while animations like those in Battlefield or even Section 8.

I suggest once again animation driven execution with knife: no quick animations, not instant kill as in Future Solider but animation in which we stab the enemy many times...more times in case of heavies.
Also in Killzone 3, which has animation driven melee, you can be killed while performing melee since you can't move: a very good trade off IMO.

"Knife dueling", for me at least, is frustrating, is awkward, is silly and it belongs to the past of FPS.
Now, melee in Dust 514 should be one hit kill, regardless of the armor, and that's because knife/melee is the ultimate resource for a FPS player: if you arrive at the point of using it then must be really worth it.
Starting a ballet with you enemy to get a 50cm kill (which is already the MAX EFFECTIVE RANGE established by CCP) it's ridiculously frustrating.
Anyone that has played FPS can also tell that you really can't knife around in Battlefield or Killzone so we won't see people running around knifing easy, especially with 5km maps
Also, fiction-wise, the Nova Knife, which will be standard donation for everyone, and has plasma on its edge so probably with that much heat around the blade it won't have problems to pierce through any Dropsuits, even the thickest.

You know? I'm so used to how Killzone 3 and Battlefield 3 work with tehi melee that I kinda expected my character to go all Rambo on the people I've tried using the knfie on.

When you think about it, Melee skills should work based on context. For example:

When attacking from behind (target is unaware):
- (Click R3 while aiming at the head) Grab the enemy from behind and cut their throats open if you have a knife.
- (Click R3 while aiming at the back) Hit the vertebrae with the knife to instant kill
- If you have no knife (is that even a possibility), you could hit them with a blunt object to cause some form of "stagger" status
- (Click and hold R3) Enable some form of hostage mode (the victim could opt for suicide or struggle out of it)

When attacking from the sides (target has partial awareness):
- (Click R3) Stagger the enemy.
- (Click and hold R3) Disarm the target's current weapon (drop it onto the ground until the owner can pick it back up again) and stagger him/her.

When attacking from the front (enemy's fully aware):
- (Click R3) uses the weapon to hit the enemy once
- (Click and hold R3) makes the knife your primary weapon (can use R1 to use it)

Yes, that last one implies that the knife should be counted as one of the available weapons in the inventory (Holding R2) and that you should be able to select it manually.


This is but a small idea of how to make melee combat more effective even if you may be bringing a knife to a gun fight.

I would rather not have the ability to run up to some guy in my super-speedy scout suit, then one hit kill him with a click of a button.
So no, dear god please do not add "finishers" into this game, it will be absolutly horrible.

I don't want knives to have finisher animations like other shooters. I don't want Dust to be like other shooters.

I said this 11 days ago but since so many of you like me think that animation driven melee would be better here's my contribution:



Also this:

If you could kill a person faster by shooting him than by knifing him, your knifing system needs some fixing.

If we keep the current melee system then inevitably melee will always mean "knife dueling/dancing" and frankly this in FPS is one of the most frustrating things ever.

OHK melee in FPS is a must have for his reason:

The whole point of finishers is to make the game more fun,Challenging and satisfying.

it is happening in most games now why shouldn't it happen Dust 514?

I think the reason you cant kill somebody with a knife with one hit is because you have to pay for classes and it would be a nuisance to keep dying in an expensive class because of that, but having said that, it is annoying that when you steathily find your way directly behind an enemy, I end up shooting him as thats the most effective way to kill him