New melee system needs work

[SiqPuppy 0]

Ok the new melee system needs work, and that is the mild way to say that it SUCKS! I get the fact that the Devs wanted to add more danger to the game. With the addition of more zombies, and now the fact that you can't kill them without a gun unless you are looking at some horrible angle and bash them 1000 times, if you run out of ammo you are SCREWED! If you are a freshy you are SCREWED! Not too mention with the latest patch there seems to be a sever lack of ammo. I have died more in the past two days to bleeding out than the whole previous month combined.

 

 

FIX THIS SHIT!

 

 

 

Yes, I am beyond a little pissed at the moment.

[Guest]

Your doin something wrong.

[Avant-Garde 229]

Melee in this game indeed sucks very much. Need TONS of work to be even just bad, now I prefer to think it doesn't even exist and what we have is just a placeholder.

 

Look at Chivalry:Medieval Warfare melee mechanics, we need a tracer system in this game.

Edited August 2, 2014 by Avant-Garde

[robbyj 77]

The melee system doesn't really need work. Overall the way you attack/move is very clunky and slow. On the other hand, zombies attack very fast, and they still have the ability to walk through walls, floors, and doors. A possible temporary fix could be to lower zombie movement speed, and detection range. The amount is fine and the amount of health they have his fine too. As a fresh spawn, you best be avoiding them zombies! 

[Avant-Garde 229]

The melee system doesn't really need work. Overall the way you attack/move is very clunky and slow. On the other hand, zombies attack very fast, and they still have the ability to walk through walls, floors, and doors. A possible temporary fix could be to lower zombie movement speed, and detection range. The amount is fine and the amount of health they have his fine too. As a fresh spawn, you best be avoiding them zombies! 

I desagree, I belive there is still A LOT of work to do in this game melee mechanics. Like the only "good" (that means not total shit) animations are the axes swings, that is what makes them good to use since this game has sort of a dynamic attacks in melee (you hit with the weapon animation, not your crosshair). They NEED to improve every melee animation to be at least as usefull as the axes are. Have you tried the Pitchfork? It has the worse animations I have seen in a game, you simply have no clue over when or where that shit will hit, its guesswork and lmb spam at its best. Its so bad its not even funny man. And if you think about it, a pitchfork would be far better than an axe, due its stabbing range but not in DayZ because shit animations.

 

Also it lacks depth. Compare the melee mechanics with the shooting mechanics. Then look at what games like Chivalry: Medieval Warfare are doing about melee. At the moment, it looks like a placeholder, really. It can improve so much and has a lot of potential.

Edited August 2, 2014 by Avant-Garde

[Red_Ensign 990]

yeah, this is crap.

 

yes, the zombies should've been more of a threat.  but for fuck's sake sake you could've just made them tougher or hit harder or something.  as things are now, they're ridiculously overwhelming if you're alone because if a zombie draws blood, good luck finding a long enough break between zombie attacks to fucking bandage yourself.  having time to bandage yourself AND reload is fucking christmas morning.

 

yeah I know this overkill is unintentional, because you broke melee weapons.  and some of the zombies are invisible now (oh, great).

 

 

 

just fix it.  or at least undo this horrible patch for now.  a game being hard isn't a bad thing.  but a game being hard because it's broken is not fun.

[janicka 0]

This is true, that new patch sucks so bad! the melee is anyway so slow and useless but I could go through this but what I really hate is that zombie in most of times hit you even they did hit next to you or they are far away. It still could be "OK" because its alfa but one hit and something from your stuff is RUINED??!!! I hate this shit so much. After new patch zombies keep ruining all my stuff all the time and even my guns and things inside my ruined clothes which was pristine about two seconds before.... and then came zombie, of course she came through the door and hit me even she hit next to me and my stuff what I just found is again fucking RUINED!  >:(

 

sorry for my bad english, I'm not american  :blush:

[soulfirez 901]

Hit boxes need some work yes zombies attacks need some work yes the basic mechanics of melee are not to bad but if they improve them further great if they dont but they sort hit boxes still good..

[boneboys 7988]

FIX THIS SHIT!

 

Done.