It really does NOT need to be in the game. It would be mostly fixed if they make it so you cannot knife if you were just shot(for about 3 seconds or so, then resets every time you get damaged). It would take away all the BS moments where you clearly should have killed the person, but he just clicked the stick and won.

The knife is a staple of COD, it isn't going anywhere.  Sounds like if you don't like it you should go play BF3...

I really see no problems with the knife, but I play HC 98% of the time too.

all they have to do is make the knife like it is in battlefield 3.... ppl cant just swing and kill. in bf3 it shows the person slitting their throat or grabbing them and stabbing them. not just swing and kill. in bf3 it is really only used if u snuck up on someone. theres no way to run head on and get a kill if the other person sees u and is shooting at you. IMO that would solve the problem that everyone whines about. plus it would be way more cool.

The knife is utter BS. To those playing hardcore, your opinions are not valid in this matter as you kill with 2 bullets regardless, meaning this problem will not effect you. In core (what 90% of people play) you need at least 4 bullets to kill, meaning in CQC this problem effects us DOUBLE as much as what it effects you.

The knife has bothered me to the point of being a pet peeve hate ever since I switched to tactical. In CQC I will drop to the floor while hipfiring and at times the opposing player will knife above my head and still get the kill..... In the killcam my player is flat on the floor while his animation stabs at thin air that apparently bleeds and in turn kills me, wtf?

The knife causes inconsistency, why can we not hip fire in CQC?

To the guy saying "I run out of ammo every life, primary and secondary"... Maybe you should be using scavenger bro, you act as if the knife constantly saves you out of these situations, just lol. Besides is it not easy enough to replace your secondary with someone elses primary on your first couple of kills before you run out?

There is no place for the knife, especially not in MW3 with these maze-like maps where you constantly have to turn corners and run straight into other people. Like thisguygotcha said, if I cannot get a kill with one bullet to the head why can someone get a kill with one knife swipe to my leg???? For the sake of balance it should be kept out, will just make the game harder for noobs.

The knife is annoying for sure... I would like to see the knife be either BF3 style, or the range of it reduced so that your character model has to literally be touching the enemy character model to get a knife kill.

The panic knife thing is just crazy sometimes. I lol every time I see someone swing and miss trying to panic knife after which I shoot them easily because they are still recovering from the missed knife attempt. I don't usually knife unless its on a stationary/oblivious person and then I generally do it to save the 5-10 bullets I would probably use killing them with my gun. Overall the knife is as inconsistent and connection-dependent as anything else but I feel that it literally takes no skill, just the ability to reflexively click in on the right stick (or O/B button for tactical layout, but you don't see tactical layout people doing a lot of knifing anyways)...

Now the throwing knife on the other hand, I love that- it's fun for me and humiliating to the enemy at the same time lol

They shouldnt take out knifing but it should be like theres no comando on it and they shouldnt be able to knife u while there hurt and getting shot at.

Well they did something to knifing in MW3 that is different from MW2 because i get actual hit markers from knifing or just plain misses so I just shoot now.

To be honest I use my throwing knives more, how about you have to doubletap the melee button, once to take out your knife, second time to knife, would like to see assassinations, or beat downs, there everyone happy?

Knife is fine as it is now, imo.

big babies... seriously u want knifing gone??? for what just because u get knifed after shooting a guy with steady aim or akimbo weapons... or is it because your reaction time is to slow to knife first... or your  connection in that particular game isnt great so u get lagged knifed...? lol the only thing that bugs me is the teleport knife but even that has a low rate of occurance  mean come on you act like your magic knifed more times than shot by a camper... people seriously complain about stupid things in ths game... akimbos fmg's are nasty i've finally witnessed them first hand but  pulled out a striker and balanced that out  very easily with range same with hipfiring type95's just pull out a shotgun geesh... anyway knifing is official you guys are the types i like to run tac knife on and only knfe in a game  i may not have the best k/d afterwards but its fun to watch the rage quitters.. honestly if your in a close range fight just get use to knifing first its really not that difficult just another aspect of the game deal with it man up and play