sabre05 351 Posted May 8, 2014 Hey all. Just wondering what's happened to the melee damages? Not been following the game for about a month as I've started a new job and not had the time required to survive the apocalypse. It's just that the melee damages seem to be VERY under-powered. For zombies certainly, not tested on players yet as I generally don't play like that. A month ago, I posted a thread on how I killed 4 people on my own and I had killed one of them with 2 swings from a fire axe. Obviously the fire axe used to 1-hit zombies with ease at all damage levels. However I went on today (for the first time in a month as previously stated) and was slapped in the face to find that a pristine Fire Axe took 5 swings to the body of a zombie before it died. (Presumably it will take 8-10 to kill a player). I also hopped onto my normal server character who had a damaged pipe-wrench and it took 20+ body hits with 2/3 knockout blows to kill a zombie. Quite frankly I've killed zombies faster using my fists. I'm just wondering if such a huge nerf was intended to make it harder to get by or if it was over nerfed and will be balanced shortly as it's quite hard to kill 4 zombies (who aggro from literally 100 meters away) with a weapon that require precise headshots to kill in less than 20 hits, when there's several blood thirsty creature trying to claw at you as you run figure 8's through them. I'm well aware it's an alpha and things will be buggy/break/will change at the drop of a pin. That's fine. I just lack information on the past month of the game and would like to get back into the loop a little. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tiadashi 262 Posted May 8, 2014 Melee is a little broken atm - just hit them in the head as best you can Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emigrates 261 Posted May 8, 2014 It's broken? That's a shame :( I'm enjoying the fact that Zombies aren't a 1 hit wonder, especially in the middle of a high-pop area, having a zombie give away your position almost makes it a little more exciting! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sabre05 351 Posted May 8, 2014 (edited) It's broken? That's a shame :( I'm enjoying the fact that Zombies aren't a 1 hit wonder, especially in the middle of a high-pop area, having a zombie give away your position almost makes it a little more exciting! Indeed, but having 4 of them on you when all you have is what seems to be a wet paper towel as a weapon is not a very good situation to be in, especially when the last time you held that wet paper towel used to be a massive stick that would keep everything at bay. Having the wet paper towel is fine, I just didn't know I had it, is all. EDIT: Yeah. Just been on, seems that 2 handed weapons are like trying to bring a wall down using a wet noodle whilst 1 handed weapons are the way to go. Edited May 9, 2014 by sabre05 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparkplug (DayZ) 3 Posted May 22, 2014 Yea, better melee damage is a must. If you take it's head it should go down. When they get better Zombies please atleast give us a chance. :lol: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qww 287 Posted May 22, 2014 they will usually die from axes, pipe wrench and maybe some other heavy melee weapons if you hit them in the back of the head when they havent reacted to you yet.its not registering all the time, although it seems to register head shots more consistently than it does when they have started attacking you already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
