I've found myself many times almost winning a knife fight, and then from 10-15 ft away the other guy swings and kills me. Nothing pisses me off more than being sworded. If anyone could shed some light on how to sword it would be very helpful.
It's the ping to the server and to eachother, Cappy.
it takes a fraction of a second to land the knife kill. On your screen, your opponent could be 10 feet away, and on his screen, he's standing right in front of you. It's just minoot lag to the server.
It's the same reason why you can be shot and killed AFTER running around a corner. In that half-a-second, they've put the killing blow in you, but your lag hasn't registered the hit till you've run around the corner.
It's just the game's continuous struggle to keep everyone together. That's why it's impossible to be perfect at knifing. You can have a strategy, but nothing ill work 100% of the time because everyone's ping is different.