Yeah, speaking of knives ...
Like I said earlier I'm pretty bad at this game. My accuracy, speed and situational awareness aren't great so I get ruled a lot in gunfights. The best I did was about 1000 points, managed one UAV killstreak and my highest kdr was 1.00. It's not my genre normally so I didn't mind, and the game is so quick that I still found it enjoyable. I left the beta sit after the first day, wherere I was sitting right on the cusp of level 8.
Because
@Exposure was talking about it on IRC I thought I'd play a little more seeing as it's the last day, had a couple of good runs and hit level 10, at which point I unlocked the combat knife. And instantly went Tier One, like Treyarch had killed Krillin right in front of me.
This is clearly hugely unfair. I went from 'shit' to 'topping my team three times in a row with a 6.00 kdr in one match.' Despite the obvious weakness of needing to get close, the knife is incredible, in part because the game is so fast. The map design tends towards having a lot of entrances and exits to each discrete part, and everything is tightly packed together, so it wasn't really implausible to just be like SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS from a side room. In close quarters the knife is hugely advantaged because it's a one hit kill.
Also because I wasn't shooting as much I tended to not screw up my element of surprise by firing, missing, and getting owned by my target. I chased one dude halfway round Combine before icing him. On top of that I got into a good rhythm of swapping between my rifle and my knife, so I was getting pretty operator. It was fun.
I still can't imagine that I'll buy it, but I think I know I could play online if I did.
