Knives breaking too quickly

[hctiM]

Just looking for some opinions here. I have been playing recently and when the time comes to fight infected, i feels like i go through knives like crazy. Is it just me or do the knives break too fast. I personally would like to see this slow down, or at least more sharpening stones to combat the knives breaking that quickly. What do you all think about this?

[Guest]

Yes, it's been added with 1.06, courtesy of Bohemia. 

Of course, you can invest into a hatchet or machete which take longer to break, or scavenge for grinding stones or duct tape. 

 

I do advocate for melee weapons in general to be like before. 

[hctiM]

3 minutes ago, Alan Woods said:

Yes, it's been added with 1.06, courtesy of Bohemia. 

Of course, you can invest into a hatchet or machete which take longer to break, or scavenge for grinding stones or duct tape. 

Gotta love Bohemia, coming back to dayz after a while i need to re learn some things about repairing and the game in general. But just thought it was a little too quick. 

Edited February 14, 2020 by Imagine

[Banshee]

I agree, Melee weapons break down way to fast.

Killing 3 to 5 infected is enough to bring a 'Pristine' knife to 'Damaged', which doesn't make any sense to me unless the infected were made out of concrete. Sharpening your weapons is something you can do to repair them, but it feels like I'm having to sharpen my knife every time I kill an infected.

[AndreyQ]

yeah it's a bit ridiculous

like i keep 3 knives on me just to not run out

[Inferno]

The durability can definitely be increased. Not only knives but also axes and other objects have too little health. A couple of hits and thats it, your hands are empty.

[hctiM]

I would love to see this toned down. Personally i never really use axes and other 2 handed melee weapons, but what from everybody is saying melee weapons as a whole need a durability buff.

Edited February 14, 2020 by Imagine

[Noble]

Having seen how well a knife can hold in real life I do agree, I did make a topic on this myself a long while back and Roland did give us the promise to change it but we did not yet receive that gracious gift.

[Malthis]

It's ridiculous, all melee weapons suck now. I won't use a sledgehammer anymore because there's no way to repair them, I don't think ducttape works on them, and it used to be my go to weapon of choice, then the infected health went up and it took multiple hits to kill them, and those multiple hits break the sledgehammer in no time.

Edited February 14, 2020 by Malthis

[Hofer]

Seems like they added plastic knives.

Plz fix @Roland @Ducky @Watchman

[Scarlett]

It is shocking how fast melee weapons last, they must be made from low quality metal or they are plastic either way it doesn't take them long to become useless 

[JohnGrace]

yep. its fucked lol. How exactly does punching zombies ruin my brass knuckles?

 

[Player 1]

Melee weapons in general need to be more durable or reduce health of Zombies.