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This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.
I have found that there is a lot of controversy regarding the use of a combat knife. People may say it would be useless because of shielded enemies. They may say that a knife would be useless hundreds of years into the future. However, think about this. If a spartan can decimate the sheilds of an elite or brute with a punch, wouldn't sharpend steel do the job much more effectively?
While you may think that the metal wouldn't be strong enough to withstand the blow, why can't the UNSC have found some super-strong metal on a different planet of something of that sort that could peirce energy shields without breaking?
For elites, there would have to be an equivalent to a knife because they probably wouldn't use a UNSC issued knife. Maybe an energy knife. A short, energy powered knife like the energy sword, but shorter and not nessessarily a one hit kill, but maybe close to it.
My final point is fairly weak, but I'll put it there anyway. This is in Halo Wars, so you may not regard it as cannon. *Halo Wars Spoiler*
Near the end of the campaign, when Sargent Forge fights the Arbiter, he ends up stabbing him with a knife in the neck before finishing him off with an energy sword. If a normal human can piece an elite with a combat knife, why not a spartan?
*End Halo Wars Spoiler
Reasons why a combat knife would be better/cooler than the normal melee and shotgun
1. Knives are cooler than just wacking people in my opinion.
2. Bungie could make a melee do 40-50 percent damage and a knife do 80-90 percent damage. So if you melee, you can get back to shooting faster, but if you knife someone, you would do more damage, but would have to wait 1 to 2 seconds before you can shoot again. Mind that you would be able to knife after your first swing without haveing to wait very long. (maybe a second or so)
3. I've seen someone say it would take the place of a shotgun only weaker. This is true, except that you would always have one on you and it would never run out of ammo or break. Now, if someone had a shotgun, and you had your knife, the shotgun would probably win because the knife isn't quite an instant kill whereas the shotgun is at close range. (at least in Halo 3)
Community Contribution
I have seen it writen that active camo elites don't have sheilding, now, maybe on them, a knife would be instant kill but on a normal elite, it would only do 80 to 90% damage. Also, how cool would it be if your walking through a covie ship in campaign, it's dark, you turn around and see a ripple in the failing light. You try to fire your assault rifle, and your out of ammo, you wip out your knife and stab and the now very close elite. You knife penetrates their armor thanks to your immense strength, and the elite falls dead at your feet.
I've seen some people writing about the fact that a knife would glance off of an opponents shield, but if a spike from a brute spiker does damage, wouldn't a knife that is held somewhat more stable by the user do even more damage?
1. Thanks to PredatorySmile
Why dont they make like 2 kinds melee animations.
Just a elbow or punch when you want to damage a enemy.
When a enemy is damage to the point that a melee is lethal we will use the combat knife animation. This would look pretty cool to be sure.
[Edited on 09.19.2009 10:24 AM PDT]