I want Halo Infinite to bring more Spartan Melee Weapons. They had a Machete in the combat evolved flight. We as Spartans need more of a variety than just a kukri or a golf club. Please 343 bring some of these examples to Infinite!
-Machete
-Katana
-Humbler Stun Device
-Combat Knife
-Energy Weapons/ Mace, garrot, Cutlass
-Maybe some pointy knuckle braces or Knuckle Knives. Now that would be a dream come true!
Please everyone, put some input or additions to this list and help get this to 343!
Wouldn’t be against more melee weapons, as long as it makes sense in the game design. It certainly be interesting to use a Katana to slice apart some Flood but it really depends on what age rating 343i are aiming for.
If they carry over the way skins work from Halo CE in MCC, there’s no reason we couldn’t get these on pre-existing weapons like the energy sword or gravity hammer. At least for multiplayer.
I would entirely support a new human melee weapon which has different functionality to existing weapons, I’m just not sure how it could work.
unfortunately the only thing i can see coming into the unsc sandbox is the combat knife, which i think has potential to be an energysword without lunge… faster assasinations, faster rate of melee…
oh and two hits kill.
I cant see the unsc adapting any other melee weapons for combat. I can imagine a sword or bayonett for aesthetic purposes. but beyond that, for practical use, a knife seems like the only reasonable choice.
That, and a golf club
Yeah would be cool it’s like the exact same thing as the energy sword but like for different gamemodes like in halo 4 flood don’t get me wrong it was pretty cool it was finally something like a monster u know hopefully more things like this are in infinite
Melee weapons in Halo have to do more than just stab, the hammer has an area effect and the sword lets you lunge.
The Banished might have some spiked fists or whatever, but they need to do more than just stab.
UNSC could have a riot shield maybe that can be swung like a bat or something? IDK.
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> C’mon guys.
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The shotgun generally fills the role of unsc melee/extreme close range weapon in the halo titles.
Hard pass. Bayonets and Assassination knives are enough and Halo 5 made the franchise anime enough.
what about a sledgehammer? Or a tactical shovel? I would love to whump some enemy players upside the head with a tactical shovel, if only as a flex
Outside of just having alternative weapons for assassinations I really don’t see the point. At best they would mostly just be another energy sword or worse. And as cool as the sword looks, in practical gameplay terms it isn’t really that engaging to use outside of sword v sword clashing.
The UNSC sandbox doesn’t need a melee weapon because it has a shotgun and SMG. The UNSC sandbox doesn’t need a melee weapon just because the Covenant have a melee weapon.
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> Outside of just having alternative weapons for assassinations I really don’t see the point. At best they would mostly just be another energy sword or worse. And as cool as the sword looks, in practical gameplay terms it isn’t really that engaging to use outside of sword v sword clashing.
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> The UNSC sandbox doesn’t need a melee weapon because it has a shotgun and SMG. The UNSC sandbox doesn’t need a melee weapon just because the Covenant have a melee weapon.
That’s a good point, that we don’t need human versions of covenant weapons, just as covenant/promethean remakes of human weapons have made the sandbox feel samey.
However, if 343i were to invent a new weapon with new mechanics, the concept may potentially fit best as a human weapon.
Earlier in this thread, i posted the idea of a spear as a spartan melee weapon. It could play just like the sword and ruin the sandbox, or it could remove lunge and add some sort of sprint/charge (where you just run forward into an enemy with your spear tip down) giving the sandbox a new tool. Maybe the spear comes with a hardlight shield, that slows the player down while active. That may not be the best idea for a weapon, but it serves as an example of how a weapon could add to the sandbox without being a clone/hybrid of other weapons (and it could fit the Human aesthetic if 343i wants it to).
Spartans find themselves in CQC quite often against their enemies (many of which are bigger than them), so it’d make sense for the UNSC to develop new weapons and training to be more effective in these situations. For example, the shotgun works well against unshielded enemies, but often takes two+ hits against shields, meanwhile the energy sword and grav hammer are typically 1-hit kill within range.
That’s my two cents.
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> That’s a good point, that we don’t need human versions of covenant weapons, just as covenant/promethean remakes of human weapons have made the sandbox feel samey.
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> However, if 343i were to invent a new weapon with new mechanics, the concept may potentially fit best as a human weapon.
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> Earlier in this thread, i posted the idea of a spear as a spartan melee weapon. It could play just like the sword and ruin the sandbox, or it could remove lunge and add some sort of sprint/charge (where you just run forward into an enemy with your spear tip down) giving the sandbox a new tool. Maybe the spear comes with a hardlight shield, that slows the player down while active. That may not be the best idea for a weapon, but it serves as an example of how a weapon could add to the sandbox without being a clone/hybrid of other weapons (and it could fit the Human aesthetic if 343i wants it to).
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> Spartans find themselves in CQC quite often against their enemies (many of which are bigger than them), so it’d make sense for the UNSC to develop new weapons and training to be more effective in these situations. For example, the shotgun works well against unshielded enemies, but often takes two+ hits against shields, meanwhile the energy sword and grav hammer are typically 1-hit kill within range.
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> That’s my two cents.
I just don’t really see a good way to make a human melee interesting in a way that makes sense. There are a lot of anachronistic/impractical weapon and vehicle designs in the UNSC sandbox, but at the core they still fairly straightforward, bullets, rockets, and sharp edges with few exceptions. Its one thing to run around with a plasma sword, and another to run around with a what is still essentially just a sharp stick regardless of whether a spartan is using it. A spartan probably could use a special melee weapon designed specifically for them, but by that same token why not just use a bigger harder hitting gun? Or even just a bayonet rather than a standalone melee weapon?
Now there is probably more room for other types of melee weapons coming from the Covenant or Prometheans, but to make them interesting beyond just making sword clones they would have to do something a bit more exotic ala the Gravity hammer which I don’t really think fits the UNSC aesthetic. At the end of the day Halo’s melee mechanics just are not deep enough to sustain a lot of melee weapons without some sort of unqiue mechanic being attached to them. Melee is a supplemental to Halo’s shooting mechanics it isn’t really strong enough on its own to make gameplay interesting for long stretches of time.
Again, I think there is a lot of room to expand UNSC melee weapons via assassinations, but that’s about it.
I want a big red pair of boxing gloves! Give the banished the ole one two!
I want a big red pair of boxing gloves! Give the banished the ole one two!
Edit: network issues made this post twice and idk how to delete it
Really don’t need more melee weapons in the sandbox, Energy sword and grav hammer fill these roles perfectly. what would be fun about using a machete? I wanna see them FLY
There is the assassination knife… But that doesn’t count. I am in an Xbox 360, so this doesn’t effect me, but it would be cool to see chief with a glowing weapon, and it would be cool in the halo sets
I don’t think there’s any room in the sandbox for more melee weapons outside of the Energy Sword, plus I don’t know why the UNSC would be using medieval or feudal Japanese weaponry…
I hope not. Only melee weapon should be the energy sword or but of my weapon. Everything else just seems unnecessary and does not really add anything to the sandbox thats not already there