This controller is like some weird middle ground thing. It looks like it could be better than a 360 controller for first person shooters (yet not as good as a mouse), and worse for everything else.
Bat used correctly should win always. Reach advantage is important.
knife beats gun most of the time in the ~8ft starting range. guns have better range than bats.
Really the knife beats gun at something like 21ft if the gun isn't drawn. I'm assuming the people fighting with bat and knife are each facing each other with weapon drawn at something like 10-15ft apart. Cramped space like an elevator? Knife fo sho. Surprise attack in close quarters? Knife wins again.
I don't think people understand that amount of force that can be generated from the swing of a bat. There is no need to aim for the head. Just a body shot is enough to lay someone out.
There is some kind of assumption going on in the thread that the person with the knife is going to dodge the bat swing and be some kind of knife expert. You can kill a person with a punch to the head and a bat with more range and a larger target (the body) is going to miss? They aren't swinging nerf bats you know.
Right. I mean, there are a lot of variables, but all things equal the bat wins. Why did people chose clubs and maces over knives for hundreds of years? Hint: They are better.
Why don't swords exist in this alternate reality of yours?
Edit: Oh my, did I not get the sarcasm?
Well, swords are relatively recent. Technology required to make steel that could actually get you a long sharp sword that would stay sharp and wouldn't break is relatively new. Knives (stone, bronze, whatever), or even basic shank like weapons vs clubs was a thing long before swords were produced in high enough quality and in large enough numbers, and until then clubs or axes or maces were favored over knives. Moreover, I said people chose clubs instead of knives. That in no way abrogates the possibility of choosing a sword over a club. Things get even more complicated with the kind of sword too. Piercing swords like fencing is different from a Samurai sword is different from a notched hunk of soft carbon steel which might as well be a club. But yeah, a sword beats the bat and the knife.
I don't think people understand that amount of force that can be generated from the swing of a bat. There is no need to aim for the head. Just a body shot is enough to lay someone out.
There is some kind of assumption going on in the thread that the person with the knife is going to dodge the bat swing and be some kind of knife expert. You can kill a person with a punch to the head and a bat with more range and a larger target (the body) is going to miss? They aren't swinging nerf bats you know.
Right. I mean, there are a lot of variables, but all things equal the bat wins. Why did people chose clubs and maces over knives for hundreds of years? Hint: They are better.
They didn't choose knives because they didn't have the expertise of knife fighting and long range weapon avoidance like the the people in this thread. Clubs and maces are nothing to a well trained knife army.
And knives are nothing to a well trained club army.
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