Why are throwing knives so... bad

[vatszero]

Like I expected them to not be great, just like a fun weapon, but like why do they go so far off where im aiming, they are basically unusable. They dont even do particularly even if you could land every hit it would still be worse then using a normal gun or grenade so why do they have to be impossible to aim with?

[McFuzz]

Because every warbond was really really bad for a while, and only the things they specifically went out of their way to fix have been fixed.

Throwing knives have not been fixed.

You can equip grenades by pressing 4, yet numbnuts doesn't use the knife as a melee weapon when you do this and press f, and it feels like a missed opportunity.

[Colonel Tyborc]

gonna be honest the only thing the knives do well is stunning brood commander bugs and challenge runs for people that dont wanna use grenades

[Winblows]

id imagine its a ranged stealth option, since I dont think anything else but melee can stealth

[Furio]

all secondary weapons are stealthy + crossbow

[Blaze Deval]

Originally posted by Winblows:

id imagine its a ranged stealth option, since I dont think anything else but melee can stealth

The funny part is knives are loud to enemies.

[ArterialSpray1066]

Originally posted by McFuzz:

Because every warbond was really really bad for a while, and only the things they specifically went out of their way to fix have been fixed.

Throwing knives have not been fixed.

You can equip grenades by pressing 4, yet numbnuts doesn't use the knife as a melee weapon when you do this and press f, and it feels like a missed opportunity.

Really hoping this changes now that the game has actual melee weapons. Giving it a slow but very powerful "back stab" type melee which is also silent could be really fun for the people who want to focus on stealth.

[Winblows]

Originally posted by Blaze Deval:

Originally posted by Winblows:

id imagine its a ranged stealth option, since I dont think anything else but melee can stealth

The funny part is knives are loud to enemies.

thats dumb if thats the case.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by JUBA BAGHDAD SNIPER:

all secondary weapons are stealthy + crossbow

Is that still true? I thought that was changed?

[gothicpando]

To devs, Bad = Funny.

[Glimmer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B203twyaMfM

[Foxador]

The knives even get thrown super wobbly like this is the first time someone has ever tried to throw a knife. I've seen knives bounce off enemies because it hits them on the flat side, or it's really felt like it has

Either way, even with 28 knives I still wouldn't use them because it takes like 4 of them to kill a single guy unless you get super lucky

[Foxador]

Originally posted by Glimmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B203twyaMfM

That's how we *should* be able to throw a knife and they should change it to be as such. Instead we got limp wrizkit

[THE PILGRIM]

The devs specifically said that the knife was meant to be a sort of semi serious addition to the warbond it came with. I remember reading something along the lines of, we meant it as a last ditch effort sort of tactic, imagine the final enemy is bearing down on you, you're out of ammo, and you whip a knife at the enemy, killing it in sort of a dramatic last ditch defense.

[Foxador]

Originally posted by THE PILGRIM:

The devs specifically said that the knife was meant to be a sort of semi serious addition to the warbond it came with. I remember reading something along the lines of, we meant it as a last ditch effort sort of tactic, imagine the final enemy is bearing down on you, you're out of ammo, and you whip a knife at the enemy, killing it in sort of a dramatic last ditch defense.

They want to make it more fun? Change the melee attack when wielding one to a stab with the knife that does more damage than your base melee attack and also make it so you can actually hit the damn enemy that you're throwing the knifes at by making it more of a straight arc

The trailer shot they use of the knives being tosses is garbage because it's not like that in the game. You can't even kill a basic warrior with just one knife, you need to toss several and hope they hit and hope they hit the same part and hope they don't bounce

[Iratus Machina]

Only reason to bring throwing knives is so you can bring an MG of your choice, a crossbow, and Peak Physique armor so you can meme it up and pretend you're John Rambo. Otherwise, it's probably for the better you bring grenades instead, especially thermite or gas grenades depending which front you're on.