Best melee weapon?

[stopazricky]

I'm at about 20 days, I found Modern Axe and I'll soon go and look for the spear. By the way, I tried using Modern Axe in 1 vs 1 battles with regular cannibals and I sucked. After some tries I decided to just use the Plane Axe: I think it is a better weapon because it can hit much faster. It's true, you need a lot of hits to kill and a lot of energy to hit but Modern Axe is just so slow...
Am I the only one who thinks this? Am I wrong?

[Micha!]

I noticed this too. It's much easier to hit with the plane axe.

[DAG-XR]

The Modern Axe takes two hits, and it's very slow. I would say that it is great for sneak attacks, on the other hand.

The Plane Axe would make a greater weapon, since it stuns the enemy and you can perform combo hits with it until they fall over.

[DeeDoubleU]

Can I join the Plane Axe Lovers club?
If sticks would be upgradable I'd use them, to swing even faster.

[DAG-XR]

They should add this for crafting
Plane Axe + Rope + Modern Axe = Axe Nunchucks

[stopazricky]

They should make upgrades become lasting forever, with 20-25 teeth on it Plane Axe can exterminate every living being on the island

[Barticus]

The stone ax you craft used to be the best but it could have been nerfed since i crafted one last.

[Garth]

I personally like the Skull Club. With it, I feel like I can actually calculate my hits and still have reach. It's also just fun in general, calling it, THE CLUB OF DEATH so as you get into combat you can laugh as they fall and say aloud, "YOU'RE MINE"! As you finish them with a hit to the head. Also, targeting their head and counter attacking their leaps with the range is very helpful, however, if you are low life and need to get rid of enemies quick, switch to an axe, add clother, pull out your lighter, burn the enemies. I do it out of emergancys, as I know that if I enter combat confident, not cocky, then normally I come out victorious, and then can add the teeth. Lastly, my favorite thing about the skull club is being able to chop down trees with the club.

There not being stats on weapons, it's your choice, but if it's up to me, it's the Skull Club, and the Bow. Btw, crouch and kill seagulls. Mass gather feathers, gather sticks, and then stealth with these weapons becomes your allies. If you can, leave a dead body around in case a savage cannibal wants to eat it, then you can get a stealth kill and use their body.

[Burbles]

Combine Axe + Cloth, pop your lighter, and you have the most op weapon in the game. Granted its only for about 3 seconds at a time, but in that 3 seconds you can righteously purge a group of 10+ cannibals just by walking in their faces with it. But in techincal terms yes I would say the plane axe is the best for its speed and combo knockdown.

[Garth]

I think if they add durability and a weapon tool bar with more craftable weapons then the best weapon may change. Also, I really hope for craftable spears, like maybe wooden spears and then sharp stone spears.

[tyrswrath]

I'm liking the skull club best so far. just a few knocks on their noggin and they're dead, also easy to create: Skull + Stick.

[ipuc]

The skull club is very exhausting to use. Only 4-5 swings and you're out of breath. Then again it does have a knockback effect and if you glue 100+ teeth to it you can kill the small cannibals in 1-2 hits and the bigger ones in 3-4 hits. But be sure to glue a bunch of feathers to it as well since it gets really really slow to swing with teeth on it.

130 teeth in a big axe like the modern axe or the rusted axe results in 1-hit-kills with the small cannibals and takes 3 hits with the big ones.

I've yet to try out if upgraded spear would make a valid weapon against enemies. Nevertheless it's the best one for hunting small animals like lizards, bunnies and birds; collecting leaves and fishing. I prefer the plane axe when it comes to killing deer as they can withstand more hits from the spear.

[Garth]

You are right about the skull club taking a lot of energy out. Which is why I use it more of a rack'em smack'em weapon, pushing them into fires and traps already set around your base is what I use it for. Meanwhile the Plane axe can be, if you are feeling risky, a could way to totally get the jump on a single cannibal if you charge him and constantly follow your hits for hit, making him fall and you going in for the kill. Recommended to only do when there is only one. Caution advised, sometimes you miss and they get up.

[Raok]

by far the most efficient and powerful melee weapon is *any* melee weapon with a cloth on it lit on fire. Just pre-cloth your weapon and press L while charging into the middle of them as your "nuke" for when you want everything in that area dead.

[Garth]

Originally posted by Raok:

by far the most efficient and powerful melee weapon is *any* melee weapon with a cloth on it lit on fire. Just pre-cloth your weapon and press L while charging into the middle of them as your "nuke" for when you want everything in that area dead.

Your only problem is when there is more cannibals than you caught on fire. Sometimes there are 5 and you managed to only burn two, or even reinforcements come. So really there may not be a single best weapon, but rather, different weapons for different situations. This would help balance out a weapon scale, along with make a purpose to even craft those other weapons in the first place. Besides, it would be cool to charge out with friends when one charges in with an axe and another sneaks around with a bow, as you defend in between with your club. Different tatics with different weapons would be cool to see in multiplayer.

[Raok]

Originally posted by Garth:

Originally posted by Raok:

by far the most efficient and powerful melee weapon is *any* melee weapon with a cloth on it lit on fire. Just pre-cloth your weapon and press L while charging into the middle of them as your "nuke" for when you want everything in that area dead.

Your only problem is when there is more cannibals than you caught on fire. Sometimes there are 5 and you managed to only burn two, or even reinforcements come. So really there may not be a single best weapon, but rather, different weapons for different situations. This would help balance out a weapon scale, along with make a purpose to even craft those other weapons in the first place. Besides, it would be cool to charge out with friends when one charges in with an axe and another sneaks around with a bow, as you defend in between with your club. Different tatics with different weapons would be cool to see in multiplayer.

You aren't running into them fast enough, or it's raining. You don't even have to attack them with the weapon, you can hold block and just sprint into them and bump them and it lights them right up. If it's raining, you're out of luck because flaming weapons go out almost instantly in even a light drizzle. I agree it would be awesome, and I'm sure it's planned, if weapons were more balanced for specific purposes. As it is now, any weapon lit on fire can kill a patrol without you even swinging it. If it rains, bring out the molotovs and try to either hit multiple, or get them to run into the fire left behind.