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mindlesspuppet's avatar
7 years ago

120lb girl punches like a shotgun

So Wraith and Lifeline, would weigh maybe around 120lb (54.4kg) in real life, yet a punch to the chest from either deals more damage than a bullet to the face with many of the guns in this game.

Here's my issue, we're dropping into an LZ, I see enemies dropping next to us. I spot a gun and break off towards it, it just a p2020, but any gun is better than nothing... right? A Wraith lands next to me, defenseless, she hops around nonsensically spamming melee attack... rather than shoot her, I find myself doing the samething. 

The combination of the high melee damage, small hitboxes, and close proximity makes me more confident swinging fists randomly to down some enemies early game than shooting them. Should this ever be the case? 

7 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago
    I agree, i think they should add melee weapons and decrease punch damage.
  • Bruce Lee wieghed 127 and hit like a frieght train, what's your point? XD

    All joking aside though, the punches are a little ridiculous.

  • I thought the whole point of it was that when u land you are not a 100% defensless against someone who grabs the gun in front of your nose.

    I kinda like it, I feel like only casual or inexperienced players might have problems getting killed by melee whilst having a gun themselves.

    Maybe an idea is to decrease the melee damage after 1 minute of game start, or decrease it overal but increase it in hotzones for the first minute, so you still have a fighting chance if you miss out on a gun.

  • ThatFawkzi's avatar
    ThatFawkzi
    Rising Ace
    7 years ago

    Nah it's not just casual players that have trouble. It's a combination of high melee damage and hitbox issues, if I get killed by melee it is ALWAYS by a wraith and it's always because they are jumping around like a lunatic making her already stupid hitbox even worse. When the hitbox issues are sorted out it likely won't be that much of a problem but as it stands now, with her hitbox being super tiny it's pretty ridiculous.

    I know they tried to combat melee spam already with having your character recoil backwards when you hit something but still, hitbox issues effect more than just bullets.

  • Only time I have problem killing someone with gun when they get jump on me or gang on me.

    Or I have Mozambique or something equally great with no ammo.
  • Yes I agree about the hitboxes but I think they know and are working on this already, but then again that means melee dmg isn't the real problem.

    and yes it's the same for everyone but what I mean't was more experienced players will pick wraith/lifeline/bangalore (good heroes and smallest hitboxes) and start bunny hopping / sliding all over you, wich is always gonna be hard to hit with a handgun, unlike a gibraltar player running in a straight line or just normal jumping.

  • realy-bad-1's avatar
    realy-bad-1
    7 years ago

    there should be public created rooms for malee only  or single gun or hand gun only.