Will their be HUGE swords in AOC

Teyloune

Absolutely loved Slurpy's greatsword in the Alpha Two Artisanship Preview!
Are there plans for weapon scaling based on race/height?

I hope we will be able to do some Half-sword technique attacks.
- Explanation to what I'm talking about

Raven016

Dygz wrote: »

Raven016 wrote: »

Huge orcs should have huge swords.

Size doesn't matter.

daveywavey

Ashes Of Black Desert Online

WHIT3ROS3

I really hope we don't see ludicrous oversized weapons you see in anime-type games. The swords seen on stream are already pushing the far limits of weapon size IMO.

Nerror

Just want to throw this in here, but the actual length of a 2H sword in RL is approximately the length of the person wielding it. Like, 60-70 inches or 150-175cm. Some even slightly longer. But they are also much slimmer and lighter than the one in the dev stream. I would like to see a slimmer version of the one we saw, with the same length.

Raven016

https://youtu.be/W6dhCycYAJQ?t=2007

Enigmatic Sage

I believe the width of the blade is what people are more concerned with, the length isn't quite the issue in this case but I wouldn't go further than that.

In relation to what @Nerror was getting at, most of those blades that length in reality only had certain practical uses with physics involved which isn't quite the issue for ashes or most fantasy games.

Enigmatic Sage

Most great swords only actually weighed from 6-10 lbs (2.7 to 4.5kg)
The heaviest claymore to exist was 23 lbs (10 kg) and was held by a 7 foot 6 inch Scotsman lol.

I would imagine that ultra-great swords would be double to triple that depending on ore but much heavier due to physics of where to hold them for practicality. The width of the one we saw in the demo definitely looks like an Ultra Great Sword based on it's dimensions lol.

https://workingtheflame.com/heaviest-swords-in-history/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eiBYTAAXMbY?feature=share

Shabooey

Just want to throw this in here, but the actual length of a 2H sword in RL is approximately the length of the person wielding it. Like, 60-70 inches or 150-175cm. Some even slightly longer. But they are also much slimmer and lighter than the one in the dev stream. I would like to see a slimmer version of the one we saw, with the same length.

Think you're referring to a Claymore, although we're used, they weren't common throughout medieval Europe and only really went up to around 150cm. Typically oversized swords weren't really a thing as they're not very practical to use.

But this is a fantasy game so suppose that doesn't really matter. I'd personally prefer not to have oversized swords and the one in the stream looked odd to me, but all have our own preferences I suppose.

Mag7spy

People out here like the biggest sword should be a short sword and creative flow should be removed to make everything boring and static.




One on stream is great, I'd have 0 issue if it was bigger or thicker, there should be all kinds of different styles out there for people to create their fun fantasy character.

Aszkalon

daveywavey wrote: »

Awwww man. Just watching the stream now. That massive sword is tooooo much.

Any bigger than that ... ... ... and it will be just ... ... ... ... a huge hunk of Iron ... ...


... ... 😎 😁

daveywavey

Nerror wrote: »

Just want to throw this in here, but the actual length of a 2H sword in RL is approximately the length of the person wielding it. Like, 60-70 inches or 150-175cm. Some even slightly longer. But they are also much slimmer and lighter than the one in the dev stream. I would like to see a slimmer version of the one we saw, with the same length.

Exactly, it's the slimmer version that would be needed.



I mean, the guy using it seemed to be keen to be on-stream as much as possible, so maybe he was trying to get our opinion on it before they did any more.