Please no one button kill quick knives in Planetside 2! - Page 3

bkx · 2011-07-10, 01:51 PM

Or, how about bashing with certain weapons (rifles, pistols, but not heavy weapons) and a separate equippable knife.

Kran De Loy · 2011-07-10, 10:28 PM

Oh please dear God, no quick knives.

One of my favorite things from Planetside was the Terran's chain knife and that a cloaked stealther could sneak up on someone than turn that baby on directly behind them.

It was perfect.

moosepoop · 2011-07-10, 09:46 PM

this game should have chainsaws for melee, then everyone is happy

ZeroOneZero · 2011-07-10, 10:22 PM

Black Ops sword says Hi.

Valdae · 2011-07-11, 04:15 PM

I dont see what the problem is. One knife kills are popular in other games because they are satisfying when you pull them off, whilst 'bash attacks' always seems totally underpowered and pointless. I'm all for one hit kills if you can get behind your opponent like Halo Reach, especially if it has a long animation that leaves you vulnerable.

In ps i felt like I was attacking people with a burger flipper :-/

Volw · 2011-07-11, 04:23 PM

I'm sure playing with god-mode and instagib weapons is fun and satisfying as well! Therefore I want it in PS2!

Oh and I want to be able to nuke everyone from the orbit! That's the only way to be sure, after all.

Valdae · 2011-07-11, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Volw

I'm sure playing with god-mode and instagib weapons is fun and satisfying as well! Therefore I want it in PS2!

Oh and I want to be able to nuke everyone from the orbit! That's the only way to be sure, after all.

Lame argument. How many good games are full of instagib weapons and god modes? None. Players dont like to repeatedly do things that arent challenging or take no skill. Its another reason why people didnt like biffas in ps1. An orbital nuke however...

basti · 2011-07-11, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Valdae

Players dont like to repeatedly do things that arent challenging or take no skill.

Exactly. Now how much of a challange is it and how much skill is required to run up to your enemy, press button a, and bang he is dead.

Valdae · 2011-07-11, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by basti

Exactly. Now how much of a challange is it and how much skill is required to run up to your enemy, press button a, and bang he is dead.

Well lets face facts, its not as easy as just aiming and shooting someone. Put that mechanic in a more open environment and I dont think it would be that prominent. The real problem would come when an infiltrator takes out a ridge full of snipers in seconds.

On the other hand, a lot of people found the knife worthless in ps1, and personally I was hardly ever killed by it. My preference would be hack 'n' bash for the frontal attacks, with long instakill execution animations for the perfect backstab. I think thats the best of both worlds.

Traak · 2011-07-14, 10:54 AM

There is no third person for infantry in Planetside 2.

This will make knifing not NEED OSOK to be effective for cloakers.

Rbstr · 2011-07-14, 12:05 PM

Wow, that's amazingly lame.

Rbstr · 2011-07-14, 12:07 PM

The TTK stuff really depends on how much they've facilitated close the the action spawning.

It seems like something they're trying to do, with galaxy spawning and the like,

EVILoHOMER · 2011-07-14, 11:13 PM

As a Vanu player (I haven't played since BFRs so do correct me) all I want for the Vanu is the glowing Force Blade back! It really pissed me off when they took that out and never even gave us the option to toggle it or make it a special knife.

EVILoHOMER · 2011-07-14, 11:24 PM

Planetside wasn't slow until SOE rushed out another poor expansion to be thrown on the pile of their history of poor rushed expansions. Then they did the whole dumb Bending and BFRs thing which massively ruined the game so everyone left. The population was already on the downturn thanx to Core Combat and BFRs just killed it off, which the game never recovered from. With Planetside it's hard to get people back when all the big battles are gone, so it was a vicious circle.

SOE really needs to not rush out Planetside 2 and only release it when it's ready. Otherwise it'll be a disappointment and the population will never be big and the game will be dead before 30 days like all MMOs are these days.

I still reckon they'll fuck something up and do another SWG where they promise and promise and not deliver on anything.

headcrab13 · 2011-07-16, 06:14 AM

I'd prefer it if knives did minimal damage from the front, double damage from the back, and also had a "charged" attack where you could hold down the mouse button for 2-3 seconds behind an unsuspecting victim for a finishing move.

-HC13