Originally posted by yurch
I dunno about you, but I usually swing that knife.
Me too BUT!! I swung, he moved, i quick whipped around to find him and my knife got COUGHT ON HIS HEAD.. *CLINK*
I mean, how tough can it be to actually slice a guys throat, when your so close that your could read his gun manual over his shoulder. Its almost more effective to stand behind him and wait for his team mate to kill him.
Originally posted by poaw
Most people tend not to standstill and look skyward when faced with a hand to hand combat situation.
Originally posted by FiringAimlessly
Similar things happen to me regularly, on and offline.
Norwich: See guy behind crate. Sneak up. Jump him in the most beautifully executed murderous stabbing you will ever see in a computer game. Stab right through him and take long enough trying to disentangle myself for him to disentangle my brains from my skull into the water with his MP5.
Atoll: Swim to blue spawn to find two guys camped and prone. I step right on top of the nearest one without him noticing, crouch and stab. Nothing happens. I take long enough stepping backwards and fine-tuning my position for the knife's hit area to make contact that his partner has enough time to see me. Fortunately, my well-meaning but badly informed teammate snipes me from across the map before I could suffer the humiliation of the failed assassination attempt.
Appallacian-Wonderland: I step on top of a proned bot in a nearly identical situation to the above, minus teammate for either of us. I stab. Nothing happens. Bot turns around and shoots me while I stand helplessly on his head.