Not a bad idea, but I personally never felt the need of such, a flare or firework will distract the mechs attention, the hunters jump attack can be dodged by running towards them and a little bit to the side of the jump animation, works most of the time to me. Throwing an emp will also buy you valuable time if needed. But I don’t mind a melee attack if they decide to implement it in a future update 
every time i run my clip empty, i get charged by a runner, it would be nice to have the mechanic there, just for a battle breather…
I always keep enough ammo in my inventory, but I see your point 
Btw nice nickname, I was a huge Maiden fan back in the days, now my favourite band would be Vader (tecnical death metal) and fucking suits GZ when attacking mechs 
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I think that if ever we will have melee in GZ it should be just a simple whack with a stock. Nothing more.
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thats what i think, just to give you a breather…
That would be great, discard the exp weapons and just roam around with a stick…wow…that would bring back the horror into this game
What’s a rifle butt going to do to a machine? You can cycle into them full-tilt, and they’ll just look at you with scorn…
you can follow through with the rifle butt, to use their momentum against them. its not for damage, its for a chance…
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alyx right? probably spelled it wrong…
When they jump, you can move out of the way… It takes them a moment to decide what to do next and you get a break there. Or a clear shot, or w/e.
No, you got it right alright 
What about a rifle stock attachment that creates a small EMP onto the hit enemy? It would need charges and so could not be used indefinitely. But it would help if you occasionally get cornered by multiple enemies and ran out of ammo.
Hi been playing gz for a few weeks now I’m hooked love the game…would love to know about future content looked everywhere cant find no info.
Also a feature I feel would be amazing would be some sort of melee or strike to counter the ticks jump attack
Great job with the game guys loving it keep up the good work
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There is a reason for that why there’s no info about what’s to come. It was explained by the devs in one of the dev streams, at 00:17:39,
link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/507764161?filter=archives&sort=time
As far as your melee suggestion, it has been asked before and devs response is at 00:52:00,
link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/543626599?filter=archives&sort=time
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Thanks for them answers
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It would be nice to have melee because if you run out of ammo in some situations you can use it and also with adding melee you can find melee weapons like a baseball bat or a knife or a chance when kill a hunter you can get it’s knife on its hand.
And were you could find more mellow weapons would be this dungbell swords outside bunker 666 or a police baton in a police car tell me if it would be cool. -LT_PIGEON
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Merged several topics asking for melee attack into one, neat topic.
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Melee ability with your weapon. No switching to another item or anything, mash a button and you have your Melee stun. Use your weapon stock and react to a tick’s lunge, potentially killing the tick or when a runner is charging up to you, to stun it. Simply use your gun to bash and buy you precious seconds from a direct enemy attack, unless the enemy is a bigger hunk of metal (Hunter/Tank/Harvester). Anything bigger and this should not be effective.
Simple, yet a really nice implementation and seemingly requested by many.