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Do Not Remove Knight's Window Tech: Its His Most Important Counter (And Was Made A FEATURE in 8.1.0)
As a P100 Knight Main, please do not remove this very important counter from the game:
Being able to distract The Guards by drawing them to windows is one of the ONLY things that a Survivor can do in the corner or edge of the map to not die, and it's a very fun and important part of mindgames between the 2 roles.
"Will they go for the window distraction, or won't they? Which way does The Knight need to go to cut them off? Which way does the Knight think the Survivor is going to go?"
Not to mention, a whole Discord Stage event was hosted on the Dead by Daylight official Discord where, when Knight was reworked in 8.1.0, this was announced to the community that it had been implemented as a proper feature! This was officially made not a bug!
It's even listed in the patch notes for 8.1.0!
There's even a whole smokey VFX that appears when Survivors reach a window to indicate that Survivors "have successfully distracted a guard!"
This has become one of the most important and interactive parts of facing The Knight, and it would be quite awful to remove!
Removing this feature from the game will not only make that "feature" go to waste, but also remove one of the only counters Knight has in some incredibly unfun unwinnable scenarios in chase. I implore, please leave this feature in the game!
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They apparently didn't removed it 👍
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They did not remove it, that's not what that change means.
Essentially, you can still window fake, but if a guard is very close to a survivor and could hit them (ie. they are within striking distance), it will now hit them instead of going to the window, that's all the change is.
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So my understanding is that the guards will now prioritize hitting the survivor in melee distance rather than going through them towards the window. Not that you can't not fake it entirely. Kind of how like a bodyblocking survivor can be hit like a guard. You can still "fake" it but now you gotta not just run directly into them.
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It's literally a bug, that got turned into a feature.
The banner is supposed to be the counter, not "oh look a window, let me run in front of it so I'm safe lol".
This thing is one of the most weird things that became features, since in any other case, it would get treated as a bug and removed. Hug tech? DENIED. Crouch Tech? DENIED. Completely random AI bug? Sure let's make it basekit.
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even crouch tech is now "kinda officially" made into feature
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Couch teching is absolutely still a thing. I watch some streamers take time to test it with Blight and Demo (It was either Otz or Hens I can't remember who I was watching), on the same level and in higher areas and couching made both killers slide off. When survivor stood up, hits were normal. So I'm not really sure what they changed about crouch teching but it is definitely still in this PTB.
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you dont main knight
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so they can fix bug and they're purposely not fixing it to keep killer weak.
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As others said, they didn't remove that tech. That said I disagree that it's Knight most important counter. The counter should be the banner, not faking a window. The window tech makes a weak killer even more weaker and the major reason I will never touch him ever again. He a garbage killer that relies on bad AI programming.
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