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[washout]

I mean we all know how integral close combat was to especially IS pilots, so just make hatchets shoot other hatchets, it's obviously the best solution.

[Zakatak]

By which you mean "fire an invisible projectile with a 20m range and wide angle of hit detection when I swing" right?

[Elizander]

They can just make 1-2 swing animations and give it a fixed range of hitting stuff in front of it like a flamer. It might look lame seeing the same swing over and over again though. I recommend giving it a cooldown so it doesn't look silly. Just say swinging it more often strains the arm too much.

I don't even mind making it a higher damage move on a long cooldown to make it more special and maybe it disables firing regular weapons until the animation is done if that gets too complicated.

Edit:

Moving just the arm will make it look very lame to be honest. Without the full motion of the body to give impact to the swing it might just be a boring addition. Since this animation part is a bit heavy keeping it only to mechs with actual hatches should reduce the cost of production, though I would love to have my Atlas throwing straights and haymakers on the enemy.

Edited by Elizander, 22 March 2015 - 12:01 AM.

[Lyoto Machida]

Some nice melee animations would be amazing...prob not going to see that though. I'd settle for rudimentary ones, so long as it added to the gameplay itself.

[Kiyoshi Amaya]

Or how about a gun that fires a hatchet that explodes into 3 separate hatchets that also explode... Oh sorry, wrong game.

[Joseph Mallan]

Shrekken, on 22 March 2015 - 03:58 AM, said:

Or how about a gun that fires a hatchet that explodes into 3 separate hatchets that also explode... Oh sorry, wrong game.

What game is that from

[Kiyoshi Amaya]

Borderlands 2 tiny tina's assault on dragon keep dlc. One of the side missions rewards you with a torgue shotgun that fires swords that explode! It's a swordsplosion!!!! hehe

[Joseph Mallan]

Scuse me. I have to go do something, then have a cigarette.

[N a p e s]

Shrekken, on 22 March 2015 - 04:16 AM, said:

Borderlands 2 tiny tina's assault on dragon keep dlc. One of the side missions rewards you with a torgue shotgun that fires swords that explode! It's a swordsplosion!!!! hehe

MR TORGUE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WORD WITH YOU CAUSE THAT FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!!!!

[Karl Streiger]

Oh darn need to kill more dwarves.

Well there was a Mod to get physical combat in the original OFP later renamed ARMA Cold War.
Also the abillity to drag items /bodys but while the engine was not supposed to do such stuff - but you could add a editor to make some not so Bad moves - didn't looked good but worked

[Screech]

I am sure this would work out great with the current state of collisions.

[LordBraxton]

They removed IK and fuqqed up the walking animations over 2 years ago and haven't fixed them. If they can't get walking down right, what makes you guys think they'd ever get close to animating melee attacks..

[KraftySOT]

Yeah we've suggested the "invisible 10-20m range projectile" standin for melee a ton of times.

Thats the super simple hack way to do it, but its not really satisfying. It would work, but be kind of lame.

Shrekken, on 22 March 2015 - 04:16 AM, said:

Borderlands 2 tiny tina's assault on dragon keep dlc. One of the side missions rewards you with a torgue shotgun that fires swords that explode! It's a swordsplosion!!!! hehe

Our map modeler Viona worked on that game.

[Chavette]

Last time I read(~2yr) they said they'd really wanna do it but aren't sure if it will become reality. Whats their latest stance on it?

[Funkmaster Rick]

But how does this help my Atlas to pick up enemy Blackjacks and rip them apart in mid-air, then throw their smoking corpse at the rest of my enemies as a warning?

[Davers]

[capt hungry]

Or crowbars?

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

you know... Mechwarrior 4 Mercs free release had battle armor claws, that fired a small projectile that stopped dead around 5 or so meter's infront of the battle armor.

No one ever complained about that for melee...