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This thread is now hijacked by Taco pirates. Proceed.

Yeah knives are broken, apparently if you're back-pedaling you're immune to nova knives and you receive sparkly blue sparks.

Its like trying to melee someone you gotta stay close range but backstabbing works best with scanner, once today it saved my life cos a guy snuck up on me and shot me with his AR so i jumped and got closed range and slashed him to death.

I still don't see why CCP doesn't straight up make charging while sprinting a thing. You're bringing a knife to a gunfight, things aren't exactly balanced anyway. This must have something to do with knives being the default melee back in beta.

I personally love it when the proto stompers come in packs of 4 an 6 , caldari logis all taking turns scanning FRUKKIN CONSTANTLY!
But as much as its nice to complain about the knives it's better to not make it known their bad.

Last night it saved my life, Alfonzo P an his proto goons came to stomp our match seeking an destroying in a scanner pack, an I got surrounded hiding between B an A at the base of a pilar hiding in the nook, an P could see me in his passive radar an so could I.
So when he turned the corner I shot gunned his face, got barely any damage, so I pulled out the knives, he dropped a core nade an we both left in opposite directions, I flanked the cliff fast as I could to get behind him but he was gone.

Just the fear of knives saved me, so it's better everyone stays scared of them

I am shocked when I think they saw me miss with the knives and they are still oblivious of the attack. So you try again and again until he dies or you die. Many protos have lived due to this. By any standards they were as good as dead.
I think it is absolutely awesome how a skin and bones dropsuit can NK proto meds and heavy suits.

I am aware of some specific fixes on their way for Nova Knives. Rest assured CCP is aware there are problems. They'll have to be the ones to tell you what, and when, but I don't mind sharing the fact that your plight is not being ignored.

^^All of the above applies to Shotguns as well.

Not if I have anything to say about it.

The Nova Knives are special because they present a specific set of challenges for any player. Unlike other weapons that improve and get better with training skill books, the Nova Knives are the only ones that don't rely on that. They rely instead on the experience of the user itself.

It takes a lot of careful preparation and coordination for a lone knifer to be able to close in on a target at the risk of being spotted and mowed down by a gun. This often forces the user to invest months of practice due to having to reprogram themselves from old habits and going into developing new habits that are completely out of the comfort zone of the user.

But once that is achieved, the user can become a mean killing machine with just the knives alone. I was the first to pull it off back in closed beta at a time when the Nova Knives were considered nothing by jokes. People mocked me for even trying. But by the time open beta arrived, everyone feared me and anyone else who held a knife.

Now imagine a pack of experienced ninja knifers running around with knives in the cities.

But then Uprising 1.4 came and they got nerfed. Not directly nerfed but indirectly instead. Hit detection became more problematic strafing was reduced considerably. But as 1.5 arrived, the sprint-charge glitch got fixed. This glitch was the only thing that made the knives any useful at all as players were able to sprint with the charge held in the blades. But now it has become impossible to be an effective knifer here because everyone can avoid a charged knife attack easily by simply back pedaling since your backward speed is equal to the forward movement speed. As a result, most of us including me have been relegated to just camping out objectives and staying in the shadows for prolonged periods of time as we miss out on all the action.

Hey guys does nova knives work with sidearm damage mod or melee damage mod? cos the logicloop suit got 1 melee damage mod on it.

Sorry to say bro but the SPRINT CHARGE GLITCH getting fixed is your undoing for blasting it on he forums trying to be a " nova knife instructor/ rockstar" when you were specifically asked not to!
All that where taught this were given the same instruction as you; and that was to KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT IT ON THE FORUMS!

Then you go make some huge post teaching dudes on the forums how to do it like your Yoda , an now that it's gone I hear you hardly play.
So take it on the chin like a man that YOU botched it for everybody an quit b!tchen about it, an this is why you shouldn't have ratted us all out!