Meele weapon ideas

[CubedOobleck]

Meelee is really nice in this game already, but I'd like to see a bit more variation on weapon types. Here are a couple I thought of:

Shields: they would deal decent damage, stun enemies longer and protect your front as you bash your way through enemies, however they would be slow, with a short-ish range and degree.

Whips: they would be fast, with the largest range and great degree and wouldn't have a limit of targets per swing, but they wouldn't deal much damage nor would they 'stun' enemies like other weapons do.

Spears: they would have a good range and damage, but would have a quite small degree because of a the stabbing (rather than slashing) pattern of the attacks.

Gloves: they are already in game, but I think that the damage they deal isn't enough to compensate the inexistent range and degree.

Also it would be nice to have more than one weapon for each type (that's the case only with swords atm) but I'm sure that will come along as the game heads towards completition.

And last but not least I think that meele would gain a great depth (and a bit more challenge) if you could aim your strikes up and down as well as left and right. This would also fix problems with hitting enemies on stairs/ramps and it would allow us to slash at knoked down enemies and flying drones.

Thoughts?

Edited January 27, 2013 by CubedOobleck

[VyriaDurav]

I think the current gloves in the game are great, bar some clipping issues.

Spears I am all for though. I need to go Zhou Yu on the enemy.

[Cathulhu]

@CubedOobleck

Try using Furax with charged attacks, it has massive charge damage. Add some charge speed and charge damage mods to see how insane it can get.

[Oxidine]

if like to see some scythes or great swords :3

[DoomsDayDan]

We need nunchucks

[Gotes]

I would prefer , when i press E , the mele weapon to be in my hand, and left click the gun to be in my hend, cause that automatic change is kinda anoying and little bugged.

[Tetsmeha]

We need more weapon variety around the CURRENT weapon types. More Fists, dual weapons, and staff weapons.

[Fenrisulfr]

Dual hatchets (like small axes) would fit in fine, I'd say.

Also, Guan Dao

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/dpullman/dpullman1207/dpullman120700029/14636412-guan-dao-kwan-dao-or-kuan-tao-chinese-pole-weapon-reclining-moon-blade.jpg

DE plz

[Tarudizer]

Shields? Yes, I'd love to be able to build my warframe more tanky.

Whips? I dunno. Not a big fan myself, to be honest. But hey, more diversity can only be good in my opinion.

Spears? Yes. Some poking would be good, as right now there is a lot of wide slashing/bashing. HOWEVER, I would like to be able to stab with any weapon I see fit, not just be limited to a type of weapon. The devs are saying that a massive update to the melee system is coming, can't wait for that.