Stealth kills; strangulation, suffocation or hunting knife.

[rickyriot 1009]

 

Offtopic warning:

Interesting/pointless/dull (* delete as appropriate) fact about the Rambo films. In the first one (and the one that is generally thought of as the best film on merit) there was only one death. One. Now compare that to the rest of the franchise.

 

 

 

To get back on topic, I suppose with the introduction of the bow and arrow, stealth kills will be possible and I forgot to mention that in the OP, but I think most people get where I am coming from in terms of "hands on" killing.

[Rudette 435]

Even if you were handcuffed?

So beautiful o.o

[hannibaldaplaya 1095]

Then all we will need is an in-game suit from Manhunt, or a varsity jacket and a Rooster mask. 

[guppy22143 1081]

Then all we will need is an in-game suit from Manhunt, or a varsity jacket and a Rooster mask. 

On a sidenote;

Your profile picture is adorable.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

As someone who loves axe murdering people, I would love for more avenues of murder to be opened up. Not a fan of guns. Guns are too quick.

I would like the sharp stabby weapons to be more..meaningful.. I mean.. Why use one for anything but opening cans when it takes 2 dozen strikes for someone to feel it?

Because using one on the cans starts to dull it hence it would cause more severe wounding and possible tetanus 

[Rudette 435]

Because using one on the cans starts to dull it hence it would cause more severe wounding and possible tetanus 

>.> I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I was getting at "Knives should be more killy."

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

>.> I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I was getting at "Knives should be more killy."

Oh, i read it that as more painful.  My way hurts more  :P

[Chawktah 43]

I think it's an interesting idea.. They would definitely need to improve some of the melee functions, then perhaps add an action where you can knock someone out from behind. Idk about killing them, but there should definitely be an easier way to knock someone out all stealth like. Maybe depending on your weapon it would knock them out or slit their throat or stab them in the spine, idk...

[Rudette 435]

Non-lethal take downs would add some deph and variety.

[NanoAnarchy 12]

I'm surprised no one has already said this, but the only stealth kills on groups we will ever have is from long range weapons. Reason for this is simple. Say you hunting down a group of players, generally they will be using skype/Ts etc etc. So how do you plan to kill someone silently and in stealth like that? After all they will be screaming over what ever they are that they are dying/ are dead. Sorry but this won't happen.

 

On a side note, I do think hand weapons need to be improved however. Come one after all, it's possible to KO a player in one punch, but a pristine machete to an un-armoured head does nothing?

[Valadain 270]

The stun gun should give you non-lethal take-downs without an enormous amount of programming new mechanics.

 

As for lethal take-downs, I wouldn't generally favor them. While they are the only half-way decent way of doing melee in a first person perspective, melee would become even more of a spinning glitch-fest as people try to get behind other people to kill them quickly. Not to mention, without some pretty complicated grapple mechanics, it isn't much realistic.

[Valadain 270]

I'm surprised no one has already said this, but the only stealth kills on groups we will ever have is from long range weapons. Reason for this is simple. Say you hunting down a group of players, generally they will be using skype/Ts etc etc. So how do you plan to kill someone silently and in stealth like that? After all they will be screaming over what ever they are that they are dying/ are dead. Sorry but this won't happen.

 

On a side note, I do think hand weapons need to be improved however. Come one after all, it's possible to KO a player in one punch, but a pristine machete to an un-armoured head does nothing?

 

Considering there is no way to block melee attacks or reasonably shift your body around to dodge right, I don't much care about the realism of the machete. Again, a failure of an FPS to deal reasonably with melee.