Melee is completely useless

[LazyNinja]

I subdued an armed suspect, then as I was going to plasticuff him he starts hitting me. I'm frantically spamming melee by the guy is so close my guy does jack****, I can't even switch to my pistol as once again my guy just refuses to do anything useful.

The big issue is that the enemy AI is trying to constantly close the distance with you to melee you, and your guy will refuse to melee if they are too close.

I'm not expecting call of duty levels of magnestising homing in melee, but jesus the melee is so ****ing useless it might as well not be in there.

[Kashra Fall]

...Where were your other swat members?

[LazyNinja]

I was playing with a friend and he was entering the same room but from a different entrance, couldn't get to me in time.

[MayoneS]

Yea I know ur pain. Once i had suspect who was stunned but didn't want to give up and drop weapon. So I yelled at him while beating him with melee and nothing happened (didnt have tasers on me). Melee should work as "tackle down" or disarming suspect especially when they are stunned.

[󠁳]

If you feel no one can cover you and you have to arrest a suspect, take a taser and slowly move closer, then command him to turn around so you can arrest him from behind. If you see the suspect is gonna get up, move back and shoot with a taser (or a pepper spray as an alternative).
Never do that if there is a risk of being roamed by another suspect from another room, just wait for your teammates to provide the cover.

[The Infamous Cloaker]

Melee is NOT for damage
It is for making unruly civilians comply (It makes the ones that ignore shouting comply instantly)

[StrangeAK47]

^^this^^

[The Infamous Cloaker]

Originally posted by AlmightyMike:

The default cosmertic of my AI team has a rather large knife. I should at least be able to use my knife for some epic Hollywoodstyle knifefight.

We are not sent to places to kill people

[Delta Dagger]

Originally posted by The Infamous Cloaker:

Melee is NOT for damage
It is for making unruly civilians comply (It makes the ones that ignore shouting comply instantly)

Emphasis on this.

[LazyNinja]

Originally posted by The Infamous Cloaker:

Melee is NOT for damage
It is for making unruly civilians comply (It makes the ones that ignore shouting comply instantly)

Yeah I realise this, melee is a tertiary 'attack' used to make suspects comply. My complaint is at the very least it's not sufficient enough to temporarily stun a suspect and give you enough time to move back and bring a weapon to bear.

I had tasted the subject as they were one of the ones you need to arrest to pass the mission, but in the time it took me to switch to my rifle and get round behind him he got up and started stabbing me and I just COULDN'T make space.

[Andy Mil]

Yes melee require you to have them in the center of the screen like Minecraft but sus in this game noclipping you through ur body and even have more range than you in melee. No COD assistence melee like cheap indie game

[ReBootXD]

Instruct them to turn around and have someone else keep their gun on them while you cuff. The melee isn’t supposed to be viable, it’s a little shove that you can give stubborn civilians without getting unauthorized use of force. If a fight ever devolves to hand-to-hand there’s already been a failure on the part of the officers.