One of the strongest factors for melee effectiveness is Ping. If you have more than 100 Ping, melee simply won’t lock on unless you’re basically humping the fireteam. So, the next time you find yourself in a lobby with high Ping, you might want to consider focusing on your range game, because melee will be all risk and no reward.
Melee, a key issue
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Melee is all risk no reward
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high ping with ranged can be just as difficult to do speaking as someone whom’s games is generally between 80-160 ping
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True, but at least you’re not getting melted.
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Damn. Sorry you have to deal with that. The only time my Ping is high is on Euro servers, which is fairly rare for me.
it’s what life is here in the boonies of the midwest where “high speed internet” is 25down and .8up MB that is
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The actual problem with melee.
Imagine jumping into optimal gun range for some single target DPS & being locked in an animation instead of just shooting them from a mile away
oh yeah and they can spin around and parry you for the only stun in the game
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All risk no reward
WAT. Usually we recommed the opposite, " If your ping is high, just either go full plasma or try melee". And with high ping you can double hit with wristblades and disk. Rubberbanding through the lag. Even a double wristblades hit together with an arrow shot cus its a mess.
Predator ranged weapons are projectiles, ping affects it even more than melee. I have tried to use the bow with 250+ ping on privates, it hurts. Every goddamn thing the Predator does, from jumping to shooting, every action is noticiably laggier.
I didn’t have any rubber banding. I don’t think there was packet loss.
The game played smoothly, it’s just in this match with high ping, I would get in close and swing but it never auto turned or lunged. I would just melee in place.
I’m not sure what illfonic could do to fix it. Maybe more prioritization for the Predator player or just extend the lock on range of all melee weapons. 🤷♂️
True. The Bow is quite bad with high ping as well.
That’s why in privates we kind of have this rule of always letting the predator player host. Its not playable otherwise. As FT me and others are still melting preds even with 300+ ping, it doesn’t affect much so we don’t mind.
Maybe implement something in publics to try to give predator players the best ping possible.
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gets worse sometimes FT knifes wont register even if you hit him square in the chest
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Yeah but at this point your just saying this to make us feel better. This is no knock on you. You’re 100% correct. But we factually know at this point literally nothing will be done about this
Which is well. Fuckin sad
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