See below for 5 separate video examples, with different melee weapons.

ISSUE:

When using the "defend" stance while holding a melee weapon and a zombie is attacking you, the weapon will "flicker" or "stutter" forward and back undesirably. This is very clear from the screen recordings below. I have tried different melee tools and tried this with different zombies. It happens most of the time, but not all.

I believe it's possibly related to the "jump" attack that zombies newly have now as of 1.30 as it seems to happen right after they do this

1. Approach an infected with a melee weapon in hand

2. Use the defend / backpedal stance, whatever you want to call it

3. Observe your melee weapon stutter and glitch

Item should not do that