How to Melee in Starfield
Bethesda Game Studios’ ambitious sci-fi RPG features plenty of dust-ups with monstrous extraterrestrial beasties, interstellar pirates and corrupt space corporations. But what if you want to save your ammo and take them on au naturel? If so, you’re probably wonderinghow to melee in Starfield. Well, you’re in the right place, folks. Here’s what you need to do.
How to Melee Attack
With Your Gun Equipped
Simply put, to melee in Starfield, all you need to do is press theR3 button. you’re able to do so by clicking in the right stick on your Xbox controller. Meanwhile, over on PC, pressing theAlt keyunleashes a melee attack.
you’re able to deliver a melee attack even when you have a gun equipped; your character will bash your opponent with the butt of their armament. This does dole out some nominal damage and can be enough to finish off an adversary who’s very low in health.
With Melee Weapons
However, using specific melee weapons — like knives, cutlass’ or wrenches — will deal greater damage when compared to the butt of your gun. For these specific melee weapons, you can simply use theRTto deliver a melee attack once they’ve been equipped.
Best Melee Weapons Skill
The corresponding Skill to upgrade to enhance your melee attacks in Starfield is the Dueling Skill, which is part of the Combat tree.Duelingincreases melee weapon damage, but also can be upgraded to increase your speed, protection, and ultimately, heal you with every melee strike.
Unarmed With Your Bare Fists
If you want to shake things up and go for more of a bare-knuckle boxing approach, you can always switch to bare fists. To do so, go into yourinventoryanddeselect the weapon you’re holding. This will change your current weapon to your fists. With your bare fists, you can block withLTand punch withRT.
Best Unarmed Skill
If you fancy upgrading your Unarmed abilities, the corresponding Skill to upgrade is Boxing, which can be found in the Physical tree. Initially, the early ranks gift players more damage and less O2, though culminates with rank 4 enhancing your unarmed attacks by 100%.
Why Use Melee Attacks in Starfield?
Melee attacks are super useful as they’re a good method for conserving your ammo. Like we mentioned above, we got into a rhythm of shooting enemies until they had a smidgen of health left, and then whacking them with a melee strike to finish them off. Sure, it may not save you tons of ammo in the moment, but over time, this will undoubtedly stack up.
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