im sure ill get some flack for posting this comment but i think it's absolute crap that the knife is not a one hit weapon. why do i say this? because it's not easy. you completely compromise your position to do this because it requires you to get so close to the other player. i dare say it's probably the most difficult way to kill another player and it can be REALLY frustrating especially when your caught in the act.

this is why it should be a one hit kill .... the kill is the reward for taking such a risk. it's that simple.

With parkour and light body type it will be easier. NO OHK. I am glad.

Or maybe it's too easy, you can panic press the button and win a fight you weren't prepared for.

I prefer CS where you have to pull your knife and forgo your gun (that's risk) and you work for the knife kill anyways.

I agree :whisper:

last i checked this is a first person SHOOTER, no need for OHK knives especially when its easy to pull off in CQC

I am guessing the one person that voted yes was you.

But this game would be on the verge of becoming stupid when everyone is running around insta-killing people with knives. Beside If you stab someone it doesn't necessarily mean they will die. And if they do it wont be instantaneous, so we are better off they way they put it.

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Understand that there are points to body types. What you are stating is a knife, on slash, could take down a heavy. Now this idea is unrealistic, that even goes with a medium, a generally buff fellow is not going to die from a cut across the chest.

With the flood of lights that I expect to see, CQC will not be a problem, but allowing a OHK because they are fast is silly.

two words:

lol no

If it was OHK it would be annoying like those dang knifer classers from MW2. I'm glad there isn't a cheap OHK in this game. It is part of the reason I want to play it.

Story of Splash Damage's development of Brink. Part of it, anyway.

OHK may be satisfying to the user, but it's wildly frustrating to the rest of us.

Any kind of OHK is going to promote camping and ruin the kind of fun SD wants us to have with Brink. So the most logical recourse is to remove it from the game entirely. I'm also very happy with this choice. We'll all die fast enough anyway.

there no one stab kill function in this game. if you got 100% hp the knife wont one stab you. thats confirmed. how ever the stab / bash function. the melee attack is also based on the body type. i heavy guy can kill a light with 2 bash i think. im 90% sure i've heard that in an interview. a light guy got less power in his melee attack and therefore is weaker then a heavy guys melee attack. and to do a knife stab you need a empty hand. for example you need to wield a 1 handed weapon such as pistols. otherwise you will bash yout enemy with its rifle. correct me if im wrong. im not 100% all of this is confirmed. but i know 1 thing. 1 hit stab / bash is not possible. especially not for light guys

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

I agree.

I find no skill in the knife, :glare: usually knife kills only occur when you accidently run into an enemy. At that moment you both panic and start trying to back away while slashing madly at each other completly forgetting the GUN you have, its pure luck whoever wins out of the both of them :3

This even though I like knives.







No lights with knives do more damage than heavies with a gunbutt.

Light body types are the only ones that would really really benefit the use of a pistol because of their weapon restrictions (would be silly to see a heavy not taking his chance to have a minigun and a shotgun/a medium not taking assault rifle and a SMG, even though people who really love pistols would take 'em). So lights are the ones that would use the most pistols, and that's my point : Lights shouldn't be looking for melee, so if you're going so cut that heavy all sneaky and sh*t and not killing him fast, you deserve his super killing slap to the face. And you know why light type is unlocked last ? 'Cause it takes skill. If you can take advantage of your speed as a light, and go in the frontline, use SMART like a boss, be the biggest nuisance possible then you sir just figured that sh*t out. Now what if knives are OHKs ? Just use your godlike speed and your SMART avantage and go spam that [censored] on the enemy, gratz you nailed 4 kills by pressing one button. The knife system in this game is how it should be imo, a finishing strike or a defensive maneuver if you're too close for comfort. Being able to turn 360 degrees from someone who shot you in the back and kill him by pressing one button is just plain lame.
Honestly I'm glad Splash Damage had the balls to make the less OHKs possible in their game, I LOVE shotguns, and when playing games like Bad Company 2, I just want to facepalm when I see that the risk I take from sneaking enemy lines, nailing 2-3 shot on some people is just anihilated by one-button-kill.

Not enough to OHK,

they'd have to lunge at the neck and stab like 10 times to off a heavy

I'm happy that there is no OHK whatsoever, if I'm damaged and get OHK'd I'll understand, if I'm at full health and shoot someone running around a corner hitting them several times, and then I get stabbed as I make my way around the corner trying to finish them off, I'll feel like it was undeserved.

Knife stab/slash do more damage then any of the other melee attacks.

if i cut your arm once you wont die, if you had a gun and i cut you once you'd shot me once and probably kill me, so why ask for a non-instakill weapon(IRL) to be OHK and a OHK weapon(IRL) to not be?

Knifes should be 2 hit.

Killzone 2 was like that, although they had gunbutts. ... but same concept, 2 hits.

I liked it like that a lot better.

Besides, it isn't like it is going to take forever to kill someone with the knife in this game.

Pop them a few times with the pistol as you run up to them and swipe.

ok ... let me put it into perspective. :whisper:

should it be like the stab in MW2 ..... aka .... COMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOO where you have stretch armstrong-like appendages and can stab someone on FAVELA even though your playing TERMINAL? NO. while it can be very amusing (not to mention effective) it's just too devastating when you get the hang of it.

to put it plainly ... tactical knife + commando = :shocking: (i have a rather nice collection of colorful messages, less-then-love-notes and anti-fan mail that i have received from individuals who apparently did not share my enthusiasm for duck duck goose)

the stab in BC2 is perfect and is what i was referring to when i started this thread. my apologizes for not making that clear. it has a slight delay and a very small effective radius making it almost worthless when used defensibly .... or offensively for that matter. you will never see someone run into a room and take out more then one player with a knife before being shot. it's just too slow. stabbing in BC2 is almost always a planned event and it requires a fair amount of skill.

Nope. Any further *cough*[censored]*cough* questions?

Still no, I would prefer a 3hk melee if anything, although I appreciate you clearing up the discrepancy.

OHK knifing works well in games such as CoD where with every gun 5 bullets (even from long range) is all it takes to kill people,
but from a game like brink where it often takes between half a clip and a whole clip to kill, a knife OHK would be genuinely overpowered.