Bug or intended? If you bash a shield bro, it literally has no effect. It's almost as if the shield is automatically blocking it even while they are constantly swinging their weapon.
I find there is good days and bad days when the server isn't made of potato's. I've had the same issues and i play mainly LSM, its across the board. Most annoying thing when things just don't work like they should.
Video 1 :: this is the incline glitch with melee ....your strikes aren't landing due to hitbox glitching on the incline. Its getting rarer but it still happens. Video 2 :: this is weird ... it shows you clanging then following through with a kick that shouldnt be there ... if you clang it should cancel your animation and play out the clang animation, then at the end the red exclamation shows you getting trumped by RPS and then jetting away. Video 3 :: that first impact where it plays out the "clang" animation looks like he was quick attacking and you where dbashing ... thats an inappropriate clang that should have gone to you, then completing at :05 is a dbash that should have stunned him, i wouldn't say its shield bro specifically, the melee system right now is giving inappropriate clangs, and ignoring some RPS wins the eldar have been really bad this last patch but ive screen capped all races and its most likely all classes are having weird interactions when meleeing.
To be honest this happens with ALL the factions. I cant dbash anything, not even non melee specialist :c
One of the few easy ways to kill a shield player is to Dbash them (or stun them) as its the only time to (seemingly) hit without hitting the shield. I have (using a plague knife with an obvious effect if when you hit) hit a space marine which seems to get naturally blocked by the shield for no apparent reason (No clan, just no effect). Melee is fairly reliable... Until it isn't... and then who knows whats going to happen.
The best part is that you're not even guaranteed to land the bash against another player. Mechanically, this is the biggest flaw in melee. In the worst case, a tactical-equivalent, who cannot out-clang anyone save for an apothecary with the narth (in theory), has to spend his already limited weapon durability on a move that might not even work in a perfect world. This goes for any class, but it is most evident on the classes that cannot clang when they need to be on the front-line. My only question is: Why? To prevent bash spam? I'm certain that the immunity to kicks during the strong attack wind up has fixed the bash spam issue already. I totally disagree. I'd say melee has always been ultra-volatile in this game.
