Is there Counter knifing in 2042?
I will not be getting it if there is. I don't believe it has ever worked properly.
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BF4 system is flawed, I agree.
Would be interesting to have a timing based counterattack system where if attacked you had a small window to counter and if you did successfully then the attacker has a chance to counter counter but with a smaller window and that would go back and forth with a progressively smaller window until someone misses their opportunity and subsequently is killed.
You could make it so attacks from the front had the largest counter window while those from behind had a super small one making it rare to achieve.
Another option is to take the human element out of it and just do an RNG:
Front Attack
34% - Attacker kills Defender
33% - Both Attacker and Defender are killed
33% - Defender kills Attacker
Side Attack
66% - Attacker Kills Defender
17% - Both Attacker and Defender are killed
17% - Defender kills Attacker
Rear Attack
95% - Attacker kills Defender
4% - Both Attacker and Defender are killed
1% - Defender kills Attacker
Also, hope we get proper knife animations for kills against units manning stationary weapons.
@rainkloudI strongly DISAGREE that there should be any chance for them to counter from the side or back AT ALL, I would be ok with both players dying to a frontal counter MAYBE if it's a panic knife, we're not sure if it's going to be like BF1/BFV melee for sure yet though either.
Fun fact!
It takes the same amount of time for Claymore tripwire to deploy as it does for the knife animation to play out.
So as to front knifing.......
You take my tags, you go KABOOM! 😎
It's not countering a knife attack. It's countering an assassination. Yes the same weapon is being used, but there's no way to assassinate from the front. A knife attack from the front is just that. These are 2 separate forms of attack. When you assassinate, you take your gun back out before you can do anything, where a knife attack, you keep your knife out and have to swap back. I think I've seen a quick hotkey come up once in 2042 while I was being assassinated, but it was only for about .2 of a second and this was the only time I've been assassinated so far, so if it IS in the game, you really gotta be on your toes to get that counter.
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