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Hi
My post: https://godot.community/topic/135/should-i-use-a-characterbody2d-for-my-character-s-weapon-instead-of-area2d?_=1697174221367

Hi

I'm pretty new to Godot and Game Development in general.

I'm impressed how easy it was too get started

Currently, I'm facing the challenge of making a weapon (knife) do a stab animation and moving over an enemy. Now, to move the knife forward and back again. How would you implement this? It seems to me that I need to have a CharacterBody2D in order to be able to use e.g. the move_and_slide methods. But doesn't this create unnecessary overhead?