I loved hunting down the parts for the shishkebab; I can't find much info on customizing melee weapons. Can I build a mace? how about a mace that spurts toxic chemicals upon impact? I know they'll be in the game but how can we change them?

And another thing, what about bows and crossbows? I'd love to rig up some kind of grenade onto an arrow and lob it into a building, just the trajectory itself is fun.

Has anyone found details on this?

All we know so far is they can be quite modded, the baseball bat can have all sort of things wrapped around the head, including circular saw blades, as well as have its body replaced, we also heard from quakecon there is skyrim-ish melee kill animations.

Ok, that's promising!

I just want better melee in general especially animations. but it does look like there's lots of customization in the weapons. Kill animations that are Skyrimish! Now I'm even more hyped!!!

There's a moment in the e3 demo that shows a "heated super sledge" in the players inventory so I would imagine there are other options.

Edit: Also there's a curved ripper too.

Ok, this is gunna be good. must find work absence excuse Nov 10 -15.

I read on another thread about a melee "bash" with your equipped weapon; ya think it'll be similar to the 2 handed block in Skyrim or something more offensive?

I think you read about the dedicated "melee with your gun" mechanic we seen hints of, so yeah, something offensive.

Well with the addition of bayonets its likely to be an offensive form of attack, rather than switching to a bat or knife when a raider gets close we can just pimp slap em with the stock of our gun, or shiv em with the bayonet on the end of our missile launcher.

11th is Veterans day