ok to shut you guys up, heres to you from bungie. read -ALL- of itIn Halo 3, there is explicit special treatment for what is called a “melee contest”, which occurs when two melee attacks occur almost simultaneously. Specifically, when the host starts to throw a melee attack, there is a short window after that (three frames, or approximately 100ms) during which the host will watch for a retaliatory melee attack. If one arrives inside that window, it is a contest. Besides smoothing out the latency differences between clients (it works the same way when one client melees another), this allows a client with a ping as high as 100ms to compete with the host on a far more even footing than Halo 2 allowed.When entering a melee contest, the combined body and shield hit points are compared. If the difference is above a threshold, then one player is determined to have won decisively and is protected from death. After testing with a variety of weapons, we settled on a threshold of 26.5 hit points (slightly rounded.) This translates into 4 AR bullets worth of damage to decisively win a melee contest, instead of simply having 1 more hit point than the other guy.

i dont like halo 3 cause of the melee/spawns.

Fix this noob problem!!! I hate it! every time I go for the melee and have less health I lose even though I know i hit first!!

datn1ceguy- ``shoot better or die`` Dude your an idiot... if some terrible kid gets the jump on you and you turn and shoot and take him down to 1 melee kill shield power then pop the first melee(but your shields are still a little lower), he still wins with a weak late melee? Thats absolutely rediculous.

wow dude u are my hero