If one were to actualy be Uber duper strong and fast cyborg with built in armor and backup systems.Would melee become relevant again in modern war?
>>64191004no
>>64191004Doubt it. It would just mean you could get heavier weapons into more eclectic positions faster, like having your marksmen shooting 14.5mm while hanging by their fingers off the side of a building.
>>64191004no, the DoD would just start expecting grunts to carry 5 times more gear on their backs
>>64191004even in cyberpunk melee is a bad idea without some healing magic
>>64191005FPBP, based and 100% red pilled
>>64191004Doesn't he have guns in his arms?
>>64191196Isn't that the truth, fuck bro
>>64191004no. they'd just use bigger guns.
>>64191004Even Adam Smasher carried a huge machine gun and missile pods and only fought hand to hand incidentally. 99% of David's kills were also with guns. Did you even watch the show gonk brain?
>>64191004Only if they can withstand really high calibres but im assuming other countries would make their own supersoldiers that can handle recoil and the weight of even higher caliber guns bringing us back to square one
>>64191004It isn't even in the CP universe, the premier military cybernetic system is a full body replacement that makes heavy use of ranged weapons and and it's integrated sensor systems.https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/IEC_DragoonFor the record, this is the same chassis Adam Smasher is installed in, his is just heavily customized.
>>64191004No, but I’d use my chrome to turbo-fuck Rebecca, so it’s still worth developing.
>>64191004Not a chance, cyborgs will just carry bigger guns with their extra strength to defeat the armor of other cyborgs. >>64191196This. If load bearing exoskeletons become commonplace infantry equipment, then soldiers will just be forced to carry so much shit that the units will break.
>>64191004No. Now you wield bigger guns.
>>64193835>ywn save Rebecca and take her away from NC to raise a family in relative safetyChooms...
>>64191004So this is one of those aspects that always triggers my autism. It will never make sense (in a volunteer military at least) for the brass to shove any sort of augmentations into someone whom you might have to kick out for being a fuck-up let alone being a multi-million dollar asset.This also brings up another thing that russles my autism. If any sort of augmentation/prosthetics are common how do you account for them in your regulations?
>>64194280Hmm if such magically tech were to exist, there would also be as magical tech to control the person, or their behaviour at least. Eg a violence inhibitor chip like doc ock hadRegarding that other thing, I’m optimistic we’ll collectively reach another “age of reason” by the time that tech may exist. I guess sorry for the cop out reply but it’s what came to mind.
>>64191211It also makes sense when you have something like the Sandevistan, in the game guns cycle slowly enough while time is dilated that closing into melee is actually faster than firing multiple shots. It might as well be magic because it's just sci-fi bullshit but there is an in universe explanation for why someone might purposefully get into melee combat. All the low level goons without good implants running around with pipes and machetes are retards though
>>64191004Very cool chest beating metal gorilla monkey worth 5 bajillion follars however 120mm APFSDS center mass.
>>64191004>Spend millions to have all of your limbs and organs replaced with stronger and more durable synthetic versions>Have subdermal armor plating and boosted senses>Be a literal cybernetic superman>Get killed by a some drunken peasant using a $50 FPV drone from miles away because no amount of upgrades are going to protect your still very human brain from being mulched by a point blank directed explosion to the head.The funny thing is how drones basically invalidated most sci fi speculative military technologies before they even got a chance to come to fruition.
>>64194499>Drones impressive in war between clowns 100 years out of date>This has literally fried the brain of every faggot on the internet who cant accept the rest of the world is 100 years behind
>>64194237>No but I could save her if if if if ifAnon didn't get it. Only Nomads make it out alive, because they're not from the city.
>>64194499Picrel>>64194379The cyborgs have a literal automatic dodging when they are target by radar or laser
even Fatsos can dodge drone lmo
>>64191004Instead of being a super duper melee cyborg why not become a super duper HMG or GMG or 40mm cyborg? This way you will have better chances against retarded melee cyborgs.
>>64194838>HMG or GMG or 40mmWhats a GMG, is it a G machinegun?
>>64194794WTF. How ?
>>64194841Grenade machinegun
>>64194363Sandevistan is just pure bullshit. How does a neural implant that increases your reaction time turn you into the fucking Flash?
>>64194237why would she do that? every edgerunner wants to go out in a blaze of glory
>>64194499just get a turret implant or a automatic jammer implant
>>64194280I don't know of any setting where they don't just pull the augmentations out when you get discharged. Both cyberpunk and ghost in the shell comment that having cheapo shit replacing all your military grade gear sucks, and its only characters with connections that can get them otherwise.>>64194379>>64194499Yeah, clearly war is only ever won by the guys who spend the least amount of money and put the least amount of effort into protecting their guys. You should give your soldiers half a mag and a amazon gift card at most because they're inevitably going to be instantly blown up no matter what, so all you can do is hope they spent more killing them than you did deploying them.
>>64194237No happy endings.
>>64195441This presumes we have a way to totally swap bodies or have fully prosthetic bodies which was not the assumption regardless of the OP pic.
>>64194838>super duper melee cyborgStylish, honorable, excellent taste in music.>super duper HMG or GMG or 40mm cyborgBrutish, inelegant, suitable only to be mowed down en masse by their kin.
>>64194861Stalinism skull, Comrade.>>64194949>Explain the design and mechanics of fictional sci-fi technology to me.
No it just means the common grunt would carry 25mm autocannons I can see it happen in buildings or trenches though, you cant fit heavy guns in tight corners
>>64194499Bro what, FPV drones are not agile enough to hit a cyberhuman, there are some quick reflexed ruskies and ukranians that dodge them
>>64196380Not to mention the cyberware just straight up frying the drones, or you know, making them fly home again :)
>>64194499>implying I won't install a skull gun to shoot the drones down with as soon as they enter my vision
What if you were the only super uber duper cyborg and everyone else has 5'56 manlet round.Would you then be able to engage in glorious melee
>>64196363It was a rhetorical question. The shit just makes no sense.
