In most cases, I guess it's just something which is overseen by developers, because they don't intend to play like this (and after all, they always say they make the games they want to play).
But that doesn't make it something which should work.

When I saw onlyuseMEblade in action, it looked interesting, but I could never watch his videos without thinking "wow, how can this be possible". A knife-only-nuke, for example, should just NEVER happen in MW2. But it does.

I mean the ones prior to the Bad Company series. I was only trying to list some examples for Dysfunkshion.

I agree that this thread is starting to become more of an argument. All I meant to do was share my ideas regardless of their practicality. The response I have received so far has been more than rude and inappropriate; I might even say, immature. It seems, to me, people are trying to force everyone else in believing their set of ideas rather than discuss the ideas in the proper fashion.

(As an attempt to end any and all future arguments related to this thread, should we not let the poll decide?)

(I do not mean that as in, completely end the discussion.)

I apologize if my statements in the begining were a bit confusing to read.

Of course i dont know exactly what this game is like(having not played it of course). But from what I have seen and heard of Brink. In my opinion I believe that knife fights in this game would add to Brink rather than take away from the game. More so than other games such as TF2 because of the SMART system and Knives should play a bigger part in Brink. This is all i pretty much meant to say.

I am sorry if the starting statement didn't contain the topic enough.

I think a more appropriate term would be "exploit." It's not a technical problem nor a glitch, it is simply a way that players have found to take advantage of, or exploit, the system.

Normally one would hope such problems would be taken care of with patches, but that is obviously not always the case.

I agree with this statement.

I agree that they arent bugs but they probably weren't firmly devolved and not balanced properly. Idk about the melee damage though, i thought it was fine the way it was balanced but thats off topic i guess.

Im sorry but, how the hell do knife fights pertain to completing objectives.
1. What is a knife fight in a first person shooter
2. How does it add to the game, your comment includes the idea that smart allows you to knife while doing semi-advanced moves. In my opinion the knife is more powerful move that should be executed behind a person. Instead of turning Brink into a annoying knife fest, though some players may enjoy this I can only see this driving away many players.
3. I enjoy several melee based games but, as others have said before this is a first person shooter not a first person knifer.

Rather than it not being possible to succeed using the melee attack, I suspect that what people are actually complaining about is the ability in some games for players to survive several bullets and then successfully melee. This is the only justifiable issue that doesn't amount to 'well it should be this way because I said so'.

It would not drive away players. It's kind of like that one feature you dislike most but, don't really mind it in use. It might annoy some player if they had to switch to the knife every time they want to use it. Which is how the knife, in games, was changed into the accessory style (I think, don't assume this is fact.) As many people have stated before, knives and melee are used in the event one runs out of ammo. It is far more annoying not to have melee, of some kind, when the player loses all other options of defense. Not having melee would, in fact, drive away more players than it would if they were forced to switch to a knife.

(I apologize, this comment is made under the assumption that the player has the knife as a weapon not as the accessory.)

Frankly, this is how forums work.

KZ2 is how old? battlefield 2 had it, not sure about the predecessors.
i agree it should be like that, but then you have the problem with people who will only use the knife...
cod proved a silly weapon like that can still reap killstreaks wich makes me come to the decision that=> a) it's overpowered
B) it's never used unless by a guy in a small alcove who never ever leaves that place

The CoD knife has a long range and is OHK. If a melee weapon is not OHK it will be used more practically, but still be useful for silent melee kills.
People only using the knife is their choice, and it could just as easily happen in Brink. However, if they're managing to kill with a 2-hit weapon then they must have some serious skill; because they're managing to both close the distance, and outfight you, despite your gun having a massive advantage.

Indeed.

It's interesting to note at this point that while there is mixed feelings towards having to select a knife in your loadout, as opposed to everybody having one; a significant majority (65:35%) think that the knife should be a drawn weapon on screen instead of an accessory as in CoD.

I still wouldn't consider this a petition, or argue that anything should change based on these results, but it's definitely interesting to see what the guys who have voted so far actually think.

I think SD have implemented melee perfectly into the game, using the butt of your gun with a primary weapon and only have the knife as an option with the pistol. I seriously don't think it should be a WEAPON that you swap to however, since IMO it should only be swiped with in VERY close-quarters panics and thus attacked to some other form of gun, not thought of as a viable primary weapon option with people skulking around using it as such.

Yes that was your vote.

Do you have any reasoning behind this beyond your personal taste?

I like the knock down thing. That's a good idea that adds a new dimension to melee combat, and I don't think I've ever seen it before.

did anyone even notice the katana on the guys back in one of the wallpapers? will that be usable i think so

...no it won't...

Any shooter that allows the use of a katana becomes garbage in my eyes. Not because of balance issues, but because the katana is the most overrated and overused sword in films and videogames. Seriously, it's a good blade, but half the [censored] they feed you about them (ie. 'they can cut through anything') is [censored].

Splash Damage have put a lot of work into the gunplay of this game, and I'm sure they won't want knife-only commandos running around trying to ninja. It's too distracting from the pain purpose of the game. Though on an operative I could understand...

I know I saw Knives on rifles like bayonets.

I am not going throught that photobin [censored] again.

They're there, but those were pre-beta pictures, so who knows if they are still a part of the game. I also only ever saw them on Resistance guns, which means they're most likely just there for looks; since both sides are identical when it comes to gameplay.

i think the knife should be like a third weapon to your primary and secondary, you have to make the switch to it, and also i think the knife should be multi-purpose, like left bumper throw, right bumper stab/swing. Also it would be cool if you can knife while in any of the parkour animations. For example some guy sees u at the last second tries to turn and get a shot off, while you do a slide on the floor to get under his line of fire and while sliding, be able to knife him as you slide beneath/by him. THAT WOULD BE COOL!

it must becuase most of the stuff in the pictures is gonna be and has been confirmed in the game i cant wait