Commando (Killing Floor 2)

Killing Floor 2 perk
Commando
General Information
XP Objectives
• Dealing Commando weapon damage.
• Killing Stalkers with Commando weapons.
Starting Loadout
AR-15 Varmint Rifle			9mm Pistol
KF-BAR			HE Grenade
Perk Information
Role
• Medium range.
• Front line position.
• Reveal Stalkers.
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Strength
• Lots of ammo.
• High rate of fire
• Effective vs Stalkers and Crawlers.
• High grenade damage.
• ZED Time extensions.
Weakness
• Has a hard time against larger ZEDs.
• Has to reload quite often.
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Target Priority
					HIGH
					MEDIUM
					LOW
SURVIVALIST EFFECTIVENESS AGAINST ZEDS IS DETERMINED BY THEIR SKILL AND WEAPON CHOICES
Technical Information
Related Achievements
Reach Level 5 Commando Reach Level 10 Commando Reach Level 15 Commando Reach Level 20 Commando Reach Level 25 Commando Normal Commando Hard Commando Suicidal Commando Hellish Commando Perked Up Mr. Perky 5 Mr. Perky 10 Mr. Perky 15 Mr. Perky 20 Mr. Perky 25
PS4 Trophies
Mr Perky 5 Mr Perky 10 Mr Perky 15 Mr Perky 20 Mr Perky 25 Platinum

The Commando is the eyes of your squad, providing vital information to your teammates while cutting down hordes of ZEDs.

General Information

Commandos has the unique ability to make Stalkers visible to your teammates. Commandos also display the health bars above injured ZEDs, allowing them to prioritize the targets and know when a particularly dangerous ZED is on the ropes. Both these abilities have a limited range, but it increases with each level the Commandos gain.

In addition to providing valuable information to your team, Commandos are the masters of assault rifles, allowing them to deal with most weaker ZEDs handily.

Commando skill choices let them focus on either being a man-of-war of the team through the improved weapon handling, better damage and increased health and armor or on representing a bulletstorm-emitting machine gunner -esque type of the player that delivers a ton of stopping power thanks to extrended magazines and better stumbling capabilities.

Weapon List

200	4	AR-15 Varmint Rifle
650	6	SA80 L85A2 Bullpup
1100	6	Kalashnikov AK-12
1500	6	SCAR-H Assault Rifle
1500	7	HMTech-401 Assault Rifle
1200	6	M16 M203 Assault Rifle
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150	2	Dual 9mm Pistols
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40	---	HE Grenade

Bonus Experience

Commandos receive bonus XP for for killing Stalkers with on-perk weapons weapons and also for assisting in Stalker kills by revealing them with passive Call Out skill.

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Perk Bonuses

This table represents the passive stat bonuses the Commando receives.

Perk Weapon Damage	max. 25%
( Perk weapon damage increases 1% per level )
Cloaked Enemy & Health Bar Detection	max. 60m
( Range of 10m plus 2m per level )
ZED Time Extension	max. 6 times
( Amount of ZED Time resets increased by 1 for every 5 levels. )
Reload Speed	max. 10%
( Perk weapon reload speed increases 2% every 5 levels )
+ Night Vision Capability
( Flashlights - AND Night Vision Goggles )
+ Call Out Cloaked ZEDs
( Allow teammates to see cloaked units )

Perk Skills

This table represents the active abilities the Commando has access to. You have the option of choosing one per tier.

Ammo Management
Tactical Reload		5	High Capacity Mags
Increase reload speed with perk weapons.				Increase magazine capacity of perk weapons 50%.
Tactics
Fallback		10	Impact Rounds
Increase damage with your 9mm pistol and knife 110%, and increase weapon switching speed 50%.				Increase stumble power for perk weapons 150%.
Survival
Tenacious		15	Prepared
Increase total Health and Armor 25%.				Carry up to 20% more ammo for each perk weapon.
Weapon Specialist
Hollow Point Rounds		20	Eat Lead
Increase damage of perk weapons 25% and reduce their recoil 50%.				Increase magazine capacity of perk weapons 100%.
Advanced Training
ZED TIME - Machine Gunner		25	ZED TIME - Tactician
During ZED time, you do 3% more damage with perk weapons and shoot 3x faster with all guns.				During ZED time, you reload perk weapons at full speed and switch perk weapons twice as fast.

Perk Notes

• Damage modification (passive + skills): Passive bonus and Machine Gunner skill affecting on-perk weapons (including Knife) or on-perk damage types. Fallback skill affecting damage of 9mm Pistol(s) and all knives. Hollow Points skill affecting on-perk weapons (including Knife, excluding 9mm Pistol(s)). Damage ROUNDED UP.
• Passive (Nightvision): Nightvision drains battery as fast as flashlight.
• Passive (ZED Time extension): ZED Time cannot be extended by certain amount of time but instead it resets back to 3 seconds.
• Skill (Fallback): Extra damage affecting all knives and 9mm Pistol(s). Weapon swap speed bonus affecting equip and putdown times of all weapons making it happen 2 times faster. Extra damage example: 9mm Pistol (15 points of damage) with Fallback skill does Roundup (15 + 15x1.1) = 32 points of damage.
• Skill (Impact Rounds): Skill works only with on-perk weapons.
• Skill (Tactician): Skill adds +30% resistance to slow-mo to weapons on top of the base 35% resistance. This makes weapon swapping ((1-0.2)x(0.35+0.3)) / ((1-0.2)x0.3) = ~2.17 times faster.

On-perk Weapons

Following weapons and damage types are associated with the Commando. They are getting damage bonuses and buffs to their attributes from the respective skills:

AssaultRifle_AK12
AssaultRifle_AR15
AssaultRifle_Bullpup
AssaultRifle_M16M203
AssaultRifle_Medic
AssaultRifle_SCAR
HEGrenade
Knife_Commando

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Ballistic_AK12
Ballistic_AR15
Ballistic_Bullpup
Ballistic_M16M203
Ballistic_SCAR

Strategy

Commando is a viable squad member that greatly increases overall awareness of cloaked ZEDs and also provides a ZED Time extensions.

Conserve your ammo: at early ways use the advantage of Fallback skill to one-shot-kill small ZEDs and save yourself some rifle ammo.

Stay close to your team: keep in mind that you reveal cloaked ZEDs within a limited range - staying too far away from your team will not allow them to see these sneaky Stalkers.

Although it recommended to stick up for killing small ZEDs, the skilled Commando can also take down Scrakes. For that before engaging make sure you have both of your rifles reloaded. Use the advantage of Fallback skill to switch between them faster or utilize extra stumble power of Impact Rounds to create extra space between you and Scrake. But don't forget the most important thing - aim to the head!

HMTech-401 Assault Rifle has its niche in arsenal of every Commando. Not it just does as much damage as AK-12 but also lets you heal your teammates.

M16 Assault Rifle is quite efficient in hands of Commando. It gets all the damage bonuses Commando has not just for bullets but also to grenades. Give it a shot!

Trivia

• According to the character's favourite weapon lines, Donovan Neal and Lt. Bill Masterson are both the Commandos of the team.