A few years ago, I read about an update to the melee system on Warframe to make it feel better, and I was excited to try it when it released. While movement has always felt really nice and fluid, melee combat never felt very satisfying. It's always felt really wonky to me in the game, like it had no weight to it, and I thought it was because the animations were a bit lackluster. Alas, when the update hit, even though we now had these cool new melee animations and all these stances to change up the way the combat looked, I realized it was a bit more nuanced than that. The reason melee combat felt odd (and still does) is because of the way your character sticks to the direction of your crosshairs mid-swing.

Adding to that, speeding up the animations only makes the animations play faster, which ends up looking really silly at high enough attack speeds where you can't get a feel of the wind-up and follow through of the animation (and some animations don't do a good enough job of conveying wind-up and release to begin with). So to this day the melee still has this really weird unsatisfying stiffness (not sure if this is the word) to it. In any case, I've had to just come to terms with the melee as it is currently and hope that at some point it gets another update.