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Posted: 11/29/2010 6:19:06 AM EDT
| Ok I know this sounds stupid but. I was playing AC:brotherhood. When I was watching the hidden blade open and close. Made me think of the drawing in the second game. Which lead me to rememeber while I was overseas in the military. A guy I knew traded some things to an italian who gave him a nato blade. One where you push the button the blade extends. Push it again and it retracts. So my question is what is a blade like this called? Also where would one go to look to purchase one? Or are there any schematics out there to build one? |
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i'm not exactly sure about what AC is but there are knives that open out the front (OTF), benchmade and microtech come to mind.
http://www.bladehq.com/cat––Benchmade-OTF––142 no idea if that's a good website, just showing an example of OTF knives |
is part 2 called "Brotherhood"? or have they come out with another one? i hope not because i'm still working on part II. the hidden blade is awesome. it makes that whole "do not kill civilians" thing hard to comply with, especially with the poison 
YES. what you are looking for is a OTF (out the front). the "Nato" you said saw was probably the old "Nato Military" which is a $20 Chinese POS (i had one). my buddy has the Infidel and i think it's a little pricey for what it is. look around and you'll probably find an OTF of comparable quality for 100bux as compared to the 350 the Infidel will run ya. |
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What about schematics. I think this would be a great project to build. A proof of concept. Its not so much the automatic nature of the knife leaving the sheath with a button press. But a button press to return the blade back to the sheath. That would be fun to build. Its always the little things that keep life interesting and sane.
Oh and its the second one. I haven't even started brotherhood yet. I picked it up launch day. But decided to play through one and two before i get to the brotherhood. Sweet games though. |
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cool, yea, the 1st one is the VERY FIRST game i ever played all the way through, without using any cheats, that did NOT have difficulty settings. i had played COD4 MW all the way through, but it was on "recruit". as you know, there is NO changing the setting on AC. you'll like Part II, it's more RPGish, but still has the same fighting. speaking of fighting, don't latch on to one attack and just frantically press that button over an over. even thought that'll often get you through the fight, it is much better to learn each of the "new tactics" they teach you and use it. i just finished Black Ops (i think i finished it, it has an odd ending) so, i'll be going back and finishing ACII (Brotherhood, i guess).
i know what you mean about a button press opening AND closing the OTF because it's understandable how there could be preloaded and contained spring tension just waiting for a seer to be slipped, but HOW could there (immediately) afterwards be pre-exixting tension waiting to pull it back. well..... AFIAK..... there CAN'T. the "NATO Military" that i had was just a typical "double action" OTF, same as the Infidel. you pushed the button forward against spring tension. there was about 3/4" travel. that travel was stretching a spring and building the tension needed to fire the blade. when you closed the knife, you'd move the same button towards the rear of the knife. it would travel about 3/4", then snap back into the handle. this is the same way Benchmade Infidel works and with NEITHER knife does the blade come out with enough force to penetrate anything but IS locked into the open position with some stability. on the other hand, a SINGLE action OTF has a cocking handle (more like a portion of the blade that sticks out a groove in the side of the handle) that you manually pull to the rear of the knife. now THAT tension is pre-loaded and sits there waiting for you to push a TRUE BUTTON that pushes DOWN into the handle/body of the knife with minimal travel/movement. however, with that design, there is NO spring powered return trip to the handle. you have to re-cock it. check out Roadside Imports. the dude HATES Benchmade. so, i take his review of their products with a grain of salt, but the "paper test" is kind of intresting. |
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