A slap to the face to melee
You cannot lunge in smoke, or at invisible enemies, this applies to all melee of course, it just hits dagger the hardest since there was an unlisted nerf to both m1 and m2, reducing both effective ranges from roughly 2.8 meters to 2.15 roughly a 23% decrease!
add on to the fact they keep slowing down this weapon, you move slower than a heavy as soon as you start charging the attack, now as well as when using m1
I will not forget in patch 4.0 when they reworked dagger m2 they SHADOW nerfed its charge time from .5 to .81 a 62% nerf!!! (they've brought it down to .65, it's still 30% slower) what weapon gets multiple massive shadow nerfs other than dagger
they removed the ability to backstab gadgets in patch 7.0 the most unique part of this weapon, it is laughably bad at dealing with deployables compared to any other weapon in the finals; I'm convinced after this game released there is a dev that is trying to get this weapons identity wiped off the roster