What is the best way to do melee weapon collision?

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I don’t have UE4 access in here, but in theory, volumes also register onHit events, which in turn, already have hit location calculation, correct? With this in mind, if one uses the onHit event instead of overlapping events to calculate melee hits, then it should be fairly straightforward to retrieve the hit location.

Yeah but hit events NECESSARILY include the depenetration of the two colliding bodies.

An animation which drives a capsule or box collider through an enemy cannot produce OnHit events, by definition.
It might be possible to, instead of using attachment, sweep the collider shape to a new location each tick, but even if this accounted for rotation properly (and it doesn’t, sweeping never does) the shape would get stuck on the enemy and break collision detection thereafter, which is not intended behavior.