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Subject: Do u want a knife in reach?

Poll: Do u want a knife in reach?  [closed]
Yes:  47%
(8 Votes)
No:  53%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 17

I do... you could pick it up and it doesnt count as a weapon but as equipment (if they use equipment in reach like they do in halo 3). and basically your melees are stronger and you can visibly see youself trying to stab the other guy. And its reusable.

  • 08.14.2009 7:59 AM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
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The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Lolwut?

  • 08.14.2009 8:07 AM PDT

Just enjoy the damn game!
Who cares about BR vs AR

We don't need a knife. We have a melee system where only 2 Melee's kill. One to the back assasinates.
We have a sword which is a one hit beatdown along with the grav hammer.
The knife couldn't work either. It wouldn't be able to penetrate the Shields of enemies, or even through the armour. Spartan armour is impervious to a lot of things, including metal blades.

It would look cool though.

  • 08.14.2009 8:08 AM PDT
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op, since you bothered not to make too many mistakes in your post, here's why it wouldn't work :

energy shields + indestructible armor > knife.

  • 08.14.2009 8:59 AM PDT

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What would be the point?

  • 08.14.2009 9:01 AM PDT

Ellites Suck!

We should be able to steal the shield of the Jackels and use it with a one handed weapon.

[Edited on 08.14.2009 9:15 AM PDT]

  • 08.14.2009 9:14 AM PDT

Ellites Suck!

Also the C.Q.B armour has a knife on the chest plate.

  • 08.14.2009 9:15 AM PDT

You don't even understand the point of equipment do you OP? Equipment provide a equal local effect to both sides of a conflict, but ideally it would be used to prove a greater global advantage to your side.

For example, a power drain kills indiscriminately. But ideally you would throw it at your enemy with the hopes of draining his shields and simultaneously blocking him off from pursuing you. Using it in a situation where you want to pursue your opponent is unwise because you might have to charge through the damaging field yourself to get to him.

And knives are a silly idea.

Perhaps to us mere normal humans a knife is much better than punching, but because of the strength of spartans, it really doesn't do all that much extra damage.

In Halo 3, a melee does 70 points of damage. Do you know how much extra damage a melee with the spiker rifle, the mauler, or the brute shot does? They all have very large blades on them, and could be considered "knives".

72. They do 72 points of damage compared to 70.

You would be much better just picking up a spiker, because then you have a knife that can also shoot superheated spikes.

  • 08.14.2009 9:17 AM PDT