Soldiers of the Wasteland

Tripwire Interactive have announced Snowstorm, a massive game event that features updates and deals on all of their titles.

The updates available for Killing Floor include four new maps selected from the Killing Floor Grindhouse Custom Map Making Competition, two guest passes so you can let friends try out Killing Floor, as well as a free completely reworked Mod, Defense Alliance 2.

The four maps are KF-Icebreaker, KF-Departed, KF-Crash, and KF-FilthsCross which is set in an underground tube station and is said to be one of the most challenging maps ever made for Killing Floor.

The all new mod, Defense Alliance 2, features six playable classes – Medic, Mechanic, Rocketeer, Machine Gunner, Sniper and the Rifleman – and pits teams of players against each other in attack/defend scenarios. Players are also able to set up turrets, drop ammo boxes and more to add more depth to the tactical gameplay.

Defence Alliance 2 also has a secondary gameplay mode named Co-op Specimen Survival. In this mode players are set up against waves of specimens and are able to use turrets and mines to help defend their position. However players only have a limited amount of respawns so care must be taken is victory is to be achieved.

The new maps as well as the the new mod Defence Alliance 2 can be discussed on our Killing Floor forums.

A minor update has been released for PC owners of Borderlands. The update fixes a number of issues including:

- Characters that have lost skill points will have the lost points refunded
- Item cards now display the intended five lines of detail text
- Lilith’s Phase strike and melee attacks from Phase Walk now function as intended
- Voicechat: users can now control volume and individually mute players

The entire list of update notes can be found on our forums.

Unfortunately the highly desired fix for multiplayer issues was disappointingly absent from the update. However ennui from the Gearbox forums has stated that-

The problems some users are experiencing with connectivity will be addressed in an upcoming update. A fix has been found and we’ll deploy it as soon as possible.

Hopefully this update gets pushed out to us very soon.

In the meantime, if you bought a physical copy of Borderlands from the store, you may download this update from the Gearbox Software site. If you bought the game via digital distribution (such as through Steam) then the patch will be applied automatically next time you log in.

A gigantic game update/patch was released for Requiem: Memento Mori yesterday. The patch was applied during the scheduled maintenance period and the changes it introduces are numerous.

Updates include changes to skills and DNA, Season 1 and 2 items, EXP and lant drop increases among certain monsters/dungeons, battlefield updates, new quests, bug fixes and more. You can read the full list of patch notes on the official forums.

The changes to the skills and DNA seem to have come at an odd time, considering that the free skill respec items given to plays by Gravity were set to expire by this maintenance period. Players were told to ‘use it or lose it’, but now players are in a situation where they’ve respecced their characters only to have everything changed on them again. Except this time, there are no free respecs (yet).

Thanks go to MerchantKill for the tip about the patch. If you would like to discuss this patch and the changes it brings, you can do so on our forums.

The free content pack “Level Up” has been released for Killing Floor today. And in true Steam style, to coincide with this release the game is free to play over the weekend and can also be bought for 25% off.

Along with “Level Up” the new Nightfall Character Pack DLC was also released, which contains 4 more new playable character in similar fashion to the last Character Pack DLC. It can be bought from Steam for $1.99.

For more information about the new additions such as the weapons, maps, perks, Husk specimen and more, as well as a full list of changes included in the “Level Up” content pack, check out the dedicated Tripwire forum thread.

The announcement that all Requiem players have been eagerly waiting for, has finally been made!

Season 2 aka Requiem Alive has been officially titled Requiem: Memento Mori, and will be released on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 8pm PST.

At the moment only the title and release date have been made available to the public, however Gravity have teased that more information will be made available in the coming weeks, starting on September 7th.

Such information includes:
- DNA/Skill Changes
- DNA/Skill Descriptions
- Pet System
- Battleground updates

As more information is made available, we will be adding it to the Requiem: Memento Mori thread on our forums.