Let's talk about throwing knives

[crossmr]

I'll preface by saying I'm using an oculus touch. I wanted to get better at these. There is a small mode where you can kill people with them for like a minute, but I wanted longer. So I made a custom game with invulnerable mode. Fought until I got 2 things of knives and only used those after. I threw knives for 20 minutes straight.

These are buggy and sketchy as hell.

1. The knives would seemingly disappear about 50% of the time. I'd lift my hand and flick my wrist and let go of the button to throw them. A good 50% of the time the knife would be in my hand and then just disappear. It wouldn't shoot out of my hand in any direction that I could see. In this case I would hold my hand out with my wrist already tilted up. Then flick my hand forward and let go of the button at what I would guess be the right arc to have it go towards the enemy. It wasn't going backwards and I would have seen it go straight up (but there is no reason for it to do that).

2. For the throws where they actually went forward towards the enemy it was really hard to aim them. I seemed to alternate between throwing it over their head and throwing it into the dirt. It seems very difficult to hit the sweet spot on these. I did get quite a few head shots and things like that, but when you're throwing knives, especially against armored opponents, accuracy is very important. After 20 minutes of straight throwing I did not feel like my accuracy had improved even a tiny bit. If you're trying to be accurate and time this properly it seems nearly impossible to get enough force to do any real damage.

3. They need to do more damage when held as a dagger in case someone gets close. Since these can be really hard to aim and throw, if someone does get close we need to be able to hold them and go stabby with them. That didn't seem to work very well as far as I could tell.

[Caldor]

Yes, it would be nice if knives could be used to stab or cut the enemies, but for now you ought to drop it if one gets close and just use your fist or fists. Knock the enemy unconscious as fast as possible and then maybe throw the enemy away so you can have time to throw knives again.

[[They/Them] ChesseTheWasp]

daggers low damage is balanced out by the fact that they endlessly respawn from your arm unlike arrows which need to be manually picked up to get more ammo

[Caldor]

Originally posted by chesse20:

daggers low damage is balanced out by the fact that they endlessly respawn from your arm unlike arrows which need to be manually picked up to get more ammo

That does help quite a bit, but they are quite bad in close range as they need a bit of range to the thrown, so that leaves you with using them for melee, which is pretty unrealistic as they cannot stab or cut. Its usually better to just drop the knife and use your fist.

[Jack Bright]

For point one, you stuck it into the holster. I've done that a few times.
Point 2 is just a skill thing, I manage to land most of my knives.
Point 3, yes but if someone is in your face just punch them.

[[They/Them] ChesseTheWasp]

throwing knifes are the best weapon in the game your just a noob

[Deaths]

throwing knives OP, love them.

[LX357]

Dunno if you're still having trouble OP, but here's my two cents.

Throwing knives aren't killing weapons. I tried them as you did, one on each wrist (which as another has said is the source of your disappearing knives problem) and didn't get anywhere. Then, I fell in love with the fencers sword but got rekt by armored foes or people with spears.

Anyways - one day I paired throwing knives and the fencers sword and hit the jackpot. Throwing knives are your stun or armor breaker, while your melee weapon is your killing tool. As others have said, they regenerate so don't feel too bad about throwing one, and if you do throw with any sort of speed they *will* crack armor in two hits max. You've now opened up your enemy to be either stunned by a follow up knife to the chest, or outright killed by whatever else you have on hand.

Play it as a support item and not a weapon, let me know how you go.