Good idea, prolonged gunfire should eat your stamina too. +1 good sir.

Yea because shooting a gun makes you tired right? Last I checked when I shoot it doesn't make me tired IRL especially with armor from 20k years in the future (Coming from an owner of multiple pistols, a couple of ARs, and a couple of rifles).

Take a 8 lb rifle shaped stick and hold it like a flag up high and proud as you can without resting the rifle on any part of your body for 15 minutes and tell me that doesn't take stamina.

Boy that sucked about boot camp and we had M1 Garands to practice that with and those suckers were 10 pounds.

Another thing about our guns in this game is that they would kill or seriously injur most normal humans that fire them.
The upsized Minmatar SMG would break your wrist if you fired it.

At a gun range or actual combat or both?

That's all just lore bull **** that no one cares about. We're talking about game-play here.

Go back to your corner.

And is there any reason being able to spam endless melee would improve gameplay

Yup, it gives you something to use when you're all out of everything else.

I mean, melee is pretty useless already, why not just let use it without restriction.

That's all just lore bull **** that no one cares about. We're talking about game-play here.

Go back to your corner.

Now not recovering stamina while falling on the other hand....

Punching someone takes a lot of energy especially considering that you are trying to punch someone who is wearing an exoskeleton suit. Your body's muscles are also neurologically attached to your suit which augments your muscles for more effective melee action. Makes sense to me that they take up stamina in the process.