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1SKxTheTagMaste
4 years ago

The knifing system in BF 2042

So I’ve been playing battlefield since Bad company 1. I’ve loved this game for many years , especially the melee system. When Bf3 introduced knife animations I was in love. It’s honestly been my favorite thing to do. From taking tags by getting a good flank on the team in rush, to trolling a sniper that hasn’t moved in 10 minutes, it’s been a blast. I’ve seen a lot of changes since then, such as front knifing in Bf4 which I think we can all agree sucked to the unique melee in Bf 1 which was awesome. Bf 2042 brings some cool animations to the game which I’m all for. I know people are not happy it’s in 3rd person and I’d love to see a 1st person animation change too. What’s got me upset is the change to where animations are now only able to do a takedown from behind . I did a lot of knifing in Bf4 , so much in fact I was #1 in the world on Xbox at one point with over 20,000 melee kills . I had more kills with a knife then some did with a gun, and it’s because it was fun. Now that removed side animations I feel they took part of that fun away from Battlefield . It’s feels like they looked at Call of Duty and wanted to be more like them. I get that as times change the games we play will evolve, but this, and 1st person animations have been apart of battlefield for more than a decade. There’s a whole community of us out there who love this and feel this change wasn’t for the good. I’m sure not many people will read this post but those who do and support it, spread this around, maybe this drop in the bucket can get seen by someone just important enough to take a look at this and make a change.

 

i believe that we should go back to how it was in Bf 3 , or at least allow for the knife takedown to be done from a wider angle 

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8 Replies

  • Anaghya's avatar
    Anaghya
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    If I should compare knifing in BF2042 and BF3, it's like a night and day. In BF3, it was smooth, easy to use, intuitive and satisfying. In BF2042, I am pretty sure that I will rather shoot the enemy down or confuse him to death by running around than using a knife. It's incredibly wonky and unfun in the current form, unfortunately.

  • SeXy_drunkcat's avatar
    SeXy_drunkcat
    4 years ago

    Ya how do I get my 120 bucks back this game was disappointing.  Bad company 1 was the best knifing. Second best was 3 worst was 4.  I can't relate 2042 because I stopped playing it to many bugs.  Just want my money back please.

  • Kyosji's avatar
    Kyosji
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @1SKxTheTagMaster I've posted my complaints about knifing in this version....it's garbage. The animation seems to only trigger ~10% of the time, the rest of the time holding your knife button either just pulls your knife out, or does a single slash. This even applied to still targets. During the last or one before lasts weekly, we had to do a knife animation, and I tried getting it on a server where there was a sniper that constantly hid in the same area with a drone. I attempted a knife kill on him 10 times, each time it refused to trigger.

    The knife takedown in this game needs a lot of work, especially if you're trying to 'sell' different animations for it.
  • ragnarok013's avatar
    ragnarok013
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @Anaghya wrote:

    If I should compare knifing in BF2042 and BF3, it's like a night and day. In BF3, it was smooth, easy to use, intuitive and satisfying. In BF2042, I am pretty sure that I will rather shoot the enemy down or confuse him to death by running around than using a knife. It's incredibly wonky and unfun in the current form, unfortunately.

    @Anaghya I completely agree. I also didn't like the BF1 system as it was inconsistent and having different damage profiles for melee weapons was just unnecessary IMO. I'd rather they bring back the BF3 or BF4 melee system and call it a day instead of trying to be COD with 3rd person melee so they can sell take downs and pad the forthcoming Battlepass with nonsense like takedowns and weapon charms.

    I don't even try to knife in 2042 any more as like you I find it really unfun and I used to love knifing people.

  • wayneroy93's avatar
    wayneroy93
    3 years ago

    I've always thought that the knife thing in Battlefield 2042 should be a mixture of Battlefield 1's unique knifing mechanic takedowns mixed with bf4s countermeasure system also I think it would be pretty cool and unique if they would also make some kind of dismemberment take down abilities in the game and also why not try to make it to where we can perform take Downs with weapons I think that would be pretty cool as well do like some cool John Wick takedowns in the game dice is always talking about evolutionizing the core aspect game plays of Battlefield 2042 I think that would be a great start for the knifing mechanic

  • lK3njil's avatar
    lK3njil
    3 years ago

    Yes, melee system is my favourite thing about BF games in the past. And at first when I know this game gonna have a COD style melee takedown, I didn't mind it. But the way it was execute in the game right now is so clunky and bad. Like why isn't there a variation on the animation when doing the takedown on prone enemy?? It was such a massive downgrade to the previous games. Pls, for me this game is keep getting better and better but it still lack my favourite aspect of the Battlefield games that I enjoyed.

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