Yeah cuz bringing a knife to a gunfight is always supposed to be easy, and swinging a knife should always be faster than a bullet. As far as I'm concerned, if you're sneaky enough to get knife kills, then you deserve them. Grats. I've been killed by 'em plenty, not complaining. But you're telling me you want to make them faster than bullets? You're telling me that someone backpedalling and shooting you (last post on here I read) should not be able to beat you if you don't think to take cover and get a gun out?

The fail thinking here is that a knife is intended to be a frontline assault weapon, and you're attempting to use it in that fashion. Like I said, if you're getting kills this way, well done, that's awesome dude. But knives were never meant to be superior to guns in circumstances where the person with the gun sees you coming.

I know what your going to say. "Are you serious, they can ohko a heavy!" And you're right, their damage is fine.

It's how the damage applies that needs work.

Currently, it takes .5 seconds just about after I press r1 before the nova knife animation starts. And that animation, which is a double slash, takes quite a bit of time too. Damage is then applied at the end. The problem with this is that 99% of those who use nova knives are scouts. in the 1.5 ish seconds it takes to apply damage, a duvolle AR can output enough dps to kill us 2 times over at least.

I think the animation needs to be shorter and that it needs to start instantly. 0.5 seconds to apply damage is more than fair.

If you haven't used nova knives as more than just a gimmick for lolz a few times, don't bother replying. Your opinion is not valid.

this plus assault suits backpedaling almost as fast as I run forwards gets me killed more than anything (even the ultra low hp)

I think all Nova Knifers should get Vergi's Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom3 move. Should also be able to have 100 throwing knives to hit long range as well.

Here is example for those who are unaware of Vergil's move.

Almost forgot, range increase!

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If the NOVA KNIVES get touched in any way i will be pissed they are fine the way they are the have flaws so they arent OP Please stop making these threads I can go 30/0 with my knives so they apparently work fine don't touch them

My favorite thing in the world is the Sprint jump at the enemy and charge my knives, so I get a ohko when I land on their face.

Only works on scrubs though :(

You're telling me you should be able to backpedal at full speed while shooting just as accurately as you would moving forward?

This game mechanic is stupid and should be changed, not to buff knives, only to fix the game.

Why don't we just have a mini gun that just shoots nova knives? Or bayonet nova knives on our Assault rifles?

Nova knifes are balanced as they are and require no skill to use with how bad this games aiming and hit detection is, not to mention how much nova knifer's speed benefits from melee weapons in this laggy game.

Hell I might respec into them, they have it easier then any other class other then GTA Lav. Get fast scout suit, dump as many points as possible into speed, proto knives and dampeners, wait for distracted enemy run in knife and run out let FF take care of the rest and maybe toss a nade or 2, super easy as all hell.

If you cant kill with them consistently its because you suck.

You must be on some good ganja if you believe that.

You obviously havent faced me