Though I hope that if they remove the super-stab, at least roll back the jaw-stab, otherwise knives are fucked. Now that I have time to review on the changes, here are my thoughts:
- Backstabbing unnoticed zeds are now unreliable, even when they do their look back animation and you're behind them, more often than not you just do a normal poke instead of instant kill jaw-stab. This seems like a big nerf to stealth kill with knives.
- Patch said this has been changed, but I can still manage to do a jaw-stab during zed attack animation. Sometimes the zed gets to me first before the jawstabbing anim finished, making my char does the heavy push anim.
- Edit: the crouch "shout"/whisper is not that useful, since the range is so short, even stabbing sound from a knife attracts zed farther than "psst".
I'm also curious about what the new change on Infection Mortality - Never does now. Back then it basically forces real zombie infection into a fake infection, similar to Hypochondriac, thus making bites infection curable with antibiotics.