Knife

Combat Knife

A Knife, or known primarily as a Combat Knife or Fighting Knife is a knife designed for military use, specifically for close combat; however, since the end of trench warfare, most military knives have been primarily designed for utility/tool use (clearing foliage, chopping branches for cover, opening ammunition crates, etc).

Battlefield 1942

The combat knife is issued to every class. It may have different appearances, but they all function similarly. It should only be used in drastic close-quarters situations where the player runs out of ammo in both their primary weapon and pistol, or when sneaking up on an enemy. It generally kills in two hits.

Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome

The Combat Knife is issued to the new factions and is replaced by the Bayonet for the Engineer class's bolt-action rifle.

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII

The Throwing Knife is new content from Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII. It is simply a standard army knife/dagger that can be thrown an enemy infantry, and is used for both Allies and Axis troops.

Battlefield Vietnam

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The Combat Knife in Battlefield Vietnam

The Knife is issued to every kit. It will always kill in a single hit.

A Combat Knife is issued to the ARVN and USMC, whilst the NVA troops use a Machete and Viet Cong troops use a Plantation Knife.

Battlefield: Bad Company

A Russian Soldier wielding a Combat Knife.

The Kniv-1 combat knife is available for use for every type of kit, and can be used to stab enemies to claim their Dog Tag and break open wooden doors and fences. A hit will result in an assured one hit kill. However, it will probably take about 2 hits to kill firendlies.

When pulling out the knife, it will automatically do a first attack. A player can quickly hit the knife button again and there will be two fast swipes which can help in a first close-quarters strike, but only when the player pulls out the Kniv-1.

Battlefield Heroes

A National Commando Using a combat knife

In Battlefield Heroes members of the Commando Class have the option to use a combat knife as a weapon.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

In Battlefield: Bad Company 2's singleplayer, the knife is the first usable weapon in the game. After the opening cutscene of Operation Aurora where the player loses their Thompson, the player pulls out their knife and is ordered to kill a Japanese guard with it. Soon after, the player receives a Type 100 and the combat knife can no longer be equipped. The player then can only use their knife in a single attack sequence throughout the rest of the campaign.

In multiplayer, the Combat Knife is the standard melee weapon usable by all kits which will kill an enemy player in a single strike. It is not a feasible stealth weapon, however, as the player's character may grunt or curse while knifing. The knife is also a useful tool for knocking away certain destructible barriers, such as windows, fences, barbed-wire, wooden doors, wooden railings, and many other light physical barriers in the player's path. Using the knife to knock away barriers provides the player with a way to move around more freely without wasting ammunition. It is possible to knife and kill someone through a door.

When players knife an enemy player in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, they receive an award called a dogtag. These appear as bronze, silver or golden dogtags with the victim's name written below them. There are also several awards related to knife kills which the player can acquire. The dogtags from all of a player's past victims can be viewed in the Main Menu, providing a running tally of how many individual dogtags players have acquired as well as player-specific ones.

When using the knife on an enemy, the player will perform a stab, however when using it any other time it will be a slashing animation. On occasion the slashing may be performed when killing an enemy, presumably because their hitbox had just entered the player's range or was right on the edge of it. Also, it should be noted that occasionally the player may take the original knife stance from Battlefield: Bad Company after finishing a knife attack.

After an update to the game, the knife no longer lunges from extreme distances, but now is more difficult to kill people with, as it may take upwards of 4-20 stabs to kill someone from behind, all the while blood and the body twitching confirming it hit. small amounts of lunge still noticed, just not in as extreme amounts as before.

Occasionally, after slashing with the knife, the player character may hold their knife for a few seconds the same way as in the mission Operation: Aurora.

Trivia

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the first Battlefield game where the player is not allowed to wield the knife as a weapon, it now functions more as a melee attack than a CQC weapon. The player just uses the knife then puts it away instantly, returning back to wielding the previously equipped item. The only exception of this is the very beginning of Operation Aurora and the beginning of Airborne.
• In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the weapon used is actually an M9 bayonet rather than a stand-alone combat knife.
• In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 players can actually miss their targets if they happen to move at the last second.
• In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, in the description for the knife, it will say thrust the "Pointy edge" into the enemy and repeat as necessary.