>>272946817
Pretty sure glassing someone mechanics were even in the trailer, so you're good there.
https://youtu.be/O2W0N3uKXmo?t=70
At 1:14 she throws a supply box at the Combine dude and it staggers him, there were bottles earlier in the shotgun bit.
>>272946853
This could work if melee weapons were single use I guess.
If you don't swing hard, the enemies do a little animation that knocks the weapon out of your hand, or dodge or stagger back, if you swing hard, the fucking thing just breaks or is lodged in their body and snatched away from your hand as they fall down.