Throwing Knife (Payday 3)

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The Throwing Knife is a bladed throwable in PAYDAY 3.

Throwing Knife
Use this ninja shit for a quiet kill, but remember to retrieve it from the body. Knives ain't cheap.
Gameplay
Unlock Level	Level 16
Inventory Slot	Throwable
Statistics
Damage	150
Armor Penetration	2
Throwable Capacity	2
Explosion Radius	N/A
Stun Duration	N/A
Fuse Activation	N/A
Detonation Time	N/A
Other
Internal Name	Throwing_Knife

Overview

The Throwing Knife is a throwable that affects a single enemy when thrown. Upon impact against a surface, the Throwing Knife will break and become unusable, when the Throwing Knife impacts against a body, the knife will instead remain in-tact and inside the body. By default, players can carry up to 2 Throwing Knives.

Against enemies, the Throwing Knives will deal 150 damage to health with an armor penetration of 2

In stealth, the Throwing Knife is the only throwable that can be thrown and not alert any unwanted guards. When thrown near a guard, then they may come over and investigate the sound and object, after a few seconds they will continuetheir patrol.

Summary

Pros

• Lethal
• High damage
• Suited for stealth

Cons

• Affects only a single enemy
• Breaks upon impact with surfaces
• May be hard to find even when non-broken
• Non-broken knife may be in an inaccessible area

Strategies

In stealth, using the Throwing Knife can be used for luring or distracting guards. This emits the sound of the knife's impact, which causes a guard to investigate the sound. This leaves for the ability to create a distracting sound for guards to investigate without having them go into Search. This can be used for either completing objectives or moving a guard from an area for access.

Skill Upgrades

Knife Expert	Conman: Cutthroat	Tier 1
	Basic (1 Pt): If your starting loadout contains Throwing Knives, receive 1 additional knife for every skill equipped in this branch.
	Ace (1 Pt): For every skill equipped in this branch, Throwing Knives will penetrate 1 enemy and hit whatever is behind them.

Laceration	Conman: Cutthroat	Tier 2
	Basic (1 Pt): Throwing Knives cause Bleeding on targets. Over a duration of 8 seconds, Bleeding enemies will suffer twice the damage of a Throwing Knife directly to their health.
	Ace (1 Pt): The time it takes for an enemy to suffer their full Bleeding damage shortens to 3 seconds.

Deep Wounds	Conman: Cutthroat	Tier 2
	Basic (1 Pt): Throwing Knives deal 20% more damage.
	Ace (1 Pt): Increase your Throwing Knife damage bonus to 50%.

Prison Shiv	Conman: Cutthroat	Tier 3
	Basic (1 Pt): Every 5 ammo boxes you pick up will restore 1 Throwing Knife, but you can no longer get knives from Ammo Bags.
	Ace (1 Pt): It only takes 3 ammo boxes to build a Throwing Knife.

Deep Wounds	Conman: Cutthroat	Tier 3
	Basic (1 Pt): Hurl 2 Throwing Knives at once in a deadly arc. This maneuver costs 2 Throwing Knives.
	Ace (1 Pt): The number of Throwing Knives you can toss at once increases to 3. This will only cost 2 knives.

Hidden Blade	Conman: Cutthroat	Tier 4
	Basic (2 Pt): If you have at least 1 Throwing Knife, performing a quick melee on any enemy will spend the knife to instantly kill your target. This does not apply to Dozers. Throwing Knives used this way cannot be retrieved.
	Ace (2 Pt): If you are out of Throwing Knives, you may still quick-kill enemies after a 30 second cooldown.

Scavenger	Soldier: Grenadier	Tier 3
	Basic (1 Pt): Ammo pickups offer a 2% chance to restore 1 Throwable.
	Ace (1 Pt): The chance to restore a throwable from an ammo pickup raises to 5%.

Trivia

• The Throwing Knife is loosely based on the Kombativ Broadhead Black Throwing Knife.
  • However the design does differ, mainly with the amount of holes in the handle, as no current knife from Kombativ features only 4 holes.

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