Just played a game in which the following 2 things happened.
Someone came at me with a hammer and caught me at an angle so I survived. I immediately sworded them to the face, and they didn’t die (no overshield).
I then landed a rocket square on someone’s head when jumping from above, again they had no overshield, and they lived. This time they weren’t even swinging their hammer, just holding it.
Does the hammer have some magic force field?
I shot a rocket launcher at my feet before.
Didn’t die
If you clashed with the sword and hammer they cancel out, so that may have happened with desync. Same thing with the rockets. It’s like MCC and using the tank where you clearly hit someone in say mid-air but the desync means you missed. If not, then this is just messed up, sorry mate.
I shoot people swinging a hammer or sword all of the time and they almost never take damage in this game. The hammer and sword are overpowered and both need to be fixed.
The Lunge on Sword for Infinite is the most generous lunge I’ve ever seen in any Halo game. Definitely needs toning down.
Hammer needs to have radial scaling damage.
I should not be dying in 1 hit when a guy is using the Hammer from 4 Grunts distance away from me. Put me at no shields and 80% health, sure. 1 shotting me from that range? No.