The data knife is more of a survival tool than a weapon. It comes in a S.E.R.E. Kit to help you escape along with a smart pistol which is more the main weapon in this case
There are two data knifes that a pilot has one on him and on in the hidden kit if he is captured and the data knife was for hacking and stabbing but only robotic enemies and mainly in the back of the head of said robotic enemies
I loved that you looked into it enough to know it's not ever used as a "weapon" in the game, and always as a tool. The punches and kicks in the game are literally the most forceful attack in the game bar titan attacks
I agree, this is definitely tool first, weapon last. If it was used as a melee weapon primarily, I'd say its rather bad design, but makes much more sense as a last resort or in a pinch
@@mooseboose656 well if it was used as a melee weapon primarily, it would pretty much guarantee that the tech would be unusable do to blood getting into the crevices and messing with highly advance tech. A whole bunch of gunk getting inside would basically make the best part of the tool useless
@@Foreseen3 Yeah I find it hard to believe that it wouldn’t work if a bit of blood got on it, and he was saying the microchips slide out, so they aren’t always out? Could’ve misinterpreted it..
Honestly I’m just happy to see titanfall getting recognition but also a few things: 1: as many people have stated pilots have augmentations so they can literally break bones with their bare hands 2: it’s only meant for hacking and general survival as in the last mission you get the S.E.R.E kit by means that won’t say to avoid spoilers 3: in Titanfall 1 (rip) it was used to either only hack spectres or turrets and with the turrets it pryed the panel open to allow access to the hacking bit
I've always thought that it was weird that pilots just punched/kicked instead of stabbing with data knifes but then I remembered that 1. Not all pilots have access to data knives(from my understanding) all the time they are part of a survival kit 2. Pilots have augmentations that allow them to break skulls with punches and kicks meaning their knife is more for survival and perhaps stealth
I believe all pilots have data knifes but there's an extra one in there sear kit along with a smart pistol because you can use the data knife throughout the whole game and I don't see why all pilots wouldn't have one unless it's really expensive to make
@@friendlycanadian3150 I always thought they were since I never saw any more of them in the campaign but if there is any data knives in the campaign most of the pilots we meet are ace pilots any way
@@caboose3191 you can hack stalkers with a data knife at any point throughout the campaign and multi-player so that's something although your right we do get are gear from an ace but it's not that weird to think all pilots get one
You also stab it into the back of drones to hack them. But I wouldn't be surprised of the name data knife was something the grunts came up with seeing a Pilot use it and the name just stuck.
Execution? Because I dont remember that was it in titanfall 2 because my best guess is that those are newer ones and sharper while the originals where clunky comparatively
People tend to forget the data knife is more of a survival tool, and while pilots do use punching and kicking more often because of augmentations there are a few pilot melee weapons like Bangalore's knife which iirc is a kukri with a super heated edge.
@@R-XI_Sulla im not talking about the one where you do thigh choke, im talking about the one where you throw an enemy on the ground and finish him off with data knive
It still works just fine as a weapon if you need to stab someone with a sharp thing Especially of you're augmented to the point of surviving a mile high fall onto your feet and running after
I thought the ice pick (as in the actual tool, the ice pick isn’t the actual data knife) was the thing bish made for Sarah to take out the repulsor towers at airbase Sierra
Looks like if you attack someone with it the knife would have trouble hacking since the electrical components on the blade could be damaged when used on flesh or in combat. In summary, once you use it as a normal knife, it becomes a normal knife.
Only if you have the electronics extended when you use it as such. The actual risk is that you bend or break the knife on the pilot’s armor and prevent the electrical components from extending. I don’t think those things are cheap.
Something else to note is that you use it to stab robot ai enemies in the head and hack them to fight for you In mp, and if they actually kill someone you get the credit for personal ownership.
I don't know if they added the giant turrets to Titanfall 2 as I mostly played campaign and only a small select handful of my favorite multiplayer maps. Hacking the turrets was my favorite part of Titanfall 1. There's this one map that was at night and it was some sort of giant hanger and there are several giant parts and one part of the map. Out hack it and watch some Titans that were passing by get absolutely annihilated. It was like fine wine, just got better with time.
It is actually also a full knife, too, it has a full sharp edge along with the saw blade and seatbelt cutter like you said the data part only slips out when needed.
From my understanding the pilots have nanobots in them, these nanobots make their bones stronger and such. This makes fists enough to deal with enemies, knife is only for electronics I think. Constructive criticism is welcome
Nah, pilots don't have nanobots, the only special tech they use is the data knife and jump kit. Other then that they're just really well trained soldiers, like th SAS
If you don’t have a high tech augmentation suit like pilots do, you can most likely use it as a knife, like as seen in the take down execution (if my memory is right)
I believe they would actually use a pulse blade, or just a regular combat knife because they're one of the most trained military forces in gaming history
Pilots seem to get around using the data knife pretty well. You can hack spectors, turrets, doors, etc. In some executions they do use the knife as well a knife
It really is a survival weapon because you get one in the survival kit by gives you near the end of the game along with the smart pistol which is just fun as hell
Titanfall has always had some of my favorite scifi design in video games (modern video games i suppose) because it does look like high tech "standard issue" weapons for the most part, a lot of things look like an upgrade of an earlier model, i dont know how to explain it
Canonically its been used as a finisher weapon but its more as a survival tool to use with hacking spectres, overide security and using it as a compass and a joystick controller
The reason the punch and kick is because of the heavy gravity the blade is mainly a survival tool but im seeing people say its augmentation not gravity
The thing is pilots are jacked as hell and there punches one hit a lot of thing and kicks the jump suit/pilot suit jacks the hell out of them to be buff as hell and to stop whiplash and ankle breaking from great heights so it has to strengthen and absorb a lot of memetic energy
The lethality behind the Data Knife comes, not from the knife itself, but the Pilot who wields it. An execution in-game is where the Pilot will jump onto their target’s shoulders and then bring the thing down over the front of their target’s face or helmet. In both cases, you’re looking at forced entry via what would be the nasal cavity. But for helmeted targets in particular? That helmet gets shattered out into chunks.
That’s why it was in the sere kit at last level of the campaign. SERE stands for survive , evade, resist, escape and real life pilots do get something like this so ya lil fact there for ya.
