Melee weapons

[Alad]

I just started playing the game and found that melee is very fun. I'm wondering if the game offers the same wide range of melee weapons as firearms.

As far as I can tell, most corporations provide mostly firearms. Tezctlan has some cool axes. Should I make friends with these guys to gain access to cool melee weapons or are there other options?

[Lur Nen Rue]

i personally search for Razor blueprint or Zeus over anything else, they are good upgraded and wont cost much
Zeus can be fueled with elerium and work with Battery damage perk, also you can reload it so it work with tactical reload in case of custom class
otherwise i will try to find Crusher because damage type and it can attack multiple times

for anything base i go to moon quasimorph and search for druggur's

Razor is rng blueprint but mostly from ancom or coreward

zeus France-comte

[Kaia]

Afaik one of the best melee weapons in the game comes from the moon planets quasimorphs. And they're very easy to kill early because they're weak to cutting dmg and you get access to some good auto capable shotguns early. Moon Quasimorphs are generally easy in my opinion, just don't get caught pants down by the wheel chair or the crossbow dudes and you'll be fine. Afaik those can drop as early in the game as you can make it to the moons.

https://quasimorph.wiki.gg/wiki/Duggur%27s_Saber
https://quasimorph.wiki.gg/wiki/Duggur%27s_Morningstar

For other melee choices, you can see a list down here: https://quasimorph.wiki.gg/wiki/Weapons

[Toha]

Just no. Duggur's saber has the highest dmg per hit among base melee weapons barring the Tezclan axe, but has nowhere near the damage per action point. Razor has double hit and it's upgradable.

[Kaia]

Originally posted by Toha:

Just no. Duggur's saber has the highest dmg per hit among base melee weapons barring the Tezclan axe, but has nowhere near the damage per action point. Razor has double hit and it's upgradable.

Just no what? I was simply saying you can get your hands on some of the best melee weapons in the very early game, that's all.


Razor's dandy, but comes much later in the game, and double hit still incurs 10% accuracy penalty and a sizeable dmg penalty per hit 12% to min and 11% to max dmg, and a lower base durability, meaning double hitting that on the base item makes it beats itself down real quickly.

So it's a great weapon with greater potential, provided you are at the point in the game where it drops, where you have the ship upgrades to improve it, where you have unlocked the actual recipe to craft it, where you have enough resources to throw at it to make it significantly outclass something you can just loot pretty much on day 2. /shrug

OP has at the time of writing less than 7h play time and their question wasn't really to debate who's got the biggest, just to see if melee had a lot of choice and where to get those.

[zverozvero]

Wont normal knife be better at that point? If we talk overloading weapon with upgrades that one 's cheaper, has multistrike mode too and can be thrown with Wont miss quirk where Razor cant be tossed at all.

[Kaia]

Originally posted by zverozvero:

Wont normal knife be better at that point? If we talk overloading weapon with upgrades that one 's cheaper, has multistrike mode too and can be thrown with Wont miss quirk where Razor cant be tossed at all.

I believe this used to be true prior to the last patch where upgrades were infinite. Last patch they rectified that by making upgrades scale with weapon tiers, so that you couldn't upgrade low tier weapons on the cheap all the way to san jose

[zverozvero]

Is advanced knife still on the level? Its a bit higher in food chain.

[Kaia]

Originally posted by zverozvero:

Is advanced knife still on the level? Its a bit higher in food chain.

not sure and can't look it up at the moment, but my money is on no, it's obtainable at lvl 1 from coreward so probably bottom tier

[zverozvero]

Guess only powerfull throwable remaining would be Reals Tomahawk since it comes from Reals chip. Then again Shovel comes frome Corewards chip and its lowly weapon.

Without upgrades its all about looting. No need to make friends, just grab all melee stuff and stuck into shuttle. Fuel/battery consuming tools are more powerfull overall cause they have multihit modes and pack a punch. Said crusher and also chainsaw from any industrious workforce group like Coreward. Civ-res rocks those tools too but also adds powerfist.
Without ammo consumption its morphs weapons. Duggur (Moon) of course but if throwing when needed is desired its Gannix (Venus). All can be looted from spawning morphs at any tec level so no need to help Tez in overtaking world or trying to stop him. Just go into missions in those bramfaturas and kill stuff phasing in.

Razors are somewhat common in missions against SBNs espionage cause some agents cary those even if corporation has no tec/power. If blueprint (green item chip) happen its a bit of a breakthrough but overall this items is full extent of games melee and it gets more and more difficult to pull off as game intensify at which point 'melee' means 4-burst shotgun.
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That last bit came out kinda wrong. Melee stays relevant for quite a while and is great tool to dispose of slow-ish (speed 1-2) enemies. Upgrades give it a bit of second life against tankier enemies and specially when it comes to disposing quasimorph outbreaks without eating through all your ammo.
Its just not worth to work for corp to get bundles of knifes and hatchets.
Only exeption might be Franche with its prisoner stun baton Zeus Lur Nen Rue spoke of. Its cool cause its Shock and everything shock stunlocks into oblivion. With buffed damage it would be real menace.
(or you know - Grasshoppers provide Minigun that also uses batteries and shock. but its minigun)