Throwing knives currently don't have to hit a player to hurt them or kill them... the fact that players and just wildly fling knives and not land a hit and still get kills is insane... what's the point of having pvp and having a weapon you can miss and still get kills woth
Remove the throwing knives till they are fixed
You can also curve your throws!!
I love the knives. They're my go to projectile. They are a little wild against keg skellies. The number of knife snipes lol.
Do not remove
@burnbacon that's not the problem with these they have a phantom hit box to them that even if the don't physically hit the player they still count... that means you don't need skill you can spam them and the phantom hitbox size will do the rest of the work.
These weapons have such a large phantom hit area that even a foot to the left or the right still counts. No other weapon has this issue other than the sword lunge hitting people behind them.
If this is the quality of game development Rare holds themselves to they might as well get thier funding pulled by Microsoft because this level of game design is extremely subpar.
@th3-tater anyone using these in season thirteen are knowingly abusing the phantom hit range on these things.. using this weapon is just pure toxicity
@goutfoot-stiner said in Remove the throwing knives till they are fixed:
@th3-tater anyone using these in season thirteen are knowingly abusing the phantom hit range on these things.. using this weapon is just pure toxicity
it's a bug that really isn't on players because other than generally using a weapon in a game there isn't any action that is causing it (exploit/cheat)
If someone was doing some random act that specifically caused it then it would be on the players.
Really can't show any intent there with a majority of players, lots of people like the knives and have been using them since released.
Example. The brig for a long time, for whatever reason it became way faster than it was supposed to be, created metas and all sorts of negative stuff for the environment. Very annoying but not wrong doing by the players that used a ship in the game. Just needed to be addressed.
Would be the same for knives in this case.
I've done extensive testing with throwing knives in PvP + some PvE
The larger hitbox helps make up for how much they hitreg (which is a lot) as well as their short range and slow projectile speed in comparison to guns, and also helps players in close quarters to somewhat compete with blunderbusses for once. Instead of nerfing TKs until they're back to being utterly useless again, I recommend buffing every other weapon that isn't a sword, EoR, or blunderbuss.
There are no competitive HG players using throwing knives still. They are not overpowered, especially on a sloop, and in fact I believe their melee attacks in particular need a buff because the melee attacks are useless in PvP.
The throwing knives went from being completely useless in the beginning of release to being OK as they are now. They are still not a competitive weapon. They still require more skill than most weapons as they are easy to dodge at most ranges, and once you get in close you get one-blundered or sword-lorded.
If you find yourself dying to throwing knives a lot lately, then I recommend:
- Working on your movement, be less predictable
- Stocking up on better food before leaving the outposts.
@olde-grim-jack Exactly!
Knives are still out of meta and need a buff. To people saying hitboxes are too large - do you have any video of that? Proof? When I use knives I don't see this at all, lots of knives go by missing by an inch.
Use it yourself instead of crying for a nerf.
Pve has to deal with dust blocking clean hits lol.
Try tossing a blunder, fire or skelly bomb to get the pve block?
(Actually do, I'm curious...)
The Blunderbuss got nerfed like the partners have been demanding.
The BB is getting a Red Sea nerf...Is this your complaint or another partner complaint?
Yes please I'm fed up thinking I've dodged the knife thinking it's gone past me just to see my health go down. How are you supposed to dodge if you don't have any clue what's out of its hit box. I've physically seen the knifes go past my character then disappear instead staying where it actually hit
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