The combat knife is a low-tech skill weapon in Deus Ex.
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Characteristics[]
The combat knife is the most basic lethal melee weapon in Deus Ex. It has the lowest damage among all lethal melee weapons, but is also the smallest in terms of inventory size.
Despite its low base damage, the combat knife is still capable of inflicting high damage on humanoid targets in "stealth" situations (i.e., attacking from behind at point blank range). In this situation, torso hits inflict 100 damage at the untrained level, based on the x10 damage multiplier for attacking from behind and the x2 damage multiplier against the torso region. This is sufficient to kill any common trooper in a single hit. A headshot increases the damage to 400, enough to take down any standard humanoid target.
In non-stealth situations, the combat knife requires three attacks to the head to take down a common trooper at the untrained skill level.
The combat knife has the same reach as the baton and crowbar.
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- Due to its small inventory size, the combat knife is convenient for destroying breakable objects such as crates.
- The combat knife is effective when used in conjunction with the pepper gun, since damage is increased four-fold against enemies stunned by tear gas.
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