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fry_fubar wrote:You guys are forgetting one important issue when talking about knife use on the modern battlefield. Where a bayonnet fixed to a rifle is used offenively, a knife carried by a soldier is more than likely nothing more than just a tool. I.E its used to clear vegetation, cut cord, opening cans or crates ect...

The knife as a combat weapon has seen very limited use since WWII. So for a reality mod, having people legging it across streets and diving from buildings to get those glorious knife kills its absolutely rediculous.

I suggest a rethink of the knife, maybe intergrate it with the building system somehow, I don't know, it's just a last quick thought. Any ideas?

nick20404 wrote:Ya it would be nice if you could use the knife realistically for cutting barbed wire removing grenade traps etc.

So far the only thing you can do with the knife besides kill is destroy rally points and fire bases.

Psyrus wrote:Personally... I like the knife for the 'fun' aspect that it retains in the game. Plus it's one of the few ways to silently 'off' someone. I realize the OP is simply saying change it to be critically wounded rather than kill (although I don't like the 5 stab suggestion) which I sort of agree with, but TBH % of kills with a knife in-game is probably what.. like between 1-5% [less]?

I'd much rather they take out the sniper before worrying about removing the knife kills

fry_fubar wrote:Great idea for the grenade traps, but cutting barbed wire? I don't think even a nice new combat knife could do that with any ease, you'd need wire cutter, that stuff is majorly strong.

ReadMenace wrote: Something like that then?

-REad

fry_fubar wrote:Yeah that looks about right

Jonny wrote:Can someone go stab some of the people saying that you can survive being stabbed over large parts of your body? The retardedness was funny for about 5 seconds.

Brain, throat, gut, heart & anywhere along the top half of the spinal column will probably stop you doing just about anything ever again. Now you are saying that someone with a severed spine can quite easily run into a building full of hostile troops armed with rifles and put up a fight are you?

Most other places on the body will leave you crying on the floor in agony, unable to do just about anything until several days/weeks later. Assuming you dont bleed to death from the injury before you can get proper medical attention. A field dressing does not stop internal bleeding, remember, no matter how much you want it to.

There is a good reason swords and other assorted sharp obbjects remained (and continue to remain) very effective weapons. Stab wounds are VERY serious injuries. Especially if the person doing the stabbing is trained to kill.

nick20404 wrote:I think this mod is long overdue to get rid of the knife or to make it not 1 hit kill, its completely unrealistic, there is no where on the human body were you can be stabbed and instantly die. Even if someone stabbed you in the heart or slit your throat you would still be alive for a few minutes at least before bleeding out.

I suggest leaving the zipties as one hit kill but make the knife at least 3 or 5 hits before a kill.

Stryker Machine wrote:The Stab should have a more realistic feel about it, such as the sound of the knife cutiing through the flesh, and so on.

Redamare wrote:BR2 engine for PR is not completley perfect ........ it has it problems .. but It could be usefull to make the knife criticaly wound some one Go black and white and still some wat of a chance of turning around and shooting the person who kinfed them before bleeding out

Redamare wrote:BR2 engine for PR is not completley perfect ........ it has it problems .. but It could be usefull to make the knife criticaly wound some one Go black and white and still some wat of a chance of turning around and shooting the person who kinfed them before bleeding out