I would really appreciate if you could use the knife while running without slowing you down (like in ET, QW, CS). I want to use it, because I have nothing to do until I reach a choke point.
What do you guys say? Are you afraid of light speed fast players, armed only with knives, running towards you like mindless zombies? Or are you also bored while running?
game is in this point too slow,
it also should be possible to sprint while reloading and to sprint while shooting, just make it possible to sprint in all situations
Yes, all slowdowns should be removed. Feels just not good, i ranted about it probably way too much already. Just want to say: remove them all, not just the knifing slowdowns. Imo that shouldn’t even be a question to ask, like wtf … is this fun? O-o
If people are afraid of the knifing becoming too powerful? I think there are a couple of example games where it worked well. Again, i feel actually pretty stupid feeling like i should have to discuss this, but it seems some things simply are not a priori understood or there are weird mind concepts behind the current implementation.
For me the current knife mechanic (and slowdowns in general) is described pretty short: no fun. Should not even be worth a discussion, but i am glad anyway that a topic was opened for it, which shows that you at least voice your opinion against it. In that direction i think there were so many dislikes about this mechanic in the past and nothing ever changed in that direction (think it is the same since opening of alpha), which shows that it will probably stay 
Yeah i agree with the whole ‘removing the slowdown when performing actions’ debate here. Unable to sprint + reload is probably the most noticeable for me.
I wouldn’t mind also the ability to interrupt reloading via firing the gun (i.e shoot the remaining bullets if the reload is interrupted).
Edit: I feel like the knife would need a little tweaking if this change occurred. Personally i’d remove the alternate attack that kills in 2 hits, and leave it to just the fast swipes that do little damage on each hit. I would also make the recon class have the ability to get instant backstabs (is this in already? - haven’t noticed it being done to me or doing it to other players).
Somehow I knew this thread wouldn’t be just about the knife only, so the title wasn’t well chosen this time.
Anyway, I totally agree with you all here! All the movement penalties / or how Samurai called it ‘slowdown when performing actions’ should be removed, especially for the reload as it’s the most used action.
Every class can do the instant backstab. 
I’m definitely on board with making the knife better. It’s pretty much only useful if you happen upon an enemy with their back turned and they don’t notice you for the 15-20 seconds it takes to switch to knife and get through the slooooooow animation for stabbing. (ok that’s a slight exaggeration, but not by much lol).
I too would like to be able to use the knife more offensively, which is just to say I’d like it to be more useful in general.
And as long as we’re on the tangent, yeah, I would like to be able to do more stuff while sprinting too without suffering a penalty for it.
LOL! No, I’m afraid I missed that one…and kinda glad I did. from 10 feet away? seriously?? Wow, I’m sure that didn’t annoy anyone tooo much, right?
I would agree ONLY if every action, i.e. reloading, you are able to sprint with.
Changing JUST the knife would, once again, overpower it.
with current TTK reloading while sprinting does not seem that necessary.
this asks some bullet managment and after all you are able to kill an enemy with like 8-10 bullets in your weapon and still can switch to a powerful secondary.
I wouldn’t cry if I was able to reload while sprinting, though. I am fine with both.
Regarding full speed while shooting, I must disagree. This would leed to a really chaotic gameplay (see ETQWpro spaintards). Maybe reduce speed penalty while shooting, but not the same as for full sprint pls.
Knifing while running with full speed seems fair though. I would agree with removing the backstab for all classes but sniper, therefore enable full sprint-speed while knifing.
