The point of throwing knives

[John Helldiver]

Can someone genuinely explain to me what is the purpose of the throwing knives? I have been running them for a bit and then switched back to grenades and realized that the knives are near useless, and way more situational

[EotB]

kitchen knifes! for people who are afraid of grenades!
Now comes with even more armor penetration for only 19.99!

[Galahad]

4 knives to the leg kills a charger behemoth with the knives other than that I've seen no use.

It'd be pretty cool if meleeing while holding the throwing knife did a souped up melee stab for bonus damage and penetration but nope.

Even the melee bonus damage armour they brought out has an unusable knife attached to it. Just let us stab enemies in this game jeez what's so hard about it.

[DivinexPhantom]

Originally posted by John Helldiver, Liberator:

Can someone genuinely explain to me what is the purpose of the throwing knives? I have been running them for a bit and then switched back to grenades and realized that the knives are near useless, and way more situational

i tried to use them to hunt teammates for chaos divers event lol, but couldent hit them even when they were standing still, thats the last time i used that lol.

[Tahla]

Originally posted by Midnight Prince:

4 knives to the leg kills a charger behemoth with the knives other than that I've seen no use.

It'd be pretty cool if meleeing while holding the throwing knife did a souped up melee stab for bonus damage and penetration but nope.

Even the melee bonus damage armour they brought out has an unusable knife attached to it. Just let us stab enemies in this game jeez what's so hard about it.

Pretty sure they fixed charger leg armor at the same time they "fixed" the flame thrower.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by John Helldiver, Liberator:

Can someone genuinely explain to me what is the purpose of the throwing knives? I have been running them for a bit and then switched back to grenades and realized that the knives are near useless, and way more situational

Originally posted by Lord Rambo:

It's for sweatlords who don't feel like they need any demolition or crowd control capabilities in their loadout and expect their teammates to pick up the slack. It can inflict damage through heavy armor and if you throw your whole load you can kill one whole charger (so ive been told), but I anticipate this is just a bug and will be patched out soon.

To kill silently. It was never meant as a ccrowd control weapon. I tried it a few times when it was released and it works well for clearing objectives to just get rid of the chaff and let's face it chaff is worse because every survivor can call in an entire invasion force upon you. It is a viable option for those who can control themselves by finishing the objective and not make the mission any more difficult than it is by aggroing more enemies.
Those who don't have the skills to pull it off always call others names like sweat lords and those who can't think out of the box often question the usefulness of odd items....

[Merlin]

Originally posted by Democracy Dispenser:

Originally posted by John Helldiver, Liberator:

Can someone genuinely explain to me what is the purpose of the throwing knives? I have been running them for a bit and then switched back to grenades and realized that the knives are near useless, and way more situational

i believe the devs described the purpose for the throwing knives and the purpose for the very dumb ammo restrictions was to evoke a strong emotional response upon actually killing something with such a useless item after running out of ammo. not even joking.

It's like rotten tomatoes instead of killer tomatoes! Bad idea's need a toilet of it's own!

[darkblade]

Originally posted by John Helldiver, Liberator:

Can someone genuinely explain to me what is the purpose of the throwing knives? I have been running them for a bit and then switched back to grenades and realized that the knives are near useless, and way more situational

Only for fun

[DrewDaddy]

They looked at their "useless ♥♥♥♥ we can add with very little effort" chart. Knives were next on the list.

[John Helldiver]

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

To make filler so consoomers can waste 10€ on something. No, really

I mean it was free cus I play the game and have sc but alright buddy

[Hariman]

Originally posted by Chocbomb:

We should all have knives without needing a slot.
Super Earth feels cheap not giving us survival knives.

"Join the super special awesome helldivers!"

Actual helldivers in action: Ill equipped cannon fodder tossed against horrible enemies in the hopes enough bodies clog the breach with helldiver dead, guided by incompetent leadership, forced to call in weapons that are more effective against many enemies, and so much more wrong with how the helldivers are --

DEMOCRACY OFFICER REPORT: ILLEGAL TRANSMISSION TERMINATED. GLORY TO THE HELLDIVERS, THE BEST EQUIPPED ARMY IN THE HISTORY OF SUPER EARTH, WHO NEVER DIE!

[Haych]

Can we please just be honest and say, its because people have fun with them, and that's exactly the only point?

They're supposed to be stealthy, and maybe they are better noise-damage-ratio wise than some of the quieter guns?

[MagikarpMagi]

Originally posted by John Helldiver, Liberator:

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

To make filler so consoomers can waste 10€ on something. No, really

I mean it was free cus I play the game and have sc but alright buddy

so say we all

but damn, they suck even for free

[Bad_Lieutenant]

Its a meme/starship troopers reference weapon in this game.

[John Helldiver]

Originally posted by CritMasterFlex:

Originally posted by John Helldiver, Liberator:

I mean it was free cus I play the game and have sc but alright buddy

so say we all

but damn, they suck even for free

Real

[John Helldiver]

Originally posted by Mud Trek Flyswatta:

Can we please just be honest and say, its because people have fun with them, and that's exactly the only point?

They're supposed to be stealthy, and maybe they are better noise-damage-ratio wise than some of the quieter guns?

They are fun to use and feel great to throw, but it would be even more fun if when I hit the enemy it actually did something