We have energy swords.
And the addition of bayonets and knight-blades. Fine. Dandy.
But now heres’ the thing… What about… The combat knife, in combat? Just pull it out when behind cover, when the enemy moves in, ya slash 'em.
Just think of all the ways knives could be used! And even have the glory kills from DOOM? When you jump on 'em and rip them apart and stuff.
So instead of the “beeep, beeep, beeep” checking the motion sensor, we instead pull out our knife.
Now these could kind of have weapon skins (not to look like CS in any way) and be permanent unlocks. And in small maps like Fathom, Mercy, Torque, Riptide, they’d all be quite useful. Being able to go melee-ham on someone.
And to expand… LOADOUT VARIANTS!
In Warzone, there could also be variants (variants usable in the “Service ID” section where emblem is chosen, you select your knife variant, i.e. knight blades and kind of Covenant mini-sword things) and then there would be one used only in Warzone (it’s a loadout thing) and it would kind of have the appearance of an arclight charging up… Blue and red loops go around it. And when this particular knife whacks a vehicle, it gets EMP’d. Now it works like any other knife most of the time. And the EMP effect charges for 10 seconds (swinging cooldown is 1.5 seconds for maximum sneakiness)
Just imagine being a -Yoink- to a Phaeton Helios.
And here’s my next idea…
Knife throwing:
You can through knives. You have 5 starting out, one to the head is death, one to the body gets rid of shields. Like a ranged melee.
However they are rather inaccurate, so it’s kind of nerf’d.
Now throwing an EMP knife will damage a vehicle and EMP it for 20 seconds (because it’s so damn unlikely to hit a VTOL in the air)
And that opens up having the “Close Range Specializer” armor mod.
This allows:
-10 knives (because more EMP knives the better)
-because of close range combat, double the SMG and Magnum ammo
And then it could be expanded with Knight Broadswords.
Doing the same thing, except it takes shields, and HALF your health. Luckily, they can’t be aqquired in Arena.
Now, besides strength (all these knife variants are lvl. 6 so you’re not getting them too easily) the Knight Broadsword also comes equipped with the ability to lunge, a little bit.
3 quarters of the Energy Sword (standard)
This would make assassinations maybe slightly faster. For all knives.
And as for broadswords, assassinating someone with one in-hand will cause an equivalent to the knight assassination where you take the blade and stab them.
Assassinating someone with this as your weapon will cause the coolest energy sword assassination equivalent. But also a new one:
A: Uses their elbow to grab hold of B, throwing them to the side.
B: On ground next to A, followed by stab to chest.
Kind of like “And Stay Down”