"last ditch" melee weapon system (hunting knife)

[wallace71 3]

Idea: for those with a hunting knife there is a last ditch thing you can do

if you're out of ammo you can stab a zombie with your hunting knife. the hunting knife then becomes 'infected' with the bloody guts of said zombie and you can now only kill zombies with it and it's a slow animation and VERY inaccurate when running. thus you are unable to use it to cook food (because who wants maggoty zombie blood on your knife when you're eating a delicious of cooked sheep meat?)

this leaves us with a last minute decision of whether we can afford to bloody our knives with infected blood, and then no longer able to have a sustainable source of food.

thoughts? (debating on whether you must keep this knife, or if you can replace it with a clean knife if you find one)

[simasz 15]

Sounds interesting..

Maybe not have it "only for killing", but you would have to wash it or apply antiseptic to it?

[wallace71 3]

I like the way you think good sir antiseptics, another reason to go to hospitals!

EDIT: spawning with a hunting knife/make knifes more common, but you have to find antiseptic to use them on animals. after all you wouldnt just pick up a knife off of a deserted grocery store floor and start going to town on animal carcasses would you?

[Pyr0 0]

I have different kinds of "upgrades" for the Hunting Knife in mind.

I think you should be able to cut holes to the barbed wire fences (wire fencing kit) built by players and the wire-netting fences that are for example in villages or airfields. It's sometimes a pain to try and find a hole in the fence so you can get through.

It shouldn't be that difficult to do either, just add a new action for the knife for when you're near a fence, "cut fence" or something.

Another idea for the knife, concerning crossbows: You could make your own bolts by crafting them from the woodpiles with the knife. Is this idea even realistic, anyway? Could a wooden bolt/arrow be used in a crossbow or would it break? Dunno :huh:

As for using the Hunting Knife as a weapon... It's a nice idea, just dunno how difficult it is to make it work in this game.

As said by Trigger in another thread:

i for one dont want melee weapons to be oneshot. if you get a glancing blow in someones arm with a knife i expect them to bleed and then shoot you. if you stab them in the back (the lungs/heart)' date=' which would need to be charged for a couple of seconds to prevent spamming (ensuring only people who were stealthy could do it.) then it could one shot them. otherwise with planks or bats or stuff i think one hit to the head should knock you out. other hits to the arms and legs should break bones. but you would actually need to keep beating people to death creating a visible and loud scene to kill them.

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The same could go for zombies as well, you'll need to slash it several times unless you land a hit to its head.

About the Knife getting "infected" by killing a zombie with it, I think it would also be realistic if you could cleanse it in a pond or the sea, right? So if you kill a zombie with your knife, it's unusable for cutting meat until you wash the knife somewhere. After that it would be usable again.

I know there's a lot to it and it's complicated, but it's all just suggestions and not all of them need to be implemented into the game.

It's still an alpha, I know, and some of these suggestions are probably even impossible to add because of how ArmA 2 is, but I'm just speaking out my ideas here :)

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

It could be nice if having the hunting knife gave you a wheel action when you are right against a player or a zombie, to make a silent kill.