I think that melee does too much damage already, but most people can't get that close to anyone else anyway. In fact, I think melee attacks should only push you back slightly and knock your aim off slightly.
I just think it's ridiculous that you can kill someone with 2 hits of your pistol's butt or 3 hits of your SMG's butt even though they can take many bullets.
its like in action movies, thousands of bullets get sprayed, the hero doesn't die, but if a villain would hit him on the back of the head with something he would be knocked out for a while
Melee is alright, really your sacrificing a skill for something that has very little application outside of melleing people and cam-rad's...
Its mainly only good for scout squad hide + run into a chokepoint or killing people you could have just as easily shot. Honestly, if meelle upgrade had splash damage and replenished your health when you killed someone it would still not be as good as other skills.
im becoming cynical about the future of empires with every recent patch. when i first joined in 2.0, i loved how so many things were extremely deadly, like noox, riflemen, 3mgs, artillery, etc first goes the realism of being hit by a high powered rifle bullet in the head and not dying instantly second goes the role of the rifleman, they're just as good as any other class now (at killing people) third goes mg dmg falloff. and finally the last nail in the coffin for an almost realistic MOUNTED MACHINE GUN. One would think that vehicle machine guns would do more damage than "heavy rifles". the tri-mg apc was a very valuable and game defining aspect that i loved (on either side of the matchup. if I was mowing people down in one, it was fun. if i had to kill one, it was easy). okay, i can see why limiting vehicles to only use one kind of armor is good, but limiting vehicles to only ONE MG? oh.. customization i will miss you. one of the most defining aspects of this game. and one final plea. if nothing will be done about the mg, please make the reload of the 50cal 3 seconds. also make the damage of heavy 50 cal 70/hit and the damage of the medium50 60/hit
3xMG was easily the most retarded thing in the game anyone with a low ping could use it as a full auto scout rifle.
The problem with 3xmg etc is that you could just load up on those and ignore the rest. This way we can implement new research and new weapons that have the same effect, but are not available from the get-go. It may artificially prolong the game a bit, but overall there should be a better mix of choices.
