NC magcutter

[polywomple]

from fb

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/694/42751133679896303138820.jpg

now doubles as a potato peeler!

[dpranker]

looks...underwhelming

do knives not have an "alternate mode" anymore? Don't see how that would do anything special really

[DayOne]

now doubles as a potato peeler!

:rofl:

[dpranker]

Go get a good old fashioned pocket knife and press it into your leg, you will appreciate a blade after it's been inserted into you... That shit is special! I love the design of it, it looks like it's intended to cause wounds that can't be mended by stitches ... I love it!

I may just have to play NC......

lol, not saying that it doesn't look like it can do some damage, I'll just be upset if the TR mini-chainsaw is gone (always loved that thing)

[Coreldan]

I'd guess the knife can be certed too to some extent? So cloakers get some extra stabbage!

[Raymac]

now doubles as a potato peeler!

I'm just here to shank fools and peel potatoes...and I'm all out of potatoes.

[DayOne]

I'm just here to shank fools and peel potatoes...and I'm all out of potatoes.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

stop it, you're killing me!

[SpLiTNuTz]

Looking good! Have we seen the VS and TR one yet?

[Xaine]

I think it would look much better without the handguard/knuckle-duster thingy that it has going on. But it does look very NC. Ugly, blunt and to-the-point.

(Yes, the knife puns are free. I'm here all week)

[sylphaen]

In the New Conglomerate, apparently, not only balls are made of solid steel...

[Gandhi]

I guess the chainsaw mode could be a separate attachment ;)

[Livefire]

I think it would look much better without the handguard/knuckle-duster thingy that it has going on. But it does look very NC. Ugly, blunt and to-the-point.

(Yes, the knife puns are free. I'm here all week)

I think this knife looks perfect in every way, I really like the knuckle guard it would be great for punching and striking someone to death. I really hope they make the knife fighting fully up gradable, stabbing, slashing and full animated throat cutting and combo's. This is what MW and BF series has done. With advanced Kali knife tactics which come from the Philippines and has made the special forces of the world turn to there knifes as the most effective and deadly weapons in the world to targets with in 5 feet. Imagine a Cloaker with these ability's in game it would be so sweet, don't forget the badass fully modded hand gun with silencer (SOCOM like) the Cloaker would have as well:)
The Hunted - Tracking - YouTube
Atienza Kali knife trailer - YouTube

[Shotokanguy]

Good thing they were able to find a spot on the knife they could squeeze the empire logo onto! I wouldn't have known whose knife it was otherwise!

Seriously, take them off! AHHHHH!

Wouldn't it look cooler with some sort of button like the original, to give it that NC look they're going for this time?

[Livefire]

Good thing they were able to find a spot on the knife they could squeeze the empire logo onto! I wouldn't have known whose knife it was otherwise!

Seriously, take them off! AHHHHH!

Wouldn't it look cooler with some sort of button like the original, to give it that NC look they're going for this time?

If they make the knifes and knife tactics work right you wont need a button trust me:)

[Xaine]

Mmm i'm sort of coming around to the knuckle guard. It does sort of complete the look.

[Hmr85]

Looks sharp. Should be fun sticking it in some TR/VS.

[Vancha]

Good thing they were able to find a spot on the knife they could squeeze the empire logo onto! I wouldn't have known whose knife it was otherwise!

Seriously, take them off! AHHHHH!
At least it looks like they're faded/worn now, as opposed to the overly-saturated logos we've seen before.

[Hermes]

Ah i'm still not sold on the guard. Though with no improvements I can visualise thats non constructive feedback at it's best :(

[Canaris]

Who needs a knife in a nuke fight? - YouTube

[Satexios]

I don't really like the guard, without it would look much better, bad photoshop following:
http://i39.tinypic.com/dyofav.jpg

Nonetheless I can't wait to stab a cloaker with it :P

[Tikuto]

Aw man. So humiliating. A potato peeler. :rolleyes:

[Livefire]

Aw man. So humiliating. A potato peeler. :rolleyes:

This is a potato peeler:
http://www.cheftools.com/images/06-2000-180.jpg
This is a tactical knife that has its center cut out to reduce weight:
http://www.heavenlyswords.com/images/P/HK7772A.jpg
And this is are beautiful freedom defender: Its good to be NC:)
http://www.planetside-universe.com/images/screenshots/fptn_20120217_4f3ecedd93034.jpg

[Firefly]

Looking good! Have we seen the VS and TR one yet?
They didn't show the chainblade or whatever it was supposed to be in the TR Week. I was kind of disappointed, doubly so since the NC knife came out a fucking week late.

[DayOne]

This is a potato peeler:
-snip-
This is a tactical knife that has its center cut out to reduce weight:
-snippity-
And this is are beautiful freedom defender: Its good to be NC:)
-snip-

It still looks like a potato peeler. :rofl:

[psimonk]

This is a pet peeve of mine, but I have a problem when games in a futuristic setting just throw in low-tech weapons and such as if they would have a place on the battlefield.

I think I'm a bit more agitated because I just read this great blog on Dust 514: http://www.dust514.com/en/news/?article=3427 At the bottom is a description of one of their knives:

"A close-quarters melee weapon, the nova knife is as deadly a weapon as anything on the battlefield. Its name derives from the heated plasma edge of the blade – formed by a thermic igniter and linear gravity condenser – that, in skilled hands, can be used to carve through even the thickest dropsuit armor."

THIS is how you design weapons in a sci-fi setting. I don't really care what that rationale is to use a knife on the battlefield, just don't give me a "really sharp knife" and call it a day. Please!

[Vancha]

^
Agreed...Sort of.

I expect the VS will be better, but as far as the TR and NC equipment we've seen so far goes, they seems to have taken very little of the liberties afforded by the sci-fi setting. Don't get me wrong, everything's looking great, but I'm not sure why everything's being made to look quite so "modern".

[Graywolves]

Tell that to the .50 cal we still mount on HMMVs

[psimonk]

Thanks Vancha, I'm glad you understood. Speaking of the NC, I do wish they would play up their salvaged/mining equipment angle more in terms of weaponry. I really wish the NC and TR were more differentiated in general. For instance, why do we need 3 knives? All you really need is a melee weapon, how cool would it be if NC had a futuristic mining hammer like the one from red faction? It's all aesthetics at any rate. :D

[Top Grunt]

Looks like it could be fun, I just hope they make sure it's not a COD single hit slasher. I mean come on! in the future it has to take some effort to use a knife right? maybe do the BF3 thing of sneaking up on people and stabbing them in the back, but having to fight face to face.

[ThirdCross]

I don't really like the guard, without it would look much better, bad photoshop following:
http://i39.tinypic.com/dyofav.jpg

Nonetheless I can't wait to stab a cloaker with it :P

Definitely looks better with the hand guard. To each his own though ;)

[Bzak]

Sometimes even on a futuristic battlefield it just comes down to a sharp piece of metal.

[Livefire]

This is a pet peeve of mine, but I have a problem when games in a futuristic setting just throw in low-tech weapons and such as if they would have a place on the battlefield.

I think I'm a bit more agitated because I just read this great blog on Dust 514: http://www.dust514.com/en/news/?article=3427 At the bottom is a description of one of their knives:

"A close-quarters melee weapon, the nova knife is as deadly a weapon as anything on the battlefield. Its name derives from the heated plasma edge of the blade – formed by a thermic igniter and linear gravity condenser – that, in skilled hands, can be used to carve through even the thickest dropsuit armor."

THIS is how you design weapons in a sci-fi setting. I don't really care what that rationale is to use a knife on the battlefield, just don't give me a "really sharp knife" and call it a day. Please!

DUST 514 takes place in the eve universe which is 21,000 years in the future, since they have been lost since there wholehole collapsed from the milkyway, and they have been spread across in the EVE galexy so long that they lost all connection to earths date. The wornhole in EVE was open for many years allowing humans from earth to slowly colonize the entire EVE galaxy. This made for a much healthier, successful and advanced colonization. Planetside takes place on a recently lost colony that is much smaller, There wormhole collapsed in minutes after it opened leaving only 40k people and 50 or so ships on the other side,In fact the whole game takes place on one planet that is colonized as a new home for the survivors. The game is set in about 500 years from now. There for the technology would be much less advanced then EVE's and DUST 514, this included there knife technology. Although the discovery of a artificial alien world controlled by nanites could be a game changer I as a fellow futurist would prefer that they be conservative on future predictions of technology, that makes it more future realty and less fantasy.

[Mag]

I was thinking about how annoying I'm finding the fact that they're throwing empire logos on every single thing, but it just occurred to me that the pocket knife I've got in my pocket has a Leatherman logo on it. I guess they're not that bad.

[RedKnights]

Definitely looks better with the hand guard. To each his own though ;)

I must agree, plus more battle ready with the whole brass knuckles thing going on :D

But as the great T-Ray in the sky would say, "CUST-OMNOM-IZATION"

[Shogun]

it looks quite NCish.

a little tiny for my taste, but the design meets NC philosophy.

it´s not made to look good, it is made to inflict some heavy serious damage and this blade would be a real motherfucker in reallife.
you know this cut out shaft in the blade is not to reduce weight, it´s purpose is to let the victim bleed, even if the knife is not pulled out!
you know? insert a normal pocketknife blade into your leg and it wouldn´t start to bleed violently until you pull the knife out again so the blood has a nice open hole to go through. but if you use a knife with such a lovely bloodtrench, the blood can take this trench even when the blade is still in the leg.

i don´t think we will get throwable knifes, but a knife like that would make a perfekt combat throwing knife.

i wonder what the other knifes look like. hope the chainsaw is out because that would fit even better for NC and i would hate the tr having it ;-)

the vs will get a lightsabre for sure...
jediscum!

[Hmr85]

Sometimes even on a futuristic battlefield it just comes down to a sharp piece of metal.

Agree, Knifes will be around for as long as man is around to wage war. Regardless of how advance weapons get. It truly is the perfect hand to hand combat weapon.

Also, I love the look of the Photoshopped NC magcutter without the handle.

[DayOne]

Agree, Knifes will be around for as long as man is around to wage war. Regardless of how advance weapons get. It truly is the perfect hand to hand combat weapon.

Also, I love the look of the Photoshopped NC magcutter without the handle.

Until we invent lightsabers. :cool:

[Rarntogo]

i'll take a crowbar thank you. :)

[MgFalcon]

The Magcutter definitely looks the role of NC; too bad we didn't get a chance to see the Chainblade during TR week - I'm thinking everyone would be happy with a close representation to this: http://www.arizonacustomknives.com/images/products/23149.jpg

[Livefire]

it looks quite NCish.

a little tiny for my taste, but the design meets NC philosophy.

it´s not made to look good, it is made to inflict some heavy serious damage and this blade would be a real motherfucker in reallife.
you know this cut out shaft in the blade is not to reduce weight, it´s purpose is to let the victim bleed, even if the knife is not pulled out!
you know? insert a normal pocketknife blade into your leg and it wouldn´t start to bleed violently until you pull the knife out again so the blood has a nice open hole to go through. but if you use a knife with such a lovely bloodtrench, the blood can take this trench even when the blade is still in the leg.

i don´t think we will get throwable knifes, but a knife like that would make a perfekt combat throwing knife.

i wonder what the other knifes look like. hope the chainsaw is out because that would fit even better for NC and i would hate the tr having it ;-)

the vs will get a lightsabre for sure...
jediscum!

Knife Anatomy 8

"The center axis of the blade has a milled fuller or cannelure. The fuller or cannelure allows a reduced central weight in the thickest area of the spine without sacrificing strength. In essence, it forms an "I" beam running down the center of the blade, and limits lateral flexion. You will see this feature more on longer, larger blades, like sword blades."

"It is not a blood groove. The term blood groove is an American colloquialism and means nothing. We've all heard that the groove is made to allow blood to flow in a deep cut, but this is simply an uneducated attempt at describing the fuller. The fuller is named for the special hammer and anvil tool set (a fuller) used by a blacksmith to produce the groove that spreads hot iron. In my book I go into greater detail about this mysterious and misunderstood groove in a blade."

Source
http://www.jayfisher.com/Knife_Anatomy_Parts_Names_Definitions.htm#Knife_An atomy_1

[Geist]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't all PS knives more than simple knives?

The TR get a chainblade, a knife with a monomolecular chainsaw edge that can cut through all but the heaviest armor.

The NC get the Magcutter, a blade that can vibrate so fast it makes short work of all but the heaviest armor.

The VS get the Force-blade, a knife that creates a force edge around the blade that can cut through all but the heaviest of armor.

I admittedly put in the monomolecular edge part on the TR knife, but otherwise these knives seem pretty sci-fi to me.

Also, NC knife is as bland as always. :p

[Livefire]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't all PS knives more than simple knives?

The TR get a chainblade, a knife with a monomolecular chainsaw edge that can cut through all but the heaviest armor.

The NC get the Magcutter, a blade that can vibrate so fast it makes short work of all but the heaviest armor.

The VS get the Force-blade, a knife that creates a force edge around the blade that can cut through all but the heaviest of armor.

I admittedly put in the monomolecular edge part on the TR knife, but otherwise these knives seem pretty sci-fi to me.

Also, NC knife is as bland as always. :p

No it looks like they took all that away they are just regular knifes now. If fact when they posted the NC knife on face book they didn't even call it the Mag Cutter, they just called it 'A New Conglomerate close quarters combat weapon.'

[Grimster]

Who needs a knife in a nuke fight?


That clip and that whole movie is awesome. One of my all time favorite movies ever. :)

Just love that clip.

[Geist]

No it looks like they took all that away they are just regular knifes now. If fact when they posted the NC knife on face book they didn't even call it the Mag Cutter, they just called it 'A New Conglomerate close quarters combat weapon.'

OMGWTF!!!!:mad:

How exactly are they going to justify these knives killing anything but other infiltrators?