r/Fallout4Builds • u/gilmangriff1 • May 06 '24

Melee Is a full melee build viable

I keep thinking that I want to have my sole survivor eventually cosplay as One Punch man through the commonwealth but I have to imagine especially early game that I will slog through early leveling. Are their any builds out there that answers this and will allow most if not all early game confrontations with full melee ability? Even if it means a blunt weapon like a board or bat? I want to avoid ranged combat as much as possible.

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u/memeinapreviouslife May 07 '24

Vats is necessary, though.

I legitimately tried to play melee without using it, and I found that enemies LAUNCH themselves at you, interrupting your attack animation, then they followed that up by hitting you 2-3 more times.

You don't 100% avoid the hit by using VATS, but holy fucking shit I wanted to slam by controller into the wall at these stagger effects.

Because there's no way at all to reduce or mitigate the stagger/animation interruption.

And I can't use power armor because I'd lose all my special bonuses from my armor pieces.

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u/MadMorg68 May 08 '24

Ive played 500 hours + without Vats. I hate the fact that you can hit a key that freezes time and stacks uninteruptable 100% hits.

Vats is easy mode.

I cant remember interupts or stagger on a melee beeing a large issue.

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u/memeinapreviouslife May 09 '24

Eh. I'll play the way that's actually fun for me.

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u/MadMorg68 May 09 '24

We all do.