Melee Weapons

[OGStrawbs]

Hello, I am new to the game and am curious to know if there is ever a time and place where melee weapons would be useful (ie. knife, axe, chainsaw, etc..).
I don't see why you would choose one over a gun, but maybe there's something I'm missing?

[dog_chicken]

Melee's are extremely useful when dealing with hordes. While common infected take 2 or 3 shots with a gun, you can just smack them with a pan and kill them instantly, plus you can kill a row of infected with one swing.

[Nagoco]

Originally posted by Medic | trade.tf:

Hello, I am new to the game and am curious to know if there is ever a time and place where melee weapons would be useful (ie. knife, axe, chainsaw, etc..).
I don't see why you would choose one over a gun, but maybe there's something I'm missing?

Melee are better than pistols and come in handy when you face the horde that keep coming like dark carnival chapter 4 and cold stream chapter 2

[OGStrawbs]

Originally posted by ErinIcedMocha:

Melee's are extremely useful when dealing with hordes. While common infected take 2 or 3 shots with a gun, you can just smack them with a pan and kill them instantly, plus you can kill a row of infected with one swing.

I didn't know about the AOE for killing multiple! That does indeed sound good in the early parts of a chapter.

[OGStrawbs]

Originally posted by Nagoco:

Originally posted by Medic | trade.tf:

Hello, I am new to the game and am curious to know if there is ever a time and place where melee weapons would be useful (ie. knife, axe, chainsaw, etc..).
I don't see why you would choose one over a gun, but maybe there's something I'm missing?

Melee are better than pistols and come in handy when you face the horde that keep coming like dark carnival chapter 4 and cold stream chapter 2

Okay! I will watch out for those chapters and make sure to try it out

[Eat3n]

Melee is also good in close quarters like rooms or hallways, especially if your teammates are close and you don't want to shoot them.

[Aurchitexture]

Worst and Best Meeles

Worst ---

Classic Knife - Short reach, Slow, Copy Pasted from CSS to L4d2 and later remodelled and
put in csgo case CS20
Pitchfork - Very Long, Slow
Shovel - Very Long, Slow
Tonfa - Short Reach, Slow, Knockback force is not strong
Crowbar - Short Reach, Slow, Copy Pasted from Hl2 to L4D2 and retextured


Best ---

Katana - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Long Knockback force
Machete - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing
Fire Axe - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Slow
Guitar - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Slow
Frying Pan - Short Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies fastly, Slow

[Radial]

Originally posted by Ⓓⓗⓐⓡ Ⓜⓐⓝⓝ:

Worst and Best Meeles

Worst ---

Classic Knife - Short reach, Slow, Copy Pasted from CSS to L4d2 and later remodelled and
put in csgo case CS20
Pitchfork - Very Long, Slow
Shovel - Very Long, Slow
Tonfa - Short Reach, Slow, Knockback force is not strong
Crowbar - Short Reach, Slow, Copy Pasted from Hl2 to L4D2 and retextured


Best ---

Katana - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Long Knockback force
Machete - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing
Fire Axe - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Slow
Guitar - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Slow
Frying Pan - Short Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies fastly, Slow

out of the best melees, the machete is the best as it is the fastest melee in the game.
also, afaik, every melee has the same range.

[◢◤Tinsellieye◢◤]

Originally posted by Radial:

Originally posted by Ⓓⓗⓐⓡ Ⓜⓐⓝⓝ:

Worst and Best Meeles

Worst ---

Classic Knife - Short reach, Slow, Copy Pasted from CSS to L4d2 and later remodelled and
put in csgo case CS20
Pitchfork - Very Long, Slow
Shovel - Very Long, Slow
Tonfa - Short Reach, Slow, Knockback force is not strong
Crowbar - Short Reach, Slow, Copy Pasted from Hl2 to L4D2 and retextured


Best ---

Katana - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Long Knockback force
Machete - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing
Fire Axe - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Slow
Guitar - Long Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies in one swing, Slow
Frying Pan - Short Ranged, Can kill multiple zombies fastly, Slow

out of the best melees, the machete is the best as it is the fastest melee in the game.
also, afaik, every melee has the same range.

Gotta say, axe and katana have the best hitray but don't get me wrong machete is good too but it's not as consistant has the axe or katana when it comes to hit a lot of infected

[Johnny Casey]

Originally posted by ◢◤Tinsellieye◢◤:

Gotta say, axe and katana have the best hitray but don't get me wrong machete is good too but it's not as consistant has the axe or katana when it comes to hit a lot of infected

The weapon that has the best hit rays is actually shovel, with its second swing generating the astounding number of 8 ticks with 4 hit rays each, result in 32 hit rays for one swing in total. This is the most amount of hit rays that melee weapons can generate in a single swing. Cricket/baseball bat goes up to 7 ticks(28 hit rays), fireaxe goes up 6 ticks(24 hit rays), katana goes up to 5 ticks(20 hit rays).

Katana isn't actually that much better than machete in terms of hit rays, as the second swing for katana(up to 5 ticks) is actually worse than that of machete's(up to 6 ticks). However the third swing for machete is really, really bad(up to only 3 ticks), which you'd think they're in a tie, but since machete swings faster than katana, I'd say machete wins.

As usual, consult this guide for melee analysis. It's a bit outdated, as it contains pre-TLS state of knife info, missing shovel and pitchfork, but overall, really good analysis.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=412007318