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An hypothetical animation might take 2-3 sec which is faster than the current melee: it takes multiple slashes to kill someone, heavies takes forever, so a melee kill is about 4-5 seconds now if we consider the overall danging you have to do to get the kill.

really? why carry a knife?

you're asking why a soldier should carry a knife?

I disagree, I really like the BF3 style of knife kills, where you only get the the kill animation if you catch someone unawares. I think its a good system & I like the fact, unless you do catch them its not a one hit kill. I also like the fact that it takes a few seconds, it makes it more difficult take out multiple opponents in quick succession unlike COD, I don't like the COD style system, it makes things too easy & isn't very immersive IMO.

Problem with that is the difference between ACTUALLY catching them unaware and the game mechanics telling them they were caught unaware.

I stand by my vote for "buff damage" rather than adding kill animations of changing how melee works.

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An hypothetical animation might take 2-3 sec which is faster than the current melee: it takes multiple slashes to kill someone, heavies takes forever, so a melee kill is about 4-5 seconds now if we consider the overall danging you have to do to get the kill.

Anyone who makes the argument "you can't kill someone by just cutting them in real life" needs to go to bed. .

I know it looks cool and hardens everyone's e-peeners when they dramatically stab someone in an online FPS, but I enjoyed the days when you could just kill someone by slicing them.

Anyone who makes the argument "you can't kill someone by just cutting them in real life" needs to go to bed. You definitely can, and I'm sure 21,000 years into the future we would have developed a knife that can do that rather effectively through armor, or why else carry it?

If I didn't have ro freeze in place for three seconds in battlefield 3 everytime I went to stick someone I guarentee my 2.3 KDR would be higher. I don't know why you people want this - it's essentially a death wish to pull this crap. Knifing someone is now a murder/suicide pact in B3 and K3.

What if I don't want to one hit kill them with a knife? What if all I really did want to do is slash them so I could keep moving? If they add knife finishing animations to Dust, it needs to be something you intentionally initiate, not something that freezes you in place and gets you killed thereby making it a dumb decision to knife in CQC as opposed to jiggling around just waiting for your weapon to reload, and then fire at your enemy who has no idea you are there 2 feet away. Maybe if you hold the knife button down, have a new kind of knife you buy at the market, but not a knife that you just swing once at someone. That kind of defeats the entire purpose of leveling up your knife skill.