Dr. Hans Volter is a boss introduced in Killing Floor 2. He was the only boss in the game during early access, until the release of the Return of the Patriarch update.
Official Description[]
Dr. Hans Volter is surprisingly spry for being over a century old. His career in mad science stretches all the way back to World War II, where he began his research into human cloning and augmentation. A victim of his own experiments, he now lives within a powered exoskeleton that keeps him alive and provides him with a variety of weapons, including assault rifles, grenades and claws.
Behaviour[]
Volter uses a variety of weapons to fire on the players, but fortunately announces most of his attacks beforehand. He can melee swipe at players, fire his twin MKb42 guns, or throw three different types of grenades. He also has a shield he can activate when his health reaches a certain threshold (signified by his health bar and the lights on his suit changing color).
While his shield is up, his life bar cannot be damaged until it is fully depleted. The health of his shield depends on the Difficulty and the amount of players present. The shield gets stronger each time he uses it, but the maximum amount of health he can drain during it decreases.
At the start of the battle, Volter cannot sprint and can only attack you with gas grenades and his guns. When his health reaches 78% he will begin summoning zeds to aid him. When it reaches 60% he will put up his shield and run away for a few seconds. After that he will rush a player and try to grab them to drain their health, healing himself. He can be stopped if his shield is destroyed, which will also knock him to the ground for a short time.
After he heals himself or his shield is destroyed, he will begin the next phase. He now gains the ability to sprint, melee attack, and throw HE Grenades. He cannot sprint while using his guns, but will now only use his guns for 10 seconds before switching to melee and sprinting after players. When his health reaches 59% he will begin summoning zeds again, and will put up his shield and run away again at 41%.
When his shield is broken or he heals himself, he will move on to his third phase. He can now only use his guns for 5 seconds before switching to melee, and can toss grenades more frequently. In addition, he will now throw out a barrage of gas grenades instead of the normal amount. HE Grenades remain at the normal amount. When his health gets below 43% he will begin summoning zeds for the final time, and when his health reaches 25% he will use his shield and run away for the last time.
For his fourth and final phase he will stop using gas grenades entirely. He now only fires his guns for 4 seconds before switching to melee, and tosses grenades twice as often. In addition, he will now throw out a barrage of HE Grenades instead of the normal amount.
On Suicidal and Hell on Earth Difficulty he is able to block, reducing all damage by 30%. He cannot block while his guns are out.
Attacks to his forearms deal 80% less damage and attacks that hit his exo-suit deal 20% less damage. However, attacks to his backpack or chest core deal 5% more damage, and he takes 20% extra damage to headshots instead of the standard 10%.
When shielded and running around, Volter is able to damage zeds by bumping into them, so they attempt to get out of his way. Volter cannot grab players who are in midair.
Volter is immune to his own grenades. Additionally, he can sometimes throw smoke grenades that deal no damage but make it hard to see. They have a duration of 8 seconds.
Like all bosses, he does not have separate health for his head, and cannot be decapitated or dismembered until his normal health bar is fully depleted.
Weaknesses and Resistances[]
Weak Against:
- RPG7 (+20% Damage)
- Fire (+10% Damage)
Strong Against:
- Rifles (-10% Damage)
- Assault Rifles (-20% Damage)
- Handguns (-20% Damage)
- Piercing (-20% Damage)
- Shotguns (-20% Damage)
- SMGs (-20% Damage)
- Toxic (-90% Damage)
Rewards[]
Base Dosh
- 500
Experience
- Normal: 1,291 XP
- Hard: 1,694 XP
- Suicidal: 1,790 XP
- Hell on Earth: 1,843 XP
Seasonal Variations[]
- Summer Sideshow: Daredevil/Stuntman
- Halloween Horrors: Count Hans
- Twisted Christmas: Twisted Santa Clone
Trivia[]
- Hans Volter serves as The Trader when playing on the Monster Ball map.
- When Hans is speaking to you as the Trader, he often references an unseen assistant named Renfred.
- Additionally, it's possible that the name Renfred is a reference to the character R. M. Renfield from the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
- Post wave 100 voice lines on the endless Monster Ball map has Hans visiting a super-villains anonymous meeting, which also references lines from the 2012 Disney film "Wreck-It-Ralph"
Quotes[]
Killing Floor 2[]
Entrance[]
- "Verdammt. I must interrupt my vital work for trash like you?"
- "Many have tried to interfere with my work. You think you are somehow better?"
- "Your irritating rampage is about to end, you pathetic, odious little worms."
- "Still alive? Bravo. I would shake your hands, but I shall just eviscerate you instead!"
- "You people disgust me, your incessant gobbling of money... I will exterminate you!"
- "What have we here? New subjects to tinker with? I hope you like pain."
- "It seems I must take a personal hand in this... how tedious!"
- "You come here and make all this noise. How am I meant to work? You must... stop... living!"
- "I shall exterminate you. It will be a simple test for my suit."
- "You have been killing my test subjects! That is annoying... you will die now."
- "What, what? You are disturbing me... I shall cause you pain."
Player trying to hide[]
- "The big bad warriors are scared of an old man!"
- "Bah! I can't kill what I can't see!"
- "Come out, come out, little pigs!"
Taunts[]
- "Shall I go slowly? Give you a chance?"
- "Face me!"
- "Ready to die!"
- "Submit to me!"
- "Embrace your death!"
- "Defeat is inevitable!"
- "Am I meant to be impressed?"
- "There is nothing left but you? Soon there will not even be you."
- "You should be honored to be another little experiment for me."
- "I'll slice you up and feed on your organs."
Gun warning[]
- "Enough! I shall just shoot you."
- "Time for a swift death!"
- "Just like in Stalingrad, fools!"
- "So I must bring out my guns! Waste bullets on the likes of you!"
Gas warning[]
- "Let me test my new nerve gas!"
- "Take a deep breath now!"
- "I'll burn your lungs to ashes!"
- "Guns and gas? I really have to waste gas on you vermin?!"
- "Mein carbine did not kill you? I will use gas! More gas!"
Grenade warning[]
- "Perhaps some grenades will finish you!"
- "Grenate! Die, schwein! Die! Die now!"
- "This will stop you worms, this must stop you!"
- "You cannot survive this barrage, you cannot!"
- "Stop living, scum! Who said you could go on living?!"
Looking to drain player[]
- "One of you is going to heal me... now!"
- "I just need one healthy meat sack!"
- "Run piglets! I will feed on one of you now!"
- "Why don't you choose whose life I suck next?"
- "Here I come, worms, for one of you!"
- "I hunger for life force, but who will I drain?"
Draining player[]
- "Sustain me..."
- "The strong feast upon the weak!"
- "I'll drain your soul."
Knocked down[]
- "Fools! That was the easy part. See what I have for you next, piggies!"
- "Enough of these little attacks! Here is something more to think about!"
- "Enough of this phase! Now you schwein can face new attacks!"
- "I grow tired of this game. Time to try the next phase on you scum."
About to die[]
- "This... will... not... do! No, nein, face everything, scum, everything!"
- "No! You will fail! I will use everything, everything I have! You must fail!"
- "You can not still be here! Die, die now! I will not permit this!"
Victory[]
- "I thought they would send their finest, but I won't lie, piggies, I found you all a little pedestrian. And now dead."
- "I said you would die, and you know what? You did die. Just like all the rest."
- "See? My hypothesis was sound. You were pathetic. You are nothing against me."
- "I shall gather up your remains and feed you to my creatures, so you will be some use."
- "You're all, too, weak. When will you learn this. Why even try to oppose me?"
- "You were such a waste of my effort. Inferior, so terribly inferior."
Gallery[]
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