I am playing thru the campaign on legendary, I played thru once on Heroic to get a feel for it. I am trying to get a feel for how to best deal with knights, let alone all prometheians.
I know for like elites you overcharge a plasma pistol and headshot them and that’s that. But I have not figured any go-to strategy against Knights besides pepper them with everything you have.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, try to keep it to like “common” weapons things that would normally be dropped all the time in these levels.
What has been very effective for me is using the suppressor to drop their shield then the light rifle (headshots, preferably) to finish them off. Its a new variation of the noob combo, but it seems to work and keep the frustration levels down.
Always go for the watchers first though as mentioned above.
I am going through legendary slowly and using range to my advantage. With some Knights I use the hologram to get them distracted and assassinate them, but that’s only if they are alone. Do everything with a much range as possible and you’ll be fine.
Needler works great. Shotgun/scattershot if you get in close but be careful the knights pretty much have a one hit KO. On mission 8 that part before you reach the didact is really head shots with the light rifle and scattershot. Binary rifle if you can get one. And of course the incineration cannon is a beast <3
The best thing I’ve found is to pick up an Incineration Cannon whenever possible, they’re more common then you might think. Otherwise, take out all the Watchers and Crawlers first, then either keep poppin gthem with scoped weapons or unload with automatic weapons. Shotguns and Scattershots usually get them down a little quicker then rifles.
A second item which Spartan Ops reminded me of, clear out the pack dog crawlers if you can first. They can be irritating at dropping your shields while trying to deal with the knights. Just clear everything out until the knight is the only thing you have to deal with.
I disagree about staying back on legendary. If you can assassinate them. If not a scattershot is great. Also, just melee, thats how i got through the fastest when I beat it solo on legendary. I was aggressive .
Plasma pistol combo still works on knights. It’s just more difficult because they only show their “heads” while they are initially stunned by the plasma. Oh, and that “head” is extremely small. So, this isn’t the easiest solution.
Destroying their shield still makes them easier to kill. So opening with a plasma bolt isn’t a bad way to go.
Definitely stay back and kill the watchers and crawlers(You can kill crawlers with one headshot of an uncharged boltshot, if you’re shy of ammo) first. If you have a plasma pistol, hitting the knight and breaking it’s shield will make it take cover for a while.
If the watcher is dead, hitting a knight directly with a pulse grenade makes them stumble. Which leaves them inside the ionization zone for a moment. Throwing two like this consecutively almost kills them. It makes them much weaker.
I wouldn’t try it on legendary, but a fully charged plasma pistol or boltshot would break their shield. Which causes them to raise their arms and scream. Making them prone to assassination if you’re close. But, like I said. Poor plan on legendary.
I’m naming multiple things because not every situation is the same. Personally, when I got further in the game I just always had an incineration cannon handy, or knew where one nearby was. I probably killed almost every knight in the final level with it.
Biggest tip definitely being…
-Kill the other enemies first
On legendary, I make it a point to always carry around a Plasma Pistol and a weapon I can get a headshot with. I usually skip around power weapons or anything else unless it’s a level that I most likely won’t see the weapon combo I am looking for.
Plasma weapons break shields faster, and head shot weapons work well after that, with the light rifle being the best for the job. The Cov Carbine has given me lots of trouble with killing knights without shields. I usually try to stick with the BR, DMR, or Light Rifle.
When cov. weapons are not available, I try to stick with the light rifle, scattershot combo. scattershot works great on all knights wielding anything other than the scattershot or rocket launcher. Use the hologram and turret AAs to distract knights, and unload with the scattershot from up close. Usually takes about 3 shots.
When you see a knight jump in the air to melee you, or start teleporting to you to melee you, get ready to move around them and assassinate. You can sometimes bait these attacks to get a kill. You can also take advantage of the long grenade toss animation from close to mid range.
Overall, knights are a pain in the -Yoink-. Also, as others have said before… kill all other enemies first (watchers being the highest priority).
Also! Avoid letting them teleport! They always seem to recharge their shields after telporting, effectively wasting the time you spent taking them down in the first place. They usually seem to port only after you break their shields. You also tend to run out of ammo with the DMR,BR, and Light Rifle as soon as you break their shields…
A GREAT tactic to avoid this if you want to kill them using ONLY those weapons (sometimes you have no choice) is to hit them with 1/2 to 3/4 of your clip, and BEFORE you break their shields, reload, then continue to unload on them. If you do it right, their shields should break in a few shots on the new clip, and you can continue firing at their heads. They should die before they recover from the stumble/angry animation.
Their shields recharge super fast, so make sure you only focus on one target at a time.
Try and get a ranged weapon like the light rifle, DMR or carbine. if you have a sniper then it’s pretty easy.(Try to avoid getting close to them as much as possible. Running up to them is risky and not always the best thing to do. Just step back and -Yoinks!- the situation a bit and don’t try and be Rambo)
Try to draw them away from cover a little bit with grenades so they’ve got nothing to dash behind and just keep hitting them in the head. If their shields pop and you have to reload quickly swap to another weapon and try to get as many hits in as possible.
The charged plasma works also with them, so why not?
Anyway it’s easy to kill them if it’s only one. Kill watcher, then the crawlers leaving the Knight alone and just have fun choosing best way for killing. Some granades and than AR? many headshots from the distance? Or just some punchs in the right moment (behing careful if he doesn’t do the same or you are dead)?
For big groups just try to make them attack one per time, or stay much far away from them and shot their heads. The AI isn’t the best, they don’t understand that they need to move while being shotted from far away…