In uprising I was killing it with knives an no gun, then they got worse an so did the way the game could be played with them.
Leaving the house now without, armor or armor reps is foolish. Now it's better to be sneakier an slower as long as you have full health reps built into ur suit. Using a two low slot suit is the problem now.
You need reps
Damps
Red an green
Shield reg

For a mini shields drop too fast, but gallente is too clunky to me to NK but awesome to sg.
Awareness has increased in the game because of paranoid skannerfrainia!
So it's not like before when you could bust 30 kill strictly knive games.

Now it's combinations of sneakiness .
Shotty
Bombs
Knives
Nades
An always a armor rep so you can continuously be at full health when you hide, remember lots of other suits have ewar now an ours is hardly better than theirs, then add hit detection an it's close to impossible if the hit doesn't land.
If you miss, SHOOT, don't be stubborn .
90% of the time if I have enough health I can win a face on attack only if we don't lose each other by them jumping.
If I'm close enough from the moment I'm spotted I sprint an quick slash, or I sg them or, I place a r/e, run to cut, if I miss I turn an run past my re, then I turn to shoot at them an walk them to my remote then BOOM

Armor is king now which means speed means nothing.
Your better off with a shield reg an arm rep on a mini, sg bombs , nades, knives, shields an a precision mod.
An knife in cities, leave knifing as a main weapon an bring a ranged gun on the big open maps
An attacking on a 45 angle works good