Yeah it's awful. And who ever heard of a sniper enemy that is the most deadly at melee range?

By how it moved and fired rapidly that enemy was almost certainly enraged. Strange how it didn’t have the red glow. Also you can tell because enraged enemies seem to be immune to stun. When it started moving like that a better option may have been to shoot it in the face. Ranged attacks do more damage to ranged enemies anyway. I’m not sure that many of those attacks landed with it jumping all over while trying to chase it down with melee.

If it's not glowing red, I'm going to operate on the assumption that it is not. There's no way of knowing in any case, so until they acknowledge that as a bug, I'm going to take everything at face value. I see snipers who are not enraged do this all the time. When you close the range, they begin double tapping. I'm making an educated guess that the cooldown between separate attempts at shots begins counting from the first shot, leading to what becomes an almost uninterrupted barrage of shots fired. That melee charge always affects target in a 30-45 degree cone in front of you, extending at least 2-3 meters. They definitely landed, the only real question is why it didn't matter. I'm 350 hours deep into this game and have literally everything that can be leveled up in some way maxed out. I know what I'm doing. Like I said, this is not a skill issue or a miscalculation. This is supposed to work providing that the enemy is not enraged just like it does the rest of the time. It's possible this enemy was secretly enraged and this was all on account of yet another egregious bug but even if it was openly enraged, I'd not change my opinion on this being completely asininely broken. There is no scenario where an enemy your size ignoring brutal melee attacks to the face constitutes anything but a detriment to your gameplay experience.

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BillydSquid wrote:
What difficulty were you on, what lvl weapons did you have and were they mastered, what lvl were you? 

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Literally all of this is mentioned in the post.

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King_Gaiseric wrote:

I Hope they change these animations to be significantly shorter. I dont feel like a Primarus I feel more like a foot soldier in the Astra Militarum.

The recovery animation to getting knocked to the ground is painfully slow

​The animations are ok, the problem is that the enemies are spongy and that melee combat does not cause damage, does not stun the enemy, in theory ranged enemies should be more susceptible to melee damage but no, they don’t care. the only good way to deal damage in melee is a gun strike and heavy hits with AOE, all these combinations are useless, they should at least stun the enemy or so that he at least somehow reacts to the blows

Completely agree.

But I doubt they can do much about it as the game currently is.
Either they are bullet spunges or they die too easily, at which point the devs have to throw even more of them (majoris enemies) at us, which could become a scale issue.

In my opinion the solution would be to lower the damage and health on them and introduce a bigger size enemy to turn up the scale of difficulty and challenge.

Ie exactly as Helldivers 2 does it (where it works perfectly imo).