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THATS WHY TREYARCH MADE THE GAME DUDE PLAY ANY PLAY STYLE YOU WANT!!!! YOU CAN DO THAT....SO LET EVERYONE GET MAD!!! I DONT CONSIDER IT CHEATING I CONSIDER IT A PLAYSTYLE!!

When you are like most people who knife.. and go 5 kills 23 deaths, youre not helping. And I hate people who play that way on MY team because it feeds scorestreaks. Go knife people in gun game and troll them, at least youre just screwing yourself then.

I have a knife class. i found that in the new BO the knife, for me is mightier than the gun. My primary is a scorpion EVO for when I find myself in a area where I have no chance, like open areas and long hallways. I have been getting anywhere from 15 to 35 kills with the majority of them being with the knife. In previous CoD games I HATED the guys that would run  around knifing. Now its my weapon of choice, not out of trolling, but I find that this CoD is the campiest CoD yet! I now can run around, for the most part, and get kills. It's not cheating, trolling, ect.  Here is why. With the recent increase of what I like to call, the CoD elitist fanboy (campers, trickshots, quickscoping, ego driven trollers) I found that they have now moved on from BO1 and are all congregating in the back yards of Nuketown 2025 with their sights up (most likely a sniper or my personal favorite the target finder<-------- the noobiest gun attatchment since the noob tube) knife on bro.  

imo i use the combat knife a lot and it seems to get the job done, but when i use the regular knife its f*^$#ing bad it took me 3 lunges to kill someone when he was right infront of me, and the reason most people get mad is because they would knife you miss, and you would just knife them and kill them and make it look easy

Most people don't appreciate the amount of skill it takes to be successful with a knife-only loadout, and those are the ones who are going to rage on you.  I'm guilty of that myself from time to time (but I always have my mic muted so you won't hear it ).  You also unfortunately get lumped in with the onlyusemeblade wannabes that kill their team going 8-22 in most matches.

In past CoD games with the insane commando lunge you could get with a knife I think it was often a bit cheap, but definitely not now. 

I don't see a problem with it as it would have been in previous games. No Commando, no figure-skater knife lunge, and it seems a lot harder to get that hit off. Not to mention that you have NO primary to back you up whatsoever.

If you manage to ninja knife me without me finding you first (can't sound whore anymore, lucky douche lol), then my hat's off to you.

@ fallenshadow000

People consider the knifing cheap because the "combat knife" held in the hands of the player without another weapon equipped actually has a longer reach than the standard "panic knife" a player has available when equipped with a weapon. I'm not sure if the combat knife lunge is a far reaching as in other COD games, but its absolutely longer than the standard melee attack. Also, the combat knife increases movement speed, so when that speed is combined with the pick 10 system, adding lightweight, ghost, ex con, dexterity, the competent knife only player is not only incredibly fast and agile but will also retain his/her knife lunge advantage over that of the ordinary player whose panic knife range is almost nonexistant when holding a gun.

Couple all that with the small maps and...

Is it cheap? I don't know. I'm on the fence. As UnicornViolet has pointed out, this is just a video game, complete with all kinds of video game decisions, so reality doesn't have alot of sway here. But, when someone can enter a room and quickly dispatch 2 other players with a combat knife while being riddled with bullets, its not really about reality vs game its about the cost effectiveness of the weapons in the game. If the knife is utterly superior within 10 meters, and even effective within say 20 meters (not because the lunge is that long but because of all the added perks the player with the knife is moving too quicly to be hit by most players) and nearly all the maps are small...

I've played against teams who only ballistic knife + concussion nade/shock and while they are killable, this playstyle, when employed by skilled players, often empties the lobbies rather quickly. Most people don't understand the difference between the 2 knives, nor will they make the leap in combining perks in several slots and forsaking a firearm altogether, so I don't think this is ever going to become extremely popular, but who knows.

I got a response for you!  Why don't you try that crap in hardcore where it doesn't take twenty bullets to kill you.