Weapon:Knife

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Used by the Spy.

Damage

• Frontstab: 32 damage (normal health and armour distribution)
• Backstab: 108 damage (ignores armour)

Rate of Fire

• x stabs per second.

Special

• Backstabs with the knife ignore armour when calculating damage. Backstabs are a one-hit instant kill.
• Backstabs kills are silent.
• Backstab kills while disguised as the enemy team will cause you to take on that player's class as a disguise. (i.e., backstabbing a Soldier automatically disguises you as a Soldier with no wait time).

Context Sensitive Animation

• Slashing at an enemy whose back is not exposed, or attacking anything that does not qualify as a backstab (fresh air, hitting walls, sentries etc) results in the generic wild slashing animation being played. The slash is simply a flailing, cutting motion.
• Being in position for a backstab when attacking results in the stab animation being played. The stab is a fast thrust.
• The only difference between the two modes of operation is the animation. The result and damage is the same. See the discussion tab for a potential further extension on this behaviour.

Animation

Knife

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