@@blueboy1958 It doesn't fit the initial vibe, but it fits the vibe of "What the fuck ARE you?!" since it's a mystical-science thing waving around a fire axe and morphing into a mobile artillery cannon while pretending to be someone from the cast.
Insidious Unknown feels like a match made in Heaven. It's the world's cheapest jumpscare build, and I can see it being far more viable than any other since it makes survivors afraid to counter your map presence. Once somebody gets jumpscared, the whole swf is paranoid. If it's a solo que, someone still gets paranoid, so it's still a win. Funny and effective.
@@evilyoshimaster the thing is that people are encouraged to approach The Unknown's hallucinations. A bunch of times today I got hilarious scares on people trying to "Dispel" me before they worked on the gen I was standing by.
I tried so hard to love it, sadly after the first month all the Teens had the best broken weapons and no matter how good I was at Werewolf it was never enough. Such a shame as it was fun while it lasted
I think the idea is since visualizing him is what makes him come for you, his power and aesthetic is a fusion of every single urban legend ever told about him. To be an SCP nerd, he's a Keter Class Memetic Anomaly.
Yes, the Unknown is definetly a Memetic Hazard, but I'm not sure if it would classify as Keter. Since the Unknown relies on people to be aware of it's existence, the SCP Foundation could keep it somewhat at bay by censoring media and by using amnestics on possible witnesses. If they could manage to do that, the Unknown could possibly be classified as Euclid, since it doesn't pose a "great" threat (anymore) but can also not be entirely contained. On the other hand, if the existence of the Unknown would be exposed globaly... if might cause billions of deaths if not dealt with in time. Maybe even an end-of-the-world scenario. But hey, I'm no expert in that. I'm just sharing my thoughts on this. Let me know what you think :)
which is why, even tho he is fused from like 10 different aspects and ideas, he is still very much scary and I think his power feels overloaded but not unfitting of the character. He's the Tactical Skinwalker with a Gun leaving scary talking after images ( I mean, first time I saw them i had a heartache when they started talking ☠)
@@davinpaz1871 Let me clarify, I think Insidous is *good* on The Unknown. Kicking a Gen with Pop, or Dragons Grip. Or Whatever you want? Then stand near it, boom. Alot of people pre-run, so they don't even see you kick and leave, they just come back, and see its kicked, and there is a Husk. They fall for it alot
I think one of the funniest things about the Unknown was when his power was revealed everyone I saw kinda squinted at it and said "why, it doesn't fit at all" but everyone has been having so much fun with it that it didn't end up mattering.
Unknown is such a fun killer. And i absolutely love running off-meta perks on him. just pure oblivious/undetectable. and not commiting to chases to harrass other players is very, very fun. Personally, i'm a big fan of not running slowdowns, at all. Chase and weird perks is where it's at. And yes. Hysteria is absolutely monstrous on him.
Perfectly aiming a shot that goes through someone and then bounces back to hit them plays the TF2 double donk sound in my brain and I think that's the really important part.
I just want it known that I intentionally wait to learn anything about new killers until Rowby covers them. Hands down the best way to find out new stuff coming to dbd
thanks for your videos, out of all the people i regularly watch, you're the one i get most excited about, no matter what the topic i actually held off on watching this video until i had dinner and was comfortable, and looked forward to it all day like some sort of movie premiere and i have to say, i was not disappointed. your work is more appreciated than you know
Personally I would always run Distortion with the new Invocation since the killer seeing your aura in the basement is the biggest risk factor to finishing it. The new survivor build I’d love to see is Distortion, Invocation Weaving Spiders, No Mither, and a perk that works while injured or that uses Broken (e.g. Resilience, Deliverance, etc) plus a basement offering that lets you know exactly where the basement is at the start of the match. Then you just head straight for the basement and do the Invocation right away, hopefully getting it to trigger on as many gens as possible. With any luck the Distortion will keep you concealed while it’s happening and you can finish. Since you’ll then be Broken most of the match afterward you may as well get the benefits of No Mither too and some other perk that makes use of being injured or that has a Broken penalty as well.
I swear once people started looking at the grenade launcher they completely forgot about his mechanics and it really frustrates me. That grenade launcher isn’t just to deal damage but to also spawn your hallucinations faster and allow you to reset the teleportation cooldown faster. Also just pulling out the power will move the hallucination generation meter down so you can be precise on where you want to place it.
@@worldofoblivion977reading this I just imagine an automated grenade launcher on a tripod stand that teleports around and that’s a pretty terrifying thought
One of the funniest builds I've gotten my friend to try was anti-loop Bubba. Crowd control, blood favor, cruel limits, and he choose ultimate weapon so he could find people.
such an amazing video rowby, giveing me the joy on how a killer is played, and the reason that i quit dbd for 2 yeara and still havent picked it up with that 10 perk line (14:59)
im so happy with the positive reception to this chapter! it's such a good one with lots of love put into the lore, power, map, characters, and voice acting
I will always take rowbys perk suggestion to the highest degree because instead of typical meta builds, he recommends unpopular perks that have a surprising amount of synergy with that killer
I don't get it: He can teleport wherever he wants pretty fast without needing to put down anything. Hag left the chat. Dredge left the chat. Sadako left the chat. Freddie left the chat.
I’ve been playing him with unbound, rapid brutality, superior anatomy and either dissolution or thwack! With his purple game cartridge add on and it’s been a fucking blast
I actually love Sable cus I think The Unknown is meant to be DBD's take on internet horror like creepypastas. Which is played completely straight. On the other side, Sable is an over the top parody of the kinds of people that READ internet horror stories. Looking at it from that perspective imma be real she's one of my favorite survivors in the game lmao
Rowby being generally excited about an edition to the game is really nice to see; actually happy to see your just generally pleased with an addition from time to time. Def have to agree, The Unknown feels very inspired, and has a simple power that can be used for some crazy technical feats; with fantastic zoning opportunities. Weaving spiders is hilarious however
So a fun little note about unforeseen and trail of torment is that you can apply both at the same time and have two separate terror radius and it does exactly what you’d expect on doctor
That title sure does make this sound a lot cooler than it actually is. It's still cool, mind you, but much like all the teasers for the Unknown it hypes up a weird flesh man who isn't at all what you think
I think that was the idea. For a creature that verbally states that it prides itself for being unintelligable and anamonous, itd only be thematically accurate that his gameplay screwed over all expectations.
If you want a usage for Undone, I'd look on the same page of perks it's on. Undone + Unforeseen + Unnerving, specifically. Sure it takes 3 perk slots and isn't good but it gives all of these weird perks an additional purpose, and it makes me happy seeing perks I like getting some sort of synergy
I feel like your one of the only players who actually understands how to play this killer. In Scott Jund’s video on him, he said the killer only had a limited pocket to go for the other shot because of good survivors looking behind them, disregarding the fact you don’t have to take shots from LOS and can just hide/TP and keep venom on them for pressure or an unexpected snipe from the other side. Good guide video!
i don't even play dbd but i like watching these lol. but bruh the desert map with the black goop dripping into the sky makes me want to play fable 3. iykyk
I swear I remembered some killer concept ideas from like 2020 where they had a pirate killer that shot a grenade launcher esque canon. Acting similar to this guy's power.
Personally I've loved Devour Hope on unknown so far, he has SUCH AGGRESSIVE map pressure that most of the time my survivors aren't paying attention to anything but gens until I've gotten them to the exposed token set and by then I'll be able to just use my UVX to mask it for two downs to then get my kills. That including you can drop a husk on the totem and you can almost guard it all game while still having good pressure and chase power ❤ love the vid as always Rowby 🤝
6:09 my favorite spot to do this on is 2nd floor rpd, right above main generator (bonus points if you have undetectable). You can cut off people running into main door + pressure main generator and it's hard af for them to get rid of it because they need to go all the way around
Thanks rowby i have also been quirky with my builds. I have made a terminus wesker build thats been succesful and even a eruption/unbeknown build with unknown!
I loved the my immortal reference. But seriously I love the new killers look and vibe, give us more freaky monsters instead of normal people with sharp objects, also more voice lines.
My favorite way to use Undone is, surprisingly, a Twins perk. Oppression makes it so every time you kick a generator, just about everyone working on a gen gets a very hard skillcheck. Because of this, you can use oppression to get undone stacks, then you also get stacks every time you USE undone. Most of the time whatever stacks you have will instantly refresh upon use
I can hear the coms now, “Oh shit he’s edging he’s edging”
"Check out this new killer design"
"What power should he have?"
"a grenade launcher"
These fucking devs
He’s pretty strong though
While his power doesn't exactly fit his initial vibe, it's still a damn fun and unique power
@@blueboy1958 It doesn't fit the initial vibe, but it fits the vibe of "What the fuck ARE you?!" since it's a mystical-science thing waving around a fire axe and morphing into a mobile artillery cannon while pretending to be someone from the cast.
@@galaxycamerata I agree, it fits but doesn't fit. He was advertised as mimicking and crawling not fleshly grenade launcher
@@YaboieatToast it isnt a grenade launcher, the fleshy thing is his cock. The unknown is shooting exploding splooge at you.
Insidious Unknown feels like a match made in Heaven. It's the world's cheapest jumpscare build, and I can see it being far more viable than any other since it makes survivors afraid to counter your map presence. Once somebody gets jumpscared, the whole swf is paranoid. If it's a solo que, someone still gets paranoid, so it's still a win. Funny and effective.
Insidious & Lightborn else you'll just get blinded and spotted
@@TheReZisTLust They'll still hear the burning sound, even with lightborn
Works better on Doc, since people just ignore his hallucinations at this point
@@evilyoshimaster the thing is that people are encouraged to approach The Unknown's hallucinations. A bunch of times today I got hilarious scares on people trying to "Dispel" me before they worked on the gen I was standing by.
I've been doing the same, cept I stand in a hallucination so it looks like I have an aura to really sell the lie
Bro that VHS diss had me coughing
VHS could have been good sad to see it die
@@thekingpotato346"Killer stunlock simulator" was not a good basis for any game, let alone a competitor to a genre-defining game.
@@atmosdwagon4656 I found it fun
I tried so hard to love it, sadly after the first month all the Teens had the best broken weapons and no matter how good I was at Werewolf it was never enough. Such a shame as it was fun while it lasted
@@raccoon.legion ya
Bruh if you really get everybody to call a tech edging then you really are the greatest youtuber ever
I can't stop calling it that, help me
I think coconutRTS used this name in his tech video
Tbh theres worse, such as a Zelda: TOTK tech which is called "Tulin pumping".
do i have news for you
The ball doesn’t just hit through walls, it hits through FLOORS. Badham basement in shambles
i did that in Midwich. jeez it's amazing when they panick and let go of the gen and so happens to be right when a skillcheck spawns
I think the idea is since visualizing him is what makes him come for you, his power and aesthetic is a fusion of every single urban legend ever told about him.
To be an SCP nerd, he's a Keter Class Memetic Anomaly.
Yes, the Unknown is definetly a Memetic Hazard, but I'm not sure if it would classify as Keter. Since the Unknown relies on people to be aware of it's existence, the SCP Foundation could keep it somewhat at bay by censoring media and by using amnestics on possible witnesses. If they could manage to do that, the Unknown could possibly be classified as Euclid, since it doesn't pose a "great" threat (anymore) but can also not be entirely contained.
On the other hand, if the existence of the Unknown would be exposed globaly... if might cause billions of deaths if not dealt with in time. Maybe even an end-of-the-world scenario.
But hey, I'm no expert in that. I'm just sharing my thoughts on this. Let me know what you think :)
which is why, even tho he is fused from like 10 different aspects and ideas, he is still very much scary and I think his power feels overloaded but not unfitting of the character. He's the Tactical Skinwalker with a Gun leaving scary talking after images ( I mean, first time I saw them i had a heartache when they started talking ☠)
Yeah, love the theory I read The Unknown is basically a Tulpa
He reminds me of the chicken people. scp 3199 i think
And that means we’re all kinda fucked
"I won't recommend hysteria"
*recommends insidious*
Insidious is BONKERS on The Unknown
@@TrueMiz he was right about hysteria too, still criminally insane recommendations
@@davinpaz1871 Let me clarify, I think Insidous is *good* on The Unknown. Kicking a Gen with Pop, or Dragons Grip. Or Whatever you want? Then stand near it, boom.
Alot of people pre-run, so they don't even see you kick and leave, they just come back, and see its kicked, and there is a Husk. They fall for it alot
@@TrueMiz I'm agreeing with you, but the idea that we live in a time where insidious is even 1/4 viable is, like I said, criminally insane
Try to make a habit of leaving hallucinations near generators and then run trial of torment to make people question everything.
0:00 “You aren’t cool enough to make a jerks guide to the unknown”
No Rowby, you are cooler than that.
Loved the reveal that he was waiting on the stairs for you guys at 10:47
I think one of the funniest things about the Unknown was when his power was revealed everyone I saw kinda squinted at it and said "why, it doesn't fit at all" but everyone has been having so much fun with it that it didn't end up mattering.
Unknown lore: Dwight overcame his locker addiction...at a cost
Skins: idk some random entity bullshit i didn't think this part through
Unknown is such a fun killer. And i absolutely love running off-meta perks on him. just pure oblivious/undetectable. and not commiting to chases to harrass other players is very, very fun.
Personally, i'm a big fan of not running slowdowns, at all. Chase and weird perks is where it's at.
And yes. Hysteria is absolutely monstrous on him.
Slap undone with impossible skill check Doctor and watch what happens.
Pop better,
Unfortunately I have experienced this :)
Even better, slap Unforeseen onto Killer Queen Doctor and you have just opened up a whole new world of strategic play.
I run this. Its so good
It works best with doc but it's still bad. Just run pop or overcharge or something else
Perfectly aiming a shot that goes through someone and then bounces back to hit them plays the TF2 double donk sound in my brain and I think that's the really important part.
i like the fact that most of the perk explanations just go for the funny perk. makes me as a memelord happy
pfff I am glad I'm not the only one that saw her backstory and thought "ah, they made My Immortal canon did they?"
LMFAO I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A VHS REF/BURN
I just want it known that I intentionally wait to learn anything about new killers until Rowby covers them. Hands down the best way to find out new stuff coming to dbd
Probably my favorite killer guide yet! Informative, fun, and the script worked really well. I look forward to edging.
“The Jerks Guide to the Unknown” sounds like some epic space adventure comedy film.
U and otz are the single handedly the reason why i keep installing this game again and again
I’m definitely going to call that edging now. I’m glad I’m not the only person who learned how to edge as the unknown.
thanks for your videos, out of all the people i regularly watch, you're the one i get most excited about, no matter what the topic
i actually held off on watching this video until i had dinner and was comfortable, and looked forward to it all day like some sort of movie premiere
and i have to say, i was not disappointed. your work is more appreciated than you know
Personally I would always run Distortion with the new Invocation since the killer seeing your aura in the basement is the biggest risk factor to finishing it.
The new survivor build I’d love to see is Distortion, Invocation Weaving Spiders, No Mither, and a perk that works while injured or that uses Broken (e.g. Resilience, Deliverance, etc) plus a basement offering that lets you know exactly where the basement is at the start of the match. Then you just head straight for the basement and do the Invocation right away, hopefully getting it to trigger on as many gens as possible. With any luck the Distortion will keep you concealed while it’s happening and you can finish. Since you’ll then be Broken most of the match afterward you may as well get the benefits of No Mither too and some other perk that makes use of being injured or that has a Broken penalty as well.
The Alan wake perk that makes extra skill checks appear when injured might pair well
4:29 "Unless a curse has been put upon you!" 💀 im rolling
The thumbnail is cool and all, but have you considered perhaps an underwhelming grenade launcher instead?
I swear once people started looking at the grenade launcher they completely forgot about his mechanics and it really frustrates me. That grenade launcher isn’t just to deal damage but to also spawn your hallucinations faster and allow you to reset the teleportation cooldown faster. Also just pulling out the power will move the hallucination generation meter down so you can be precise on where you want to place it.
Teleporting Grenade launcher
Honestly that sounds scarier than the unknown
@@worldofoblivion977reading this I just imagine an automated grenade launcher on a tripod stand that teleports around and that’s a pretty terrifying thought
@@dr.stronk9857 like the singularity
Definitively not underwhelming, but id like real grenades instead
I love the intro to this video already, you're the best video essay writer (un)known to man..!
I feel like a cool feature they could add is that the survivor you mori the most you'll start mimicking there voice
This was one of your best videos yet! Love the thought you put into the perk combos and perspective
One of the funniest builds I've gotten my friend to try was anti-loop Bubba.
Crowd control, blood favor, cruel limits, and he choose ultimate weapon so he could find people.
Clicks on notification: “I’ve been waiting for this one!”
That thumbnail.I never would've made that reference.
3:08 Cross progression baybeee. Your entitlement was rewarded.
such an amazing video rowby, giveing me the joy on how a killer is played, and the reason that i quit dbd for 2 yeara and still havent picked it up with that 10 perk line (14:59)
Can confirm it is indeed called "edging" now 😭😭😭
im so happy with the positive reception to this chapter! it's such a good one with lots of love put into the lore, power, map, characters, and voice acting
you're so close to 100k dude. keep up the good work
I will always take rowbys perk suggestion to the highest degree because instead of typical meta builds, he recommends unpopular perks that have a surprising amount of synergy with that killer
I don't get it: He can teleport wherever he wants pretty fast without needing to put down anything. Hag left the chat. Dredge left the chat. Sadako left the chat. Freddie left the chat.
Yea but Hag has up to 10 of her teleport traps, and they can't be removed by just poking them. Hers also function more as map control than mobility
@@SiegeMusicProductions
"can't be removed by just poking them"
crouch up to one and be amazed by the prompt that pops up
I’ve been playing him with unbound, rapid brutality, superior anatomy and either dissolution or thwack! With his purple game cartridge add on and it’s been a fucking blast
Thank goodness they changed Invocation: Weaving Spiders its much shorter now
The chestburster mortar launcher comes to dbd with the power of basketball
Commentary is S tier glad i stumbled onto your vid looking for unknown stuff
I'm so glad Rowby still makes vids, I always enjoy watching them
Seeing Rowby having fun playing as an artillery cannon is way too funny.
I actually love Sable cus I think The Unknown is meant to be DBD's take on internet horror like creepypastas. Which is played completely straight.
On the other side, Sable is an over the top parody of the kinds of people that READ internet horror stories. Looking at it from that perspective imma be real she's one of my favorite survivors in the game lmao
Entertaining video and I'll be sure to try out some of the perk strats you brought up to spice up the DBD gameplay, thanks again.
Rowby being generally excited about an edition to the game is really nice to see; actually happy to see your just generally pleased with an addition from time to time. Def have to agree, The Unknown feels very inspired, and has a simple power that can be used for some crazy technical feats; with fantastic zoning opportunities. Weaving spiders is hilarious however
I liked the edging part Rowby!
Undone is meant for the skill check doc build
will always love the approach you take to these
I have gotten so much from unforeseen. Hit a gen teleport to the other side of the map never letting know we're I truly am
I am brand new, I have no idea what I’m doing I just like Mr. Crinkles and his goo gun.
I started menichly laughing for a second when you mentioned insidious.
So a fun little note about unforeseen and trail of torment is that you can apply both at the same time and have two separate terror radius and it does exactly what you’d expect on doctor
That title sure does make this sound a lot cooler than it actually is. It's still cool, mind you, but much like all the teasers for the Unknown it hypes up a weird flesh man who isn't at all what you think
I think that was the idea. For a creature that verbally states that it prides itself for being unintelligable and anamonous, itd only be thematically accurate that his gameplay screwed over all expectations.
@@loafylovebit9964If that was the idea it still sucks lol
If you want a usage for Undone, I'd look on the same page of perks it's on. Undone + Unforeseen + Unnerving, specifically. Sure it takes 3 perk slots and isn't good but it gives all of these weird perks an additional purpose, and it makes me happy seeing perks I like getting some sort of synergy
9:10 NO WAY THAT'S A MY IMMORTAL REFERENCE
I feel like your one of the only players who actually understands how to play this killer. In Scott Jund’s video on him, he said the killer only had a limited pocket to go for the other shot because of good survivors looking behind them, disregarding the fact you don’t have to take shots from LOS and can just hide/TP and keep venom on them for pressure or an unexpected snipe from the other side. Good guide video!
7:32 he said it could be worse then I got a genshin impact ad and it went down hill fast
R.I.P to the voice actor for the unknown. May she rest in peace
Aids is a dangerous disease, hope people are more careful from now on
@@DegeneratesLikeYoulmaoo
I'm so glad I found your channel, seriously relatable and helpful for losers like me who can't remember shit about this game
BRUH THE MY IMMORTAL REFERENCE FUCK
i don't even play dbd but i like watching these lol. but bruh the desert map with the black goop dripping into the sky makes me want to play fable 3. iykyk
my favorite jerks guides are when it’s obvious how much fun he had playing them
I swear I remembered some killer concept ideas from like 2020 where they had a pirate killer that shot a grenade launcher esque canon. Acting similar to this guy's power.
This video is pure gold for my favorite scary eldritch horror
I learned how to edge on the first day of the ptb and its pretty fun, edging is a great way to get my hallucinations in good spots :3
I miss VHS man qwq
i refuse to ignore the
"AHH!!!!
OH MY GOD!!"
comedy gold
I remember when they first invented chocolate
I like to sleep with my tv on so when I heard “edging” I rosed up so fast it looked like a damn Glitch
Personally I've loved Devour Hope on unknown so far, he has SUCH AGGRESSIVE map pressure that most of the time my survivors aren't paying attention to anything but gens until I've gotten them to the exposed token set and by then I'll be able to just use my UVX to mask it for two downs to then get my kills. That including you can drop a husk on the totem and you can almost guard it all game while still having good pressure and chase power ❤ love the vid as always Rowby 🤝
"Sable players are just megs in a phase" hit harder than it should have
6:09 my favorite spot to do this on is 2nd floor rpd, right above main generator (bonus points if you have undetectable). You can cut off people running into main door + pressure main generator and it's hard af for them to get rid of it because they need to go all the way around
i forgot rowby was a console dbd player i was waiting so long for this vid for no reason
Well this one appeard rather quickly
0:10 “covering a video game character I played while wearing pajamas.”
Look down…
I’m wearing pajamas
Thanks rowby i have also been quirky with my builds. I have made a terminus wesker build thats been succesful and even a eruption/unbeknown build with unknown!
10:44 love that background footage
I loved the my immortal reference. But seriously I love the new killers look and vibe, give us more freaky monsters instead of normal people with sharp objects, also more voice lines.
I will also try to us your influence to consider that strat edging as well. Since that is simply hilarious
"Behind all Sable players is a Meg player going through a phase"
I snort laughed holy shit
I love playing really creepy killers in dbd. I loved when the dredge came out and have it's doll skin.
I find a fun dose of irony that some of the best perks for the unknown have *"in"* in their names.
*In*sidious
Batteries *in*cluded
Unforseen is another perk that basically turns the Doctor into Killer Queen.
i love doing weaving spiders asap with reslience with it, deja vu or this is not happening are good pairs as well
My favorite way to use Undone is, surprisingly, a Twins perk. Oppression makes it so every time you kick a generator, just about everyone working on a gen gets a very hard skillcheck. Because of this, you can use oppression to get undone stacks, then you also get stacks every time you USE undone. Most of the time whatever stacks you have will instantly refresh upon use
It's only two other I'm pretty sure
@ethanpeeples6187 it's three other, but most of the time if you're kicking a gen, at least one person isn't doing one
i was calling it edge teching yesterday, good to see im not the only one who thought that
Awesome video. I was struggling till I watched this. First game after watching I went merciless and they only repaired one gen. 🎉
my favorite part of the unkown is the sound effects it uses
Forgot VHS existed til you mentioned it. Says it all really.
"you cant make a glass piece of paper"
nobody tell him about skull merchant
We got rowby lowkey edging and I’m all here for it
I just noticed the unknowns ability might be based on the early idea of explosive hatchets in alpha or beta game
Fun fact from the future: the Invocation perk now only takes 60 seconds, and drops at 1 charge per second
“A jerks guide to the unknown” does sound like a good movie tho ngl 😅
VHS did make me realize how bad I want an original designed puppet master killer
definitely gonna use the edging strat thank you rowby!