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Plastic knife?
« Thread Started on Oct 31, 2011, 11:01pm »

It seems every time i try to knife a guy from his front, i get a hitmarker.
He just laughs it off and proceed to spray me to death.

Is it me, or does the knife not do enough damage to kill a full health enemy to the front?

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #1 on Oct 31, 2011, 11:16pm »

yep it's tricky. get the closest possible to knife someone and don't bother knifing moving targets, at least that's what I do untill they fix it

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #2 on Oct 31, 2011, 11:48pm »

You're not supposed to be able to knife people in 1 hit from the front. It's a 2 hit kill in front, 1 hit assassination from behind. Stop trying to reaction knife, this isn't cod. Use your gun.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #3 on Nov 1, 2011, 12:05am »

I'm pretty sure the knife is a 3, maybe 2 slash kill on a full health enemy. The only way to guarantee a kill is to get behind them and stab.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #4 on Nov 1, 2011, 3:10am »

Knife only delivers 34% damage if it isn't a back attack.

Highly unlikely you'll be able to get a guy with three quick-draws before he mows you down. Equipping the knife however lets you swing it quite rapidly.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #5 on Nov 1, 2011, 5:50am »

Also, you apparently can't stab someone if you're on a different vertical level; for instance, if the soon-to-be-knifed is sniping on top of a box, you'll have to climb up with him in order to get your dogtags.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #6 on Nov 1, 2011, 7:15am »

Yeah, eschewing getting any vanity dog tags with it how it is right now. I'll gun a guy down from 1 metre behind him rather than risk personal ruin

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #7 on Nov 1, 2011, 7:29am »

This is one of the good features of BF3. Who the hell wants to put 3-4 bullets in a guy only to get stabbed in the face?

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #8 on Nov 1, 2011, 9:08am »

I agree. I like the weaker knife. I was never a fan of the uber-knife fad that COD started.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #9 on Nov 1, 2011, 1:56pm »

Lol my experiences with the COD über-knife have gotten me killed many times in BF3 due to my autoknife reflexes.
Although, I think I've gotten to the point where I don't reflexively knife now.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #10 on Nov 2, 2011, 1:56am »

Nov 1, 2011, 1:56pm, yhzh wrote:

Lol my experiences with the COD über-knife have gotten me killed many times in BF3 due to my autoknife reflexes.
Although, I think I've gotten to the point where I don't reflexively knife now.

A thousand times this.

Reactive prone is also getting me killed pretty regularly.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #11 on Nov 2, 2011, 11:41am »

Nov 2, 2011, 1:56am, bel wrote:

A thousand times this.

Reactive prone is also getting me killed pretty regularly.

Yeah, the reactive prone often tricks me into sometimes thinking I've been shot dead and have fallen to the ground.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #12 on Nov 2, 2011, 11:46am »

God I love what DICE came up with for the melee system. Other than the occasional WFT moment where I'm behind someone and instead of assassinating them I get knife swipes, this melee system is perfect for a FPS such as Battlefield or Call of Duty.

Hope you're taking notes Activision because you're panic button is a major F'n fail.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #13 on Nov 2, 2011, 3:41pm »

Yeah, I like it a lot. And there's nothing more satisfying then hearing a knife unsheath behind you, then turning around to blast the enemy as quick as possible. Now if only the knife made you run faster.

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #14 on Nov 2, 2011, 4:31pm »

Nov 2, 2011, 3:41pm, didjeridu wrote:

i see your get-knifed-but-live-and-shoot-the-guy and raise by this: a while ago i heard the slashing sound behind me. i turned arround quickly, lost my 34 health, but didn't shoot him. instead i KNIFED BACK, and actually got the shmucks dogtags somehow. best of all, it was a guy i had a little ingame-hatred going for (you guys that play with me, you know what i'm talking about^^)
i then proceeded to verbosely rub it in via ingame chat, obviously

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Re: Plastic knife?
« Reply #15 on Nov 2, 2011, 5:17pm »

I can't tell you how long I've been clamoring for a melee system nearly exactly like this one from Call of Duty. I just love the fact that Battlefield encourages the use of the melee as a true stealth attack and not a quick escape goat method of surviving a situation where you couldn't gun your way to survival. I mean it just makes perfect logical sense to develop it that way as a gun will be more lethal at any moment then reverting to a knife to collect a kill, unless of course the person was out of ammo or had to reload but had no time to do either of those. In that case then the person is likely dead anyways, but being able to wound an opponent at least leaves the potential that someone else could finish him up easily. A one slash frontal knife attack for a kill, against someone who's firing on you, and isn't on the near verge of death, is just plain stupid (looking at you Call of Duty series). Again, unless the action is a stealthy neck slash, or I think a neck break (snapping) would have been pretty cool too, using the knife just means you're not in a position to survive a one-on-one encounter during a gun fight.

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