New KZ2 maps!

WolfForager

Coming out at the end of april apparrently!

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/971/971822p1.html

ongarite

The ISA Cruiser "New Sun" level sounds great. Its looks like it set in the 2nd last part of that level where you fight the big heavy and 2 flamethrower guys.

The other level is based on the moving train level from Refinery. 2 trains moving along side each other with. Going to be frantic.

Its also been hinted that they are making some of the KZ1 MP maps also for release later in the year.

McGrath5

Looks good, been playin a lot of KZ2 online lately so it will be nice to get some new maps

WarZoneBrother

Sweet this should bring me back to playing Killzone I don't really play as much as I play COD 5 zombies now alot.

WolfForager

WarZoneBrother wrote: »

Sweet this should bring me back to playing Killzone I don't really play as much as I play COD 5 zombies now alot.

Rly? Same here, been playing zombies for the last week However dam xbox live won't let me buy the new maps

tenacious-me

That's pretty quick! I'm nowhere near bored of the current maps yet!
Methinks they may have had these developed near release time and held back so as to get more money from people! Meh! I'll buy em!

whiterebel

Maybe they'll give them away for free?













LOL, just in case.....

WarZoneBrother

WolfForager wrote: »

Rly? Same here, been playing zombies for the last week However dam xbox live won't let me buy the new maps

Aww the new map pack is class I got them for free off a mate..New zombies is class..

Is there any screen shots of these new maps? I can't seem to find any

WolfForager

Don't think so. All we have is Guerilla's word!

Gah, my PS3 is taking my credit card, so is itunes, yet xbox live has to be a bitch >_>

Kersmash

http://kotaku.com/5208213/gameplay-from-killzone-2s-dlc

Gameplay footage!

IsMiseConor

It's Free

http://tweakers.net/nieuws/59547/sony-kondigt-multiplayer-uitbrei

Confirmed(ish). Although I not sure whether to believe it.

giggsy664

Googled translation:: The pacakge is from 30 April in the PSN and is offered free to download, so Sony was known friday.

Proper English: it's being released on the PSN on 30 April and is going to be free, Sony announced on Friday

Kersmash

Google translate says this:

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that first person shooter Killzone 2 new multiplayer game fields receive. The expansion in the Netherlands made PlayStation 3 game from April 30th for free download.

The expansion pack for Killzone 2, 'Steel & Titanium Pack' names. The TLC has two new levels for the Warzone mode, where up to 32 players against each other directly, the playgrounds are Wasteland Bullet and Vekta Cruiser said. The packet is from April 30 in the PlayStation Store and is offered free to download, as was Sony Computer Entertainment announced Friday.

Bullet Wasteland takes place on a train that connects the city with Pyrrhus The Wasteland. As the train continuous high speed driving, the players take into account the fact that the train regularly passes objects: a collision this means a certain death. Vekta Cruiser is in this respect a less dangerous environment, but because the action is fully on board a spaceship playing, the rooms are small and there are many places where enemies could be hiding.

Not perfect but you get an idea.

giggsy664

Got thee before you.

Sorta. Damned iPod with it's lack of copy and paste

WolfForager

Free?? Sweet...

Still can't wait for DLC though

They need to fix the ranking system though, it's too easy to get to general. Either they make it harder to achieve or they put in something like prestige mode in COD. It will give people something to aim for thus make it more... fun?

ongarite

Getting to General is easy enough, getting all ribbons and medals or top 1% player of the week is the tough part.

giggsy664

How does the ranking system work in conjunction with unlocking guns. Is it reach x level and you unlock x gun, or reach x credits and you can buy one thing or two things etc

Kev_ps3

Its pretty sweet that they are free, must say I wouldnt have baught them. Must get back playing KZ..

ongarite

giggsy664 wrote: »

How does the ranking system work in conjunction with unlocking guns. Is it reach x level and you unlock x gun, or reach x credits and you can buy one thing or two things etc

By ranking up you unlock certain new classes of soldier who has use of new weapons.
Engineer = Shotgun
Saboteur = SMG
Assault = Rocket/Grenade Launcher
Scout = Sniper Rifle

If you want the M4 pistol, you have to get 8 x Sidearm Specialist ribbons to get the Quickdraw Medal.
Upgrading the Sniper Rifle to 5X zoom, involves getting 8 X Cloak Specialist ribbons.

Ribbons are earned by performing certain types of kills in a match:
Sidearm Specialist : 8 kills with standard sidearm per match to get 1 ribbon.
Cloak Specialist : 8 kills while cloaked per match to get 1 ribbon.
Turret Specialist : 5 kills with a turret per match to get 1 ribbon.

You can get more than 1 ribbon per match by combining 2 things together.
For example, you could kill 8 people while cloaked with standard sidearm to get 1 cloak and 1 sidearm ribbon.

WolfForager

ongarite wrote: »

Upgrading the Sniper Rifle to 5X zoom, involves getting 8 X Cloak Specialist ribbons.

8x Cloak Specialist get's you Spot and Mark. For the 5x zoom you need to get 8 x Sniper Specialist ribbons... which i have 3 of... grrr...

ongarite

I has everything
http://www.killzone.com/kz/performance_medalsribbons.psml?kz_user_id=navanman_gaf

giggsy664

Oh right. I'm assuming the Engineer can build turrets, and the saboteur can destroy them, a la TF2's spy?

WolfForager

ongarite wrote: »

I has everything
http://www.killzone.com/kz/performance_medalsribbons.psml?kz_user_id=navanman_gaf

Dam medal whore :P

giggsy664 wrote: »

Oh right. I'm assuming the Engineer can build turrets, and the saboteur can destroy them, a la TF2's spy?

Sabateur can be seen by turrets thus destroying your desguise.

tenacious-me

Bad news!

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-311290.aspx

Read the update a little down the page

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F59547%2Fsony-kondigt-multiplayer-uitbreiding-voor-killzone-2-aan.html&sl=nl&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

WolfForager

Damn sony! Hijacking Guerilla, grr...

I'm still getting it anywho :P

tenacious-me

So long as they keep it under a tenner it's mine, €4.99 would be even nicer though if they have to charge for it! Any Sony people out there? Hint hint...

WolfForager

I don't see how they could charge more than 4.99 for 2 maps? Xbox full DLC is usually only a tenner, which has considerably more material than 2 new maps.

Zatoichi

Don't believe anything you read on the internet. Ever.

tenacious-me

Also what is the deal with the class online that even when you get to general still isn't available, anyone heard or know anything about it?

ongarite

No such thing. You can check out the leaderboards on the KZ website and see that the top players with an amazing 200,000 points are stil at General rank.

tenacious-me

But there is one, go to the class select, and there is one box still unavailable, maybe they're saving it for a future release.... ?

WolfForager

Hmm, maybe, hopefully :P I wants something to work for!

Just a though, has anyone else noticed the massive increase of Japenese players on Warzone? I'm seeing 2 or 3 per game where a few weeks ago i never saw any..

GothPunk

WolfForager wrote: »

Just a though, has anyone else noticed the massive increase of Japenese players on Warzone? I'm seeing 2 or 3 per game where a few weeks ago i never saw any..

That's because it's only releasing in Japan now - they get some games later than we do. Although it's usually the other way around, heh.

ongarite

New patch coming next week with lots of fixes:

On April 22nd at 8AM GMT, Guerrilla Games will release the next game update to their hit First Person Shooter Killzone 2, exclusive for the Playstation3.

The primary main aim of patch 1.24 is to enable the released versions of the game to play with Japanese release due on the 23rd of April 2009.

It also enables support for the first DLC pack – “Steel and Titanium” available on the Playstation®Store from the 30th of April 2009 and we have added three additional ranks to the top-end of the rankings known as ‘Hardcore ranks’.

There are also some minor improvements on finding and joining friends and clan member, but we will continue to improve on the system with the next update.



The patch is 57MB large and a full list of fixes and feature updates are below:

AI - Bots now skipping disabled/destroyed MGs in warzone when requesting mounted guns.

AI - Do not claim waypoints for the previous character when it’s dead.

AI - Fixes bots getting stuck trying to arm/disarm S&D object when mission is already over.

Campaign - Fix for potential progression bug in Salamun Bridge.

Clan - User name, not users clan displayed in rankings

Clan - Winning 10 Clan Challenges causes the user to become stuck on the medal awards screen.

Controls - Lean & Peak - Zoom hold on and out of ammo it switches between regular/scope view rapidly.

Cosmetic - Blue screen tint which indicates scout cloak is occasionally enabled and will remain indefinitely.

Cosmetic - White squares on the grenade counter merge together when displayed in 1080p

Create Game - "Badge Combination" option does not work properly

Create Game - Online - "clan only" presets apply even after a player leaves a clan

DLC - DLC pack 1 - ’Steel & Titanium’ support DLC - New Loading screens advertising the first DLC pack.

Exploit - Helghan Industries - Player getting out of map fix.

Exploit - Radec Academy - User is able to gain access to the roof when revived in a specific location.

Exploit - Reviving player stuck in wall collision can result in him spawning outside level

Exploit - Salamun Market - One sided wall allows people to be seen and shot from outside where they cant see or fire out

Exploit - Tharsis Depot - Player can get out of the "normal" play area and can get into some sniper/camp spots

Feature - Invite player from friendslist Feature - Join Clan Member list added.

Feature - Join Game - 17-24 players filter.

Feature - MP - Moving while seeing scores after pressing SELECT

Feature - The radar/map now has a larger radius

Feature - Three additional ’Harcore’ Ranks added to the top limits.

Front-end - Add support to display more than 8 maps when creating a game /challenge/tournament

Front-end - Sorting ascending and decending ranks working better in ’Rankings’

Front-end - When in a squad, the Valor Trophy is visible in the Squad Tab, however the users rank is not being displayed on top of it.

Mods - Official tournament to be displayed first followed by custom created tournaments

Mods - Additional functionality made avalable to the in-game moderators.

Network - Server side fix for full games being displayed incorrectly.

Network - User is unable to use the ’Join Clan Member’ tab due to Network Error Code 20002.

Online - File-synching with the Japanese release of Killzone 2 on the 23rd of April.

Sound - Turret placing sound continues when killed.

Stability - Crash when synching gamestate after a full mapcycle

Stability - Hang on a screen with a blank message window just before a message appears.

Stability - Reducing the load on the server related to syncing the buddylist

Stats - If a clan wins 24 Clan Challenges and goes to the result screen, the medal acquisition screen, which normally displays when you win 25 games, will display.

Stats - Number of air-support grenades used by tacticians does not add to the stats of joined user correctly.

Stats - Number of spawn-grenades used by tacticians does not add to the stats of joined user correctly.

Stats - User sometimes does not receive 1000 valor award when winning 10 Clan Challenges.

Text - % character not displayed correctly on the creating game dialogue box after selecting to create game.

Text - If a client receives an invite from a clan which has a ’$’ character in the clan name, the recipient will get kicked

Text - Minor Italian localization fix.

Text - Minor Japanese localization fix.

Tournament - Game decides winner if one of the two teams doesn’t spawn in

Trophies - Fix for Wargod trophy unlocking pre-maturely

Somnus

The train map looks excellent. Not mad about the New Sun one though, but maybe it'll be good when I'm playing it.

I only got Killzone recently so I'm still happy with the standard maps for the moment.

WolfForager

Woah woah, the japenese are actually gonna be on our servers? Wow, that's a first. KZ2 is the only game i've played that does this, every other game is either EU, EU&US or UK

WarZoneBrother

Sweet update with the Hardcore ranks. I hope I aint fully ranked as soon as I get back to playing it because the only reason I will play is to become fully ranked, it gets boring after that.

WolfForager

I wonder if they're gonna bring out new classes/weapons with these Hardcore Ranks... I'm getting bored with my medic/boost class, and sniping is too easy with 5x zoon and spot and mark :P

McGrath5

Anyone else notice the new trophies added for the DLC? Plenty of new ones there, should keep me playing for many hours to come

jomz27

add me psn: jomz27

WolfForager

jomz27 wrote: »

add me psn: jomz27

How about you add me?

Asking people to add you is a bit.. premature.

acidburn51737

Does anyone know if you could play in the new maps if you dont have them? Example if you join someone who has that map (but you dont) will you be able to join them or not?

ferrigan101

Anyone got the maps yet? I cant find them on the store. Am i just being stoopid?

Otacon

ferrigan101 wrote: »

Anyone got the maps yet? I cant find them on the store. Am i just being stoopid?

Store usually doesn't update until 16:00 or 17:00.

ferrigan101

Otacon wrote: »

Store usually doesn't update until 16:00 or 17:00.

Ahh, right, just in time for me starting work....

whiterebel

acidburn51737 wrote: »

Does anyone know if you could play in the new maps if you dont have them? Example if you join someone who has that map (but you dont) will you be able to join them or not?

I would say not. Kind of defeats the purpose otherwise.

NotorietyH

Map Pack is on the store now. The Burnout Paradise cops and robbers pack is out too.

WolfForager

Hmm, got the map pack last night. Bullet seems to be the most popular. Last night there was roughly 20 bullet games going on in the EU, i tried Cruiser and i got one game world wild.



Cruiser is my favourite though, even if it is less fun! Sabotageur (can't spell ftl) is ace on this map.

The new trophies are just classed based trophies for each map ie. "Use assault 5 times on Vekta Cruiser" and "Kill 5 people while disguised on Bullet"

gos27

got them tonday... seem to be good anough... need to give them more time... :rolleyes: