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Zeylon Rho
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Posted - 2013.05.30 10:23:00 -
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I recall the Gallente knives looking pretty wicked. I wouldn't mind variety in melee, but it's not clear to me already exactly how they'd hope to distinguish various knives from each...
Presumably they'd all have crap knife-style range. They'd need to be relatively high damage to compensate. You'd need at least some speed to be able to keep up with someone that's just backpedaling?
Yeah, I'm not ever sure what the idea is with the knives as-is... how would they actually make them different?
If the Amarr had some slower-swinging priest-staff thing, and so on... maybe they could mix it up? Even then, I'm not sure how balancing melee would work in this game. Or making it "viable" I guess. |
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Posted - 2013.05.30 10:57:00 -
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Well, Amarr ARE the EM/Thermal people. Maybe they could have a thermal lance (a la Fallout), or some sort of sconce/shaft-mounted pulse-laser blast implement. You charge it, *thrust*, blam.. charge. Longer range than knives, does mostly shield damage. |
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Posted - 2013.11.11 17:16:00 -
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Still love to see a lot of these ideas in action. This is one of those areas that would benefit from more time at the drawing board (not that some of the racial knives weren't cool looking...).
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Posted - 2014.03.03 20:10:00 -
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I didn't "hate" all the knives they showed concept art for, but they're woefully dull in terms of melee variety.
I posted this in another suggestion thread recently:
I want every race to have a melee weapon they'd consider "cool", but also apropos.
Minmatar's vibe makes feel like an updated version of a kukri would be great. Try to picture it with a carbon steel look perhaps. Kukris are just generally badass, and would look great single or paired - a poison or debilitate effect would be great here too.
The Amarr's "heavy" reputation and the Templar/Empire vibe grants some nice flexibility. I'd want to avoid a chain sword or the like, because it's too close to shades of Warhammer 40k. However, I like the laser Glaive idea, and actually just long/heavy lance type weapons in general. A spear with a constant laser edge is one option. I also like the idea of a remade Chinese Fire Lance where the melee weapon might care 1 or 2 single charge of a short-range (< 5m) Pulse laser blast from the tip of the the "lance". A roman or medieval looking laser sword wouldn't be bad either.
Caldari have Nova knives, technically. I'm wondering if they'd give them a second melee weapon. They did plan on knives for everyone after all.
Gallente have a few options. However, with both the Caldari and Minmatar using "fast" weapons, the French background might make a Guisarme a sensible choice. The Guisarme is a hook-spear combo that was theoretically used to unhorse people, etc. There's potential there for a "charged" hook effect to yank players towards you from a certain distance (which befits a slower armor tank). It would be even better if the "unhorsing" effect could be used to yank people out of passing LAVs.
---- I kinda like my "pull" effect idea on the Gallente one.
Dren and Templar equipment stats, wrong since release.
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Posted - 2014.03.03 22:46:00 -
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I'd like to add that I'm amused my original post on this is from last may. They didn't need to spend much time reconsidering them I guess considering it's close to a year since then with no indication that those knives are coming.
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Posted - 2014.04.24 06:53:00 -
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:
Shoot, if the Gallente can have wrist-mounted blades, the Amarr might as well have wrist-mounted laser swords like the psi-blades the zealots have in Starcraft.
Dren and Templar equipment stats, wrong since release.
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