Gameplay: Laser katanas

[MFour]

Right now, if you get really up close to the enemy, the best thing you can do is pull out a pistol or shotgun and hit him point blank. What if there were more options? I'm talking about some empire specific melee weapons, which would take a lot of certs to get or could be bought and would be quite an improvement in range over the knives. And they'd have to look really cool and have good animations =P

For example, a long, sleek katana-like blade for the VS, a sort of chainblade (like a chainsaw and sword combined) for the NC and and... something for the TR.

This wouldn't affect most combat situations, but it would be fun to use as an infiltrator who right now has to snipe the target from point blank to kill it if they infiltrate an enemy base.

[SDaxxter]

VS: Laser Katana
TR: Baseball Bat
NC: TwoHanded Sword

Or simply a baton to knock them down.

[Baneblade]

[Rbstr]

You know...you can stab people with knifes already. What kind of range are you looking for here?

[Brogan]

I'm not so sure about katanas, but I have always felt like I'd be awesome to have different mele weapons, or at least be able to customize it, like coating the blade with disorienting or deadly toxins, or at least for the chain blade to sound like I'd expect any mele weapon whose name begins with CHAIN to sound like. Maybe max mele weapons with empire specific abilities, like a "HULK SMASH!" ground pound from something like a dreadnought siege arm from 40k, or predator-esq claws, or a freaking chainsaw
(doom guy=max...mother of god)

[Ogre]

They still need to make the knife swappable between a hotkey and a permanently out weapon.