Some thoughts about bayonets (tunesia)

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[TL;DR at the end]
Over all they feel nice and I’m happy that they are in game. Doing banzai-like charge with a knife is not as amazing.
But I have two complains about bayonets:

  1. They have poor performance.

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    [Here you can see a maximum distance at which I could hit the wall.]
    It seems that rifle with a bayonet (Carcano M41 in this case) has only about 1,27 times the range of the knife atack. It can be sumorised as “meh”.
    A knife is better because it has nearly the same range but is much faster. Only downside is that you have to pull it out.
    Butstock hit is better because it has the same damage, speed, range and it can break windows while bayonet can’t. Additionally, butstock is on every weapon, while to have a bayonet I have to take specific gun that might be worse than the others.

    So you need to add something special for the bayonet if you want to make it a viable choice and not only a gimmick. I guess long reach makes the most sense.

    Also: in reality Carcano with a bayonet has 1470mm lenght (give or take), so atack range is about 1,7m (estimation). So knife atack has about 1,3m reach? I know they are ubermensh and stuff but their arms must be huge!

  2. Bayonet charge.
    How it looks now:
    https://youtu.be/QouPnjKosfs
    Not only there is no charge (which is understandable as the game is in OBT) but also using bayonet causes you to stop sprinting…
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    How can I accomplish a glorious charge on the enemy position, when I have to slow down to use my weapon?!
    On a serious note, add some form of a bayonet charge. It doesn’t have to be full blown animation like in BF1, just let us use the bayonet while sprinting and make it one hit kill.
    Maybe also add some screams like a madlad. Hell, if you can, make the whole squad charge with me (I doubt you will).

In my opinion bayonet should be the best mele weapon we can get, as it kind of takes your main weapon slot. Of course while keeping it resonable.

Also: please add option to fix bayonet with “U” key (just like the rifle grenade launcher) instead of it being pernamently fixed. If other soldiers in your squad have bayonets, pressing “U” will cause them to also fix bayonets and your soldier will say proper command.
It’s purely for aesthetics. (Unless you want to add a weapon collision mechanic.)

Ps.
It turned out to be quite a long text for what is essentially “bayonets suck add charge plz”.

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