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Really, guys, you want to go through a scifi game with swords? Go play warframe.

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

No swords or we lose Nova Knife.

- Shotty GoBang

+1 for a sword as a light weapon.

Better range and able to take out multiple opponents at once would be good. But it better make the user of the blade be more vulnerable (to prevent it being both way better than the shotgun and easier to use by a large margin) by causing damage to the user every time the user takes a swing (over heat damage would not need to prevent weapon switching or throwing grenades in this case probably) and the overheat period would only need to be roughly 1.4 seconds.

Having animations for the overheating event of the sword would not be necessary if the sword overheated with every swing and had a very short over heat period. The reason being that the animation would become too boring and monotonous.

If this weapon is put into the game it would be necessary to have certain game mechanics in place to prevent the sword being a weapon of preference over the shotgun. (don't want the shotgun becoming extinct)

Edit: I would be ok with other ways of making the sword user more vulnerable. (making the sword user more vulnerable would probably only be needed if the basic sword could OHK well fit medium frame proto suits and the proto sword OHKing fully tanked heavy proto suits)

Maybe instead of swords there should be heavy melee weapon?

Going to keep bumping this because when we star fighting inside ships or mining rig, or on breaching missions how cool would it look to you guys if you saw a squad of fully armoured Amarrians led by a captain with a power spear?

I'm just spit balling here, but I have come up with a all new name for it too, I thought "Ninja" would work.

Really swords? Hate to break it to you gents, but your on the wrong system with the wrong game. It's called Halo, it's on the xbox, you know where all of your kid buddy's play this sort of rubbish. Do the rest of the Dust 514 community a favor, and go play there. Your child antics are not needed here.

Let me stop you right here :P The knives in dust are anything but a stealth weapon. Enemies can both hear when they're charged and an incredibly loud and distinct noise when you swipe them.

I greatly enjoy melee in dust, and the use of knives. Some bugs/issues make them annoying sometimes to use, but there is nothing more satisfying than strafing through some guy's fire with a knife out, and watching him try to avoid you because he knows he's about to get stabbed while he reloads. The only thing that even comes close is squishing people with a dropship.

However, I highly disagree that just because there's one melee weapon, that CCP needs to turn it into a completely separate class. We're getting three more racial variants of Knives in the not too distant future, which is enough for me. "SWORDS" is something that a lot of FPS games are trying to gimmick these days, and I'm not a fan. This is a gun game. If some wierdos like myself want to run up and spam the melee button, cool. However, CCP needs to focus their attention on the "Shooter" part of FPS.

I'd much rather have them spending time improving the movement and controls, and smoothening the animations we already have than trying to make the melee system more robust to accomodate a whole lineup of hand to hand weapons.

Besides... Something tells me that when MTACS come out, you're going to have all the fun in the world just clobbering things with a giant robot fist, and you'll forget all about something as silly as "SWORDS" :P

Interesting...

I admit that I've never had my clone knifed when it was down, but I have had my clone shot and it never affected my clone failure timer.

Any non AV weapon doing that kind of damage in one hit would be way WAY over powered.