Losing melee battles

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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I’m not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but I constantly find myself losing in melee battles. The typical scenario goes like this: I get the drop on an opponent. I put a few shots into them and decide to use the melee to finish them off. I melee them and they don’t die. (I assume that I didn’t put enough shots into them before the melee, no big deal.) At this point I have a full shield and the enemy has no shield. Before I have a chance to shoot or attempt a second melee, the opponent melees me and I end up dead despite having a full shield.

Is the game programmed to be like this? Are you supposed to be punished for using the melee to prevent melee spam? I just don’t get it, but I find this happens often.

Anyone else experience this?

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They could have a bayonet on. That’s a 1-hit melee kill

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> They could have a bayonet on. That’s a 1-hit melee kill

If it’s warzone he might also have had the advanced shields armor mod :stuck_out_tongue:

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> > 2533274811771792;2:
> > They could have a bayonet on. That’s a 1-hit melee kill
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> If it’s warzone he might also have had the advanced shields armor mod :stuck_out_tongue:

or a damage boost

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That’s a good point. I didn’t think about that in regards to warzone, but I feel like I’ve experienced this in arena as well.

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Could you show us a clip so we know exactly what is happening? One quick spray with an smg and its easy to melee kill. Even with an AR.

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> That’s a good point. I didn’t think about that in regards to warzone, but I feel like I’ve experienced this in arena as well.

I’ve had this happen in arena multiple times. I don’t understand it at all.

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Happens to me outside warzone, I place it down to lag normally, just to stop me from crying.

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> 2678703528371785;5:
> That’s a good point. I didn’t think about that in regards to warzone, but I feel like I’ve experienced this in arena as well.

It has happened to me once or twice. I think its either a glitch or lag so the shots didnt register for you but still occurred on the server.

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> Could you show us a clip so we know exactly what is happening? One quick spray with an smg and its easy to melee kill. Even with an AR.

I’ll play tonight and try to save a clip if it happens. I’m not complaining about the fact that my melee did not kill the opponent. I get that I probably didn’t put enough shots into him. My problem is the fact that immediately after I melee him, he then melees me while I have a full shield and I end up dying.

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Are you jumping when you melee? In halo 5 when you jump and melee the game has a small delay because it’s trying to figure out if you’re going to ground pound or just do a melee. Could be a cause of losing battles. If not make sure you’re putting 3 shots with a magnum/DMR, 2 bursts of a BR or 6 bullets with an AR before meleeing. Thats a guaranteed kill

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Its the usual culprit…latency.

If you watch back situations where this has happened from the other players perspective in theatre you will see that they more than likely got in a few shots to drop your shields…and because of latency, you don’t get to see this on your screen so it appears as if you were killed with a one hit melee.