Unarmed/Melee Combat & Targeting

[Guest]

Aside from the fact that it would be time consuming, I've always wondered why the development team never included ways to kill people outright with sharp objects or your bare hands. For example, sneaking up behind someone and doing a targeted slash to the throat (another target that should be added to the targeting screen), killing them silently in one stroke. How many times did you wish you could do that in FOT? It would be great in unarmed too. As a First Degree Black Belt in Kajukenbo, I personally know several ways to kill people with nothing but my bare hands, including one using one finger. Anyway, they can make it take an insane ammount of unarmed skill, but it would be a nice addition.

"Wouldn't It Be Nice If Everyone Would Just Die?"

 

[JR Jansen]

Good idea actually.

JR

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[Saint_Proverbius]

Probably because it's not nearly as efficient in real time as the gun skills. To do this, you have to devote skill points to both melee AND sneak, as opposed to the gun skills where you can just dump all your points.

Even if you do sneak up behind someone successfully, and kill them with one shot, you're exposed after that. You're just bait for the gun bunnies.

Though, the main reason I think melee is so screwed in FOT is the lack of the knockback ability. Using knockback weapons make it much easier to deal with all types of enemies, because it not only burned their APs up, but it often put them out of range. In real time, knockback would have allowed the melee character time to get to cover, and start sneaking again.

Oh well..