Melee Build?

[Quothe]

I haven't dived into a melee only build, how viable are they? Do they need any class to really shine, or a specific character?

[pgames-food]

hi i think melee accuracy will help, i used to run a chainsaw build with my highest melee accuracy, but found it much safer to use guns, for me at least.

for example i can use guns and clear out a 4 floor conquest mission, killing 120 enemies approx, (dies on 1st attempt lol but tried again and won)

but i dont think i could do that with my melee build, especially with high quasimorphosis but maybe higher max hitpoints, resistances, and dodge abilities will help.

most melee weapons use the standard blunt, cut or pierce types of attack, so a full set of armour with high resists in those will help against melee characters, but i would still take a gun or something with range, because even if you play mostly melee, there are bound to be some nasty Sawblade or special enemies who would like to greet you in a ranged fashion

[Bekky]

Melee is really damn good, it's good damage and if you keep the momentum up, good painshock, expect to wait in ambush around corners for a good while waiting for a decent opportunity (pack a lunch and expect to fight loads of quasimorphs anywhere outside of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mars and its orbits, they're more meleeable than you think but you obviously won't want to) eclipse blades are generally a pretty good, ideally, you'll want characters with high melee accuracy too ofc, quite a few cheap melees will have flurry abilities so damage is pretty carriable even on noodly armed mfers, uh, what else; oh, yea, pack a gun anyway, you *need* a sidearm, steal it, bring it, it doesn't need to be alot, most of the damage comes from your stick, there's just situations that are too dicey without it, you'll know them when you see them, priority shooting targets in civil resistance are cutters, flamers, and medics/scientists with toxic needle guns, energy weapon users are also problematic, you're not using your gun as a main weapon so don't be afraid of sticking with burst fire, especially if your gun is 9mm, make that ♥♥♥♥ rain because you need the people above deader, faster than everything else that'll shoot you that turn. The rest is smooth just wait around a corner for them to come running then just, click on them, sometimes you miss and eat ♥♥♥♥ but it's not common, they are right next to you after all.

[lufialunar]

I have yet to survive a single run with a melee build. cant even get to the second floor most of the time. Guns are way to valuable and versatile.

[superBlast]

I've managed to kill a quasimorph Baron with a melee only (I didn't have a gun, just an extra melee to throw) on Venus very early in the game. I didn't even know what a baron was or what actually was happening at the time XD I Just thought I was totally screwed and I nearly died.

I'm sure it's way harder once the game goes on for a while though so not confident I could do it again. For example, I read spiders are on Venus but I have never run into any yet, so I figure they are a mid to late game enemy or something.

I used the immune to infection chick with Eclipse blade at the time too. With a bladed weapon with a triple attack.

[Bekky]

Spiders throw poison around when they die, definitely do not hit with sticks

[Pierson]

Melee is absolutely viable even with regular mercs. There's a merc pattern with 80% melee accuracy and like 60% dodge and she is a monster that can take down Barons if you get a weapon with flurry and a high crit chance.

[Alberic Strein]

With melee, you kill and die fast. Sometimes it feels awesome, sometimes it feels suicidal. My 2 cents is to not skimp on grenades for rooms that are too open with too many ranged enemies.

[pgames-food]

Originally posted by Alberic Strein:

With melee, you kill and die fast. Sometimes it feels awesome, sometimes it feels suicidal. My 2 cents is to not skimp on grenades for rooms that are too open with too many ranged enemies.

yeah grenades are very cool, especially with the new grenade launcher ;)
even manually throwing a heart as a grenade can actually one-shot a small enemy :)

(they also are good to trade if there is a teztclan location in the same system, so you can trade before they spoil, but as far as i can tell, they end up turning into rotten meat, which you can use for antibiotics)

[Moisesjns]

Melee works great with isabella, i use her to farm gear. weapons are and flamers are required for venus tho, DO NOT try to rush venus with Isabella, she can clear most floors but when the Q morph gets past 500 and u start getting spider hordes and Q morphs chargining the Melee wont work well enough / you will still need a gun to break walls and avoid spider corpses.