melee hotkey

[sylvju48]

While playing project Nevada, I really enjoyed the grenade hot key feature implemented as it was relatively bug free and unique. However, I wonder if it would be a possibility to create a melee hot key, like for most fps games. How i would picture it as would be that a one-handed weapon could be equipped alongside whatever weapon you are using and be slashed instantly at your convenience. This way, the hot-keyed weapon could be whichever one handed weapon you wished, hopefully with some sort of damage restriction, proper delay and sense in which weapons could be considered a one handed melee weapon (knives and short weapons).

 

PS A slightly more unconventional suggestion would be the ability to equip a pistol as a hotkey, so that if an enemy approaches you when you have your missile launcher out you could put a bullet between his eyes. Also, VATS capability would also be epic to chain melee and ranged attacks :smile:

Edited March 7, 2013 by sylvju48

[Gribbleshnibit8]

You still have to go through the equip animation, which takes however long that animation runs for. I think there is a way to equip instantly, but of course that would look weird.

 

Vivanto made a grenade hotkey a while back that also has a melee feature in it.

[TrooperScooperMKII]

Actually started a thread about this a little while back (it's been floating around) but basically there were two ideas: first, to try and fake it by (maybe) forcing a "melee" animation to play after pressing a button with a gun, then damaging the gun and the target if it connects.

Devin suggested using a hot-key to swap out the gun with an unbuyable/unfindable melee weapon using the same model as the original gun and having the same health (gotten via a script), forcing an attack, then re-equipping the original, swapping the health from the melee weapon back to the gun, if applicable; thus getting the ingrained melee system to do the dirty work. This would also allow the use of, say, a "melee perk" a la the Cowboy, which buffs the melee "weapons" damage somewhat, allows them to ignore armor etc. One could even allow a bit of "blocking" depending on how you want it, or automatically swap to melee if you try to attack and you're using the manual reload mod or have no ammo or something; all of this would make the thing a lot more complicated (one hot-key for the insta-attack, one for the dedicated melee weapon- but then you could unequip or drop via inventory or something, so have to account for that somehow or require the key to be held down or something) but still.

Seems relatively simple. Just requires someone to do the deed.