I played the Demo and loved the cloaked melee attacks. But now on the final release, its been gimped.
Seems when I melee just once, cloaked or not, it drains my entire suit energy and leaves me as a defenseless free kill. I try to melee them, usually takes 2 hits on them, after first melee all my suit power gone, they shoot me once, I die.

In demo, it took a good 3 melee actions to drain my suit. And used to only take 2 hits at most to kill enemy. Please fix this back to the way it was in the demo.
Also it seems to take 3 melee kills now to kill someone sometimes more, because after 1st melee power is drained and second melee does very little damage, which is near impossible to do before they shoot back or melee me back on empty power, I die.

Last night a guy was AFK and it took me 7 melee hits to kill him (none cloaked, full suit power at first melee) thats not right.

If this is how the melee is gonna be, you might as well just remove it from the game.

Thanks

Melee is fine. You are just bad the game. Try manually de-cloaking before you perform an offensive action, it will improve your game a lot.

Also..

1. Energy has nothing to do with the strength of your melee attacks.
2. Melee attacks do not require energy.
3. 7 hit melee to kill was lag and nothing else.
4. It takes 2 hits to kill with melee non-Armor vs non-Armor.
5. It takes 1 hit to kill with melee Armor vs non-Armor.

Manually decloaking and hitting just after that also drains your complete suit energy. Crytek isn't that dumb.

Change to another mod e. g. armor works fine.

3 hits vs. an non-armored target (while you're in no suit mode, too)
2 hits vs. an non armored target (while you're in armor mode)
3 hits vs. an armored target (while you're in armor mode)
4 hits vs an armored target (while you're in no suit mode)

Melee is overused as is, it doesnt need to be OP'ed

-fuzz