Would be great if there were hand to hand weapons added to the game to use Vault dwellers Str/Ag stats more when fighting roaches and raiders. Chainsaw anyone? Makes sense especially when you see the Raiders attack in early stages of the game with machetes.

Whilst on the topic of raiders, they are equipped with various weapons and armour when they attack (including machetes), it would be good to get some reward for killing them like their gear since you start losing resources as soon as they enter the vault, whereas with fires and roaches, you only have interrupted production in the affected rooms.

Thoughts?

I've had the same thought. Getting the raiders weapons would really help in the earlier stages of the game. Love the Mele weapon idea too. A war hammer that does 2x damage to radroaches maybe?


+1 on this idea. ????

I think this is a pretty neat idea. I'd love the inclusion of melee weapons, because then I could use baseball bats to make a real vault baseball team!

The raiders dropping some form of loot is something that I think should have been in the game to begin with. They assault your vault with 4 plasma pistols, and you dont even get a single one? For a game based off of surviving by scavenging, that makes zero sense.

However, you need to be pretty careful about what loot drops, and how its calculated. Having raiders always dropping mid to high teir weapons and armor would break the balance of the game and make exploring feel even more pointless than it does now. I'm level 50, and still 1/3 of the crap I pick up are .32 pistols? Really? My entire vault of 105+ is using nothing lower than a normal hunting rifle.

To sum it up, I'm all for the idea of melee weapons. For raiders, I agree with them dropping some form of loot with a CHANCE for decent stuff. Beyond that, I leave the nitty gritty balancing in bethesda's hands.

I think raiders should have a lot more health and if you manage to kill them withing that 10-15 seconds when theyre raiding (looting power... woot?) you get some loot.