Broken melee damage after skyline valley.

[D'on The Dragon]

I'm sure i'm not the only one noticing how their "balance" of damage on melee weapons completely broke the weapons and got them do basically a lot less damage? It's especially showcased when i look at my auto axe and chainsaw who goes up by 5 dmg from eating a tasty yao guai roast that literally gives +170% additional melee damage? It also does it on regular melee, i had 467 and now i got 366 damage on a fire axe (after all food buffs). They did not balance sh*t but more nerfed the f*ck out of melees in favor of the bloodied meta (once again, surprised?) but let me know your thoughts, please and have a good day!

[wulfrik656]

Its not broken, they are trying to balance everything to meet bloodied builds. Zweihander krumps everything easily. chainsaw got nerfed, autoaxe buffed too.

[D'on The Dragon]

Originally posted by wulfrik656:

Its not broken, they are trying to balance everything to meet bloodied builds. Zweihander krumps everything easily. chainsaw got nerfed, autoaxe buffed too.

Auto axe buffed? It literally does 100 less damage since last update, the energy got buffed by 20 damage instead, so i lost pretty much 80 and with carnivore build, that's not a buff at all lol

Edit : they did not try to meet bloodied builds at all, they basically punished people for not following the meta. Chainsaw nerf was also unnecessary since it got the damage cut by a whopping half with all buffs! Not only that but tasty meat recipes now clearly does not give the correct 170 to 213% (with TiN) damage buff once eaten.

[wulfrik656]

try the zweihander it makes a joke out of stuff with great dps

[D'on The Dragon]

Originally posted by wulfrik656:

try the zweihander it makes a joke out of stuff with great dps

Not the newest melee (aka the 1000 degree knife), but i'm talking about the older ones before this update, speaking of which the scythe added is not bad but i'd have to re-roll it into vampire since assassin is pretty trash.

[Солевой берсерк]

Originally posted by D'on The Dragon:

Originally posted by wulfrik656:

try the zweihander it makes a joke out of stuff with great dps

Not the newest melee (aka the 1000 degree knife), but i'm talking about the older ones before this update, speaking of which the scythe added is not bad but i'd have to re-roll it into vampire since assassin is pretty trash.

Scythe is trash, u can't reroll it. But yeah zweihander wrecks things good

[wulfrik656]

Originally posted by D'on The Dragon:

Originally posted by wulfrik656:

try the zweihander it makes a joke out of stuff with great dps

Not the newest melee (aka the 1000 degree knife), but i'm talking about the older ones before this update, speaking of which the scythe added is not bad but i'd have to re-roll it into vampire since assassin is pretty trash.

Yeah the scythe was meh but can't re-roll it coz BGS suck

[D'on The Dragon]

Originally posted by Petril Carter:

Originally posted by D'on The Dragon:

Not the newest melee (aka the 1000 degree knife), but i'm talking about the older ones before this update, speaking of which the scythe added is not bad but i'd have to re-roll it into vampire since assassin is pretty trash.

Scythe is trash, u can't reroll it. But yeah zweihander wrecks things good

Not the best melee to be fair since it's pretty slow and executioner is not the best since most power attacks either struggle to meet 40% on big bosses or kills the enemy too fast to benefit from it since power attacks insta kill most of the time so the big 50% damage is not worth.

[Солевой берсерк]

Originally posted by D'on The Dragon:

Originally posted by Petril Carter:

Scythe is trash, u can't reroll it. But yeah zweihander wrecks things good

Not the best melee to be fair since it's pretty slow and executioner is not the best since most power attacks either struggle to meet 40% on big bosses or kills the enemy too fast to benefit from it since power attacks insta kill most of the time so the big 50% damage is not worth.

It's not the best stat wise, but u really have to try it ingame

[D'on The Dragon]

Originally posted by Petril Carter:

Originally posted by D'on The Dragon:

Not the best melee to be fair since it's pretty slow and executioner is not the best since most power attacks either struggle to meet 40% on big bosses or kills the enemy too fast to benefit from it since power attacks insta kill most of the time so the big 50% damage is not worth.

It's not the best stat wise, but u really have to try it ingame

I have it, i collect all types of melee weapons, which is why i made this thread about it since it pains to see so many melee weapons being nerfed in favor of meta like always.

[PotatoBasket]

Yeah basic damage interaction on melee seems skewed. Seasons of customization again ruined by "balance".

I really wish the developers would leave adjustments to people who understand the concept of destroying game balance and how nerfing is a prime factor. Simply put the most idiotic and amateur change policy (nerfing) that continues to estrange their customer base.

It's no wonder the player base is "funnel" rather than a "pool".

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269759822
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269760139

[Mad Marduk]

Yeah... because melee totally needed a nerf because it apparently wasn't far enough behind. Maybe i'll just give in, pull the fixer out of storage and put together a bloodied/unyielding build and be another meta zombie. Tired of swimming upstream to play the game how I want.

[AtmaDarkwolf]

WAAAAH sez de guys who don't actually TRY this stuff out :P


FULL HEALTH almost NO ADDED damage, and I tromp my way though doing nearly 10k dps (Yes I checked) with autoaxe. Only exception were the 3 robots in that nuke-event in new area, there I was doing around 4k dps.

During daily ops or expeditions, U just sorta walk though mowing the grass down while people need 4-5 shots on weenies. Trust me, It IS NOT yet balanced perfectly. It's getting close, but is not there, melee (ESP autoaxe, maybe ONLY auto-weapons) are still very much 'broken' and epic easymode melee right now.

[Mad Marduk]

Originally posted by AtmaDarkwolf:

WAAAAH sez de guys who don't actually TRY this stuff out :P

Grow tf up.

[D'on The Dragon]

Originally posted by AtmaDarkwolf:

WAAAAH sez de guys who don't actually TRY this stuff out :P


FULL HEALTH almost NO ADDED damage, and I tromp my way though doing nearly 10k dps (Yes I checked) with autoaxe. Only exception were the 3 robots in that nuke-event in new area, there I was doing around 4k dps.

During daily ops or expeditions, U just sorta walk though mowing the grass down while people need 4-5 shots on weenies. Trust me, It IS NOT yet balanced perfectly. It's getting close, but is not there, melee (ESP autoaxe, maybe ONLY auto-weapons) are still very much 'broken' and epic easymode melee right now.

You serious lmao? I play around melee all the time and at full health, food buffs or not you can clearly see a HUGE nerf on the auto melees and regular melees, i tested damage with and without carnivore buffs and it clearly is either bugged or badly programed (or both) when a melee turns from 200 to 500 to 63 and 366 there's a big issue here. Bethesda never knew how to balance things properly, and if you think buffing a broken unyielding or bloodied build is decent but nerfing an already weak build type is considered "not yet balanced" to you, especially if enemies are bullet sponges then there's no helping you. By calculating food buffs on these melee weapons is even more idiotic when you get a sh*tty +5 damage on a 65 damage chainsaw after eating a tasty yao guai roast with carnivore that is supposed to give +170 additional melee damage. No, bethesda did the "if it ain't broke, break it" like a lot of this game's features and denying that is just copium or literal simping.

[D'on The Dragon]

Originally posted by PotatoBasket:

Yeah basic damage interaction on melee seems skewed. Seasons of customization again ruined by "balance".

I really wish the developers would leave adjustments to people who understand the concept of destroying game balance and how nerfing is a prime factor. Simply put the most idiotic and amateur change policy (nerfing) that continues to estrange their customer base.

It's no wonder the player base is "funnel" rather than a "pool".

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269759822
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269760139

Pretty much, it's honestly sad.