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Knock Out is a Unique PerkIconHelp perks belonging to The CannibalIconHelpLoading cannibal.
Prestige The Cannibal to Prestige 1, 2, 3 respectively to unlock Tier I, Tier II, Tier III of Knock Out for all other Characters.

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IconPerks knockOut
Cost
2,500
IconHelp bloodpoints
3,250
IconHelp bloodpoints
4,000
IconHelp bloodpoints
Description
The trauma caused by your brutal attacks makes crying for help painfully difficult.

Putting a Survivor into the Dying StateIconHelp dying with your Basic Attack blocks their AuraIconHelp auras from being revealed to any Survivor, who is farther than 32/24/16 metres away from them.

For the next 15 seconds, the following effects apply to the dying Survivor:

  • Reduces their Field of View and causes them to be deafened.
  • Suffers from the BlindnessIconStatusEffects vision Status Effect.
  • Reduces the Crawling speed by -50 %.
  • Reduces the Recovery speed by -25 %.

"Oh, that gun's no good. The old way... with a sledge! You see, that way's better. They die better that way." — Nubbins Sawyer



History

Icon Tier I Tier II Tier III Description
IconPerks knockOut 32 metres 24 metres 16 metres The trauma caused by your brutal attacks makes crying for help painfully difficult.

Dying Survivors' Auras are not revealed to other Survivors when they are standing outside of a range of 32/24/16 metres.

Icon Tier I Tier II Tier III Description
IconPerks knockOut 32 metres 24 metres 16 metres The trauma caused by your brutal attacks makes crying for help painfully difficult.

When putting a Survivor into the Dying State with your Basic Attack:

  • Their Aura is not revealed to any Survivor farther away from them than 32/24/16 metres
  • For the next 15 seconds, the dying Survivor suffers from a decreased Field of View, the Blindness Status Effect, and crawls slower by -50 %.

Icon Tier I Tier II Tier III Description
IconPerks knockOut 32 metres 24 metres 16 metres The trauma caused by your brutal attacks makes crying for help painfully difficult.

When putting a Survivor into the Dying State with your Basic Attack:

  • Their Aura is not revealed to any Survivor farther away from them than 32/24/16 metres
  • For the next 15 seconds, the dying Survivor suffers from a decreased Field of View, the Blindness Status Effect, crawls slower by -50 % and has their Recovery speed reduced by -25 %.


Change Log

Patch 4.1.0

  • Nerf: now only triggers on Basic Attacks.
  • Buff: now causes downed Survivors to temporarily have no Aura-reading abilities and to crawl at a slower pace.
  • QoL: now temporarily causes downed Survivors to be deafened, while applying a tunnel vision effect.

Patch 6.1.0

  • Buff: added the effect of temporarily reducing Recovery speed.


Trivia

  • Knock Out applies the deafening sound effect to Survivors afflicted by it.
  • Knock Out used to be trumped by various Perks that allowed Survivors to see their injured peers, but this was changed in Patch 4.1.0.

In the Dark

  • In the Dark was an earlier version of Knock Out, and is still the name of it in the Game files.
    • Instead of the current effect, it would have increasingly reduced the Killer's Terror RadiusIconHelp terrorRadius, depending on the number of Survivors left in the Trial.
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Unknown QuestionMark
Cost
2,500
IconHelp bloodpoints
3,250
IconHelp bloodpoints
4,000
IconHelp bloodpoints
Description
THIS PERK IS UNUSED (This Unlockable is not used in the Game, but exists in code.)

THIS PERK WAS UNUSED AND UNOBTAINABLE BY PLAYERS.

Set your default Terror Radius based on how many Survivors were alive in the Trial:

  • 32 metres for 4 Survivors.
  • 24 metres for 3 Survivors.
  • 16 metres for 2 Survivors.
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