It's about damned time they fix the melee. Now all they need to do is make the hit points more like the campaign; that is, the human weapons shouldn't necessarily be the most powerful or most sought after. And not eve, normal campaign, I'm talking Campaign on Legendary!! The whole reason the Covenant was kicking humanity's ass was because of their advanced weaponry. Now that seems like Bungie has lost sight of that, completely. WTF Bungie? The weapon hit points system should be distributed more like the campaign's hit points. Everyone thinks AR is great, but it sucks compared to Halo: CE's AR. The Covie weapons need to have more say in games, besides the extremely inconsistent Mauler. Try using the Spiker - it's not nearly as bad as you think, if you can LEAD the shot correctly. And fix the brute shot- it should be extremely powerful compared to how it is now. (remember halo 2? 2 direct hits would usually kill, but now it takes damned near a whole 6 round clip!) And yes, I know 90% of you will disagree.