Let’s start with a proposal that will be the least doubtful of its usefulness. The main advantage of a weapon with a bayonet over a weapon without a bayonet is not that you can rip someone with a bayonet, but that a weapon with a bayonet has a charge. What if all weapons get charge? Even knives, pistols, and shovels. But such a charge will not end with a bayonet strike, but with the soldier knocking the enemy off his feet. With something like this animation.
This will immediately solve quite a few balance problems for those factions whose most common weapon does not have a bayonet.
-Now tell me, what kind of melee combat can there be without blocks and parries?
-But this is shooter here, which already uses a lot of buttons.
-Then we need melee combat that can be done with just one button.
Blocking occurs when the defending player presses the hit button.
A successful block can only be made on the 2nd half of the attacking player’s strike.
With each block, the camera of both players is thrown to the side.
The closer the camera is directed to the center of mass of the opponent, the less this throwback. In this way, we rewarding precise strikes.
After a block, the defending player strikes twice as fast, and the attacking player can also block during the 2nd half of the strike, but he must react twice as fast.
With each subsequent strike, the speed of strikes doubles until this chain is broken.
Examples in pictures:
Black - the entire duration of the strike.
Red - the time during which the opponent cannot successfully block the strike.
Green - the time during which the opponent can successfully block the strike.
Strike 1
Strike 2
Strike 3
Just two cyber cutlets from Korea after the tenth strike
This mechanic requires some restrictions. For example, so that the knife, shovel and pistol cannot block sword strikes.
Also some weapons need different hit animations during blocks. Swords can use the same animations, rifles with bayonets should use the buttstock hit animations. Here are some examples of animations for other melee weapons.
