The throwing knifes are not good in my opinion (especially since its competing with the fire nades) they can one hit most specials and elites if you hit them in the head yes and are definitely useable and satisfying. but i feel like if you hit enemies in the body it should get a guaranteed stagger on them (stopping gunners/flamers from shooting, flinching trappers so they stop comming at me.)
This would make them much more useful in a more intense situation and i would enjoy using them so much more. Eg a horde is swarming me and a trapper is coming at me from the back i need to prioritise the trapper i throw a throwing knife at its head and it dies very nice but if it hits them a little to low as i have to quick throw to make sure i dont get hit nothing happens to them. I think a throwing knife to the body should guarantee a stagger on specialist/elites (not armoured ones) giving more utility to the knifes like quick throwing one at a gunner to stop him shooting instead of having to be 100% accurate to get any benifit from using them. As they just dont care at all if its a body hit.
I like knives most of all because the most survivability is right next to them. Sorry, your crit build FF has nothing on the all cases easy mode that is toughness on dodge and 50% damage reduction on crit.
Knives are no coincidence 100% hinged on usability. This is why I think all console players (sorry to paint you with this brush but this is the exact complaint as my 2 console buddies I crossplay with) would be a lot better with rebinds. Blitz Enjoyer is a decent controller set up for exactly that, but you have to re-establish a new scheme for just about everything else. This is 2024 and you have only the 7 or so control schemes they thought of. That is woefully inadequate.
As for the knives themselves they are absolutely goated and somehow immune to most bug fixes. Like atm perfect strike lets you kill multiple specialists with one throw. I have more than a couple clips of that…
I would just like to be able to equip the knife like other blitzes. I don’t know if it’s different for keyboard players, but tap to throw can be clunky on a moving target for controllers where blitz is D-padded.
Throwing knives are easily the most powerful gadget option on zealot, but require a bit more practice. They really don’t need more buffs. I find binding knives to my mouse wheel (I disable mouse wheel up and down) makes it easier to aim.