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  • Poll [32 votes]: How do you fell about the lunge beatdown
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Poll: How do you fell about the lunge beatdown  [closed]
like it :  38%
(12 Votes)
hate it:  28%
(9 Votes)
dont care:  12%
(4 Votes)
fix it:  22%
(7 Votes)
Total Votes: 32

combo melee, bouncey gernade blows up on heat signitures, carry on invis, over shilds. Like the powerdrain on halo 3. Sidedsteps fix the lunge of the beatdown please etc

  • 06.12.2009 3:29 PM PDT

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The lunge melee is a terrible implement that is horribly inconsistent. There is nothing more irritating than counting on it happening or not happening and then having the opposite happen.

  • 06.12.2009 4:06 PM PDT

What exactly is the issue of this lunge beatdown, if you don't mind me asking? Are we specifically talking about the sword's lunge or just beatdowns in general?

  • 06.12.2009 4:09 PM PDT

Dont like it, it doesn't work when i need it the most, but sometimes does. But it get annoying when your backing up from a guy with an AR and you have a BR and he dashes. So for this game, I think it should be gotten rid of

  • 06.12.2009 4:40 PM PDT
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i see nothing wrong with it

  • 06.12.2009 4:47 PM PDT
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I prefer it be removed, but we've dealt with it for five years now. I think most of us have learned to live with it.

  • 06.12.2009 5:24 PM PDT

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I hope its removed.

  • 06.12.2009 7:17 PM PDT
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I fell it's good.

Although I fell that people will use anything like that as an excuse for being killed.

I fell.

  • 06.12.2009 7:21 PM PDT
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whats this thread about?

  • 06.12.2009 7:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: zarket
whats this thread about?

The melee (beatdown) lunge, should it be removed in Halo: Reach or should it stay.

  • 06.12.2009 7:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: FinestCrimson
Posted by: zarket
whats this thread about?

The melee (beatdown) lunge, should it be removed in Halo: Reach or should it stay.
i never noticed it. iv only seen it for the energe sword

[Edited on 06.12.2009 7:27 PM PDT]

  • 06.12.2009 7:27 PM PDT

I like it. It's especially useful in campaign, if a bit unreliable in Mutliplayer (which I haven't really noticed, noob that I am) and really helps when you're trying to get in close for the kill.

  • 06.12.2009 7:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: FinestCrimson
Posted by: zarket
whats this thread about?

The melee (beatdown) lunge, should it be removed in Halo: Reach or should it stay.
i never noticed it. iv only seen it for the energe sword

Have you played the first Halo game?

  • 06.12.2009 7:34 PM PDT

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Remove the melee lunge. Bring back Halo 1's melee. It was more skillful... more rewarding... more fun.

  • 06.12.2009 9:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Remove the melee lunge. Bring back Halo 1's melee. It was more skillful... more rewarding... more fun.

  • 06.12.2009 9:27 PM PDT

yes i fell badly

  • 06.12.2009 9:35 PM PDT

It should stay. It helps keep the beatdowns somewhere near even with the grenades and guns.

  • 06.12.2009 10:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
What exactly is the issue of this lunge beatdown, if you don't mind me asking? Are we specifically talking about the sword's lunge or just beatdowns in general?
Beatdowns in general, with Halo 3's lunge, all you need to do is hit (B) and the computer does all the work for you.

  • 06.12.2009 10:09 PM PDT

Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Remove the melee lunge. Bring back Halo 1's melee. It was more skillful... more rewarding... more fun.


This makes sense. My friend and I played a split screen halo ce the other day and the gameplay was much better with the melee needing to be aimed.
Also it made the melee rewarding as you knew you did something right when you landed a melee not just pressed a button whilst in the general area of your opponent.

  • 06.12.2009 11:01 PM PDT

Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: Hylebos
What exactly is the issue of this lunge beatdown, if you don't mind me asking? Are we specifically talking about the sword's lunge or just beatdowns in general?
Beatdowns in general, with Halo 3's lunge, all you need to do is hit (B) and the computer does all the work for you.

And what would the alternate system to "solve" this look like? You physically walk up to the guy and then melee?

  • 06.12.2009 11:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
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Posted by: Hylebos
What exactly is the issue of this lunge beatdown, if you don't mind me asking? Are we specifically talking about the sword's lunge or just beatdowns in general?
Beatdowns in general, with Halo 3's lunge, all you need to do is hit (B) and the computer does all the work for you.

And what would the alternate system to "solve" this look like? You physically walk up to the guy and then melee?
Play Halo 1 and you will see. Give the melees the same range as the lunge, just with no lunge, meaning you would actually have to aim your melee instead of just hitting B and letting the computer do the rest of the work for you. I think that the Melee weapons (if any) should have lunge, though, but nothing else should.

  • 06.12.2009 11:07 PM PDT
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The lunge is hardly noticeable, I don't see a need to change it. That said, I wouldn't exactly miss it if it were to leave either.

And if you're having a problem with people meleeing you; shoot more, punch less. :p

  • 06.13.2009 1:37 AM PDT

Yeah - add skill to melee

  • 06.13.2009 2:01 AM PDT

I preffered the melee system of Halo 1. It took more skill to use effectively, and put more of an emphasis on using firearms rather than smacking a guy over the head.

  • 06.13.2009 2:19 AM PDT

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Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Remove the melee lunge. Bring back Halo 1's melee. It was more skillful... more rewarding... more fun.


Hell yes, the melee games we used to play in CE were histerical. More importantly at least you could count on the distance of the melee, both yours and your opponents. Since Halo2 you never know what the other guy will come flying at you or when you need to be right next to him to make something work.

  • 06.13.2009 2:56 AM PDT