Do not play melee

[StoriesBonesTell]

I have completed a 100 hour run of a ronin melee build in Starfield. heres what I can tell you
- Melee weapon selection is EXTREMELY limited
- There are no two handed melee weapons in the game currently
- Of the roster of melee weapons, only one of them does enough damage for end game not to take 100 swings on each enemy. So pray to Godd Howard you roll a legendary version of it
- There is no modding melee weapons so the entire resource management element of the game is out the window.
- You just flatly cannot keep up with the DPS of guns, even if you juice up on meds. Completing the base game is doable as melee, but if you want to grind your way to the upper end you're going to have a bad time
- Weapon racks dont let you put melee weapons on them so if you want a bunch of katanas in your house? Too bad.
- God help you if you were planning on going fists instead of melee

[Goātcha Manderallion]

It really is the worst example of how they took the same system from Fallout 4, and then downgraded it.

[Rich]

Big BGS L not having modifications for melee weapons

[VYM]

Never bring a knife to a gunfight (c)
Who dafuq want play melee in sci-fi game with tons of cool guns?!

[ShepherdOfCats]

Could be worse, you could be trying to use your fists on enemies higher than level 5.

[Jaggid Edje]

I play Ronin as well and pretty much only use melee if it's a wimpy enemy (there are a lot of those in the game). I choose Ronin more for rp-reasons than because I expected melee to be viable. But it would be nice if it was at least more viable than it currently is.

[Pieshaman]

I tried the axe for a bit. but it feels a bit underwhelming as they just drop dead without blood or anything. If you played cyberpunk already it is very boring to use melee in this game.
I like all the different guns though, I carry 19 different guns with me now
edit: 18 guns, 1 weapon is an osmosian dagger or something , I just see now xd

[Mountain Man]

Makes sense. As the saying goes, never bring a knife to a gun fight.

Melee, I think, is primarily intended for sneak attacks, or taking down enemies you have already softened up with bullets.

[Liquid Inc]

im only in the low level 40's, but went off to a system that was tagged as level 75. What i found there, at a Civilian Outpost shop, was a Va'runn "dagger", with over 150 damage. Given i only have Rank 1 in melee this was a pretty powerful weapon, compared to the 50 or so of every other melee weapon i've found. This had no effects on it at all, so i can imagine just how strong this would be with a few decent legendary effects.

Edit: It's called the "Painblade".

[PIT_DEFENDER]

Idk, i dont RUN games like you do I play them xD and I kinda like to finish someone off with katana its cool, or when I get lik 31398908 lvl 2 enemies its awsome too, only thing is there isnt much gore in the game ;p

[Dax_B]

Originally posted by VYM:

Never bring a knife to a gunfight (c)
Who dafuq want play melee in sci-fi game with tons of cool guns?!

Then why is it an option? Hey, pick the Gangster background for your character and enjoy your starting perk with Boxing...

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Dax_B:

Then why is it an option? Hey, pick the Gangster background for your character and enjoy your starting perk with Boxing...

Given that there's no level cap. A single point in a skill when you first start is negligible anyway. It only makes any real difference for like the first hour of play.

[Pieshaman]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

Makes sense. As the saying goes, never bring a knife to a gun fight.

Melee, I think, is primarily intended for sneak attacks, or taking down enemies you have already softened up with bullets.

in the military you will learn that a knife does win from a gun in close quarter combat.

[Bloodman]

Originally posted by VYM:

Never bring a knife to a gunfight (c)
Who dafuq want play melee in sci-fi game with tons of cool guns?!

The most iconic sci-fi setting of all time centers around light sabers

[Saturn830]

Originally posted by Rich:

Big BGS L not having modifications for melee weapons

You should at least be able to upgrade melee weapons with something cool like monomolecular edges or vibroblades, but Bethesda unfortunately forgot to put sci-fi elements in their sci-fi game.

[MrCBlower]

Its a Bethesda game, melee always sucks balls so no great loss.