Knives are too weak

currently I've only see take downs from the rear and have a hand holding "Takedown" button appear which shouldnt be needed. A good return to form would be being able to frontally take down people and COUNTER the frontal knife by button spamming like 3 and 4 to defend yourself. normally knifing has a poor stabbing animation that looks like its from BFV instead of a slashing animation like 3 and 4