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now, i am really hoping that reach will have a combat knife, and if they do implant it into the game wouldn't it be cool if you could customize your knife? like you could have different knife shapes and handle colors. just an idea. :P DISCUSS!!

  • 11.09.2009 1:58 PM PDT
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Yes! It could even have a customizable sheathe! that may be a little over board though

  • 11.09.2009 2:00 PM PDT
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Knife? No.

I want a blade of steel as long as my arm that I will use to pluck out eyeballs and sever necks, arms, legs, tendons, arteries and pick off peices of armor one by one by one till only the soft meat inside remains.

  • 11.09.2009 2:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: Methew
Knife? No.

I want a blade of steel as long as my arm that I will use to pluck out eyeballs and sever necks, arms, legs, tendons, arteries and pick off peices of armor one by one by one till only the soft meat inside remains.

Halo 1 Beta Knife?

  • 11.09.2009 2:01 PM PDT
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So a machete?

  • 11.09.2009 2:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Methew
Knife? No.

I want a blade of steel as long as my arm that I will use to pluck out eyeballs and sever necks, arms, legs, tendons, arteries and pick off peices of armor one by one by one till only the soft meat inside remains.

disturbing............but i respect your opinion, i think XD

  • 11.09.2009 2:01 PM PDT

A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.

  • 11.09.2009 2:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hylebos
A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.

Who said I wanted my Combat Blade to kill in two hits?

  • 11.09.2009 2:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.


Yeah exactly.... A combat knife would have to some new feature that seperates it from the other direct melee weapons as well as normal weapon melees but in a balanced way. I have no idea what gameplay mechanic could make a knife a genuinely useful addition to the Halo arsenal.

  • 11.09.2009 2:07 PM PDT

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The only use a knife has in Halo is for silent kills of unshielded enemies. Being as there is a large chance that the primary enemies will once again be Elites, the inclusion of the knife would be foolish. Even if Brutes are present a knife would do little. Read First Strike to see what happened when John went toe to toe with a Brute.

  • 11.09.2009 2:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.

Who said I wanted my Combat Blade to kill in two hits?

Would you like it to kill in three then? Or four? It for sure as hell isn't going to kill in one hit because:
1) We already have a weapon like this. It's called the energy sword. And it actually makes sense.
2) If the knife is able to kill people in one hit, then the spiker, bruteshot, and mauler should also be able to kill people in one hit as well.

  • 11.09.2009 2:09 PM PDT
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a combat knife does not HAVE TO kill in 2 hits you could make it soo sertain spots on the body have a one hit kill.

  • 11.09.2009 2:09 PM PDT

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a combat knife does not HAVE TO kill in 2 hits you could make it soo sertain spots on the body have a one hit kill.

Yes. We already have a system like this. If you melee someone in the back, they die instantly. We don't need a combat knife to do this.

  • 11.09.2009 2:21 PM PDT

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the humans already have a close quarters weapon lets see whats i called o yeah a shotgun

  • 11.09.2009 2:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.

It could be 2 hits with shields, 1 hit kill with no.

  • 11.09.2009 2:24 PM PDT

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its still no different unless you make it melee incredibly fast

  • 11.09.2009 2:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.

It could be 2 hits with shields, 1 hit kill with no.

...And exactly how is this any different at all from how melee works already?

  • 11.09.2009 2:28 PM PDT

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i think a combat knife would be useless and easy to counter
but it would be cool in cut scenes like in odst

  • 11.09.2009 2:30 PM PDT

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im sure bungie will come up with something..

  • 11.09.2009 2:31 PM PDT

I like how Combat Knives are in Halo 3 and ODST:

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  • 11.09.2009 2:34 PM PDT

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  • 11.09.2009 2:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hylebos
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Posted by: Hylebos
A combat knife would be worthless to a spartan. It's essentially an ammoless spiker. Yet for it's huge blades, the spiker only does 72 points of melee damage instead of the usual 70. Nobody in their right mind would pick up a knife that kills in two melee hits when they could pick up a gun that kills in two melee hits instead.

Who said I wanted my Combat Blade to kill in two hits?

Would you like it to kill in three then? Or four? It for sure as hell isn't going to kill in one hit because:
1) We already have a weapon like this. It's called the energy sword. And it actually makes sense.
2) If the knife is able to kill people in one hit, then the spiker, bruteshot, and mauler should also be able to kill people in one hit as well.

It's my fault in encouraging this thread. I meant my post with a majority of humor in it and a minority of seriousness. Obviously it did not come across as such.

You are right that given the current strength of weapons strengthed by solid metal is minimal when facing down shielding and layered armored opponents that a solid metal blade would be a poor choice.

  • 11.09.2009 2:40 PM PDT

Its a trap!!!

how about if your spartan for some reason has either no weapons (maybe in campaign or ran out of ammo in both guns

they could use a combat knife for their melee

it would do 73 damage instead of the bruteshots 72 i think i have that right

at it would have a longer range then a regular melee

but it would still be a 2 hit beatdown

  • 11.09.2009 2:50 PM PDT

Posted by: Madara Umezawa
how about if your spartan for some reason has either no weapons (maybe in campaign or ran out of ammo in both guns

they could use a combat knife for their melee

it would do 73 damage instead of the bruteshots 72 i think i have that right

at it would have a longer range then a regular melee

but it would still be a 2 hit beatdown

In battle, you won't have enough time to pull out a knife.

  • 11.09.2009 2:51 PM PDT
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Look ive wanted a knife and it kills in one hit watch the cut scene in halo wars and ODST. Know maybe make it a balistic knife, for of you who don't know what that is its a knife that the blade gets shot from the handle like a gun. Like ive always wanted to pull the knife out in Halo3 because i wear the CQB body, and if i could use the knife in ODST id be Buck. I think its a good idea but at the same time its an idea that needs alot of work to be done if its going to happen

  • 11.09.2009 2:52 PM PDT

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