Can I ask a simple question. While I do support the idea of an upgraded Melee Attack style, it would ill suit this game due to one pretty big reason (unless you put in even more styles).

The Dropsuit.

In the case of a Scout Suit, Martial Arts could be used pretty effectively, and with less mobility, the Assault Dropsuit, but... the bulkiness of the Logistics Suit, or the simple size and armor plating of the Heavy Suit would severely hinder their ability to pull off even the most basic Martial Arts moves... The Heavy Dropsuits would probably be able to throw a decent punch, but as for kicking... the weight alone would topple you.

While I fully support the concept of better Melee, I don't see actual martial arts coming in.

okay how does this sound.... a little more of a magnetic melee box to hit them and nova knives can be used as a cinematic like if you are in a scout suit you jump on there back and stab them both through there head and neck? this way you wouldn't really need to go through the 1st person to third back to first but it would still look epic. heavies with nova knives (god forbid they exist and succeed) would grab the person from the back of there head and stab it into there face. assault and logi with nova knives would just grab them swing them around by the shoulder into there knife >_> beware of nova knives now for assault and logis almost like clothes lining someone by grabbing them and swinging them into your knife imaging how comical that would look from a ways away!

ire seen take down moves in other games but those were nonlethal stun options but in dust everything is cranked up to 11 as far as the suits are concerned and they are more designed to use weapons and fire them than to be a weapon

i cant see a scout punching a heavy with 3 complex armor plates ending well no matter how mater points hes put into space ninja

there is zero background on fighting arts on eve that i have read and there are a a lot of lore articles out there


overall the suits are either built for movement and stealth, massive tanking or a general purpose mix of the two its our weapons capable of shattering a normal human skeleton as well as vaporizing a good portion of the flesh that enable use to do the damage

punches and kicks really just don't make sense

While it sounds like a neat idea, I don't think it really fits in Dust 514. I'd love a first person brawler. It sounds like a great idea, but for a different game. I wouldn't want the controls to be overly complicated. +1 for thinking outside the box, though. I dig it.