How to melee and cavalry effectively.

[Efour]

How exactly does it work in this game because i see some people run into a 5 vs 1 and kill everyone and other times the reverse :P

Also playing as cavalry my god how on earth do you do it ? how close do you actually have to be? does the sabre have some kind of arc effect or does it have to hit in the cross hairs.
ive played 30 rounds as cav and have yet had a positive KDR..

please any advice?

[Crout]

Melee works like this:

[Up Attack]

[Left Attack Right Attack]

[Down Attack]

RMB will block instead of attacking or aim if you are in ranged mode, you always want to move you're mouse straight up, down, left, or right, if you fumble you will block in the wrong direction which everyone does but the pros practice hard not to. You can interrupt you're opponent with a kick, it's kinda gimmicky at times tbh, there used to be a more annoying shove that didn't push people back, both are kinda 'meh' tbh. Work on countering attacks first, then try to develop you're own kind of offense, go to wraith's or Peprika's server, or any other populated Melee Arena servers to practice.

Holdfast Melee Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wnZwfFw
(Be warned it's full of salt and vitrol), The Unoffical Official Melee discord


The saber has a limited reach, you just gotta feel it honestly. Cav on Cav has always been janky but last patch seems to have made it feel worse, at least in the view of some. Before it had a little bit of a longer reach which was hard to justify but despite the patch you can still kill people laying on the ground with it.

[Lee]

Melee and cav is just clunky and awkward as ♥♥♥♥, I tried the game out when it was first in EA and it was the same, thought it'd be better by now but it seems the intention is to have that awkward clunky melee. It's literally my only complaint about the game. You get used to it but it never really feels good when melee fighting.