shields have nothing to do with it. HEALTH has everything to do with it. They are 2 completely different things.The Melee system is fine stop whining. H2 melee system was way worse.

Everything in this game goes to the runner up. Not who actually deserves the win. For example, if two people have 16 kills at the end of the game, it gives the MVP to whoever did worse of the two. Also whoever melees second wins. Same with shotgun, whoever shoots and melees first loses.

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!!