I believe that when you have the Energy Sword in your hand, shoulder charge should turn off. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been sprinting and swung only to should charge and be shot in the head. It’s like the devs didn’t think about this when making the controls. I feel like they didn’t think about a lot of things when making this game.
I see your point and how I believe it should be is with a one hit melee weapon equipped you should use that weapon in a assassination or should charge and maybe even ground pound, they already integrated it in basic melee so why not other animations?
Energy sword and spartan charge works. A normal spartan charge would only take down the shields but if you have the energy sword equipped and you spartan charge it kills them instantly
Shoulder Charge with a sword equipped equals instant death to normally shielded Spartans. Jumping before using SC can lead to getting shot in the foot, not head, more often than not.
Practice sliding, thrustering or tapping sprint just before slicing if you don’t want the shoulder. In the long… run… you’re better off learning multiple ways to cut your mobility rather than just charging head on.
A great one to do is thruster left or right as soon as you’re in range so that you mess with their aiming just a bit, then slice the moment you can. If you know the range of your SS with the sword, you can do this just outside of shotgun range and time the scope+slice between shots (you hope, connections don’t always relay the proper info).
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^THIS. THOR ALMIGHTY.
I recently found out that this may be the source of my frustration with my seemingly shortened TTK.