Melee Ideas....Discuss

Well most of these will be off the top of the head, and maybe during the process of writing it a well thought out one will devolop. So no flaming, just tell me what you like what you dont like etc.



First of all a Kick or punch for extremely close quaters would first of all take alot of skill and it should do extreme damage from behind (shocklance) or something like that. I see all the cons with this, but maybe you could snatch their weapon? Knock it out of their hands? Or temporarily disable their aim..that would be KEY factor in strategic battles.


A Pistol wip type thing, Like Halo status that would be cool like middle mouse button could be that. many possibilities with that, like a alternate attack type thing.


Think of how cool it would be to throw your weapon at people Hit em in the head have it bounce back and catch it and shoot em. think of it thats just awsome. Complicated and maybe hard to work in yes, but still something ot think about.



And as for melee weapons, Im thinking Some kind of "melee" weapon category for lights only , or a Melee weapon specific for all armors all different in attributes.


Throw me some ideas.

The only good idea that I see in this is temporarily stunning the opponent. Then again, it would almost never be used or truly be useful in the heat of the action, so why even bother?

Not that I wouldn't think it cool to see a capper come by the flag and get bitchslapped by the HoF.

Getting "stunned" would be very annoying, just because you got close to an enemy. :[

The only thing I'd consider melee for is body blocking in midair... for everything else it doesn't even apply to the genre of the game

DS SWORD!

or ... a platinum cockring. Like brass knuckles.. only a slightly different technique to use.

I would have to agree that melee combat does not fit in with the genre. The shocklance was OK, but that was slightly beyond melee (12 m range i believe) range and had effects on movement. As far as stunning goes, I think that would be annoying more than anything.

stunning would be too much like getting whited out, which is the most annoying thing ever.

yes getting stunned would be annoying, but thats not really what I meant let me explain it alittle bit more. Say you and someone are in a heated battle and the enemy flies up to you really fast and you see him holster his weapon and swing at you hit you and it "dazes" you not the point of being "stunned" but like it will shoot off your aim by a few fractions of a meter or whatever. Like for instace if you shot right as he hit you you would shoot randomly in one direction or another alittle tiny bit to the right.


And honestly I do agree that This game will do fine without melee and I myself wont cry if its not in there. but there is never to much to master, any little addition would be nice.


And as for "being whited out" I think that is sorta , lame? I dunno if lame is the right word but I just think that complaining about getting whited out is kinda dumb, but thats just my opinion white out grenades are great for tactics, and in my opinion should stay in the game. Even though I LOVED smoke grenades in T2 so much specially when I was a sniper, those were so cool. Same as whiteouts, sure its annoying but dont put yourself in the position to get whited out, I guess.


I still think throwing your weapon at them would be cool =p

They need a baseball bat with which you can bash people over the head with and hit grenades back at people.


But really, I'd like to see a sword or comparable melee weapon just for the coolness factor. Imagine flying past someone with your sword swinging out - like airborne cavalry. It's probably not useful enough to justify putting it in from the start though, so hopefully it could be modded in.

Whapping somebody up side the head with an elbow or spinfuzer would rock. A sword would also be cool.

Well, it'd have to be some sort of energy sword to cut through the armor.. and really people- kicks and punches in tribes!? :rolleyes:

I like the DS sword, but what next- hair pulling?

remember the blood eagle decapitator from the CGM article...

How about giving the melee weapons to Medium armors. You could kill two birds with one stone that way. The players get the melee weapons we've been begging for, and the medium armor gets some much-needed playtime in competition and pubs.

Doable? :D

And I think Blood Eagle should get a big pointy flail. :armed:

http://www.blackknightarmoury.co .uk/small/images/flail.jpg

RAWR.

Just for argument..... How exactly would a kick or a punch from a light stun a heavy?

It wouldn't :o

It wouldn't :o


Then why would a ball and chain or a sword hurt a heavy?

Then why would a ball and chain or a sword hurt a heavy?
You can't be serious. If I'd hit you with my knuckle, you'd survive. If I'd hit you with a flail or a sword you'd die the very same minute.

In my opinion, the only melee weapon that should ever be included in Tribes is a sword. Such as the one the Covies use in Halo. It would be great to see a capper soaring high above a canyon and then getting nailed by a sword-weilding BE heading the opposite direction.

Add some dismemberment effects in there and youve got yourself a party.

According to the Tribes story, melee weapons aren't affected by armor shields. This means that a sword being swung by a tribal warrior (keep in mind that the armor enhances strength, so a sword swung by a tribesman has the force of a jackhammer) can kill someone in armor almost as easily as it would kill someone without armor.

You can't be serious. If I'd hit you with my knuckle, you'd survive. If I'd hit you with a flail or a sword you'd die the very same minute.


You can't possibly be serious.. You mean the Tribes won't have their armor anymore? I could have swore I saw concept pictures and movies of people wearing heavy metal plates on their body.... Especially the heavies... But man if they are just gonna fly around naked this game is gonna suck!?!?!?!?!