Maybe it's just me, but I think having a knife in this game is stupid. I think it is only there because it is there in other games which are equally stupid. In combat no on who is using a 2-handed rifle can quickly whip out a knife, get a good slash in, and PUT IT BACK IN SHEATH in the time it happens in this game. Not to mention that this is the future and I find it hard to believe that anything short of a lightsaber would do any damage to these dropsuits.

I think the only sane thing to do is make melee attacks something that is done with your weapon like in Halo. Seriously.

Wrong. It is not because other games have the knife, except halo if you ignore the plasma sword. It is the fact that knives have always been an integral part of warfare from a historical point of view. Even today, our soldiers in the military, hell... in any military for that matter, still use the knife in close combat situations. No one is gonna get rid of it just because you don't like them.

Other than that, I do agree that the clip should be lost in the process of interrupting a reload. After all, the clip is empty anyways.

You are missing the point. I am not saying that having the knife couldn't be an important part of a soldier's equipment, even though the examples you give are of our present to the past and we are talking about a futuristic game. I am saying that NO ONE, including soliders of today, run up to an enemy combatant face to face, let go of at least one hand from their weapon, pull their knife, slash or stab, then put it back in their sheath and go back to business as usual. In most cases you don't bring a knife to a gunfight unless you are out of ammo. When they are used in combat it is for times when you want to be quiet and have the element of surprise or you have no other option. The sidearm is the backup for the rifle and the knife is the backup for the sidearm. Hell, knives are probably more used as tools that for actual combat.

So my point is, that many games have this because the "melee" mechanic is a good one for FPS, good balance of risk versus reward usually, and they choose a knife because that is the weapon that would technically make sense because past and present soldiers carry them. But the implementation never made sense unless the melee weapon was a separate weapon you had to switch to. The only way it makes sense to be able to simply hit a button for a quick melee and then have your character go back to shooting as usually is to use the weapon they are holding for the melee. Period. Halo does this, it feels good, it feels right. Rather than wallow in a mechanic that is at best a mediocre tack-on for most FPS, I want Dust to be fantastic and feel thought out. This is one way you accomplish this.

Agree, this is annoying.This problem is what we call a "knock on". It was actually caused by a fix to another (very nasty) bug. A new fix isn't going to make it in to the latest update I'm afraid but it is on the list for the next one.

It would make more sense if you melee with your rifle but because it frankly easier to do so, which actually is one of the ways to hit enemies in Killzone 3, it's a sensible alternative but it just wouldn't look as cool as slashing someone with a knife Cool.

Agree to all of these! knife also needs to do more damage

Unupgraded knife can three shot unupgraded suits. When you factor in that you can train the knife skill to do 50% more damage (two shot) it is already powerful enough, then consider some suits can equip up to four Melee biotics which are up to +50% more melee damage each, and the Nova Knife is assuredly not underpowered for damage (just could use a smidge more reach and give a feedback sound letting you know you actually hit the target instead of a mere whiff miss).

I can't count the number of kills I've missed because I moved in to melee but my rifle started the reload procedure. I think it would be awesome if you could melee and interrupt the loading sequence, even if the would restart the reloading process.

You are missing the point. I am not saying that having the knife couldn't be an important part of a soldier's equipment, even though the examples you give are of our present to the past and we are talking about a futuristic game. I am saying that NO ONE, including soliders of today, run up to an enemy combatant face to face, let go of at least one hand from their weapon, pull their knife, slash or stab, then put it back in their sheath and go back to business as usual. In most cases you don't bring a knife to a gunfight unless you are out of ammo. When they are used in combat it is for times when you want to be quiet and have the element of surprise or you have no other option. The sidearm is the backup for the rifle and the knife is the backup for the sidearm. Hell, knives are probably more used as tools that for actual combat.

So my point is, that many games have this because the "melee" mechanic is a good one for FPS, good balance of risk versus reward usually, and they choose a knife because that is the weapon that would technically make sense because past and present soldiers carry them. But the implementation never made sense unless the melee weapon was a separate weapon you had to switch to. The only way it makes sense to be able to simply hit a button for a quick melee and then have your character go back to shooting as usually is to use the weapon they are holding for the melee. Period. Halo does this, it feels good, it feels right. Rather than wallow in a mechanic that is at best a mediocre tack-on for most FPS, I want Dust to be fantastic and feel thought out. This is one way you accomplish this.

Unupgraded knife can three shot unupgraded suits. When you factor in that you can train the knife skill to do 50% more damage (two shot) it is already powerful enough, then consider some suits can equip up to four Melee biotics which are up to +50% more melee damage each, and the Nova Knife is assuredly not underpowered for damage (just could use a smidge more reach and give a feedback sound letting you know you actually hit the target instead of a mere whiff miss).

Agree to all of these! knife also needs to do more damage

Completely agree, knife attack needs to take precedence over reloading, And you should be able to begin sprinting from a crouch

I see your point, but as someone else pointed out already, I fail to see how smacking someone with the butt of an assault weapon is going to do any damage to a suit meant to shield against something as powerful as a plasma shot.