Knifes & Nades

[dystopeon 46]

please let me roll with nades (various type) & usable melee (one shot) knife. I'm sick of being a gun toting pussy...

[Suicide Mouse 50]

"Gun toting pussy"

"Wants explosives"

[oktyabr 53]

There are already lots of 'nades in DayZ, even rounds for the M203 launcher. Melee weapons have been extensively discussed but no official word on the topic yet. Use the search function to read more on both.

[Lulu! 3]

ARMA isn't really built for melee, that's the only reason it's not in. It would be really glitchy and awkward.

[oktyabr 53]

ARMA isn't really built for melee' date=' that's the only reason it's not in. It would be really glitchy and awkward.

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Until it's made so it's not ;)

[Trigger (DayZ) 2]

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), 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.

[Kingllama 18]

We are in alpha TESTING STILL!

[Trigger (DayZ) 2]

We are in alpha TESTING STILL!

oh, i know. i'm just proposing my ideal melee system.

[fix_ 14]

One shot with knife? GTFO pls

[Trigger (DayZ) 2]

check my comment fix

[Mars (DayZ) 6]

There is melee in the game, but zombies use it.

[DarkMagik 0]

This is fucking arma. You want zombies and melee? Go play CoD or Dead island, or better yet, use the god damned search function to see how many people have asked about melee!

[VZ58shooter 1]

"gun toting pussy" We should throw all the left wingers on a zombie infested island with no guns and see how they do. =)

[goldtoaster 30]

There is a melee system in some mods but it's extremely choppy and useless. Are you really going to try and punch your way through 10 zombies? I can guarantee you melee won't happen in DayZ.

[ComboBreaker 9]

Why the knife should one shot anyone?

A common person can survive for some time after getting stabbed,what makes you think that zeds who dont feel pain and can soak 1-2 bullets from makarov and live should be instakilled by such a measly type of melee?

[Defhrone 2]

I wouldn't mind being able to backstab a zed to safe ammo. But I think that should be the only 1 shot kill a knife can do, and only on zeds. not players (although, you'll need to watch you back more.

[envy9o9 3]

I hate you with all my hate.

[amentes 0]

I'd love to see something like the hunting knife being used to stealth-kill people, but it'd certainly have to be something only possible when behind a target, and even then I'd still want it to require a semi-lengthy animation, and it should be possible for it to be interrupted by the executing player, or by the executing player being shot before the kill is completed.

Might be cool to have two animations, one for throat-slit with the other hand being used to muffle the targets mouth, and another for a faster but louder kill.

Both would only be used against players, though. I'm in no way an advocate of "swording" the Zs to death. I see those examples used exclusively as a way to take down player-sentries silently, or for the louder and faster method, just lone players.

Strictly speaking, I don't mind this not being impossible to use against Zs, but I don't believe it would be practically possible to do so if it was possible. At least, I've never been anywhere close to getting in melee range of a Z, without it being focused on me, thus making it impossible for me to get behind it.

[Maca (DayZ) 769]

I'd like 2 win the lotto????? :P

Why did i just waist about 2 mins of my life reading some of this posts.............. :@

[sgtdorian 2]

This CoD players

[DudelyPowers 0]

One shot with knife? GTFO pls

1. Hold knife like ice pick.

2. Sneak up behind target.

3. Apply pointy part to temple.

4. Scrambled brains, anyone?

As for melee weapons being one-shots, I could see that working if you have them take up pistol ammo slots like bandages do. Just say that when you use the knife to stab someone in the skull, the tip breaks and becomes useless.

[orbital 10]

So, we are all combat trained specialists waking up on a beach in zombie land? no...

I don't have any experience with knife killing but I only know two scenarios where one-shotting knife kills occur; In the movies and people who have years of combat training.

I wouldn't mind some kind of solution when you run out of ammo, aside from sneaking like your life depends on it, but it shouldn't be on top of the developers list.

[ReploidGodX 0]

I registered just to tell OP this.

Please die....in game, alot

[therookaam (DayZ) 1]

one shit with a knife? this isn't cod kiddo, get outta here babby

[Kroktar 0]

Even if i want to see some kind of melee...one shot? gtfo cod kid.