Gaming🎮 Helldivers 2 player has notched 116 gun butt bash kills so far, and they won't stop until melee weapons arrive

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While plenty of members of the huge gaggle of folks playing Helldivers 2 have been spending a lot of time lately desperately trying to work out which of its guns is the best, like nerds, there’s now at least one who's given up on that an launched a campaign of sorts to try and convince Arrowhead to add in proper melee weapons.

What are they doing, you ask? Well, amid the intense firefights over planets like Malevelon Creek, they’ve decided to start bonking as many enemies on the head in order to finish them off as is humanly possible. No, this isn’t unhinged behaviour, it’s an admirable sacrifice.

“I WON'T STOP TILL I'M GIVEN A MELEE WEAPON JOEL,” the player in question, who goes by the utterly terrifying username xXIns1d1ousXx, has calmly declared in a post on the game’s subreddit, which shows off their pretty impressive melee kill total. Yes, Helldivers 2 has a melee kills stat, but right now it pretty much only exists to cover deaths that occur as a result of you slapping an automaton or bug with the butt of your rifle or shotgun, since there are no proper melee weapons.

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