Can you do a regular melee with nova knives? If not, it wouldn't be too hard to just melee NKers to death.

Well... i may be stating the obvious but since this probably isn't a serious post i'll oblige.

A pair of Nova Knifes can dish out more melee DPS than any other Weapon can.

Well now that that's out of the way.

-They're also the only weapon that can be held in both hands, and dual-wielding blades is always badass.
-They can stab people more easily than other weapons
-They are quieter than any other weapon, at least i think so.
-Easier to hip-fire than any other weapon.

That's all i got.

Keep the faith.

And yes I'm sneaking behind them but I keep missing the swing because the range is so low and the hit detection for mele attacks in general is rubbish.

Waiting on someone who's skilled into Nova Knives to update me on the details I'm missing.

Even if you sneak, its rare to have enough time to charge up the knife and attack one or twice before he looks around and kills you.

I think i've only seen one nova knifer.

It was weird. He was just running at me so I just...jumped back and kept shooting.

It'll weird you out man.

Who is so oblivious to not read on the top right corner what weapon killed them?

Oh well, i guess some snipers are really dense. I've seen quite a few and it's like they can't pay attention to anything but their scope, and barely even that. Good snipers are but a few, horrible snipers are everywhere.

Mass driver, dodge that.

I could be wrong, but the last time I checked, Mass Drivers had SLIGHTLY longer range than Nova Knives.

Feel free to tell me otherwise if that's changed?

My main problem with the knives is that the hit detection for melee is already "meh", so adding a weapon system centered around that is kinda stupid if you don't fix the melee hit detection.

The Nova Knife is no longer a melee weapon and is no longer effected by melee mechanics. It is now technically a sidearm.

Also drop the price, you would think a simple blade would be less expensive than an Assault rifle with advanced systems.

The Nova Knife is not a simple blade. It uses super-heated plasma to sharpen the blade and it requires CPU/PG to operate at all. The price may be high at the moment, but it might drop once the players have full control of the market.

And also for gameplay reasons, nova knives are not as effective as a shotgun that can do everything better at this range.

Well... DUH!!! For general gameplay where you just want to pick up a weapon and kill people without putting much thought into it, of course the Nova Knife is useless. But this is a special weapon that is not tailored for general gameplay is it? It's a weapon for pros. Scrubs or Blueberries need not even touch it. Scrubs are not even worthy of looking at it. Think of it as the Law Giver from Judge Dread: can only be used by a Judge.

1000 ISK seems reasonable.
Maybe 750 ISK for standard and 1000 ISK for prototype.

Too cheap even for standard.

I personally use Nova knives. It is hard for combat confrontation. I believe its meant for stealth confrontation. I just use it for giggles.

Whoever tried sneaking up on me when I was giving overwatch wasn't, but I doubt it was you. Just saw a red dot show up behind me, and I was sprinting down the mountain before they could hit me.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a scout however, since someone told me a heavy was heading my way and I heard forge shots hitting behind me on my way to cover.