where the hell is my melee weapon

[BlueLightning]

i love playing melee in xcom2. i have a lvl 4 soldier now with all skills for melee. but it is not clear how to get a damn basic melee weapon :(

[Just me n my pc...]

Research or recruit Anu Berserker?

[Spotter]

Originally posted by Just me n my pc...:

Research or recruit Anu Berserker?

What he said... The Anu have the Berserker Class, and if you get 2 of each weapon, or the Class, you can make your own Melee Weapons. After Researching the Anu Berserker, your troops might get Melee Weapon Use as a Skill to learn too.

[Artek [General]]

Disciples of Anu are the ones with access to Melee gear and related research (comes packaged with their Berserk class, i think?). You can randomly get it from them for being friendly, or by stealing it. You can also backwards engineer one of their melees if you happen to acquire them in the wild, including hiring Anu soldiers with weapon already on them (however they stop being packaged with weapons starting from Hero difficulty, i think?)

Research "Berserker Class" to gain access to their basic Hammer.
Research "Advanced Melee weapons" to gain access to a Bleed-causing machete and Virus-causing mace.
Later on you, as Phoenix Point, using Anu's research as base you can research and make your own unique melee weapon.

Also you get a melee weapon for free if you have promo-weapons and sets activated.

[BlueLightning]

thank you guys

[Strygald]

or if you want to roleplay get these :)

http://wiki.phoenixpoint.com/images/4/48/Subjector2r.png

can't remember if the animations look any good or not while swinging it though....

[Just me n my pc...]

Meanwhile, if you just need to bash, medkits work pretty well.

[Odzianna]

Hm... So you ABSOLUTELY need to deal with the Anu for melee? No other way? Phoenix Point didn't even think about fixing a bajonett to their guns, or modifying a cattle prod for a bit more oomph?

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Odzianna:

Hm... So you ABSOLUTELY need to deal with the Anu for melee? No other way? Phoenix Point didn't even think about fixing a bajonett to their guns, or modifying a cattle prod for a bit more oomph?

Well... Yeah, basically. They are The CQC Faction. Until you get a proper melee - you can bash enemies with your weapons. Heavy weapons in particular hit about as hard.

Again - you can always steal the research from them. Their advanced melees are cute, but PP-made Shock Lance is the superior option, and to make it you only need researchs for Berserk and Technician (you basically fuse the two to create a high tech melee).

[Odzianna]

Darn. I'm only 4% on friendly terms with them, since I can only find Jericho Havens and nothing else. But good to know if i do start another run in the future!

[soppyamoeba8402]

Originally posted by Just me n my pc...:

Meanwhile, if you just need to bash, medkits work pretty well.

The medkit is a good melee, used it many times, yet to be disapointed

[Just me n my pc...]

Originally posted by soppyamoeba8402:

Originally posted by Just me n my pc...:

Meanwhile, if you just need to bash, medkits work pretty well.

The medkit is a good melee, used it many times, yet to be disapointed

They are excellent for healing wounds and non-explodey pandos...

[soppyamoeba8402]

Originally posted by Just me n my pc...:

Originally posted by soppyamoeba8402:

The medkit is a good melee, used it many times, yet to be disapointed

They are excellent for healing wounds and non-explodey pandos...

Medkits can HEAL and INFLICT wounds!

[Just me n my pc...]

That's how they "heal" the pandos. (Insert smile here)

[J.C. Denton]

Originally posted by Odzianna:

Hm... So you ABSOLUTELY need to deal with the Anu for melee? No other way? Phoenix Point didn't even think about fixing a bajonett to their guns, or modifying a cattle prod for a bit more oomph?

Use promotion materials tick (is way too OP for the start though), everse engeneering (you can be at war with them), just a couple loot from mission (either defence mission or offence against them), kaos engine DLC buyable reasearch or Legacy of the Ancient DLC have couple of OP meelee weapons.

[Odzianna]

Oh, by now I'm far enough in to have aquired the Phoenix Shock weapon, and I haffta say, 600 shock is quite nice. I also got friendly enough with the Anu for them to hand over their melee stuff. Love the virus weapon!

i haven't really checked all the DLC yet, turned all of them off for the first run