Melee skill cyber-wep
A proposition and thread for all things melee-cyber

From what I've gathered since returning to the game, is that one of the amazing new features while I was gone was extra cybernetic weapons! This is ONLY a boon (no exceptions) to this being added. However, looking through some lists and inquiring IC- NOTHING MELEE FOCUSED?

Now, we can't have that. I'm not sure if there have been OOC conversations from staff regarding any plans for a melee cyber-wep. And here I am.

I was thinking, since a good portion of the cybernetic weapons include some sort of 'extended' aspect, a TONFA ARM! Super hardened, extending out of the forearm like other weapons. Sleek, discreet, effective, BONK!

I also realize that in the spirit of cyberpunk that this idea seems sort of simple. And so I open this thread to get your creative juices flowing to see who can get the best bonk out their buck.

Melee skill being able to use "any object as a weapon" is completely irrelevant to its effectiveness. It almost never comes into play and I'd be down for getting rid of that and just giving melee access to higher tier weapons, like several other weapon classes. Its quirk is very useless in comparison to brawling or MA because those skills have access to high damage moves even unarmed. Melee users with a random object do zero damage.

(Edited by Necronex666 at 3:40 pm on 7/3/2026)

A few ideas:

HomeDef Shocker- A wrist-mounted deployable electrified tonfa, so you can live out your corpsec dreams of shoving a taser directly into some poor Mixer's neck until they collapse.

A palm-mounted nailgun originally designed for construction workers, but was popularized and re-branded as the Slapper when the nail company went out of business, using an internal spring system to basically turn any firm slap of the palm into a pneumatic, penetrating wedge-edge.

Sycust Hardening System- A visible cuff implanted just above the elbow that can essentially hyper-densify your arm on command and lock it in place, turning your entire forearm into a nearly-indestructible rigid structure with considerably more hammering mass. Cutting the arm off above the cuff is still a viable way to disarm the system. Allows people to have their Senator Armstrong moment.

Remember Big O? The arm with the big fucking piston? THAT!