Rebalance melee

[TomyLobo]

1. Bring stock attack damage down to the current level of regular melee attacks
   • Now you can only do 1-hit kills on freshly spawned people if you have the melee buff and Persuader/Vindicator/Black Magic.
2. Make all melee semi-automatic burst in order to fix an exploit
3. Scale melee style charge usage based on damage
4. Reduce akimbo melee damage to single gun damage

[TomyLobo]

Slight problem: this makes the issue worse: now you can slide-punch someone with a vindicator and they'll just die, from 100 health, and without any melee boost.
So do NOT merge this yet

[BSVino]

If you want to make punches semi auto, I don't think you have to track punches thrown, I think you can just check whether the key was pressed as opposed to down.

[TomyLobo]

That information is available several function calls further up, in each weapon's ItemPostFrame, but not here, where all melee converges :)

[TomyLobo]

btw, like i said, this probably needs some further touches, please don't merge yet

[TomyLobo]

Still not sure whether to make melee semi-auto or keep it full-auto.
I've seen people abuse it by just typing +attack2 in the console and then leaving it on to get that extra damage in case they're near someone, but otherwise just using guns.
But then there are lag issues that basically require you to spam to hit.

What's your opinion?
Since I already have a count, maybe allow bursts of 3 (ish) punches?

[BSVino]

My opinion is disable shooting for a time after you melee if you want to fix the +attack2 problem.

[TomyLobo]

I think that'd be too much of a melee nerf and in the long run it'd mostly affect less experienced players anyway, since the pros would get used to the new way quickly.
Also, that'd be one more thing that can have bugs, whereas that melee burst system was just a copypasta of the existing burst system.

[TomyLobo]

Slight problem: this makes the issue worse: now you can slide-punch someone with a vindicator and they'll just die, from 100 health, and without any melee boost.
So do NOT merge this yet

This problem seems to be solved by reducing the scaling.
Now you can only do 1-hit kills on freshly spawned people if you have the melee buff and Persuader/Vindicator/Black Magic.