No thank you.

Please dont make this like call of duty, throwing a knife? i personaly think that a bullet would travel faster...at least its popular belief

i never said i wanted them, i used the search thingy about throwing knives and there weren't any threads about it so I made one to see what the forum thought about them.

In MW2 multi-player you could use a throwing knife in place of your grenade. It was somewhat difficult to use, but it was a one hit kill. Oh, and if you ran over it and held the reload button you could pick it back up. I don't think it was overpowered by any means, but it did make for some pretty ridiculous kills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechWarrior_2:_31st_Century_Combat

Modern Warfare doesn't deserve the acronym. They're stealing it from a better series. Still waiting on MW4.

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/aiagrp/wasp-exploding-knife

Theres no boom! Just highly compressed CO2! No.

Throwing knives? Why would I throw a knife when I have a pistol?

In my defense, she used the acronym as well - and I might not have used it if she hadn't.

That, and I'm pretty sure more people think Modern Warfare 2 than Mech Warrior 2 when they see MW2. Just sayin. :whistling:

EDIT: Oh, and I'm sure Mech Warrior could definitely make use of throwing knives.

What games besides New Vegas and MW2 have throwing knives? I would love to have them as long as they aren't an insta kill, just like slow down the enemy, disable sprinting and slow down SMART movement. That would actually be epic.

That sounds like the Throwing Knives in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood's multiplayer.

Don't think it would work for Brink though - would negate the advantages of being Light.

Honestly I don't think the problem would be with negating Lights - I think would be how difficult it would be to hit with to be effective. Unless it was somehow easy to do, in which case I agree with you.

You see how he shredded that melon though?

It was designed to fight BEARS and SHARKS with. That would make mincemeat out of normal folks. :blink:

I don't really care. It would be interesting to see how they work since they're usually an instakill in other games.

I see no option for "no, its one of the worst ideas in video games". The Russian ballistic knives are only slightly less stupid to put in a video game.

Or, more accurately, they're always made too powerful for video games. Throwing knives require precision to use. You need to know exactly how far away your target is to spin it the right number of times before contact. You need to aim precisely. The main purpose of them is to dispatch people quietly, and unless you get the guy in the throat spine or brain, hes gonna scream. Besides that, they are only effective out to a couple dozen meters. All of these things are why they simply aren't used in real life except for maybe when you need to make absolutely no noise, which isn't generally the case in a battlefield. Throwing away your weapon is generally a bad idea.

Realism isn't a stand alone argument, I acknowledge that, but the way I see them in games is ridiculous. As a silent, high-skill, situational weapon I could accept them, but they aren't. They are a low skill, spamable, one hit kill weapon that you can use in addition to any other weapon.

Having them work by arcing hundreds of meters through the air to kill a guy you didn't know was there is silly. Being able to THROW them that far is silly. They should have a similar path to grenades. and on that train of thought, have them take a similar amount of time to equip and throw.

Having them be able to bounce is so stupid I wont even attempt to rationalize it.

Having them be able to kill anything they come in contact with is stupid. Anything but the head isn't a kill. If you want them to be so useful, make arms an accuracy debuff and legs a speed debuff.

Some form of advanced targeting would also go a long way in balancing. Maybe having several points in the air to show where the blade will make contact instead of the grip.

These things would basically turn the weapon into something allowing you to take out an enemy that doesn't know you are there and little else. flinging them out in the heat of battle would either take amazing skill to have any effect. Getting knifed to the face while shooting at someone would be impressive instead of annoying.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/attachments/lounge/5358d1254157868-motivational-poster-spetsnaz.jpg

You KNOW you want to see that in Brink...

I don't care.. If it happens it happens. Thought I'd like there to be some sort of cool "futuristic" looking knife, that has a colored blade or something..
if it's Some normal stupid looking knife, then No thank you.

Let me put it this way, Modelling it, Texturing it, animating it and balancing it would be a huge waste of time.

Doubt we'll see it anytime in the future, and I hope they intend to spend theyr time more wisely then that

i have an better idea!!!
throwing weapons!!
you out of ammo, and no support near, you throw your assault rifle in the face of your opponent!!!

I find a throwing knife kill in CoD a lot more humiliating than a commando-stab.


I don't think it should knock someone down, but slow them and deal a little damage.

That being said, I won't buy into the "this ain't CoD"-argument. Some gameplay elements are fun to use and I consider throwing knives being one of those.

Well the green berets entrenching tool is a shovel, but it also doubles as a very effective weapon

i said "no, they're in too many games"
i think it wouldn't make sense either because in most games with them they're a one shot kill.
in BRINK a shot to the chest w/ a sniper/light rifle is not even a one shot kill! a sniper shot to the chest is WAY more lethal than a throwing knife to the chest...
it just wouldn't make sense to me in this game :S

Theres actually a full company in Afghanistan that wears them around their hip, each one is custom decorated by the soldier. They say they scare the crude out of the Afgahnies there lol.

Hm, I know no other game but MW2 that features them. (Well, and Black Ops, if you consider the Tomahawk.)

Going back far enough, GoldenEye 64 had them, but I don't recall how much damage they did. Conker's Bad Fur Day (also N64) had them as well.

I don't know of too many recent games with them, but maybe there are. I happen to like them, if you carry enough to kill with.