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spy8446
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So we have the tommy gun and shotgun and the special melee weapons like the winter wonderland plasma batleth etc.
will these weapons count and do away team melee kills count or is it 100% player melee kills?
will these weapons count and do away team melee kills count or is it 100% player melee kills?
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Also I dunno about Away Team melee as they're so bad at it that I never use melee with them.
Ranged Physical damage does not count. Items like the Thompson are assault weapons even though they deal Physical Damage, the only kills that count are from weapons listed by the game as Melee. The Shotgun and Leq's Throwing Knives also do not count.
Despite earlier reports, bridge officer kills do NOT count toward the Melee Goal, only kills made by your captain with a melee weapon. While Bridge Officer Melee kills don't count however, giving them melee weapons will prevent them from shooting your target from range before you can reach it so an all melee team will progress the goal faster.
My Dual Nanopulse Mek'leth's are carving their way through the recruit tasks. Soooo much better than the recruit bat'leth I was using.
(also, one possible advantage of equipping your away team with melee weapons, even if the kills don't count... they steal a heck of a lot less kills from you.)
Thanks for the tip
Very much agreed. Would be nice to have something to say "Right, you have X of Y. Keep going!" The jump from 500 to 1000 will be no picnic, to say nothing of 1k to 2.5k.
And knowing is half the battle!
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Yep, they really don't seem to have put much thought into this recruitment event and seem to have gotten everything from a random number generator.
+Defera would probably be the best because you don't take any BOffs with you, and Borg don't run.
+Nimbus might work with the Gorn Canyon as most Gorn tend to want to close in on you even with ranged weapons, and there's the worms that don't move and scorpions that have to melee.
-Nukara sucks as the Tholians won't stay in melee, and prefer ranged radiation attacks.
- Voth Battlezone I would also say is a no go. Voth tend to want to stick at range mostly and have a couple disables, especially with the higher tier Voth soldiers and the Dinos.
/Not really sure how New Romulus stacks up. Hirogen might make for good melee farming, and scorpions are present as well, however hostile Romulans and Tholians will prefer to stay at range.
I think they have tried to do this and so far failed. When I look at my ground traits sometimes I see a "Melee Tracker" ground trait that does nothing and doesn't have a logo.
I'm not sure why it's a problem since the "Thirst for Battle section had a level progress bar. You would think that something liek that would be in place for the other sections.
I'd say New Rom is a no go as Hirogen prefer to stay at range as well only the scorps prefer melee as they don't have a ranged attack.
i just spammed the 1 key with nano'pulse mek'leths those things are silly fast.
You know a requirement is a fail if you are required to stand in one spot, with your BOffs turned into morons (passive), and have to spam the same attack for 40 minutes.
Come on Devs, you're better than this. We should be able to accomplish these requirements through normal play (i.e. make BOff attacks count too), not be forced to 'farm' kills.
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I was mostly focusing on open world areas like Defera.
I doubt that was their intention at all. Its possible that they intended the player to use melee more often along the way through the story. Not just farm in one place for about an hour. Its the players that come up with various strategies, and develop the easiest paths towards a goal. No objectives are designed with that particular route in mind. So its not a fail on the Devs part. Blame players for coming up with the path of least resistance.
The melee attack probably does. Hell... even a basic rifle butt attack will probably count because it is considered a melee attack. ANY weapon can melee, except for the Cyclic Modulation weapons that have no melee. Bet even the Khan Cannon's melee sweep would count towards melee kills.
At my current rate of episode play, I'll know in a few months how far I get on those kill counts. Then the RTFO parts. And only then I'll worry about grinding the rest of the kills out if I really need to. But at the current rate, I'll clear the kills before I finish the other requirements. So I'm not worried yet about a grind.
Well, if I'm any example... I am halfway through the story arc missions trying to use nothing but melee attacks with my captain. And you know what milestone I'm at currently? 50 kills. (Well somewhere between 50 and 100 since there is no tracker).
So 50. Through normal game play. Halfway through the story arcs.
That is what I call a fail.
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Hmm. My Recruit is partway into Romulan Mystery (Frozen is next). Has done one featured mission (Kitomer Discord, to get the Nanopulse Mek'leths), and Nimbus III up to Installation 18. I equipped my away team with Batleths, as well. Level... 22? 23?
I'm just above 1k kills.
edit: but yeah, I'm not particularly enjoying it. I can't wait to be able to use a gun again.
Don't think melee was ever meant to be our primary weapons, you can save yourself a lot of time using one of the strategies posted in this thread. but i don't disagree ,the task was a bit meh. at least the ambushes can be done passively
Since you mentioned it, is Installation 18 on Nimbus bugged? I haven't run it in ages but tried to complete it on my new Klingon recruit and it locks up every time. Dropped the settings, force verify, still locks up. Just curious if it's bugged now and I missed reading about it.
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Haven't actually tried it yet. The first 'buggy' bit is that it didn't trigger after I finished the previous mission, and I had to do a lot of searching to find the contact who'd give it to me.
So Nanopulse seems to be the key here (I've been using the supplied Sto-Vo-Kor Batleth - apparently a very stupid choice). Either that or BOff attacks DO count. So what is it? Do they count or not???
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No, they do not.