Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.18 05:37:00 -
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no one hit kill, makes training for knives pointless. Brutal melee was cool in killzone, I don't think it would work in dust. The classes in killzone seemed to be roghly same hp, if not exact. In dust it depends on what suit your in, how its fit, and what skills you trained. And possibly what skills your leaders have and what command modules they are using to buff there lower ranks. EvE also had drugs that boosted armour(magic space drugs make steel strong?) dust may also one day. Two many factors for ohk to be balanced against.
What would help knife.
1)better hit confirmation
2)more skills for those that specialize, a given gun has 5 skills to boost it, and each unlocks a new skill at level V, knife has one.
3)better knives in sidearm slot, default knife is militia and takes no slot, but better knives cost isk, cpu,pg and a slot.
4)larger melee weapons in light weapon slot. The EvE background mentions the amarr have a group that still trains for hand to hand, and implants there body to boost there abilities.
5)longer reach, listed last since it could fall under 2 if it was a skill.
what would not help
1) arbitrary damage affects that ignores the fit/skills of victim.
2)giving everyone a default melee that is overpowered, the people that want to use knife builds couldn't since it is just standard.
3)damage boost, it is already a high damage weapon with skills. The knife skill give 20% more maxed then gun damage skills. (150% is 20% higher then 125%) The modules also add 50% instead of 10%. The damage is there if you know how to get i
The knife dance will not be a problem.
1)The guy with the knife has probably skilled/fit for it. So, if the other suit responds with a knife he/she will die quickly.
2)The most common knife attacks will be from behind, or fast suits attacking slower ones. This will make it hard to respond by dancing with knife with faster suit.
3)The best close quarter for a gun skilled char to a knife attack will in most cases be a gun. So, it will be more one suit slashing with knife strafing, as other fires shotgun/smg.
4)when a knife dance does happen, it will probably be two char that skilled and built knife fits. So, this is the playstyle they both like, still not a problem.
The slasher fps or knife dance some are worried about will not occur, as most will spent sp/slots on something else. |