Killing Floor 2 | Beginner Swat Loadouts and Builds

[@ZeroSumGamer]

SWAT is a very beginner friend class to play. The only two issues it has is that SMGs can chew through ammo very fast with their high fire rates and that a team full of new players liking to pick SWAT or other easy to play classes, leaving no one good to take down big Zeds and bosses. The first problem can be reduced by having new SWAT players to tap the trigger for small Zeds instead of holding it down. Does Battering Ram work on raging Scrakes, Fleshpounds, or bosses? If it does, it would be a strong skill to pick for boss waves if SWATs could knock bosses off their feet on Zed time and let the team shoot them on the ground. I wouldn't use the Nailgun on Scrakes as they have higher piercing defence than SMG defence. Fleshpound have opposite defences, making the Nailgun good on them. Lastly, would you recommend all players to start a game as a SWAT for the free armour and dual 9mm and then change to their desired class immediately after? Or are there same tier 1 weapons in other classes better the MP7+full armour+dual 9mm?

[@ReapeeRon]

I think that Battering ram works against raging enemies and I also think that it kinda works on bosses. At least knocking them aside and staggering them for a few seconds. That is true about the Nailgun. If you like you can start with Swat early on they are probably the class that gives you the most value on wave one. My bother would always start out a HoE Game like that. It's pretty strong for any class.

[@BeeF82002]

Battering ram is crowd control I have saved my team a few times with it, also I wish they would make the 500 pump and the m4 crossperk like the gunslinger has the leaver actions.

[@ReapeeRon]

Battering Ram can be pretty good. That would be cool or if a new weapon was added into the game like a smg with an underbarrel shotgun.

[@dreamcyberium]

You seem to know all the weird weaknesses of the zeds (bloats vs 9mm and robots vs bleed), but you may have not known that the edars lasers count as "bullets", which the bullet resistance is resistant to as well

[@ReapeeRon]

Oh, I was not aware of that. That is pretty cool. Do you know if it counts for the Edar rocket's impact?

[@dreamcyberium]

@@ReapeeRon No. I believe the rocket impact counts exclusively as explosion damage. But don't hold me to that, since you know how weird this game is (Mac 10 once before counting as shotgun damage for example, lol). I know for certain that lasers counts as bullets, though.

[@ReapeeRon]

@@dreamcyberium Okay, thanks. That was really awesome when the Mac 10 did that. It was so fun to us. Just throwing things around like the Boomstick.

[@dreamcyberium]

@@ReapeeRon I know right! The frostfang and the doom stick in particular just send zeds flying into the stratosphere, lol. I miss the old Mac 10.

[@ReapeeRon]

@@dreamcyberium me too, wish they would bring that back, even if it didn't have the shotgun damage type.

[@DarkNowInDachau]

I love playing SWAT; arguably a better trash cleaner than Commando. Not sure if it’s the same for PC, but on PS4, if you throw on of any of the dual pistol starting weapons and pick it back up, you can sell it for more at the trader. I do that with the 1858s. Loving these guides, Ron! You and I think a lot alike on playing these classes. Hopefully they’ll cross-platform KF3 with PC and PlayStation (and Xbox), it’d be cool to team up on some rounds. It’s awesome that you broadcast open lobbies here too - a lot of gamers putting content on KZbin don’t do that, so, big ups for that!

[@ReapeeRon]

Thanks for the comment Dark! I have heard that you can drop the pistol to get extra cash with them, I usually just forget and I wasn't aware that also worked with the 1858s. I will have to remember that. Glad that you are liking the guides! They are a lot of fun to make and it is very interesting to hear everyone's opinion on the subject, makes me want to try how other players play. I also really hope that KF3 will be cross platform, that would make it way more fun to play with random lobbies.

[@DarkNowInDachau]

Yeah, it’s a glitch that the developers didn’t code for, so throwing and picking it back up is the same as just randomly finding it on the map, I suppose. Any time I run as Gunslinger, or SWAT, I’ll always throw that 2nd pistol and pick it back up before heading to the trader.

[@ReapeeRon]

@@DarkNowInDachau cool

[@BeeF82002]

It feels soooo good to send a charging fleshpound flying with battering ram :)

[@ReapeeRon]

That is pretty great. Even more so when they fly out of the map and just die from the heart attack. :)

[@Davtwan]

It’s like the Firebug skill only it’s a straight up knockdown instead of a stumble.

[@Gonzodiac]

Straightforward but boring perk to my taste. Commando is more fun since extending zed time is a challenging mini-game of its own. I wish TWI would make something new and neat for Swat. New guns are a good start, but I mean something else, like one or two passive abilities that suits the perk. A completely new zed or boss that's vulnerable to Swat? :P

[@ReapeeRon]

It can be a little bit boring to play SWAT, but it's a pretty good starter perk and really strong for the first few waves of a game. It would be nice to see SWAT get some new perks or passives. One that I would like to see is some sort of Armor regain or temp armor when you either kill something or stun something.

[@marcosdheleno]

i think close combat training would be a better perk for the survivalist instead of medic training.

[@ReapeeRon]

Maybe, I don't really thing Survivalist needs it. It would be fun to try out though.

[@marcosdheleno]

@@ReapeeRon i think it fits better than swat since it already has a better weapon to start. on surv, it would give another offensive starter option for players who dont wanna go melee.

[@Barot8]

Very well presented.

[@ReapeeRon]

Thank you kindly!

[@jackstill4286]

I know this is an old video, but are people still playing this game. Just picked it up in a sale

[@ReapeeRon]

Yeah it's got a small community but there is still people playing.