do mellee, bladed weapons come good?

[Hummingbird]

do mellee, bladed weapons come good?
its a slog atm, my melee person just gets hurt a lot and doesnt really do much else

[pauloneil]

Yes they get better. The thing about melee is you dont have to worry about ammo, though my first melee character started out with small arms.

[Hummingbird]

Originally posted by pauloneil:

Yes they get better. The thing about melee is you dont have to worry about ammo, though my first melee character started out with small arms.

tyvm, i'll keep them, but put a bit into small arms

[Heau]

Brawler's the strongest class in the game imho. I did SJ run with 4 brawler + ironclad(brawler)+fishlip/vic(melee) in vanilla and it was far easier than I had envisionned by the time I started to get a few units with brawler 10.

Brawler feels awful until brawler 10 though. Melee have a less degenerate power curve but both melee play increasingly smooth as your units gain more mobility through speed and gear mods and such while most pure shooty classes don't see as large a swing from other stats.

[Hummingbird]

Originally posted by Heau:

Brawler's the strongest class in the game imho. I did SJ run with 4 brawler + ironclad(brawler)+fishlip/vic(melee) in vanilla and it was far easier than I had envisionned by the time I started to get a few units with brawler 10.

Brawler feels awful until brawler 10 though. Melee have a less degenerate power curve but both melee play increasingly smooth as your units gain more mobility through speed and gear mods and such while most pure shooty classes don't see as large a swing from other stats.

[Hummingbird]

i'll add a mellle, sniper, explosives, a leader type

[bean]

melee gets to be very OP as well

i have a nerd science melee build that just zergs and clears out one side of the map solo.

conan run + free swing + swing + robot hug + swing / thundering strike and then swap to hammer for the tank buff. The ones that are left cant hurt you and the ones that turn focus to another party member just set you up for more conan runs.

monster build
naturally Scotchmo's

[bean]

it should also be mentioned that melee / brawlers can inflict status effects FAR better with 0 energy cells used and higher chance-on-hits than stock ammo weapon effects.