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The combat knife is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
A one-handed bladed melee weapon. Compared to the knife, the combat knife does nearly twice as much damage per strike at a slightly higher attack rate, thus having a higher damage-per-second (DPS) value. It does twice the critical hit damage at twice the critical chance, costs less AP, weighs the same, and has a significantly higher caps value. Conversely, the knife has higher durability and has no Melee Weapons requirement and a requirement of 1 Strength to the combat knife's 50 and 3 respectively.
Visually, the weapon has a long, clip-point blade with serrations along the back intended for cutting rope and small branches. It is considered an improved holdout weapon.
Special attack[]
The combat knife has a special Back Slash attack, which does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 3 fewer action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
| | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 30 | 17 | 1.76 |
| Back Slash | 50 | 21 | 14 | 1.5 |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Back Slash outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
Durability[]
The combat knife can successfully strike about 445 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants[]
- Chance's knife - a unique variant found in Chance's grave northwest of Goodsprings Cemetery and slightly southeast of the tribal village.
- Assassin's combat knife - a unique non-player weapon used by the Legion assassin disguised as an NCR engineer that attempts to kill President Kimball during You'll Know It When It Happens. It is only different from the standard variant in that it cannot be looted nor pickpocketed from the assassin but is identical in stats.
- Cass's combat knife - a unique non-player weapon used by Rose of Sharon Cassidy.
Comparison[]
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Weapon name (melee or unarmed) |  | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |
 | - Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) | | - Action point cost | |
| - Damage per attack (damage per projectile) | | - Damage per action point | |
 | - Damage per second |  | - Weapon spread | |
 | - Area of effect damage |  | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |
| - Effect damage & duration |  | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |
 | - Bonus effects |  | - Weight | |
| - Attacks per second |  | - Value in caps | |
 | - Critical chance % multiplier |  | - Value to weight ratio | |
 | - Critical damage | | - Skill required | |
 | - Critical effect damage & duration |  | - Strength required | |
 | - With all mods attached | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combat knife | 15 | 48.5 | 3.23 | x2 | 15 | 17 | 1.8 | 445 | 1 | 500 | 500 | 50 | 3 |
| Chance's knife | 22 | 91.4 | 4.15 | x2 | 22 | 17 | 2.6 | 445 | 1 | 900 | 900 | 50 | 3 |
- Note: Melee damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Locations[]
- Combat knives are one of the most common melee weapons found across the Mojave Wasteland. They are often randomly spawned in containers and bins and/or can be found in almost all weapon stores.
- Some Omerta thugs wield them inside the Gomorrah Casino.
- One in good condition can be found stuck in a blackjack table in the Vikki and Vance Casino. Looking towards the getaway car with the front doors behind, turning right and going through a small doorway in between the corners of the room, in the right corner table is the weapon. If My Kind of Town and the unmarked quest A Team of Moronic Mercenaries haven't been completed, it will be marked as owned, but once the casino has been renovated afterward, it can be taken without Karma loss.
- There's one on a table in the headquarters building in Cottonwood Cove.
- Camp McCarran - Cpt. Curtis has one in full condition that can be taken if he is killed during I Put a Spell on You.
- Orris carries one which can be taken if he is killed instead of hiring him during G.I. Blues.
- Camp Golf - In the House Resort, in the barracks in a shelf next to the mess hall. It can be taken without Karma penalty.
- One can be found inside Gomorrah in a "very hard" locked room, on a table beside a prostitute corpse.
- One can be found in very poor condition on top of a table within Boone's hotel room in Novac.
- A total of 10 can be obtained in Camp Searchlight, on the corpses of ghoul NCR troopers associated with the quest We Will All Go Together.
- Sometimes used by the Fiends.
- One can be found in the second floor of a ruined building in Boulder City beside a couple of skeletons, slightly southwest of the entrance to the Boulder City ruins. There is also a service rifle and a Ranger hat in this building. All three items are in very low condition.
One can be located next to a toolbox, first aid box, and a skeleton. All of which is found inside a boat, underwater, at the Virgin River in Zion Canyon. The combat knife is in near perfect condition.- One can be found in the abandoned BoS bunker, in the same room where a Dean's Electronics skill book is located.
- Mojave Outpost - Sgt. Kilborn carries one.
- During Eureka!, two NCR rangers armed with combat knives will attempt to kill Legate Lanius at his camp but are scripted to be killed by the Legate, allowing their weapons to be looted.
- Camp Guardian caves - One, next to the crate with C-4 explosives.
Notes[]
The weapon is depicted in the Cowboy perk icon, clenched between Vault Boy's teeth while holding a .357 Magnum revolver in his right hand and a lever-action shotgun in his left hand.
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