As the title say’s i think melee needs a nerf and i believe it’s strength is being used as a crutch for players who i see often foregoing their guns and charging for a melee kill at much greater distances that prior halos certainly wouldn’t allow.
Edit. after some discussion below. I’m seeing a lot of agreeance that the inconsistency’s with melee be it lunge, lag, collisions issue need to be fixed. on top of that id like to add that the delay between melee’s is very short and could be a aspect to look at for nerfing.
I think a big part of this behavior is the high base movement speed combined with the long lunge range,
So i think the best nerf to begin with is a lunge range reduction and slight melee assist reduction.
I’m unsure of how to approach melee damage (not my first choice to nerf) , i don’t want to see it drop to three melee’s to kill (although maybe ranked could benefit from this) but the damage needed to bring a player into a 1 hit melee kill feels really low only about half a shield’s worth of damage.
Now although I’m calling for a nerf of melee it’d be disingenuous to not acknowledge that melee has a few issue’s with consistency.
The lunge distance and assist feel to be wildly inconsistent were players seem to lunge from ranges the game doesn’t allow to throwing fists at air while right next to enemy players.
Along with the assist inconsistently correcting hits pulling player’s left or right to make hit’s connect.
Some more big issue’s are with collision were player’s occasionally phase into or straight through enemy player’s and full shielded one hit melee kills from in front, hard to say what causes these issue’s be it bugs or net coding but issue’s they are.
Please feel free to share you reasons for or against a melee nerf. I’m open to discussion.
Im sorry, but I actually think it needs a buff. Not in damage, I think that is fine as is given in every other halo its 2 melees to kill. The problem is hit registration and no-collision is complete trash and game breaking. I have not experienced any of these lunges, but quite the opposite. I WISH there were lunges like in previous titles.
So basically, I feel that damage should remain the same but they NEED to implement player collision.
yeah I’m not a fan of no player collision even when its on for enemy’s it feels more like soft collision, and i think the melee inconsistency’s should be fixed but that’s different from a buff.
i mentioned the issues with inconsistency’s and collisions above and imo with those fixed and a reduced lunge distance the melee would be great. infinites base movement speed is really fast letting players close the gap much faster then other halo’s which is half of the issue imo
most halos were 2 hit melee but if I’m not mistaken halo 2 is 3 hits to kill?.
we all are and the melee is much better in infinite but players can close the gap fast letting them rely on melee more then they should. like a crutch.
tell me were did i say it didn’t take 2 hits normally or that i didn’t want it to be a 2 hit melee? at least we all agree on the reg inconsistency needing to be improved
id like to see the lunge towed down and as i said in my post, I’m unsure of how to handle damage, i don’t even want to nerf damage especially not in unranked modes but it does feel like you enter one hittable melee damage to fast.
the ‘lunge’ for melee in infinite i think should be removed from melee and only be for the sword, given the grappling hook, or at least have a smaller range.
and one BIG issue i have with it, is the hit reg. it’s terrible. it also doesn’t help there’s no player collision. i kid you not, i’ve ran through a enemy and back smacked them and vice versa unfairly
The lunge is mostly hit registration lag, because you’re snapping to the player where they appear to be to the host. The problem is, I just tried to sword a guy, and he back smacked me from the front, so the whole issue with melee is entirely due to the bad servers, ping, and hit registration. I’ve back smacked people 3 times. I’ve hit people twice and their shields didn’t drop until after they killed me. It’s all server issues. Melee otherwise works fine like every Halo before, a 2 tap kill.
I think the lunge is really the issue and if they nerfed that a bit you wouldn’t be as concerned about the damage.
I personally am fine with it as it is, but the lunge distance probably is too far on normal melee.