Melee damage nerf on bosses

[Mecharion]

Why? Just why...

Bosses were not fun before the patch and now its even worse!

On top of that ♥♥♥♥ they nerfed melee weapon spawn too! Because why not.

Is crytek forcing us all to play that stupid melee weapons they squeezed into the game every last few patches?

I mean come on...

[Pulknest]

It is ok Change, you just need To adapt

[Cyseal]

...Just take a katana and kill the bosses in a few hits. What's the problem..?

Oh! So you want to say that you're supposed to get only good loadouts AND kill the bosses fast?! Well tough luck. Pick one or buy dynamite.

[beers]

They did it to better balance the game. Melee weapons don't spawn in compounds anymore? Melee tools do less damage to bosses now?


This now causes a chain reaction such as:

- Melee weapons slots you bring into the game to be more useful (Bat, Axe, Machete, Katana, Bomb Lance, Saber, Railroad Hammer)

- Guns with weapon attachments such as bayonets, claws, or trauma parts to be better.

- It makes the Sticky Bomb consumable more useful and better.

- Poison ammo is now better for killing Bosses as this indirectly buffs it.

- Fire ammo is now better against Spider as this is another indirect buff.

- Penny Shot ammo for Shotguns is now better as it serves more of a purpose for PvE and taking down bosses super quick.

[bacon]

definitely makes it harder for solos. finding an axe or just using knuckle knife or throwing axe wasnt great, but it worked. now you need to find space in your loadout for anti-boss, which further narrows the path to victory. berserker perk helps, but that is temporary for the event.

[台灣獲勝]

Y'all are delusional. This only achieves one thing: Less people will go for the already annoying bosses and wait for others to do it, but since less players go for it, it results in more stalemates. The PvE part of this game was never supposed to be a main aspect of this game. It's PvP focus, AI is only there to bring players to the same location and engage in fights / play tactically, avoiding grunts and such - nothing more.

[Darth_Angeal]

Originally posted by bacon:

definitely makes it harder for solos. finding an axe or just using knuckle knife or throwing axe wasnt great, but it worked. now you need to find space in your loadout for anti-boss, which further narrows the path to victory. berserker perk helps, but that is temporary for the event.

Sticky?

And in case of the assassin, just burn the house down?

It´s really a no-issue.

[Darkin]

Originally posted by beers82:

They did it to better balance the game. Melee weapons don't spawn in compounds anymore? Melee tools do less damage to bosses now?


This now causes a chain reaction such as:

- Melee weapons slots you bring into the game to be more useful (Bat, Axe, Machete, Katana, Bomb Lance, Saber, Railroad Hammer)

- Guns with weapon attachments such as bayonets, claws, or trauma parts to be better.

- It makes the Sticky Bomb consumable more useful and better.

- Poison ammo is now better for killing Bosses as this indirectly buffs it.

- Fire ammo is now better against Spider as this is another indirect buff.

- Penny Shot ammo for Shotguns is now better as it serves more of a purpose for PvE and taking down bosses super quick.

This guy gets it. Ppl think the only way to kill a boss is their knuckle knife or to find a hammer/axe in the compound. Its like they play with blindfolds on. Theres literally so many options.

[Noxx]

Well AI was always super easy to deal with, especially bosses were literally a joke. The reduced melee damage against the bosses was the right decision to do.

You can still kill every boss with your melee tools, it will just take a while longer now. There's no need to bring a melee weapon with you in order to do so, you can do them as you did before or even bring a sticky bomb (except for assassin, unless you want to suicide to make it work on assassin too). These are still the easiest ways to deal with a boss if you don't want to switch your loadout or ammo types.

[DukeoftheAges]

just use sticky bombs like everyone else lol. As for the assassin, he dies quick from fire and bullets.

[Rigor Mortex]

Originally posted by DukeoftheAges:

just use sticky bombs like everyone else lol. As for the assassin, he dies quick from fire and bullets.

My friend does the sticky self explo start. IF you prime the sticky the moment you enter compund you can thro it next to him and shoot it one shooting him. Yes you die also but its super fast and pretty consistend

[SneeZ]

Just learn the sticky and you will be fine

[Misery]

Originally posted by Mecharion:

Why? Just why...

Bosses were not fun before the patch and now its even worse!

On top of that ♥♥♥♥ they nerfed melee weapon spawn too! Because why not.

Is crytek forcing us all to play that stupid melee weapons they squeezed into the game every last few patches?

I mean come on...

They are trying really hard to make katana worth those $110 hunt dollars. Oh well other melee weapons, still never seen anyone use that.

Inb4 sticky gets nerfed.

[Haywood Jashootmee]

they probably nerfed it because a lot of players were complaing about the boss getting killed too fast while they were on the other end of the map.

[mccluckers]

its because they made all of the melee weapons take 1 slot. they likely want to add more of a reason to use the melee weapons, instead of melee tools

[Takeshi_Kovatsch]

The Katana is really good try it out...