You brought up a good idea. Besides, Desperado already grants free ammo during It’s uptime, a little melee requirement could reduce needle spam slightly, even though 19 rounds is still plenty of ammo to inflict crazy damage
I’d be down if they changed it to melee, but with the exception of making the throwing knife being coded as a melee hit, on the grounds that I find it funny.
edit- now I’m imagining dude attaches a string to the knife, stabs the ammo pouch and yoinks it back.
No wait, even better, gimme a poor man’s kusarigama made of the crowbar, a chain, and the knife.
That’d be so dope to have an imprivsed kusarigama. Special attack could be a shiv thrown like you suggest, then minor stagger to enemy on pullout with a few tox stacks left behind as a parting gift. Ogryn slight stumble on weakspot special attack.
Special attack animation could leave Scum vulnerable for a second though, no block while shiv is out.