Heavy attack not working

[DEgg]

I have middle mouse button binded to my alt fire and it works when using other weapons like the pandero, but with melee i dont do the heavy attack

[coldcoffee]

I used my middle mouse button already for melee and I had to deselect the middle mouse button for alternate fire before I could use any melee weapon like normal, another side effect is now I have to press X to get a stealth kill with melee as just hitting them from behind and in stealth isn't enough anymore.

I guess this is why the changes to stealth kills before this patch came in to prepare for the melee update, makes it a real pain now though as anything that can't disable a whole troop of mobs can't get stealth kills anymore with guns and melee.

[Rhudda]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

You have to HOLD the melee now, then use the heavy attack, for some reason, we can't use melee while holding a gun. They did a patch to allow us to fast-melee attack, but it changes back because of reasons.

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. You can still switch between melee and ranged as before by using the melee button or the aim button. And once you've pressed your melee button and thus are in melee mode, you can use a heavy attack. It might only be possible if you have at one hit on your combo counter, though - I haven't really tested that part. What's new, or rather what's returned from ye olden days, is that you can hold the weapon swap button down to go into melee only mode where you can block manually.

There are some other changes that aren't pertinent to this discussion.