A Melee Upgrade is a crafting recipe that fixes a blade to a blunt weapon with binding, turning a pipe, baseball bat or 2x4 into a one-hit-kill weapon. It competes with shivs for the same blade and binding.
Type
Upgrade
Skill tree
Crafting
Cost
1 blade + 1 binding
What it does
Straps a blade to a pipe, baseball bat or 2x4 so its hits kill in one blow until the blade breaks.
Good to know
Without training manuals the blade breaks after one kill.
Melee: Knots, on a table near red chairs as you leave the Pittsburgh hotel, adds one more lethal hit.
Melee: Techniques, in the attic of a red brick house in The Suburbs that Ellie climbs into, adds another.
Upgrading and breaking one of every melee weapon earns Build 'Em Up, Break 'Em Down.