I see this as a problem of knives being bad than the harpoon being too good. Half the melees on this server do better damage than the knife it's only advantage is silence.
Why would you ever use the harpoon over a rifle or a deagle if it only did 45 damage. It's slow cumbersome and incredibly obvious to use.
Traitor weapons shouldn't be balanced to each other they should be balanced to actually be viable to the power level of other things on the server. The knife clearly isn't since no one used it before the harpoon was even added.
Edit: I propose knives should instakill with backstabs. This server actually uses a weaker version of the vanilla knife outside of the movement speed. Most of even vanilla servers already do this.
Why would you ever use the harpoon over a rifle or a deagle if it only did 45 damage. It's slow cumbersome and incredibly obvious to use.
Traitor weapons shouldn't be balanced to each other they should be balanced to actually be viable to the power level of other things on the server. The knife clearly isn't since no one used it before the harpoon was even added.
Edit: I propose knives should instakill with backstabs. This server actually uses a weaker version of the vanilla knife outside of the movement speed. Most of even vanilla servers already do this.