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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
LOL. First off, I don't play MLG.
Really? How odd, your name tends to suggest otherwise. Then again, maybe it is all the rage to name your online persona after an activity you don't take part in.
Please, tell me what purpose a knife would serve in the MP other than to waste one of your weapon slots.
Very close quarters combat. Besides, what do you care if other people utilize a knife if such a weapon were included? It won't be as if you'd have to use it too. Furthermore, if you feel it would be a useless item, and the people who carry it would be ineffective, you'd have no problem racking up wins in multiplayer games. That is, unless you are the type of person who will still complain about it simply because people manage to sneak up on you and knife you a few times.
A knife or similar CQC implement would be a welcome addition to the Halo sandbox in my opinion. While I could see it being more useful in a strictly solo/campaign role, I won't begrudge the fact that it may be fun to play around with in multiplayer as well.
Within a story context, I also feel such a weapon would work since I don't believe it has ever been stated that the 'shields' utilized by Spartans (or Elites for the matter) are capable of stopping slower moving, hand-held objects. The Halopedia notes this about shield technology as well, pointing to the Prophet of Regret's shields (Halo 2). While the Prophet's shield were capable of turning aside any fast-moving projectile, it was incapable of protecting him from a relatively slower moving Master Chief, who proceeded to jump onto the Prophet's throne and pummel him to death. Add to this tid-bit of information that you have always been able to cause damage to shielded enemies by way of assassinating them, and it seems confirmed that slower moving objects can bypass energy shielding.
Either way, at the end of the day, Halo: Reach is a video game, and if its designers choose to add a knife to it, then so be it. We will have to accept whatever explanation they give us for 'how it works' and its place within the weapon palette.
[Edited on 07.21.2009 3:47 PM PDT]