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Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: Methew
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.