release
They literally never mentioned it. Ever.

It was vaguely implied and then confirmed to have been cancelled several months before the game came out

>KF wasn't cool when it came out. KF was cool when KF2 came out.
Holy shit

t. Tripwire employee

But its working as advertised, whats there to refund it for?

>KF was cool when KF2 came out

LOL

Refunded because of the cash shop. Fuck that.

Oh fuck off you asspained bitch. They just forgot to record the lines because nobody used them.

EA was a complete shitshow of bad decisions

>I had a lot of fun in KF2

who cares the game is shit

me too senpai

No one fucking talking to you Gibson. Shut the fuck up.

Bull, a dedicated healer is needed on hoe, as swaping to the med pistol for most classes would take to long, and cant comp for burst damage.

Same. Still play it a decent amount to.

>don't touch game during EA
>buy it for 20€ on its first sale
>still having a blast
I feel bad for the guys who fell for the Early Access meme

The living fuck is the point you're pretending to have? Are you trying to say KF didn't get more well known over its lifespan?

I REFUNDED AFTER 300 HOURS AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU SHILLS CAN DO ABOUT IT. GO AWAY, NOBODY WANTS YOUR TRASH GAME HERE.

>buy it for 20€ on its first sale
>I feel bad for the guys who fell for the Early Access meme
I feel bad for you honestly.

>first puzzle is literally a dumb cypher that takes no effort to deduce

They're certainly consistent, because they put as much effort into their ARG as they did the actual game.

oh shit that looks promising

Shills go away KF2 is trash

>more content
>no decent modded servers
>no decent modded guns
>half of the perks are trash
>no good event maps like Christmas and hillbilly shit

k

WHERE CAN I SUB TO YOUR BLOG FOR MORE THINGS ABOUT YOUR LIFE MAN??????

> people still clinging desperately to the "kf2 is bad" maymay

> people so desperate to not feel remorse over their kneejerk refunds when the game was in the toilet

> game has been great for almost a full year and no Sup Forumsermin play so i dont have to hear fat fucks shrieking memes over the microphones when i play or going reeeee when someone cleans up as firebug

feels good, man.
you dumb niggers denial has made the game better due to removing yourselves from it
for once the hivemind's proactive retardedness actually improved a game's community

thank you Sup Forums for being retarded

>20 eurodollarmonies

kek, not even worth that, I purchased my copy for 5 USD and I would have never payed a cent more.

Celebrating Christmas is not very Progressive. Now if they had a nice Ramadan themed map, that would be okay.

>starting an arg on a steam forum with a bunch of random letters

Yeah, ok pal

Lazy shill please go away

>20 Euros
>not paying 9 Euros when it was on sale on gamebillet

I usually post more on /kfg/ oh wait... It's fucking dead just like this game

YOU START BY KILLING YOURSELF YOU PIECE OF SHIT SHILL

same

like 250 of those were during EA

I dunno why other people got so angry about the development cycle. I had a blast.

There's an event happening later this year. Summer sideshow i think.

Keys are still $10 on G2A, I'll wait until it gets down to around $6 and then I might buy it

What bullshit are you guy on? It isnt perfect, but the game more than meets the quota for content and quality. Like jesus what would you want from the game?

>I dunno why other people got so angry about the development cycle
are you fucking serious

>Sup Forumsermin
Can you make your shilling any more obvious than this?

Shilling has got to be the worst thing to happen to Sup Forums because it's fucking impossible to express a positive opinion about anything without being mistaken for not being a real person

Anyway, tripwire doesn't have the budget to shitpost on Sup Forums

>He bought Killing Floor 2

>people STILL get assblasted when you bring up refunds

Nigga vanilla kf1 had practically less than that, and they already said they will have seasonal event for kf2. Jesus.

Gee I'm so glad I got rid of you Sup Forumsermins so I have no one to play with on my empty servers! Ha, that was very smart of me

>it's fucking impossible to express a positive opinion about anything
Its entirely possible to do so, but when you do it to obvious trash games that don't deserve it then we're going to call you out on your bullshit.

once you beat HoE the game has nothing left to offer. There's not a whole lot of build variety and half of the perks are dogshit, just plain BAD.

KF1 at least had good modded servers with great game modes like RPG mode where in between waves you could spend dosh on increasing stats for your character or the hold out maps.

My biggest current complaint about the game is that the medic shotgun and assault rifle are literally the same model.

Not only is it lazy but its actually confusing.

also cheated in the levels because this is just way too much grinding

Fun gameplay and good guns

KF1 is objectively better in both. They totally fucked up.

I enjoy it, burnt myself out for a bit, but im wating for the next big update to get my hamds dirty again.

Wouldn't it be funny as shit if nobody played along with this. They'll add whatever update they already had made so it doesn't matter.

>played kf1 for 500 hours
>bought kf2 when it left early access
>150 hours in and still enjoying it
I don't get why the hivemind hates it, don't you guys have friends to play it with? It's probably the best co-op game released recently

Honestly.

The cosmetic shop is cosmetic only, and being in early access doesn't actually mean or change anything.

The resistance update was very obviously going to be patched out within a week, which it inevitably did

Martial artist had already been confirmed to be cancelled like 4 months before the game came out and the game was already basically fine by then

It always felt like people who were angry were just being really petty?

>It's shilling if I don't like it.

One sentence is not a paragraph.

Killing Floor did not become beloved overnight the moment Killing Floor 2 was released.

Fucking retard.