If you're going 'knife'-only, then I will beat you every single game. You will get some buzzkills, but I will kill you more and win in the end. This game doesn't have pay-to-win. It has pay-to-look-cool. The shadowclaw and marshall get buzzkills as well, but a 40 round kuda will do better. If I miss with a marshall, I'm dead. If I see two enemies at once, I'm dead. Sure, the deaths are annoying, but I'm stilling winning in the end, so it's all good.