Throwing knives good or bad?what are your thoughts?(Discussion)

[doodeeda]

Oh being bad has nothing to do with knives being bad.
But as I said, I myself played with knives a lot, using some macro to machinegun-speed-throw, and still didn't kill many. It works, but a rifle would just suit better. It used to be good when crushers had low HP and high deflect.

He probably meant the knives missed through RNG.

[Dolth]

Dunno how you made it to mentor.
Throwing can't miss with RNG.

[doodeeda]

Dunno how you made it to mentor.
Throwing can't miss with RNG.

I'm no expert on throwing knives unfortunately. I went off on what it sounded like he meant.

[Tidomann]

There is only one way to be a Chad operator, and a belt of throwing knives is one of those steps

[Mark Wilson]

One time I was pounced by a runner and dropped my M4A1. A RAV was about to charge me and I happend to see a throwing knife on the ground. Being the only ranged weapon to save me, I picked it up and threw it at the RAV. Idk if it was already wounded but it hurt it enough to scare it away, saving my life.

[Ames]

so what even is the point of throwing knives? When would anyone reasonably want to use them?

[Tidomann]

so what even is the point of throwing knives? When would anyone reasonably want to use them?

To spice up your round

[Ames]

If I could jam a throwing knife into my headband, now that would be spicy

[Dolth]

Throwing knives are crap that's it.

[TheMaskedMan2]

Throwing knives are good that's it.

ftfy

[Heckenshutze]

As stated many times before, throwing knives are for predators and humans. Not xenos. They ignore armor, stick in the wound and causes brute dmg by walking with it. They can put someone to crit with 3 knives and they're hard to dodge for the average player.

Even so, throwing knives, the alien harpoon and the standard harpoon are both AP so they can hit a crusher or a ravager just like any AP bullet.

[Swagile]

you can catch any thrown object, even when not facing it, as long as your throw key is on

think about that

[Karmac]

tl;dr

they're not designed for xeno combat and it's quite obvious so don't try to use them for that purpose unless you're A. Retarded or B. A meme.

[Crab_Spider]

tl;dr

they're not designed for xeno combat and it's quite obvious so don't try to use them for that purpose unless you're A. Retarded or B. A meme.

What if I'm neither and just like to punish myself?

[Recounted]

knives can get the job done if you remember to use them on a badly injured T1- young T2 throw one knife at em and they are in crit zone where you can finish them off.

[Solarmare]

An important tip with throwing knives is you can always shove two in your helmet. Or two stale protein bars if you weren't man enough to use them.

[WinterClould]

You can put a throwing knife in your boot knife slot if you feel like it so that's pretty neat. Just figured that out the other day.

[Crab_Spider]

Preds are slowed down when they take damage, right?

[Heckenshutze]

Preds are slowed down when they take damage, right?

And lose health everytime they move with the knife in the wound

[Crab_Spider]

And lose health everytime they move with the knife in the wound

Hm... alright. Now they're good for keeping predators from fleeing the fight, as well as ensuring if they are planning on using a weapon, they'll take the damage and continued accumulation of said damage will result in dismemberment, and will then take full damage.

Hypothesis is probably incorrect

[Heckenshutze]

Hm... alright. Now they're good for keeping predators from fleeing the fight, as well as ensuring if they are planning on using a weapon, they'll take the damage and continued accumulation of said damage will result in dismemberment, and will then take full damage.

Hypothesis is probably incorrect

They won't ever lose a limb because of the knife, move slower or be unavailable to use a weapon. But they will lose health overtime forcing them to flee to yank out the knife or to give up hunting you.

[Zilenan91]

No. The knives will do a lot of damage over time as they're in the predator and if you stick enough in they might do organ/eye damage and cause them to lose a ton of blood. If you can throw a stupid amount the pred might bleed out.

[Dolth]

Time to wear 2 throwing knives in helmet in case of human or predator encounter.

[Kerek]

Good against preds and humans, not worth your time against xenos.

[Crab_Spider]

Good against preds and humans, not worth your time against xenos.

It gets amusing when you throw them at xenos.