Throwing Knife Animation?

[519B.]

V now throws a knife from the handle instead of flipping it over in his hand and throwing it by the blade...it looks wrong.

Intentional change or bug?

[Zoid13]

yeah i noticed that it looks kind of odd. that's not how you throw knives.

[vile]

Originally posted by Zoid13:

yeah i noticed that it looks kind of odd. that's not how you throw knives.

Yes, it is. Both techniques see use by professional knife throwers depending on how the knife is weighted. Blade heavy knives are thrown from the handle, handle heavy knives are thrown from the blade.

IDK if they really thought that out, but it could be that most of the cyberpunk knives are blade heavy.

[Zoid13]

Originally posted by vile:

Originally posted by Zoid13:

yeah i noticed that it looks kind of odd. that's not how you throw knives.

Yes, it is. Both techniques see use by professional knife throwers depending on how the knife is weighted. Blade heavy knives are thrown from the handle, handle heavy knives are thrown from the blade.

IDK if they really thought that out, but it could be that most of the cyberpunk knives are blade heavy.

always thought it was range dependent. if you hold it by the blade and throw it at a target and it sticks with half a rotation (180 flips over so the blade is forward). throwing again from the same distance but holding it by the handle it will also 180 and the handle will hit the target and not stick.

longer distances require it to spin for it to have any kind of power behind it and at set distance intervals the blade will either stick or hit handle first.
you can adjust for this obviously but in general in a competition you have set distance lines and you train for the spin muscle memory to hit from those distances. throwing in between will likely result in a miss because your spin is off for the distance.

actual throwing knives are more like thick and heavy metal spikes more so than a "knife"
they don't need to be sharp and you wouldn't want them to have a sharp edge for hand safety. they do however need to be pointy :)
https://www.acejetofficial.com/throwing-knives
some kinda resemble knives


not claiming anything as fact. just stating how ive always through it works.
/shrug

[Rhapsody]

It's also faster to throw a knife when holding its handle if you intend to use it in close combat like the throwing knives are used in the game.

[519B.]

Originally posted by vile:

Originally posted by Zoid13:

yeah i noticed that it looks kind of odd. that's not how you throw knives.

Yes, it is. Both techniques see use by professional knife throwers depending on how the knife is weighted. Blade heavy knives are thrown from the handle, handle heavy knives are thrown from the blade.

IDK if they really thought that out, but it could be that most of the cyberpunk knives are blade heavy.

i don;t really care about the nuances, it's not like it varies by knife. I tried.

It looked better the way it way before imo