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Melee combat is awesome. Thanks, Devs!
tehjonel
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I just came out of a PUG Colony Invasion (vs Breen) using only the Tholian Crystalline Sword and was just steamrolling through mobs. I held hate with just the Tholian sword and my kit for support buffs on the Mugato and the boss against two Tactical officers with pulsewaves.
I have to say that was the most fun I've had in Colony Invasion in a long time. Thanks for the melee update, Cryptic. Melee combat is incredibly enjoyable now and I can't wait to try it on other ground scenarios.
I have to say that was the most fun I've had in Colony Invasion in a long time. Thanks for the melee update, Cryptic. Melee combat is incredibly enjoyable now and I can't wait to try it on other ground scenarios.
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Even if they did, nothing would probably happen right now since A) not many people PvP and
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Shields don't hold up to bladed weapons. Ask the Borg when Worf TRIBBLE into them with his Mek'leth during First Contact. Who didn't live to tell about it. Seems the Borg couldn't adapt to the blade. Still I have died a few times during my melee attacks due to too many hits. So its not that easy either. I'm glad they put moves and blade swings to go with the weapons. Since the guns, you just point and shoot.
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
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So much fun. Please don't nerf this!
TRIBBLE balance. Any feature that makes players giggle-- you keep that feature.
Btw: I want combat-mounts. Tauntauns could work
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Can't be that hard, just put Neo in a robe and Smith using the 21st century clothing
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You just signed your own nerf request.
People are having too much fun and that needs to be stopped ASAP!
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USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
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I would only ask the devs for a little bit more concerning melee:
1- Remove the 'auto-equip' feature. I keep only one gun in my character so I can switch to unarmed combat. Why? Because it doesn't trap my character into a wait-for-animation-to-finish trap when using the close combat specialist kit. If you don't know what that is, its the animation the toon does when it has a weapon in hand whenever it gets hit by something...that animation interrupts or delays the melee moves.
Going fully unarmed removes that.
Now, the problem is, when unarmed, if you loot a gun it automatically equips it. What REALLY sucks is if you loot a nice mk 12 purple weapon that you wont use but could certainly sell.... TOO BAD. Toon auto-equipped and bound it. GRRRRR :mad:
So please remove the auto-equip looted weapons when unarmed. Its just silly.
2- Change unarmed combat move to be one upper body strike and one leg kick/lower body strike. Martial arts moves currently just throw punches like a boxer in the ring. The animations used for sweeping strikes is much better and is exactly what I'd like to see in the default attacks (but different of course).
3- Lunge 3 animation: Lovely damage but... really now, a matrix-like, gravity defying slide-across-the-room-in-midair 'kick' is really silly.
It would be nice if the animation was changed to something more realistic looking.
4- Knives. Please?
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
Sounds like fun... I wonder how many times I can get assimilated trying to melee the Borg lol.:P;)
Try to get close with your little sword, you will be pavorized!
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Or maybe they didn't change anything at all, and energy weapons just frakking SUCK SO BAD now that melee is only good in comparison. My shard of kahless still only does 30 damage in a hit against something that has 500 hit points, and 50% of that only makes it through the shields.
Only prblem is they borked the rate of fire for ranged weapons.
I'm surprised to read this. We got the idea to do KAGE with all melee weapons because doing ground STFs was getting stale and getting through them with energy weapons was generally easy with a premade group intimate with the maps and scenarios. We used all melee weapons to challenge ourselves. That doesn't mean that energy weapons are useless, that's fundamentally false.
MACO set and a MK XII Pulsewave from the fleet store and you just steamroll KAGE, its one of the only STF I pug pretty frequently with a good rate of getting the optional. We went into KAGE with melee expecting to get hammered, but ended up getting the option with out even trying and arguing about who gets the room (at which point we had about 6min on the clock).
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
You do get expose exploit mechanics with melee by the way. Unlike guns where you press one button, all melee strikes have an expose chance and you have to remember the combo moves for each particular weapon type to carry out an exploit attack. Some weapons like the sword have 2 as an exploit with a single strike, other like the Bat'Leth need a combo (1-2-2 I think?).
Lunge from behind is still an awesome Exploit to watch. Two-footed dropkick, Qa'Pla!
Yes, In Shooter mode you used to be able to target and hold down your fire button. As long as the button was held you would fire as often as able (Cooldown).
Now you have to keep clicking. It's been so long since I've done ground combat any other way that I've actually forgotten HOW to fire outside of Shooter mode.
hmm lets do khitomer grond elite with a sword bad idea these idiots died several times
which i refused to revive them for being stupid
You just haven't experienced the new melee combat until you've seen 5 people chopping on an elite tactical drone, who in turn is completely stunlocked and trying unsuccessfully to back away so it can use its gun.
(I've switched from sword to lirpa. The lirpa is more prone to having its attacks interrupted, but it hits a LOT harder. The overhead chop attack on an exposed enemy can hit for many hundreds of damage. Nothing says awesome like taking 1/4 of a Heavy's hitpoints (and knocking him over) with one attack.)