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Posted by: MrPinke7103
- As opposed to: "Oh it appears I am close enough for a melee attack, I'll just look in his general direction and... alas my radar guided fist has landed on target, that was a rather uneventful happening
To simplify things, yes, it could be like that. Just how I can say "I have a battle rifle. I see a guy. I fire four bursts into his head and he dies, thats was a rather uneventufl happening." when we all know that it is never this easy. Opponents strafe, jump, weave, use cover, bring a buddy, throw grenades, retreat, ghandi hop, all sorts of things to make your job much harder.
Likewise in Melee combat, to boil it down to a beeline beatdown isn't telling the full story. First off, if your opponent can see you, he will probably shoot you. And unless he has horrible timing he should be able to melee you at the same time you melee him. You don't want to die, even in a double beat down, right? So in those few seconds you have to approach your opponent, you need to make sure you don't get hit as much as possible. Strafing, circling as you approach, jumping perhaps, its all vital if you are going to survive a melee combat. If you are successful at lowering his health more than yours, he will die.
But sometimes neither of you have enough time to get the shields down enough to make the melee a killing move. Then, you are stuck facing each other, waiting for the melee to recharge. What do you do in this half second of time makes all the difference. Do I arc around and go for his back (easier with bumper jumper, make the change, it will rock your world.)? Do I attempt to shoot him in the head with my headshot capable weapon, knowing that if I miss the shot he will kill me with his next attack? Do I try to jump over his head and risk him being able to look up and hit me in my feet? Do I back up out of lunge range, hope he melees thin air so I can finish him off? Is the situation hopeless and should I stick him in the hopes he takes out a team mate? Do I back around the corner, jump off the walkway, and hide under a warthog while my shields recharge and hope I can ambush him when he follows?
And, even before the lunge, the question is, should I lunge or not? If you know that neither of you have done enough damage to kill with a melee, and if you don't want to risk the above paragraph's senario and all the critical split second thinking it entails, you could opt out of the melee and continue firing. He punches you, and if you estimated your damage right, you won't die, but meanwhile you have been firing all this time and have gotten to the point where you can melee to kill him before he can melee you a second time.
...Melee combat is far from an uneventful happening.