Buzzwords
Deadly Blue Dots
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2012.07.20 12:05:00 -
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no. the knife is a weapon like any other in the game, you can BUILD for it to improve it.
also an insta kill knife would cause a massive imbalance given the low bullets damage relative to high player health.
and even further worse when you consider the large differences in suit movement and even turn speed.
even if you restrict it to "just from the back" it would still be broken, it's fairly easy for a scout to LITERALLY run circles around a heavy, and that's intentional. |
Buzzwords
Deadly Blue Dots
RISE of LEGION
416
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Posted - 2012.07.21 21:31:00 -
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serious question... how many of you people have actually skilled and built for the knife? like level 5 knife skills and filling your high slots with prototype melee damage mods. i'm betting none of you.
so you realize what you're doing is effectively saying "my militia dropsuit with no modules, and no points in mechanics or shield management dies to easy!"
the knife has the greatest growth rate of anything in the game. it gets 10% damage for every level of it's base skill, whereas the next closest is the SMG with 5%. a prototype KNIFE dmg mod is a 50% damage bonus, for anything but the knife, a prototype damage mod is worth 10%. it's completely possible to deal over 400 damage a swing if you actually built for it, in the CURRENT system.
not to mention that the people asking for a 1hit knife are COMPLETELY ignorant of the current game balance. weapons in dust are weak relative to player health. the weakest guns in MW:2 killed in 5 shots. MW:3 the weakest is 6. BF3 the weakest gun is 9. (and those are all max range minimum damage stats) in dust it's completely possible to need 50 bullets to kill. (a standard heavy with good skills but NO modules, would need 57 rounds from a standard smg with bad skills) even a militia assault suit with NO modules and NO skills requires 10 shots from a standard AR. but a one hit killing knife is STILL one hit. in battlefield that means it deals 100 damage, in dust that would easily mean 1,000 damage... so a one hit killing knife in dust is easily 10 times as powerful as one in CoD (i mean even my assault suits have over 700 health, and 1k health is not even a GOOD heavy)
then on top of that, pile on the HUGE mobility gaps between suits, and it's laughable. you thought marathon lightweight commando was bad? now imagine scout suit one hit knife stamina low slots... |