Something I'd like to see is light arms classed charged weapons.

Example
Nova Sword: Basic / Advanced / Proto
Name: Wakizashi / Katana / Odachi
Damage: 150 / 250 / 333
Charge-Up Time: 2.25 sec
Reach* in meters: 1.14 / 1.33 / 1.52
Slot: Infantry Light Weapon
CPU: 16 / 39 / 69
PG: 3 / 7 / 11
Skill Reqs: Weaponry 3, Light Weapon Ops 3, Nova Sword Ops 1 / 3 / 5

Skill Tree
Nova Sword Ops: Unlocks at Light Weapon Ops 3. 3% reduction to charge time per level.
Nova Sword Prof: Unlocks at NS-Ops 3. 3% bonus to damage per level.
Nova Sword Wielding: Unlocks at NS-Prof 3. 2% bonus to attack speed per level.
Nova Sword Focusing: Unlocks at NS-Prof 4. 2% bonus to charge strike damage per level.

*Reach is not just blade length, it also assumes an average extended arm length from chest and shoulder meeting point to thumb webbing of aproximately .61 meters which should logically put the nova knife's reach around .81 meters.

I use Japanese swords for my example as they're the swords I'm most familiar with.

LoL oh damn!

Now I'm amped for this game again

i don't even use Nova Knife, but i fcking LOVE this idea...

Would be nice if there was also a spec'd suit for, Jet black in colour with super high stealth...

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

Former semi mechanic. Duct tape fixes everything.

Id like to see a minmatar based maul out on the field. Just a big ass spikey hammer.