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redheadguy
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Hello all. I have been out ofSTO for almost a year, when I came back it was during the Klingon Recut event. Then I had to take another break because real life decided to whack my in the back of my head with a 2x4. Now I’m back to lvl’ing up my new Klingon and I’m having trouble with hitting targets with melee attacks. Trying to keep my character facing the target is a problem. So I tried switching to the FPS controls, but now melee attacks just don’t work.
Please help!
Please help!
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If you use the recruit Bat'Leth it will bring you to the current target if you are close enough without nay obstacles in between. Other than that you do need to select targets (try tab key) and more or less face them.
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First thing to do is if playing with your away team is to turn them to passive mode so they don't draw all the aggro leaving you target less. They can still use supporting skills to help keep you healthy but AoE abilities like Hyperonic Radiation should be avoided. Abilities like this as well as live firearms will leave you without any threat.
For melee on PC I tend to go with RPG mode. You'll need to be within about 12-13 meters from a target to engage via auto-lunge. You may need to hit tab if you don't have a target and move closer when needed.
Dual Nanopulse Mek'leths can be very effective against any enemy aside from the Borg and provide faster combat than the recruit Bat'leth. You can use Furiadon Fangs against the borg if you have access to them.
For a fun kit module to enable quick movement around the map you could try and check the exchange for "Personal Spatial Trajector".
My 2255 recruit is a tactical officer so other kit modules that come in handy for tacs are Motion Accelerator, Trajectory Bending, Ambush, and Battle Strategies. Large kit overboosters from crafting really help with kit module cool downs on any character and of course carry a good supply of hypos.
Things may feel clunky at first but with practice melee combat can get pretty smooth and is viable even in advanced TFO's.
1. Equip the Dual Nanopulse Mek'leths that @protoneous mentioned in the post above this.
2. Right click on your primary attack to turn on auto attack.
3. Stand near a group of enemies, press 1 and just watch.
It's even easier if you upgrade them, they are insanely powerful and they have a built in closing attack so you just chain from one enemy to the next.. it is literally as easy as I make it sound. If you want to do it even faster, put your bridge officers on Passive so they don't do anything but buff/heal you to make sure they don't take any kills.
If you want to make things fun you can equip the Personalized Spatial Trajector kit module that lets you teleport to enemies that are out of range (also mentioned in the post above.) When you start to mix that stuff in, it becomes surprisingly fun. The Personalized Spatial Trajector can be found on the exchange for next to nothing, no one uses it.
I can tell you are on PC though because of your ability to switch to FPS mode.
I'd take a kinetic damage melee weapon without the awkward melee root in place at this point
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The auto attack thing does not work, but the nanopulse Mek'leths do autoclose when you are meleeing manually and acquire a target beyond reach, similar to the way most melee based games do. Now they need to put those mechanics in a wider range of melee weapons.
The discovery rep set weapon (especially with rest of the set though even by itself is enough) is good for this as charge roots and a lot of the "martial arts" strikes knock down.
Yes, it does.
I mowed my way to my 1000 Melee Kills using this method, it works. You just right click on your primary attack so that it has a green box around it. You get near an enemy and start the auto attack. It only breaks if the next enemy is out of range, but it absolutely works.
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Maybe it is, that is what I did too. If it only works with one lit up though I don't really see the advantage of it.
The advantage is, with the auto close your character just runs from enemy to enemy hacking away at them leaving you free to use your mouse to activate kit abilities. It's basically the 'easy mode' way to 1k melee kills, though I wouldn't try it with any weapon, the Nanopulse Mek'leths are what work the best.
Exactly, with the Nanopulse weapons, the secondary is fairly pointless unless you specifically need to do Physical Damage like against Borg. If you're fighting Borg, you could remove the auto from primary and set it to secondary though I still advise against it because the attack is weak. For Borg, it's best just use something else like the Fangs or a Bat'leth. For everything else, the Nanopulse Mek'leth's primary is very fast and very powerful, it's definitely all you are going to need.