Stabbing correctly

[Tannim]

Alright, I'm playing an Inf for now and I've got point blank AMP ambushes down pat. But I'm having real issues with the knife.

Seems to me it should work this war

Stab (primary attack)
charge(secondary attack)
Stab (Primary attack)

But it looks like I'm doing the same damage every time. Shouldn't I do more after charging up?

[Firefly]

Try right-clicking the mouse and turning on the secondary mode right before you attack. Charging doesn't do shit, this isn't D&D where you can get an extra few damage points for a declared charge.

Oh- and try Melee Booster implant. It drains 10 stamina per hack, which is WAY off balance considering you can run around for hours with surge and agile/reinforced armor on, but it does an assload of damage (at least it used to).

[Tannim]

I'll give that a shot.

Yeah, I'd planned on the Melee implant, but my inf is still BR4. So I've got 2 levels before I can gear up.

[Fenrys]

How much extra does the melee bost give ya?

[Madcow]

Originally Posted by Fenrys

How much extra does the melee bost give ya?

A lot. I don't know the actual numbers, but 90% of the people you come across will drop in 2 stabs in secondary mode. The other 10% are in reinforced with personal shield and/or second wind. Considering it's 10 stamina per stab, you end up with an awful lot of extra stamina to surge away after a kill if need be.

[HawkEye]

melee booster helps alot when i had infil i had it u can take down a reinfroced in like 3-4 stbs i think. it rox when u wanna knife

[KeviN]

Melee booster makes it a 2 hit kill on agile, and I believe 3 on rexo.

[Vick]

Dont answer unless your sure.

Melee booser is 2 hits on everyone, maybe 1 hit on infils.

[Madcow]

Originally Posted by Vick

Dont answer unless your sure.

Melee booser is 2 hits on everyone, maybe 1 hit on infils.

Definitely one hit on infil, surprises the crap out of most of them using DL as well.

[noxious]

The melee infiltrator is great but not very effective until BR18, at least in my opinion. In addition to having melee boost, I consider surge and darklight essential. In my melee infil I carry no weapon except for my knife (I really use it as a support setup with a rek, cud, BANK and medical applicator with a canister of medical juice because I play adv med) so I have to run from enemy infiltrators. It also helps when you screw up knifing someone if you can make a very quick get away.

[GreyFlcn]

So noxious does that cloaker setup work for ya?

Always end up feeling like you HAVE to have Adv Hack with a cloaker.