Who can make a worthy melee combat tide game now?

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I know im late to the party here with the combat lead and a couple of others leaving but..

Who can do it now? From the post he made going into Helldivers (YAWN) as a supporting studio i see no reason to assume theyre on their way to make their own product.

With Darktide being the way it is (a much worse version of VT2 that added literally nothing of value and stole everything it did well from VT2) i have little hope FS themselves are interested in pursuing the melee style (despite it being a niche in which they used to have literally 0 competition - so instead they obviously decided to make a shooter… and got GIGA owned by the billions of other studios who also make shooters - GENIUS!)

Is there any hope for a game that improves on the vermintide 2 combat formula by a studio who actually has the talent to do so? Im assuming all the code belongs to FS so thats another foot in the grave for whatever anyone else could build.

Seriously interested if anyone knows anything (even if its just spicy rumours). Not having a lot of hope at this point tbh.

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The Relic sword and 2h Force Swords were made long after Ratherdone left to make his own studio.

There are still quite a lot of devs that are weapon makers.

And tbh, Dt’s melee while still having some weapons that I find lacking does improve on the melee combat.

All this is subjective.

And practically no Dev studio make melee game cause 1. They are much more niche, and 2. They are more complicated to animate.

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