The Knight (and his problems) ~

I agree. I think Knight's concept is awesome (as in "very different from the usual Killer powers"), but it's undeniable that he struggles a lot against medium-to-good survivors. I play this Killer almost everyday, and I have realized some things:

1. This "fake vault tech" to confuse the guards renders them almost completely useless (except the Carnifex, which we use to break pallets). This needs to be removed.
2. Huge cooldowns does not allow the Knight's fantasy to fullfill itself through his gameplay, which is a strategic Killer, commanding the ''pace of the game", forcing survivors to shift gens, play around the flag, move around a lot. Just keep the guards busy. The cooldown only starts counting when the guards disappear (or hit you). Then you got yourself almost 30s of peace.
3. If you refuse to use the "call to arms" addon, you cannot surprise survivors with "guards coming from nowhere", as his summoning-path lenght is basically the same as his terror radius distance. As a survivor, I can simply pre-leave the vicinity, or hide in a locker until the selected guard's patrol ends. If you try to summon mid-chase, they get to see the pathing and can simply juke around it.
4. Once the guards realize they found someone, it takes almost 2 to 3 seconds before they actually start acting. They scream and make that "open arms animation", then start running after the survivor, which gives the survivor plenty (as in PLENTY) of time to react.
5. His swords are usually gigantic, and he hold them on his shoulder. Looping a Knight in big structures is kinda easy, as you can always see the tip of his sword above the structure, not to mention he is a tall Killer, which kinda ruins the purpose of the "Town's watch torch" addon. This addon works greatly on indoors maps, but we cannot force maps now. Most of the time we end up playing in open maps…
6. As I said before, sometimes, creating a summoning path gets blocked by no reason or bumps your camera on top of a structure/hook. I'm going to install OBS again and try to capture some of these ''bugs''.

So… based on these observations, I can make a few suggestions that might improve his gameplay and help the Knight fullfill his fantasy concept…

1. Remove fake vault tech, improve the guards AI.
2. Reduce his cooldowns, specially Assassin's, since he only hunts you for a very short ammount of time, and experienced survivors never get hit. That or increase Assassin's speed to 4.6m/s. Kaneki, Henry Creel and Krasue have almost garanteed hits (you need to be very good to juke Henry and Krasue all the time, and Kaneki gets a free hit all the time, so…) I genuinely do not believe that this would break the game.
3. Someone from Behavior once said they've been thinking about reducing the overall number of addons and make some of them base kit. I believe this addon should be Knight's base kit. His only advantage, so far, is the surprise factor.
4. Reduce that animation delay to 1.5s or 1s. Survivors have pallets that they can drop and force the guards to ''cross it'' or ''countour it'', and when some guards ''dematerialize to cross the pallet'', they lose speed. So survivors should have less time to react. (Not to mention perks such as Sprint Burst + Vigil, Lithe, that Nicholas Cage one…)
5. Aesthetically wise, not much can be done here. Maybe allow the Killers to have increase chance of being sent to specific maps? We cannot turn the Knight into a mythological dwarf, neither reduce his swords to daggers…
6. That can be easily fixed by removing the restraint on path-creation. Once the path has been created, if the guards find the path pass inside a hook, they simply countour that hook and keep chasing. Making the pathing more…fluid?