The knifing in MW3 is weird. I was literally 1 foot away from an enemy who was facing the other way and I went to knife him and I missed. This has happened on several occasions in several lobbies. I was mentioning to my friend how the knife swipe/lunge is so rediculously small that its practically useless.

On the other hand, he started telling me that he has 10 foot lunges and can knife guys who are shooting at him.

This leads me to believe that it is heavily connection based, which means its not neccessarily the fault of the knife at all. If someone lunges at you from 10 feet and knifes you concider the fact that on their screen you were probably only 3 feet away. Lag compensation creates the lunge effect.

so camp more like you. good call

Err, no. Knife has no sprint to "fire" delay unlike guns and insta kills and doesnt need to be aimed, its all done for you. I often have 3-4 shots off before the guy has even reacted.. and then, dun dun dun.. KNIFE.

Oh, but he had better reflexes, right? Oh, let me guess.. better AIM? LOL.

you got that right. bf3 did awesome on there knifing.. its cool. turning the enemy around staring into there eyes and stabbing them in the chest.. althought it is a long animation its cool and original.

If you use tactical, you cannot panic knife.