Melee combat

What about this sort of melee?

I'd love more stealth kills in Mass Effect. And give us our Drell Neck Snap dammit! Thane needs a mo tribute >_>

Sure go with your fists or an iron bar against heavily armed opponents..let me know how it went.

I'm using a shotgun if you don't mind.

I'm OK with the biotically enhanced melee attacks/modified omni-tools from ME3, and I hope they bring back the bayonets - they're still used by many armed forces today - but anything else feels somewhat out of place in a gun centric setting like ME. Carrying a dedicated melee weapon is just nonsensical.

I liked what ME3 had for melee. It was fun and about as far as I would want to go with it

Ah but the question is, where will this be seen? MP only or integrated into SP as well? Considering most of my ME playthroughs have been with Vanguards, i wouldn't mind some kind of combo system for sheer kicks but nothing crazy, because nothing's like showing some shotgun love.

Hah yeah some of that gets weird. I really do hope that whole 'jetpack jump into biotic ground pound' we keep seeing is actually just a melee attack from jetpack and not just some skill. Like if that's just one evolution added to the melee I'd be pretty happy with it. We got the basic 3 hit combo (if you connect a hit to an enemy), heavy attack, cover takedowns and then maaaybe jetpack ground pounds? Hell yeah.

....Krogans better be able to jetpack. I wanna Krogan jump into the air and come crashing down chuckling maniacally all the way.

They've shown some more CGI-looking variant with an Omniblade. Sooo, either it's an AoE for everyone (Concussive for soldier, fire AoE for engineer, nova sploosh for biotics). Or, Oh what if it was another insta-take down but required you land on something with your melee from jetpacking? That'd be pretty damn badass. You land on em and stab, or Krogan headbutt from orbit....

Yeah, I like it when theres conditions around it. The grab takedown was a real fun addition. DOOM would definietly be way overboard (though I loved that). They tied the games ammo and health system entirely into those glorykills so makes sense there.

The 2 I'd like to see would be using Jetpack to come down on enemies with a takedown if you land on em (which would be pretty difficult I imagine). And maybe a takedown from behind enemies. Either via them being unaware of you run up on an enemy currently paying attention to other squad members. Anything from the side/front I think should be a no-go though.

You know, stuff that adds a risk/reward and has more tactical consideration then just the 'get em low and hit a button' from DOOM, or other older games that did the exact same thing.

We must of played 2 wildly different games. I had a blast with the melee side of things in ME3.

I don't see the problem with adding more melee moves. They added the different punches and you can sneak up, grab, and kill someone in the last game. Perhaps adding something else to that could be doable.

If they tried to do an actual melee class though... I could see that getting tricky because ME is a shooter. I don't think it couldn't be done, but there would definitely have to be a lot of thought going into it so that it would be balanced with the other classes. Oftentimes opponents are not within range, so a strictly melee class would be at a serious disadvantage. I think it would be interesting to see what they would come up with.

We need an omni hammer that ragdolls a lot. I'd like to do trickshots with enemies.

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That very specific circumstance may come in the way of a specific mission or two.  If so, It better be simplified.

Melee combat is difficult to represent in a video game, whether it's sword fighting or hand-to-hand, street brawling or expert martial arts.  TW3 melee combat is either easy, difficult or clumsy, depending on whom you ask. I have Tw3 and melee combat is challenging for me. On the other hand, DA2 melee combat was a joy with its auto-attack.

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