Why spawn human pawns in a solo practice game?

ZED health scales with the number of players. Spawning up to 5 braindead human pawns raises the difficulty to match an online game.

How do I pause the ZEDs while practicing?

Press P to pause or resume them. You can also remove all of them with the killzeds command.

Which command spawns a Scrake or Fleshpound?

spawnai scrake and spawnai fleshpound. For bosses use spawnai hans volter or spawnai patriarch.

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KF2 Console Practice: Spawn Scrakes, Fleshpounds, Bosses

This short guide shows how to train against large ZEDs in an offline Killing Floor 2 game using the console. Cheats work only in solo/offline play. Another take on the same idea is KF2 large ZED takedown practice.

Setup

Start Killing Floor 2 and choose a solo (offline) game so the console commands work.
In the lobby, pick the perk you want to practice with.
Press F3. A black bar with a green border opens at the bottom of the screen.
Type enablecheats while still in the lobby (without brackets).
When the game starts, press P. This pauses the ZEDs so you can move around; press it again to resume.

Give yourself gear

Command	Result
`berserk`	Berserker weapons
`medic`	Medic weapons
`assault`	Commando weapons
`shotty`	Support weapons
`firebug`	Firebug weapons
`demo`	Demolitionist weapons
`duelies`	Gunslinger weapons
`allammo`	All ammo
`healme 200`	Heal 200 HP (any number works)
`armorme 100`	Armor, although the author advises not relying on it

Spawn practice targets

spawnzed spawns a braindead ZED that does not move but has basic animations. Aim straight ahead or it will spawn in the floor.
Spawn a Clot with spawnzed clot and leave it alive so the wave cannot end; a couple more for good measure.
To match online health scaling, run spawnhumanpawn up to 5 times, moving the crosshair each time. If one dies you have to restart. Use ghost and walk to toggle no-clip and place them somewhere safe, for example behind the kitchen counter on Outpost.
Move elsewhere, un-pause the ZEDs and clear them. If you did it right, the wave does not end and you can begin training.
Optional: demigod lets you take damage without dying, so you can see how much damage you took.

Spawn the big ZEDs

Command	Spawns
`spawnai scrake`	Scrake
`spawnai fleshpound`	Fleshpound
`spawnai hans volter`	Hans Volter
`spawnai patriarch`	Patriarch

Pause with P at any time. To reset, killzeds removes all ZEDs.

Why human pawns

ZED health depends on how many players are in the game, so the braindead human pawns make the large ZEDs as tough as in a real lobby.

FAQ

Why spawn human pawns in a solo practice game?: ZED health scales with the number of players. Spawning up to 5 braindead human pawns raises the difficulty to match an online game.
How do I pause the ZEDs while practicing?: Press P to pause or resume them. You can also remove all of them with the killzeds command.
Which command spawns a Scrake or Fleshpound?: spawnai scrake and spawnai fleshpound. For bosses use spawnai hans volter or spawnai patriarch.