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Playing the Knight

Gwinty
Gwinty Member Posts: 981
in General Discussions

So, I have of course gotten the Knight and started playing him.

Right off the bat I decided that I will not use the "drop the guard in the loop" style. I tried it once and there is nothing more boring that dropping and running after a survivor who holds shift+w (best option, honestly).

As such I tried a different approach: I took "Nowhere to hide", "A Nurses' Calling", "Sloppy Butcher" and "Call of Brine". My goal was to interrupt survivors with my guards in uncomfortable situations, chase them off generators or disrupt their healing.

It was quit effective. More than once I triggered a guard hunt and was able to sandwich the survivor, sometimes even scoring a double hit if they screwed up. As said I never used the power in the loop, however I was able to use the power in the loop to dispatch my guard at nearby generators. Also once I downed a survivor I used my guard to secure my path to the hook or just chase people of generators nearby once more.

Sometimes I used Carnifex to smash pallets (quit useful), sometimes I dispatched the Jailer to smash doors (Jailer is the most useless). Assassin was my favourite to dispatch for generator interruption because his deep wounds meant not Dead Hard. Kicking a generator with Nowhere to Hide was also great as if I saw somebody I could dispatch my guard on them and go for a tag-team move right away.

Overall I found this playstyle quit enjoyable as a Killer and thus wanted to share it with you. It was not anything meta-breaking but requires some smart decisions and knowledge about survivors habits. Its more of a playstyle that gives you a 2:2 and little frustration with people trying to sabotage or flashlight save. Also few people suspect this use of the Knight for some reason. Maybe you want to try it too.

What would interest me: Did any survivors here face a Knight that played like that? And how did it feel is it overall better than the drop-guard.exe simulatior?

Sadly I mostly got Knight who camped (with teammates not knowing that guards despawn on an unhook), tunnel or just drop the guard in the loop (shift+w) and have no experience with this playstyle as a survivor.

Comments

  • Tsela
    Tsela Member Posts: 524
    edited December 2022

    Well I recently returned to the game and I picked up knight also to keep the collection full

    My approach was to make some sort of heavy armor scary guy from him :)

    I only use guard summons for patrol and survivor detection, (so I put on larger detection area and longer patrol time addons)

    And for the fun of it I build him as a heavy metal war machine.

    The perks I use currently are CALL OF BRINE, ENDURING, SPIRIT FURRY, HUBRIS

    Those short stun times and auto pallet breaks while also exposing them are really cool for a guy in armor charging after them :) try it. It's fun to see the instant scare when they pull a pallet on you, it instantly breaks and the big knight charges through and downs them in one hit