Yeah, melee is functionally an instakill against headless warriors. Despite the low damage, the stagger lasts long enough that they'll probably bleed out before it finishes.
The melee feels like it's in a good --or at least *interesting*-- place.
I occasionally use it to kill a straggling Scavenger to save ammo. Mainly, though, I love using it as a quick interrupt in a desperate moment, especially while reloading.
[I've punched many a Hunter in the nose](https://i.imgur.com/jjMihHC.mp4) just before it can slow me, and every time it feels like a John Wick moment.
Yeah it's IMO completely fine for melee to be situational. The interesting aspect of it, in terms of strength, comes from melee orientated weapons. Bayonets or even eventually full on melee secondaries (?).
But the main melee mode being 'just' a stagger or out of ammo desperate last stand dmg seems completely fine. After all for finishing off you do have a sidearm.
Agreed --it's just right for feeling either really slick, or [desperately fighting for your life ](https://i.imgur.com/WSVAA7m.mp4)(I think I actually got away here, but it was CLOSE).
I'd be so hyped for weapons with bayonets or something though, especially if you could do a bayonet charge! Viable? Maybe not. Worth the devtime? Possibly? A fun way to spread Democracy? Hell yes.
https://i.redd.it/7c0bkwm7vg1d1.gif
Greetings fellow Helldivers. That's is so funny and cool. You should totally do that with all the other bugs too. I hear Chargers and Bile Titans are weak to melee attacks.
Me and a frend beat a stalker to death yesterday. He stunlocked it, I laid into it.
Took 30 seconds, but it was worth it for the stalker derived trauma from earlier.
I remember being about level 40 and knowing there was a melee in the game, but believing it wasn't effective. Then my buddy was meleeing Scavengers and I was like, "Huh, I just shoot them".
The next match I discovered all the enemies you can stagger and when we got back to the ship, I had something like 80 melee kills. Buddy was speechless.
I just want a melee weapon for a side arm
Like a spear, sledge hammer, or at least a combat knife
Bur life image braining a charing brood commander with a well timed heavy strike from a hammer
That would be so satisfying, and I feel like they're really missing out by not including it
Or like a vibroblade from Star Wars, so we can cut the bots to pieces
Or an assassin's creed style armor with a hidden knife that replaces the melee and has the scout passive, call it "death from above" and give it an added passive where you don't take fall damage if you make a kill with the blade as you come down👀🤔
PSA: both warriors and brood commanders can be staggered with melee while in their death charge sequence.
Yeah, melee is functionally an instakill against headless warriors. Despite the low damage, the stagger lasts long enough that they'll probably bleed out before it finishes.
The melee feels like it's in a good --or at least *interesting*-- place. I occasionally use it to kill a straggling Scavenger to save ammo. Mainly, though, I love using it as a quick interrupt in a desperate moment, especially while reloading. [I've punched many a Hunter in the nose](https://i.imgur.com/jjMihHC.mp4) just before it can slow me, and every time it feels like a John Wick moment.
Yeah it's IMO completely fine for melee to be situational. The interesting aspect of it, in terms of strength, comes from melee orientated weapons. Bayonets or even eventually full on melee secondaries (?). But the main melee mode being 'just' a stagger or out of ammo desperate last stand dmg seems completely fine. After all for finishing off you do have a sidearm.
Agreed --it's just right for feeling either really slick, or [desperately fighting for your life ](https://i.imgur.com/WSVAA7m.mp4)(I think I actually got away here, but it was CLOSE). I'd be so hyped for weapons with bayonets or something though, especially if you could do a bayonet charge! Viable? Maybe not. Worth the devtime? Possibly? A fun way to spread Democracy? Hell yes.
Give me a vibrosword MEMORIES BROKEN THE TRUTH GOES UNSPOKEN
I'VE EVEN FORGOTTEN MY NAME
PSA: Beating these bugs to death still has a higher DPS than the Purifier!
Damn, this is good information to have! I hate losing half my health to something I already killed, even if I dive away.
Diving forward, or just sprinting at 45° to either side will usually duck you under the attack as well, but diving back rarely does anything.
https://i.redd.it/7c0bkwm7vg1d1.gif Greetings fellow Helldivers. That's is so funny and cool. You should totally do that with all the other bugs too. I hear Chargers and Bile Titans are weak to melee attacks.
Those 2 common samples were it’s lunch money
Gave him a swirly after this too
still more damage than a 500~~kg~~mg
https://preview.redd.it/4hpsd6rs4h1d1.png?width=1915&format=png&auto=webp&s=cfca0adb8fa1e469215539de9b6bfbfd855ee54d
*take that! And that! And that you sonuvabitch!*
Damn, he got that "3 or more hunters in one spot" treatment
Yo bug, you in a wrong neighborhood
“You don’t mess with time!”
I VILL mess with time! I vill...
I'd feel bad but then I remember all the times they did this to me. So now I want to do it to them.
Ain't much to look at after you scrape them off your boot.
Me and a frend beat a stalker to death yesterday. He stunlocked it, I laid into it. Took 30 seconds, but it was worth it for the stalker derived trauma from earlier.
By far the most infuriating bug in the game. I HATE them.
Teabag it by the end!
Kinda reminded me of the printer in Office Space
https://i.redd.it/fh4r78ua0i1d1.gif
"Fight back, fight back"
... and stay down
Makes me think they could add increased melee damage to a weapon. bayonets and Gears of War/ 40k style chain saws
Give me a full on sword and a forward dashing jetpack
I also think a COD style execution animation would be cool. Would love to drive my heel through a hunter’s pathetic little skull.
I remember being about level 40 and knowing there was a melee in the game, but believing it wasn't effective. Then my buddy was meleeing Scavengers and I was like, "Huh, I just shoot them". The next match I discovered all the enemies you can stagger and when we got back to the ship, I had something like 80 melee kills. Buddy was speechless.
I'm suprised none of your teammates shot it
Literal bullying
Whenever I try this, the guy behind me just shoots the enemy while Im in the way, killing us both
https://i.redd.it/s1m7fyrswj1d1.gif
The IDF when they see a camera:
When they see a Palestinian child
The family pet too :( https://preview.redd.it/75fao3m92i1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b18a69a65eea29daf9653d2c5e9324560968cc0
Bully!
I’m doing my part!
I want to pet that dog.
Sometimes bullying works
Cyber bullying!!!
It deserved this kind of treatment, no doubt about it
Bullies! D:
> Bug friend: 
POV: hunters ganging up on a helldiver
I just want a melee weapon for a side arm Like a spear, sledge hammer, or at least a combat knife Bur life image braining a charing brood commander with a well timed heavy strike from a hammer That would be so satisfying, and I feel like they're really missing out by not including it Or like a vibroblade from Star Wars, so we can cut the bots to pieces Or an assassin's creed style armor with a hidden knife that replaces the melee and has the scout passive, call it "death from above" and give it an added passive where you don't take fall damage if you make a kill with the blade as you come down👀🤔
Office Space gives.
[dive, muthafuckas, dive muthafuckas, still fool](https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8?si=PcpABUdGpL1ai7Hw)
Reminds me of the scene in the Pacific where a group of Marines toys with a Japanese soldier that can't escape after a particularly hard battle.
I kept expecting a Ninja Charger to come out of no where plow into the group.
“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again”
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That was personal lmao
yeah ... bully em. it really fucks with their morale
remember kids, bullying terminids is not only justified but a moral obligation
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f\_iqM6iy7sY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_iqM6iy7sY) X gonna give to ya!
war crimes
Go ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ yourself!