Are melee matches really that unpopular?

[brose_sfr]

played a FA DM with pistols only. I'm not great at FA, so I pistol whipped & melee'd my way to 1st place.

 

I made 0 friends, but found out about all the dirty stuff my mother is into.

[bruvs-mcfc]

Can't decide if people are trying to kid themselves or others when they say they don't play them cos gameplay sucks , I've created a few and played them around 300 times in all and I can report that just like everything in life the more you play it or practise it the better you understand the mechanics behind it and the better you become if it was purely random you would obviously lose more than you won due to quantity of players I very rarely lose a melee match now meaning it is a skill that you can master , people avoid them cos they are not instantly good at them ,I suck at plenty of aspects of this game and don't mind admitting it , so people who say fighting is broken just cannot do it very well .

[..GhosT]

If they wouldnt be out of sync so much.. then they would be nice.

[Brilliant Ideas]

the melee mechanics are a joke in this game lol. so ofc the melee matches are unpopular.

[bruvs-mcfc]

the melee mechanics are a joke in this game lol. so ofc the melee matches are unpopular.

Lol I rest my case , admittedly it's not perfect but it's unpopular because it's difficult

[gtaplayer1990]

This is hokuto no ken, sometimes the guy throw you 4 cross at the same time without moving atatatatata, too much lag

[TheLastSkill3r]

Ive only played a few fist matches and every time, it lags so hard that i get HIT(Edit) atleast 1000 times and im unable to do anything, and then i die.

Edited September 14, 2014 by TheLastSkill3r

[SpidersWeb]

I see quite a bit of hate towards them online and on the forums, I think they're awesome though

 

BQ: In the lobby of a melee deathmatch, a player said "I f*cking hate these unarmed deathmatches, host why don't you be a man and fight with guns? not these pussy ass fist fight brawls"

 

Who's the real pussy here?

 

A mixture of lag and bad melee mechanics make it kind of painful.

The only time I've ever found it fun is with a group of guys chatting on the mic - then it's as fun as doing random stuff in free roam.

 

The whole thing just seemed so much "LOL wouldn't it be funny if".

 

A tip if you get stuck in one, keep going after survivor's (guys who were just fighting) - I've won a few like this (got stuck joining and didn't want a BS point).

 

Although in a real DM last night I ran up behind a sniper and pistol whipped him - which I thought was hilarious.

Edited September 14, 2014 by SpidersWeb

[JON22]

I love them. Sliding up to someone when you punch from a mile away. My character dancing like he's having a seizure from invisible fists. I once died from punches while halfway falling to my death from about 200 metres

 

Melee was so much better on GTA 4 though. Running while slashing a knife is the best.

[Charles_Lee_Raye]

Can't decide if people are trying to kid themselves or others when they say they don't play them cos gameplay sucks , I've created a few and played them around 300 times in all and I can report that just like everything in life the more you play it or practise it the better you understand the mechanics behind it and the better you become if it was purely random you would obviously lose more than you won due to quantity of players I very rarely lose a melee match now meaning it is a skill that you can master , people avoid them cos they are not instantly good at them ,I suck at plenty of aspects of this game and don't mind admitting it , so people who say fighting is broken just cannot do it very well .

The problem for me is there are no lspd tints to unlock for my fists or melee weapons so I dont care and find them stupid. Ive been playing since launch and have only unlocked 2 lspd tints so far. Carbine and advanced. Close on Ak and Ap.

 

Only dm I play are ones I can work on unlocking gun tints in.

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It is fun if it doesn't lag, glitch and that. but the ones who mostly wins are the higher lvl players because they have more life so they can take more hits which is not really fair. there are times where i would die from one baseball bat hit and other times from multiple baseball bat hits with full health bar...doesn't make sense. If everything was fixed it would be fun. Lag is the main problem.

[Vec]

I joined one once in the IAA office and I never laughed so much during a DM because of the randomness.

 

I created one but with melee weapons called Club-A-ton, but I yet have to get someone to play it

[Alec Skorpio]

I joined one once in the IAA office and I never laughed so much during a DM because of the randomness.

 

I created one but with melee weapons called Club-A-ton, but I yet have to get someone to play it

 

No man, you gotta name it the $1,000,000 +RP Rooftop Melee Rumble.

 

Then you'll get a sh*t ton of kids to test it out for you.

[UP9390]

Lag and some of the weapons not making sense with the damage they do, how is a Baseball Bat more damaging than a Police Baton that's meant for fighting???

[Zito]

Melee deathmatches are absolutely random and boring because of lag.

lol GTA3 fighting physics were better

[garvdart]

Lag turns every game into a random, skill-less button mash. Don't get me wrong; they can be fun in short 10 minute bursts, but I can't stand it when the host sets half an hour on the timer.

Exactly, the other point is team deathmatches turn into swarm tactics.

[luisniko]

Melee Deathmatch what?

 

Oh you mean "Lag Deathmatch", yes?

 

Yeah we don't like it. I personally don't.

[NotoriousJDP]

Can't decide if people are trying to kid themselves or others when they say they don't play them cos gameplay sucks , I've created a few and played them around 300 times in all and I can report that just like everything in life the more you play it or practise it the better you understand the mechanics behind it and the better you become if it was purely random you would obviously lose more than you won due to quantity of players I very rarely lose a melee match now meaning it is a skill that you can master , people avoid them cos they are not instantly good at them ,I suck at plenty of aspects of this game and don't mind admitting it , so people who say fighting is broken just cannot do it very well .

 

Just because you've learned how to manipulate the broken fighting system better than others doesn't mean it isn't broken. It is. Very broken.

 

My first car was a stick that had a bad clutch. I was able to drive the car when no one else could because I taught myself how to work the broken clutch. That didn't mean my car wasn't a piece of sh*t. It was. Just like all melee deathmatches.

[sultangris]

they are actually pretty popular, but they lag the worst of any game type and most people cheat so there are lots of people who do not like them. i played lots for a while, but im sick of them now, would be much more fun if they werent so goddamn laggy and the f*cktard with the sh*t internet always has the advantage cause its peer to peer, not client to server and whoevers data gets there first wins so sh*t internet guy is f*cked in that situation, which having 30 up/down fiber i love much more, haha

[GrandTheftRobbo]

the lag punching is annoying

[Shaundi.]

I enjoy them. It's not about being a p*ssy. It's about not knowing the fighting mechanics.

Which is terrible because of lag.

[K.Walters]

I don`t think you have played them if you say this. The melee connection is horrible, plus you take internet connection in mind and it`s a complete mess in general. I get knifed from 5 meters away with knife not even being close to me yet I die. Melee only lobbys suck. They are the cancer of content creator.

[xInfamousRYANx]

Yes as the game has sh*tty lag in melee dm. I get punched by ghosts

[sultangris]

 

The guy with the 600 KB internet always wins.

Fact.

 

this does infact seem to be quite true, which is the opposite of what it should be, f*cking clowns rockstar, get it together!

[shhhhhhhhh]

I enjoy fist fights every now and then. They're fun as long as you out a decent time & score limit on them. Or just duking it out in the middle of a random lobby and see how many people jump in.

[UrbanJungle]

 

The guy with the 600 KB internet always wins.

Fact.

 

Nope I have fast internet and win 9/10 but that's probably due to having maxed strength and maxed health.

[bruvs-mcfc]

 

 

Can't decide if people are trying to kid themselves or others when they say they don't play them cos gameplay sucks , I've created a few and played them around 300 times in all and I can report that just like everything in life the more you play it or practise it the better you understand the mechanics behind it and the better you become if it was purely random you would obviously lose more than you won due to quantity of players I very rarely lose a melee match now meaning it is a skill that you can master , people avoid them cos they are not instantly good at them ,I suck at plenty of aspects of this game and don't mind admitting it , so people who say fighting is broken just cannot do it very well .

Just because you've learned how to manipulate the broken fighting system better than others doesn't mean it isn't broken. It is. Very broken.

 

My first car was a stick that had a bad clutch. I was able to drive the car when no one else could because I taught myself how to work the broken clutch. That didn't mean my car wasn't a piece of sh*t. It was. Just like all melee deathmatches.

Lol can't argue with your car analogy .don't get me wrong I'm not saying it couldn't be improved . Massively,but when I fight someone who , as you say , has also learnt how to get the best out of it ,can have some great battles , it's a shame really they didn't put more effort into the fist fighting side of combat , I'm no computer expert but surly it's possible to make a few minor fixes to it , assigning specific buttons for punching moves and kicking moves can't be that difficult , sometimes when I get myself into a good position to land good punches he will try to kick instead , it seems to have been programmed very lazily to me rather than it being broken

[bensons]

I used to like them but realised it was just face rolling your controller.

[marshallbslayer]

Lag ruins it, as many others have said...If there was no lag then it would be fine

[The_B1u3_Jay]

 

I enjoy them. It's not about being a p*ssy. It's about not knowing the fighting mechanics.

This game has no fighting mechanics, it's not UFC

 

LOL. The melee in this game is like John Cenas Five Moves of Doom.

 

-Un-armed shin kick

-Shin kick while holding a weapon

-Laggy punch combo

-Homing missile elbow to the back of the head

-Backhand

 

The combat in this game is so half-assed, lasy, and broken. They are basically "B" button (Or circle, for PS3) mashing fests. Everything kills you in one hit anyway. Its pretty pointless to even have melee weapons in this game.

Edited September 15, 2014 by Awesom-0