Weapon Size

I was reading a tweet by the Ashes account and they were talking about the new armor that has red fire in the chest; and someone under the tweet asked about the weapon and why does it look so small and if there is a standard size for weapons or if they can scale.

So my question to the intrepid team and general discussion what do you think about having enlarged weapons for melee fighters.

some examples that come to mind are the dynasty warrior characters and their array of different weapons and sizes.

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hleV

RE: Oversized weapons are too heavy

How strong are AOC characters? Are we really limited by real life human strength?
I don't want my greatsword to be 2x the size of my character but I don't want it to be the size of your usual real life sword neither.

Tyranthraxus

hleV wrote: »

RE: Oversized weapons are too heavy

How strong are AOC characters? Are we really limited by real life human strength?
I don't want my greatsword to be 2x the size of my character but I don't want it to be the size of your usual real life sword neither.

This is a fair sentiment. As someone who usually makes a toon as tall as they can be, something slightly bigger than proportionate feels about right, for high-fantasy. It still shouldn't weigh an unreasonable amount. Here's an IRL greatsword:

According to the caption I found with it, this was a "zweihander" sword that belonged to a mideval pirate-lord named Grutte Pier (1480-1520). It'd be on the biggest end of weapons IRL, but pretty reasonable for fantasy settings. As someone who tried Kendo and Iai for a short period of time, yours truly can attest to the fact that swords don't weigh as much as you'd think before having one. Anime, however, really goes straight to overkill.

At the end of the day, a healthy in-between medium should really be the goal. AoC will feature a lot of magics and probably fantasy metals (i.e. lighter than titanium), but it'd really be immersion-killing to see a blade as thick as a character's torso being swung around.

Shergrim

this problem is solved if they make it so that each race has their weapons scaled to them.. for example humans should have the size of their weapons similar to that of irl weapons ..maybe a little bigger whereas races like dwarfs which are far FAR stronger and have much more stamina than the average human should have their weapons scaled up quite a bit more..

Tyranthraxus

Shergrim wrote: »

this problem is solved if they make it so that each race has their weapons scaled to them.. for example humans should have the size of their weapons similar to that of irl weapons ..maybe a little bigger whereas races like dwarfs which are far FAR stronger and have much more stamina than the average human should have their weapons scaled up quite a bit more..

In game dev, weapon size scaling is typically done on height - but perhaps along the lines of what you're expressing, maybe races should have a weapon "thickness" scale by race, as well.

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