Melee weapons

[Gerome (DayZ) 0]

I think when we dont have ammo we could use our hands, legs or probably some melee weapon and push with our hands. I think its very important to play like this for a survivor game.

[luckyloser97 0]

I think when we dont have ammo we could use our hands' date=' legs or probably some melee weapon and push with our hands. I think its very important to play like this for a survivor game.

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Or like a piece of wood,knives(Kitchen to military grade) or other commonly found items in the world.

[~Ren~ 0]

There is an axe in-game which I tried to pick up but I couldn't select it, it's usually found near the small areas with 3-4 houses nearby stuck in a tree stump.

Decapping a few zombies would be nice :D

[wallace71 3]

Idea: for those with a hunting knife there is a last ditch thing you can do

if you're out of ammo you can stab ONE zombie with your hunting knife. the hunting knife then becomes 'infected' with the bloody guts of said zombie and you can only kill zombies with it and it's a slow animation and VERY inaccurate when running. thus you are unable to use it to cook food (because who wants maggoty zombie blood on your knife when you're eating a delicious of cooked sheep meat?)

this leaves us with a last minute decision of whether we can afford to bloody our knives with infected blood, and then no longer able to have a sustainable source of food.

(going to make this a regular forum post to discuss aswell)

[Duskling 1]

Melee would not work, period.

If you get close to a zombie they will instantly hit you and make you bleed. By the time you kill a zombie with a melee weapon you will be dead yourself.

This should be fixed until zombies actually work, and stop glitching through floors, walls, doors.

[Synchronicity 2]

Melee would not work' date=' period.

If you get close to a zombie they will instantly hit you and make you bleed. By the time you kill a zombie with a melee weapon you will be dead yourself.

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Not necessarily. Depends on what weapon you have. Even a survival knife could handle a lone Z without too much trouble, though you might not come out looking very pretty.

Melee weapons have the potential to be a good idea, though their practical application would be rather limited. A survival knife isn't likely to be strong enough to be a decent weapon and would only be used as a last resort. Meanwhile, larger weapons like axes could kill Zs handily, but their weight would probably mean sacrificing a primary weapon. Since duplicitous humans tend to be the larger threat, I doubt anyone would want to make that tradeoff.

[rossmum 7]

Melee does not play nice with ArmA's engine. At all.

It plays even less nicely with the netcode.

[Tassadarh 2]

I have puzzled thoughts on melee.

I do think we should have an sort of last chance when we are out of ammo. Mind that I wrote "last chance". Using melee weapons should be difficult and extremely dangerous and not just a "action movie flick" like in L4D.

A very slow swing of the weapon? a cooldown for attack? be possible to attack when we're completely still (and standing) or just when a zed is already attacking us? I dunno which mechanics is better... but we should have the chance to kill a zed (just one... if there are more than one you're just screwed) when we're out of ammo.