I think that in multiplayer you will be able to knife someone -if- you come up behind them. But if you are the assassin and your target turns and faces you before knifing the knifing attack turns into a melee and you duke it out. heh.

Ok I know it's a stretch, but that would be pretty cool. At least if you were on your game and caught your would-be assassin you have a chance to defend yourself.

I know it's probably controversial, but I'd like to see knives come back as a selectable weapon.

None of this run with your gun up and knife in a heartbeat...

BF2142/BF2 had the knife as a selectable weapon which means you had to pick knife to use it, and reselect gun to put it away.

I want to be able to headbut someone when they try to knife me

That would be awesome.

If people got an aimbot for BF3, would it be known as the "butt bot" it would only be used by A.holes

+1 million!!!!!
I HATE this Halo/COD knife that instantly kills, the CS/DOD/BF1942/BF2 selectable knife was a lot better, it actually took skill to knife someone, imagine that! Just another example of where PC games have "streamlined" to console standards.

agreed, I hate the hotkey knifing, the person who is running will always win..

It also brings risk/reward into the equation

I love the idea of having a selectable knife or having a weapon bash that is not an insta-kill. It's BS when someone can 1 hit you in CoD4, mw2, WaW, Black Ops, BC2, Halo, etc. I miss the days of CoD1 when your bash would only injure someone. If they do go with the knife, I would like to see damage values. You slash his neck, he dies slowly. You slash anything else and he turns around and kills you.

If they go with a weapon bash they could do it so that the longer you hold down the button the more damage it would, do so you could still get a insta-kill if you had the time

hotkey melee has been getting worse in newer titles. I still think that it is way over powered in black ops. I will start shooting with an iron site AK-47 and they run up and knife. It keeps me from playing the game. It's not as bad in Bad Company 2 but still it is kinda dumb. Also does anyone think the BC2 knife is a little random sometimes?