there have been plenty of times when i shoot an enemy in the head a couple of times, then proceed to sprint and melee him. i thought it would kill them, but im always proved wrong when all it does is knock his shields out while i die from a counter melee. there has also been times when i had to melee 3-4 times just to take out an opponet (no overshield). can someone please explain this to me??
Your opponent’s shields need to be pretty low for a melee to finish them off.
As for 3-4x, that’s lag.
The game lags horribly. 70% of my ~ 1400 H4 war games are lagged by 0.5+ seconds. Lag has been complained about ad nasaeum in the forums.
Halo Reach and 4 other titles suffer only that sort of lag in 5% of my multiplayer games - so it isn’t me or my connection.
Lastly, if you were trying to melee the host of the game (there are no dedicated servers in H4 - one player is host and is not knee capped to balance things out) your likely not to going to get a melee kill. You can tell whom is host by pressing the “X” button when you are in the lobby with the players in the game. After pressing “X”, a list of players will appear on the right side and the first name in the list will be the host. This only applies before the game starts and once it is under way, the host may change if they leave.
HTH…