Knife-throwing was a pretty big part of Wolfenstein: The New Order, but that's being changed up for the sequel. Looks like axes are being swapped in, according to Jakob Ericsson, Senior Gameplay Programmer at MachineGames.
"We [first] thought that we would go back to knives, but at that time it was very popular in forums and other games, as well in the tactical community, to have axes. In the [United] States, we thought it would be a cool thing to use a tomahawk, because that's the country that it originates from.
When you throw a knife, you can throw it like 50 meters or whatever, but an axe feels much more heavy and so in the beginning of the project, [we had it so] you aim very high to get it to hit, but that turned out to be not so fun to play. It became a trade off [where] it should be fairly easy to hit with it. When it comes to our melee combat and takedowns, it was surprisingly refreshing to use an axe because we've [already] done the knife."
Instead of taking the tomahawk approach, the team decided to go with a design which is a bit more tactical, but also closer to a standard fire axe.
from GoNintendo
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