Dual Karambit

Dual Karambit is a melee weapon featured in Crossfire.

Overview[]

This is yet the another dual melee type after Dual Kukris and Dual Axes, also the second one made available in all game modes after the Brass Knuckles and Gloves. One Karambit is held in each hand. The right one faces downward, and it shares a similar attack animation with Dual Kukris, albeit much faster. This weapon has a short attack range (about the same with Brass Knuckles) due to the Karambit's short blade.

Advantages[]

Fast drawing speed.
Fast slashing rate.
Fast primary attack speed.
Extremely fast secondary attack.
High damage on primary attack.
Very high damage on secondary attack.
Lightweight.
Very fast recovery speed.

Disadvantages[]

Very short attack range.
A bit loud slashing attack.

Availability[]

Available in all CF versions.

Statistics[]

Slash (Primary attack): Currently the fastest slash in the game.

It also can one slash on the head, and two slashes anywhere on the body to attain a kill. (like the Kukri, Boxing Gloves, Axe Variants.. etc)

Dual Slash (Secondary attack): One of the fastest (if not the fastest ever) secondary attacks in the game.

It can easily one-hit kill anywhere on the body with one secondary attack.

Range: It has one of the shortest (if not the shortest ever) melee range. However, this is compensated by its superior primary and secondary attacks.

Variants[]

Trivia[]

Dual Karambit has the FASTEST attack speed but has the SHORTEST attack range. One left-click (normal attack) does double melee attacks and right click's (secondary attack) time duration takes only a second, making Dual Karambit the FASTEST melee in CF.
It's one of the best melees in CrossFire, challenging all the other melee weapons, not with its attack range, but with its superior attack speed and damage (also the weight).
It's known to CrossFire players that this melee is OPed (over-powered) as its primary attack speed ≈ 0.17 second, which means, if you're very near to an enemy with Dual Karambit, you'll die in 0.4-0.5 seconds (concerning other factors like slash cooldown) if the player uses two primary attacks on you. He can use his secondary attack, which will kill you in ≈ 0.20 seconds, which in some cases is even worse to the players.
Strangely, though Dual Karambit is an independent melee weapon, it shares the same animation with Dual Kukris (if used by male characters) and Dual Axes (if used by female characters) at the third-person view, but in the first person view it still has its Dual Karambit animation. Maybe because Tencent is too lazy to make a new animation for Dual Karambit, so they reused the Dual Kukris' third-person animation from Commando (for male characters respectively) and Dual Axes' third-person animation from Nemesis (for female characters respectively), the only difference is changed the speed to suitable with Dual Karambit's speed.
This melee suffers major glitch, if a player equipped this melee in any mode, this makes a player has a capable to kill enemies without the animations of this melee in third person view, which may looks like a player can accuse player that he/she's using hacks. This issue has been fixed.