The fact that all his talents are good makes him incredible in chaos wastes. Also makes weapon exchange alters very low risk as all his weapons are good.
I just got back into V2 and discovered your channel. I'm glad you're actively making content (however frequently or infrequently) because it's nice to get hyped over the game from people on UA-cam while I play on my own end too
Stagger is probably one if not the strongest abilities in the game, and footknight just completely abuses it, making him super strong in almost every situation
I'd watch every video you do (idc even what game it'll be or even not a game at all). Because there's two things I appreciate the most - honesty and irony. Your style is epic, I love it!
FK was one of the few classes they re-worked in a meaningful way, and a lot of people still sleep on the class due to things that were changed well over a year ago now. He's an incredible carry and a ton of fun to play. He doesn't need to be played with just a stagger shield build, heck with the spear and shield he can stagger everything with a push and still out DPS most classes in hordes while having one of the best special sniping weapons in the game slung across his back.
100% I still see everyone just thinks oh take shield and bash things however he can do that with basically every weapon and as you stated all the while popping head shots from across the map
Love it. Best use of invincibility on the ult is yeeting yourself off a certain-death drop and activating the charge to cancel the fall damage, leaving your teammates wondering what just happened.
this is a rlly good video tbh i never really realized how well FK is designed, especially his skill tree. like now that youve mentioned it im really noticing how well its designed lol, most other careers just have talents at certain levels that are significantly better than the others
Feet are back on the menu, boys When I first started playing VT2 I decided immediately in the prologue I wanted to play Foot Knight. And so it was, a grand adventure began
Haha thank you. I script some intros like the one to my Pyro vid, but for the most part I just have sort of dot points of what I want to ramble on about maybe write some specific things down and the outros are total rambling of a mad man lol. I’ve tried scripting totally but I just can’t follow one
I love this channel. I keep rewatching these videos despite having stopped playing vermintide about a year ago. I'd watch your stuff even if you were playing other games, or not playing games at all.
Foot knight's ability is so good that Fatshark copy and pasted it onto the Ogryn in Darktide, they even threw in Bull of Ostland! as part of it by default.
@kryptkick441 Honestly I think combat is way way better in Darktide than Vermintide 2, and I feel like VT2 could give me more reasons to play on the higher difficulties (hey why does Cata give you the same exp as recruit I know it doesn't matter after a while, it just seems like an oversight). Everything else VT2 does better though or Darktide does so differently that I don't think they can compare in that aspect.
Somethings are better some things are worse but I just feel it should have been easy to figure out which is which and it would have been an absolute home run. That being said, we’ll get our home run it’ll just take a lot of patches
That's awesome the whole reason I make these vids is to promote the game which I love so if it contributes to people getting into the game I am pretty happy about that thank you! Best overall tip on getting better is learning to not take damage lol., That sounds simple but there is a lot there. Every monster has a way to avoid its damage completely look up a guide on how to do this and monsters will become a joke to you. Learn the audio cue for specials and take them out as quickly as possible 9/10 runs end in people getting taking out by specials. When you hear a special drop what you're doing and take it out ASAP. Then is comes to the dodge dance. Seriously always be dodging even when you are just attacking in a horde you should be dodging. If you master the dodge you master the game. Then weapon combos it took me far too long to realise how important they are. For what ever weapon you are using look up the corresponding guide on Steam and use the most effective combos it will insanely boost your dps. Hope that helps and thanks for the feedback
Hey krypt this is groundqt on another account I forgot my login and thank you I still love this game thanks to you and I hope we can see some content soon
I loved FK since starting the tutorial. Kruber is my highest lvl class atm (max lvl + 54) since i pretty much only played FK for like 200h and i think it will stay that way cause i don't really like how the other classes play or their weapons too much (Although i do love Ironbreaker and Slayer a lot too). One handed mace is so underrated, i was suprised how hard it goes in chaos waste when i got a decent roll (it wasnt even that great of a roll if im honest)
A lot of people these days are talking about Mainstay, and I've never found a way to make it work, including on Foot Knight. Can you upload a video of using Mainstay on Cata to showcase how to actually use it, because I'm a theory crafter and built an entire team around using it and we all barely managed to crack 20k damage on a +hordes map.
Very interesting I might do some bot runs and have a play around with it see what I come up with. Never really heard anyone say it's no good it's just the general "if no Smiter take Mainstay" mentality
@kryptkick441 Our circle is Assassin; Smiter; Enhanced Power; Bulwark; Mainstay. In that order. I like to say Mainstay exists to reduce the viable options to 2.
@@SmGTwist Sorry for the late reply yt don't give notifications for replies for some reason. I am still yet to test, however, that being said. My opinion is it can beat out EP and even Smiter if specific conditions are met bur firstly lets look at circumstances where it could at least be beneficial. 1 when it comes to ults that put enemies into a stagger state AND they can be used frequently i.e. FK. I think FK is a pertinent example because his ult causes enemies to be in a stagger for a considerable amount of time allowing you to take take advantage of the damage bonus for longer. 2 Weapons which start their most common and/or crowd clear attack pattern with a push. Obviously if you start your attack chain with a push you're going to start your attack chain at 40% bonus. 3 Has to be a low damage weapon because of course the redundancy of Mainstay is caused by the vast amount of enemies in the game being killed in 1-2 hits completely negating it's usefulness. However with these things in mind let's try to formulate a build where it could be useful. Let's go Merc, high cleave has both access to Mainstay and Smiter, his ult while relatively lengthy in CD can be mitigated somewhat by CDR, his level 30 talent and a high cleave weapon. Further we take the Tuskgor Spear which has insane cleave (helped by Merc's passive), insane stagger and relatively low damage (meaning we not gunna be one shotting everyone just because we run Smiter) AND we for the most part start our horde clear attack chain with a push. Combine this with the stagger from spamming his ult and (for hordes at least) we are starting our attacks at a .6 bonus. Also it's low damage and has a very heavy stagger meaning we will require many hits on a high health enemy and hopefully will keep them in the most optimal stagger state while doing so. All in all I think this could be a contender for outshining Smiter but as I said I haven't tested. Of course there is also obvious use cases like Zealot's Hook as using the weapon special gives a guaranteed stagger
I remember how bitchy my friends were when i told them i was switching to kruber and that i wasn't going to be their temp health provider or ammo provider. They called me a fool but i shut them up right quick after clutching a few runs with an emergency charge into a horde to pick people up.
Oh man he is the undisputed Clutch King. Not to mention making their life much easier by only having to attack enemies laying on the floor gasping for air
@@robo-dog-chan887 the outline around his player character, which is foot knight in this case. It's one of the most difficult frames to get, possibly the most difficult.
@@kryptkick441 bret sword + x sword, its rly fun Edit: my normal build is 212311, though having swipe on ult (3) is better on higher difficulties, the boss damage makes the brain happy
Footknight is a fantastically designed career with the best build and talent variety. But in a game with so much power creep his main weakness is being well balanced. Merc is the superior class overall with better damage breakpoints and team temp hp generation, but I find him far more boring to play. He has zero talent variety, and there's very little synergy between his best talents and any particular weapon or playstyle. You just take the same thing every time. The Grail Knight is probably the most egregious example of a power creep DLC character in the game - he's just a big, dumb bruiser with a career skill that is both overpowered and incredibly boring, and extremely good passive talents that just sort of happen without any skill on the part of the player.
Yeah that's my main problem with Merc, he literally has one build. Albeit it is a very good build but it gets boring quick. Interesting and true point on GK also. Basically all his talents involve no engagement and therefore more boredom
@@paulgallagher5889 Yeah he sucks I been trying to work him but no matter what you do there is so much upkeep, so many useless. Further, he gets like 11 Troll hammers! So basically nothing can begin to compete with that and I like original unique builds. I feel if I put out a non Troll Hammer build i'll basically be greifing anyone who follows it lol
Maturing is going from "FK is so boring" to "Stagger King".
to "Stagger EVERYTHING"
(F)ashion
(O)utstanding ult
(O)verpowering arsenal
(T)alent Balance
(K)
(N)ice
(I)
(G)
(H)
(T)
This is probably one of the greatest comments ever constructed
(K)ill the rats
(N)ever retreat)
(I) am hungry
(G)ood staggering)
(H)aha sword go chop
(T)he best drip
(I) Wish You Were An Ale
foot knight mains rise up
Heck yeah!
feetknighy
Can't rise up if we were never down 🍷🗿
you have opened my eyes to mercs atrocities. a pirate class would be dope af tho
May as well just stick a parrot on his shoulder at this point
@kryptkick441 honestly I've been waiting for that cosmetic for years now.
The fact that all his talents are good makes him incredible in chaos wastes. Also makes weapon exchange alters very low risk as all his weapons are good.
100% factual
I just got back into V2 and discovered your channel. I'm glad you're actively making content (however frequently or infrequently) because it's nice to get hyped over the game from people on UA-cam while I play on my own end too
heck yeah man that is why I make these videos super glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the feedback!
Vermintide 2 devs need to take notes on foot knight design and redesign pyromancer in a similar way
100% agreed
@@kryptkick441 well, the pyro 'redesign' is finally here, but it's not exactly everything we had hoped for
Stagger is probably one if not the strongest abilities in the game, and footknight just completely abuses it, making him super strong in almost every situation
Heck yeah hail to the king
I'd watch every video you do (idc even what game it'll be or even not a game at all). Because there's two things I appreciate the most - honesty and irony. Your style is epic, I love it!
Thanks man I appreciate the feedback if I ever make a video on "Top Ten Best Sources of Vitamin C" I wanna see you in the comments!
@@kryptkick441 You should do this. You'd figure out a way to make it epic.
Full beard, bretonia sword, full stagger footknight is really satisfying to play, love it!!
I would say the only way to play
Can it stagger plague monks tho
@@FilipMoncrief I think heavies can with Opportunists. Maybe needs some help from WP though
@@FilipMoncrief It can even stagger caos warriors
Please make more video's on whatever, you're freakin hilarious
Ain’t seen you on bro, were you at.
Missin the vids too
FK was one of the few classes they re-worked in a meaningful way, and a lot of people still sleep on the class due to things that were changed well over a year ago now. He's an incredible carry and a ton of fun to play. He doesn't need to be played with just a stagger shield build, heck with the spear and shield he can stagger everything with a push and still out DPS most classes in hordes while having one of the best special sniping weapons in the game slung across his back.
100% I still see everyone just thinks oh take shield and bash things however he can do that with basically every weapon and as you stated all the while popping head shots from across the map
greatsword has been buffed and now shreds hordes and has a high damage push attack for single targets so one more deadly weapon for footknight to use
I take it back it is still SOUNDLY Kruber's worst weapon. it hits like a butter knife and doesn't stagger a damn thing
I am still learning to use him in legend difficulty cool class af
Love it. Best use of invincibility on the ult is yeeting yourself off a certain-death drop and activating the charge to cancel the fall damage, leaving your teammates wondering what just happened.
beautiful
this is a rlly good video tbh i never really realized how well FK is designed, especially his skill tree. like now that youve mentioned it im really noticing how well its designed lol, most other careers just have talents at certain levels that are significantly better than the others
Absolutely which really detracts from creating fun unique builds which is one of my favourite aspects of the game
Feet are back on the menu, boys
When I first started playing VT2 I decided immediately in the prologue I wanted to play Foot Knight. And so it was, a grand adventure began
Impeccable instincts
Maybe this is the video i upload regularly after.... *Last upload in 11 months*
Hey bro, we need your builds after big balance changes!
Please come back. You're so refreshingly chaotic that I just need you in my life.
I will always 100% get behind my boy the Podiatrist Knight
Told you I was releasing a similarly named video! Now where’s my sub? Us V2 YT newbs gota look out for each other
@@kryptkick441 I unsubbed so I could sub again
Do you use a scipt for these videos? The style seems so natural and chaotic. Its new and refreshing. I love it.
Haha thank you. I script some intros like the one to my Pyro vid, but for the most part I just have sort of dot points of what I want to ramble on about maybe write some specific things down and the outros are total rambling of a mad man lol. I’ve tried scripting totally but I just can’t follow one
We miss you
I love this channel. I keep rewatching these videos despite having stopped playing vermintide about a year ago. I'd watch your stuff even if you were playing other games, or not playing games at all.
So happy to be watching vermintide 2's best player rn
My man
That was like 5 or 4 reasons, doesn't matter.
WE'RE THE BLOODY 5 REASONS FOOTKNIGHT IS BEST, OR 4. . . DOESN'T MATTER
please upload more.
I’m trying my son
I love your content man
I love you more
try sheild mace oppurtunist and stagger power talent.U can stagger monk with push attack.
Heck yeah
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Video convincing, gonna grow a moustache now
Foot knight's ability is so good that Fatshark copy and pasted it onto the Ogryn in Darktide, they even threw in Bull of Ostland! as part of it by default.
If only they copy pasted the rest of the game. All they needed to do was do Vermintide but 40k. Alas, a task to difficult it seems
@kryptkick441 Honestly I think combat is way way better in Darktide than Vermintide 2, and I feel like VT2 could give me more reasons to play on the higher difficulties (hey why does Cata give you the same exp as recruit I know it doesn't matter after a while, it just seems like an oversight). Everything else VT2 does better though or Darktide does so differently that I don't think they can compare in that aspect.
Somethings are better some things are worse but I just feel it should have been easy to figure out which is which and it would have been an absolute home run. That being said, we’ll get our home run it’ll just take a lot of patches
The main reason I don't play other Kruber classes is because they aren't A BLOODY BATTERING RAM AND THAT'S WHAT I AM!
Probably the best possible reason
more video super based entertaining educational content yes more yes
yes sir thank you sir
Hope we see some content when necromancer drops
It will be my triumphant return
Do you have any tips to get better and thanks for getting me in to vermintide 2
That's awesome the whole reason I make these vids is to promote the game which I love so if it contributes to people getting into the game I am pretty happy about that thank you! Best overall tip on getting better is learning to not take damage lol., That sounds simple but there is a lot there. Every monster has a way to avoid its damage completely look up a guide on how to do this and monsters will become a joke to you. Learn the audio cue for specials and take them out as quickly as possible 9/10 runs end in people getting taking out by specials. When you hear a special drop what you're doing and take it out ASAP. Then is comes to the dodge dance. Seriously always be dodging even when you are just attacking in a horde you should be dodging. If you master the dodge you master the game. Then weapon combos it took me far too long to realise how important they are. For what ever weapon you are using look up the corresponding guide on Steam and use the most effective combos it will insanely boost your dps. Hope that helps and thanks for the feedback
Hey krypt this is groundqt on another account I forgot my login and thank you I still love this game thanks to you and I hope we can see some content soon
Bro! Been waiting. Good vid!
Thank you sir
kryptkick wheres the new vid?
I loved FK since starting the tutorial. Kruber is my highest lvl class atm (max lvl + 54) since i pretty much only played FK for like 200h and i think it will stay that way cause i don't really like how the other classes play or their weapons too much (Although i do love Ironbreaker and Slayer a lot too). One handed mace is so underrated, i was suprised how hard it goes in chaos waste when i got a decent roll (it wasnt even that great of a roll if im honest)
Actually a very unique take and interesting video I enjoyed it a lot
Glad you liked it bro
A pirate is kinda like a mercenary. They were hired by governments to attack enemy nations merchant ships.
This is no place for logic my friend
Footknight + Halberd = Love
A match made in heaven
A lot of people these days are talking about Mainstay, and I've never found a way to make it work, including on Foot Knight. Can you upload a video of using Mainstay on Cata to showcase how to actually use it, because I'm a theory crafter and built an entire team around using it and we all barely managed to crack 20k damage on a +hordes map.
Very interesting I might do some bot runs and have a play around with it see what I come up with. Never really heard anyone say it's no good it's just the general "if no Smiter take Mainstay" mentality
@kryptkick441 Our circle is Assassin; Smiter; Enhanced Power; Bulwark; Mainstay. In that order. I like to say Mainstay exists to reduce the viable options to 2.
@@SmGTwist Sorry for the late reply yt don't give notifications for replies for some reason. I am still yet to test, however, that being said. My opinion is it can beat out EP and even Smiter if specific conditions are met bur firstly lets look at circumstances where it could at least be beneficial. 1 when it comes to ults that put enemies into a stagger state AND they can be used frequently i.e. FK. I think FK is a pertinent example because his ult causes enemies to be in a stagger for a considerable amount of time allowing you to take take advantage of the damage bonus for longer. 2 Weapons which start their most common and/or crowd clear attack pattern with a push. Obviously if you start your attack chain with a push you're going to start your attack chain at 40% bonus. 3 Has to be a low damage weapon because of course the redundancy of Mainstay is caused by the vast amount of enemies in the game being killed in 1-2 hits completely negating it's usefulness. However with these things in mind let's try to formulate a build where it could be useful.
Let's go Merc, high cleave has both access to Mainstay and Smiter, his ult while relatively lengthy in CD can be mitigated somewhat by CDR, his level 30 talent and a high cleave weapon. Further we take the Tuskgor Spear which has insane cleave (helped by Merc's passive), insane stagger and relatively low damage (meaning we not gunna be one shotting everyone just because we run Smiter) AND we for the most part start our horde clear attack chain with a push. Combine this with the stagger from spamming his ult and (for hordes at least) we are starting our attacks at a .6 bonus. Also it's low damage and has a very heavy stagger meaning we will require many hits on a high health enemy and hopefully will keep them in the most optimal stagger state while doing so. All in all I think this could be a contender for outshining Smiter but as I said I haven't tested. Of course there is also obvious use cases like Zealot's Hook as using the weapon special gives a guaranteed stagger
wow, all the talents are so balanced and useful that he didn't even need to look at the level 30 row because it's so great like all the other rows!
Greatest and btw only vermintide UA-cam channel of all time
Heyy, are you still making content?
Battle Wizard is just Footknight with 2 dashes
Yeah they basically the same character
the best designed class of course must be outlaw engineer
also i've never noticed this about Footknight good video
undoubtedly
please make more videos i miss you so much
Man I hope he comes back
I remember how bitchy my friends were when i told them i was switching to kruber and that i wasn't going to be their temp health provider or ammo provider. They called me a fool but i shut them up right quick after clutching a few runs with an emergency charge into a horde to pick people up.
Oh man he is the undisputed Clutch King. Not to mention making their life much easier by only having to attack enemies laying on the floor gasping for air
@@kryptkick441 *stunned opponent attack speed boost+greatsword goes brrrr*
Great sword plus attack speed is ruthless
While everyone is googling best builds, FK gigachads just take literally anything and dominate the game
Factual comment
Best player? Yeah right hahaha. (Looks at frame) o wait you are
Frame?
@@robo-dog-chan887 the outline around his player character, which is foot knight in this case. It's one of the most difficult frames to get, possibly the most difficult.
@@Melchizidek777 FoV C is a joke compared to Weaves 🙃
Lol I am def not the worlds best player but as stated in a previous video I am second best in my neighborhood though
if monster dies loot die gone too
Damn it Krypt!! Time for a new video!!!
Yeah you're right I need get it happening,. Any requests?
@@kryptkick441the clutch😮
See now that may be cool, but cosplaying as the witcher with double sword grail knight is and will forever be my favourite way of playing this game
the big question is though which swords?
@@kryptkick441 bret sword + x sword, its rly fun
Edit: my normal build is 212311, though having swipe on ult (3) is better on higher difficulties, the boss damage makes the brain happy
@@Falafel6723 I love running the Ex Sword so 3 on ult is a must
Bro you're legit funny as fuck. I could listen to you talk about anything. Thumbs up for sure
Thanks dude I appreciate it. I wanna move into broader content one day so comments like this are well received cheers!
I love you Sir
I love you too, but I'm afraid of getting hurt
@@kryptkick441 Let’s have a romantic relationship and grow old together
Need Kryptic to comr back and give more opinio- I mean facts about this game
I love your commentary!
Thanks man appreciate it
Would love a new video, about anything. You're wittier than 99,9% of people on this platform and could make it big if you keep at it.
Footknight is a fantastically designed career with the best build and talent variety. But in a game with so much power creep his main weakness is being well balanced.
Merc is the superior class overall with better damage breakpoints and team temp hp generation, but I find him far more boring to play. He has zero talent variety, and there's very little synergy between his best talents and any particular weapon or playstyle. You just take the same thing every time.
The Grail Knight is probably the most egregious example of a power creep DLC character in the game - he's just a big, dumb bruiser with a career skill that is both overpowered and incredibly boring, and extremely good passive talents that just sort of happen without any skill on the part of the player.
Lady of the lake would like a word.
Yeah that's my main problem with Merc, he literally has one build. Albeit it is a very good build but it gets boring quick. Interesting and true point on GK also. Basically all his talents involve no engagement and therefore more boredom
Nice man, love your content!
"Inpracticle" FK mains drooling down their face trying to spell impractical as they slander Merc smh
You got me on the typo bro but slander means false and no real pirate got no business wearing that hat
@@kryptkick441 ya got me there
all of victor tree has good unique designs mate. where's my phone call now
WHC I assume? Riposte, Templar’s Knowledge, I Shall Judge You All
@@kryptkick441 im going to fucking judge you!
i dig BH with the griffon foot pistols, just how his ranged crit passive can really just make a fun build
BH with the duck foots should be illegal
Its true
Feet are the best
Handmaiden premium cosmetic owner confirmed
NEED MORE VIDEOS ITS A NEED
Lol. That ending. Acting like Darktide doesn't exist lol
Darkwho?
@kryptkick441 lol. Well hopefully they improve on it like they did with Vermintide
@@theronnett They will just check back in 2 years
very good
Thank you sir
Comeback my man 😢
Heard about ur accident, hope ur okay man 😢😢😦😦
someone been telling you lies I'm as strong as a dolphin
the best career isn't a kruber, its bountyhunter.
foot knight is the best class tho
FACT
Imagine that Fatshark made a new game, better... Well... Darktide has left building 😂
no slayer go brrrrrrrrr
Finally, a good opinion
Thank you sir
But I like your video
I miss you
Heresy battle wizard is the best!
It's time to repent your sins my son. FK is the way and the light
YEEES Foot - Knight is the best but ill still prefer handmaiden she is ultimate tank lol just kidding
She's the ultimate Foot Knight wanabe. Does have that nice white lion armour though
God bless Australia
everyone knows WHC is best bro. but FK is decent...
A time will come when you will realise the truth and on that day you will be truly enlightened
Bro spent two minutes mumbo jumboing i don't even know what this game is what is happening
2 minutes is actually pretty tight most vids I'm pushing 10-15
P r o m o s m 💯
I don't care that I absolutely suck no matter the build, the only builds I use are KryptKick builds.
Heck yeah! Better make another build then. Any requests?
@@kryptkick441 If you can make the Engineer work as easy as Ironbraker I'd take it, but i HATE the engineer!!!!
@@paulgallagher5889 Yeah he sucks I been trying to work him but no matter what you do there is so much upkeep, so many useless. Further, he gets like 11 Troll hammers! So basically nothing can begin to compete with that and I like original unique builds. I feel if I put out a non Troll Hammer build i'll basically be greifing anyone who follows it lol
How tf are you swinging so fast
LoL combo of build/talents and at one point someone gave me a Speed Pot via Proxy