Trying to predict Knight's future

He’ll be like trickster. Buffed slightly but not enough for people to bother playing him

In terms of cosmetics he’ll be like slinger. A small selection of outfits that barely fit the characters theme

Seriously, I think he will be abandoned like the Twins, but what he REALLY needed was the Freddy treatment. His power is so bad in so many ways it needed a full rework.

Looking at how fast people stopped playing him after release, i´d say he´s just another killer no one bothers to play. Like Twins.

And just like Twins, there will be that one player who mains him and single handedly drives his kill rate up, using only the best addons. Which will "justify" not buffing him.

Statistics show numbers, but it is important to consider why the numbers are the way they are.

Knight is played a lot in the first 3 months or so when he first appeared. But Knight will soon become the worst used killer. He may still be used more than the Twins though lol. Unlike Wesker, he is weak, uninteresting and very difficult to find value in playing. There is no expansion through add-ons.

And the players who continue to use the knight even though no one uses him anymore will play him really well. This could cause the denominator to decrease and the numerator to increase, resulting in a not-so-low kill rate. (For my part, I also think that the kill rate may not go up even if the knight is handled well.)

They may look at it and decide it's "playable, git gud" and leave it as it has always been, and I really don't expect that since almost nothing has changed after the PTB feedback.

I dont think the Knight will be ever be played a lot because his power relies entirely on AI and its prone to many bugs, Nemesis was released like a year and a half ago and his zombies still have plenty of bugs with pathing and location but at least they are just a minor part of his power.

I guess his kill rates will be way higher than people think.

Players here in the forum are just too good (or pretend to be).

He is a killer with extra stuff to care about - the normal player struggles with extra stuff.

I played some rounds and a lot just ran into me while escaping the guards.

It's tough and I kind of feel for the devs on this one. It's a killer power nobody really wanted on either side, and it's weak. It promotes the worst aspects of DbD for both roles: camping/tunneling/zoning on killer and holding W on survivor. Players were tired of it before Knight came out. So a whole dev cycle went into this killer and there's already an argument to be made for a full rework within 2 weeks of their release.

It's a bit of a disaster and you wonder how much they're reading the room in terms of what players are looking for with killer powers and gameplay. They don't seem interested in releasing mechanically complex killers anymore for whatever reason (unless you count Pinhead). And we have to take the context of 6.1 into the conversation where they made perk changes that have led to arguably the worst meta we've seen gameplay-wise. There's a disconnect here.

It's hard to say what they're going to do with the Knight or the game as a whole.

They don't balance the game around the top level of play. They balance around the mediocre terms of play.

It's why knight is so survivor friendly as he is. He's a good killer for the lower levels to contend with. He'll be one of the killers the new players figure out how to play against first like trapper is.

So his kill rate will be solid since he'll butcher the low ranks, thus the Devs will think he's in a solid spot but get trashed at the higher levels like more than half of the killer Roster.

It's why nurse isn't touched. She has the lowest kill rate in the game since at the low levels where no one can play her she's struggling super hard. But at the higher levels she's the dominant killer of the roster competing against the best of the best survivors and survivor swfs.

As long as he's not so bad even the newbies and bad players are taking him down easily they'll be content with him.

Yep. Him and slinger both have huge cosmetic opportunities

When you make an undead looking outlaw how are the 2 cosmetics that come to your mind “red Chinese onesie” and “moths”

depends on what account your asking about.

In total I think I've got close to 6K hours on Killer and MAYBE 1K on Survivor.

I think I've put about a day or so into him.

I think he's bad but generally usable. He relies on addons to get value out of his power though. Extra chase time and map of the realm are must runs after his nerf in the hot fix patch.

I figure if I can learn him now than imagine how good I could be when they buff him.

They're gonna buff him....right? Surely.

Unless you are willing to commit to the most horrendously boring killer playstyles imaginable, he is actually that bad. It's hard to believe he made it through a dev cycle all the way to release