Understood, and thank you for consideration.

Pencil, myself and many others support an alternative to the nuclear option. Would it be technically possible to increase forward movement speed when knives are equipped?

This would permit a knifer opportunity to catch up to and dispatch a backpedaler. Swing animation slows movement speed, such that a backpedaling target is always just out-of-reach when a strike would otherwise have landed. A tiny boost to forward movement speed combined your blade length improvement would remedy this issue (without drastically changing anything else).

Was this confirmed? The charlie thread was just too long to follow. I can't express how terrible that would be when frame-rate is so low and we still have hit-detection issues to deal with. Yeah. And my Assault suits being as fast or faster than my Gal-Scout just seems like it'll make Assaults better at some of the scout's roles.

Flanking is though. Running away is.

With the strong dislike for lowing backpedaling speed, the assault becomes even better at keeping outside the nova knife range.

Yep, I tested the same. I have a feeling what's happening a lot is people moving in all sorts of directions in close combat, and that's where you lose space. The aim adhesion should directly address this.

Alright, so after a little testing I'm going to reduce the knife hit time from 0.3 and 0.55 to 0.2 and 0.45. The animation however is fixed, so it will seem a bit quicker, but the hit markers will indicate accurately when you hit.

Secondly, Nova Knife damage is now being changed to 120/160/200.

And lastly, Nova Knives will do 50% damage to vehicles. No bonuses to hitting weak points (not yet at least). They will still not do damage to installations. I may revisit that last point if we at least reduce WP for destroying neutral turrets.