I know its a shooter game, but its also a movement shooter, and a lot of players will love the movement, especially when using melee weapons, I think that adding different melee weapons into the loadout would help a lot and make kits more diversified than just what gun you want to use. Along with being fun it also helps to balance the existing hammer, by adding more melee weapons you can adjust the stats and give each one a mechanic that makes it different, I'll list some examples because this is a mechanic I would actually love to see, and would help to balance the current game by making each weapon a lot more niche.

• Hammer - Slow GROUNDED movement speed, Long pullout time, need to windup each swing, but can oneshot

• Daggers/ knife - Fast speed boys all round, but should take 3-5 hits to kill anywhere besides the back, where it leave the enemy with maybe 5 or 10 hp, no one hit, but one hit on the front then stab them from behind and they are dead

• gauntlets or something - Deals damage and Knockback base on your speed, probably shouldnt be able to one shot unless your going at an uncontrollable speed, but the main thing is that its knockback is rather high and could be cool if they get stunned if you ram them into a wall

• Stun baton - does like 5 damage or something, but will debuff the enemy in some way so that a gunfight will be a lot easier for your team

• Sword / Katana / Spear - Basic weapon 2 hits to kill, but has a short dash that lunges you forward

• bo staff- I just think they are cool, maybe a 2-3 hit combo that stuns the enemy, idk they are just cool

Again I dont want to remove guns, I just think that keeping melee viable is important, and I think that adding more weapons that each have a direct niche would help to keep the guns vs melee balance. Each weapon has a niche, and unless you are planning to use that niche most players will end up using a gun or die trying to 1v3 with a hammer than has a windup before each attack