is machete good for anything?

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[dyra55]

Grunts

[Anderaz]

The machete itself is good, now you have the heavy knive too. So the machete itself is not the problem, rather randomly adding weapons from the game designers side without a concept.. already looking forward for the next shottie ^^

[Villevaan]

It not as bad as people like to think but in a melee fight it'll easily lose to a lot of other meleeweapons like sword, bomblance (tho I've beaten up a bomblance with machete), talon or riposte. Then again it's swift, low stamina, bleed-inducing, cheap.

[ExecutiveOdin]

It has the highest bleed of any weapon.
The downside is if you were that close to an enemy you should have killed them anyway with something else.

[Der Guteste TTV]

Machete is more or less a heavy knife, but as a weapon slot.

[Tithain]

It's probably the worst weapon in the game except for the combat axe.

[dyra55]

Originally posted by Tithain:

It's probably the worst weapon in the game except for the combat axe.

Combat Axe, unlike Machete, at least has an ability to one-shot a full health hunter with a heavy hit to a body

[Tithain]

Originally posted by dyra55:

Combat Axe, unlike Machete, at least has an ability to one-shot a full health hunter with a heavy hit to a body

The fact that it's a medium slot makes it worse.

[Bpisaac88]

The Saber is way better than Machete and is my main weapon. The saber 90% will instant kill 1 thrust, the other 10% I would say are misses getting arms which requiring follow-up swing. Machete has better bleed but who cares when you can instant kill

Can do 6 Full thrusts which has a pretty long hit range, ton of swings.

I would say hard to master the close range in the game but its great surprising enemies with the saber charge.

usally carry a rifle for longer/medium engaements

[Villevaan]

couldn't find the clips on their own from my pc anymore but here's 3 machete kills (one hit) in row:

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2EikYfyLX1TJBsHmZNMjtgayZKcMnwfU

here I charge bomblance with machete:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxB3CAp82ls5Oc6l2pI7E1aCVtPD1jSaDS

(the original video is just my kill compilation I made for funsies)

Being maybe "the worst" weapon in Hunt doesn't mean it's unusable

[Villevaan]

Originally posted by Bpisaac88:

The Saber is way better than Machete and is my main weapon. The saber 90% will instant kill 1 thrust, the other 10% I would say are misses getting arms which requiring follow-up swing. Machete has better bleed but who cares when you can instant kill

Can do 6 Full thrusts which has a pretty long hit range, ton of swings.

I would say hard to master the close range in the game but its great surprising enemies with the saber charge.

usally carry a rifle for longer/medium engaements

Sparks + Sword is my go-to loadout if I don't come up with anything else. Have spent probably over a quarter of my playtime with that particular loadout. It's super fun and strong, but quite hard since you only have 1 single-shot weapon. Forces one to make them shots count

stupid/fun compilation of sword kills on that loadout:
https://youtu.be/zqBEwb2ZY7E

[dyra55]

Originally posted by King of Kaleva:

Being maybe "the worst" weapon in Hunt doesn't mean it's unusable

That's what i like about hunt, every weapon is viable

[Zig the Caver]

Its fine as a melee weapon it just uses up weapon slot. So if you are looking to free up tool slots its an option as you don't need the knife.

[Villevaan]

I also just realized that machete has the bonus of attack direction coming from the side. With a sword charge you open up your whole torso but with machete your arm covers your body. Subtle thing but might save you while charging if the enemy.

[Der Guteste TTV]

Originally posted by King of Kaleva:

I also just realized that machete has the bonus of attack direction coming from the side. With a sword charge you open up your whole torso but with machete your arm covers your body. Subtle thing but might save you while charging if the enemy.

Arm covering something is not relevant, except if your opponents uses crossbow or bow.
Everything else, be it melee or gun, has limb penetration.