I say no to insta kill back stabs, way to easy to abuse, and ends up becoming the focus of far too many of the younger generations attention instead of playing the objective.

"Its name derives from the heated plasma edge of the blade GÇô formed by a thermic igniter and linear gravity condenser GÇô that, in skilled hands, can be used to carve through even the thickest dropsuit armour."

CCP seems to disagree with your statement, as do I. Plasma should cut through armor like butter, especially that nanofibre bull. We're not talking about some carbon steel combat knife your uncle Jim Bob gave you for your sixteenth birthday, we're talking about a weapon that requires a fuel cell and glows ****ing blue. You realize how hot something has to be to glow blue? Hot enough to cut through your drag racing suit, that's for sure.

Honestly, I haven't invested 2,000,000sp into Myrofibral Stimulants and Knife Handling but I'm pretty sure that I can run a combat knife through a six foot tall target if he's not entirely convinced that I'm breathing down his neck.

Convince me as to how you think it could be easily abused in this game.

Anyone else ever get really irritated when they go up behind that lonesome sniper, get close enough to use their blade, only to swing and have the target's shields sort of... Nudged..?

I think we should add an instant kill back-stab. This game is massive, and it's not often someone can get the jump on you with the minimap and scanning system. It would give a lot more incentive for Scout suits to be sneaky.

Thoughts?

what is it with the knife threads already people think we are carrying a damn light saber

If you bothered reading the blog blog about the Nova Knife you would know that the blade is surrounded by hot plasma which means it can cut through any dropsuit easy.
Also if you want to kill someone in an armor with a kinfe you might want to stab him because clearly you can't cut the jugular or other arteries since they are protected...which is why slash instant melee are silly in FPS to begin with and why Halo, KZ have animation stabbing melee!

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As I said you don't use a knife to cut through an armor you use it to pierce/stab through it.

Don't mistake animation melee with instant kill.
Instant Kill is COD, animations driven melee is Riddick, The Darkness 1 & 2 KZ and Halo.

Not far enough in the future to be a light saber tbqh

The downside to devoting this much to melee however, is that you lose all your high slots for the damage modifier, plus your lowslots as you need to use CPU enhancers to make the damage modifiers fit. Essentially - You become a glass soldier with a totally awesome knife.

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What then: Nova Knife is there here but CCP could not come out with an idea (lore) to make it truly effective!
They HAD to make a melee because all FPS has it but didn't think bout making it good.
And before you say something read this:



Does it sound right to you that to have melee as good as in any other FPS you must make yourself a "glass soldier".

Lore can't matter more then anything, more then gameplay, not in a video game!

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But this is what CCP wants, this is how they intended things for us.
To have a decent melee, as decent as in other FPS, you HAVE to sacrifice the rest and transform yourself into a "glass melee soldier"...all in a game based on range combat and on GUNS

The only obstacle to a good melee is CCP obsession with RPG skills, nothing more.