Melee weapons

I want to see Sharpened Helicopter Blades.

We need a mace, a polearm and a glaive.

And a morning star.

I personally have always been a big melee guy so it's a perfect fit for my vanguard play style.

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Melee weapons were obsolete by the 19th Century and should remain so in any universe where high-powered firearms exist. That said, melee weapons have been a thing since ME3, so I figured they'd have a prominent role in any future ME games. That, and I realize I'm probably in the minority in disliking them. Bioware is just giving the fans what they want.

I'm not really bothered too much by it because I expected melee weapons to have a larger presence in the series, but if I could wave a magic wand and make them gone, they'd be gone.

When you want to melt steel fast you use a welding machine not a flamerthrower. If futuristic melee weapons pack more power due to not wasting it on projecting that power, then if you have futuristic ways of moving around that don't put you in much danger like complete cloak or super fast ways like biotic charge, then I see no problem why you couldn't get up close and personal with someone. 

From the last trailer, it seems we will have:

Omnitools
Asari Swords
Krogan hammers
Angarian Firaan

As straight up melee weapons

OR

we will be able to equip in that slot:

Biotic amplifier
Tech Amplifier (I suppose)
And at least another couple of buffer/debuffer.

So, while I think melee build will be somehow viable, especially played with an infiltrator archetype, it will pay more to specialize in the long run.
And biotic strong right in the face never gets old, as far as I’m concerned. Maybe coupled with a plasma pistol to the chest...

Well, melee weapons actually make sense in the ME universe - IIRC from one of the books, shields are only activated by things moving at the speed of the slugs you're shooting. So...stabbing is actually a pretty viable option.

Hate to break it to you but melee combat is never going away.

All I want to know if we can have a good old biotic punch as your melee.

Hoping i dual wield katana with a pistol, a style similar to Kai Leng but i doubt it.

There a couple issues with melee weapons that make them implausible.

The first is there is literally nothing a a melee weapon does that a firearm shouldn't be able to do better. Why trade a shotgun or assault rifle for example, for a sword which should be no more deadly at close range than those firearms, and comes packed with the added limitations of relying entirely on muscle power and only being useful when eyeball-to-eyeball with an enemy? Firearms have much greater range, up to hundreds or even a 1000 or more meters, and should be much more deadly both at range and up close, particularly when enemies wear body armor capable of deflecting rounds travelling at more than 1,200 meters per second (the average speed of a modern bullet fired from a rifle...presumably ME rounds are travelling much faster).




I realize that. I said as much in my earlier post. 

Melee weapons have been a thing since ME3.

But these are futuristic melee weapons, maybe they are super heated or vibrate or whatever ( I am not a scientist ), maybe you don't need any muscle at all, like with a lightsaber for example.