Block Damage

In a first person perspective the first person shield is not used as it is on the overlay layer. The third person shield is used instead which gives the visual inconsistencies. You can fix this by changing the layers on the melee weapon to hit the overlay layer as well.
 
even taking the weapon layers off the enemy's weapon impact layers still causes no damage to go through. Weapons with no shield I.E. the knife allow damage to process.
 
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