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Running with a sword and knives.... man that would be interesting wouldn't it lol

I'm not familiar with the "Wakizashi"

Unless they fix the hit detection for nova knifes and melee say bye-bye to this.

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Really, guys, you want to go through a scifi game with swords? Go play warframe.

you mean like a lightsaber

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Really, guys, you want to go through a scifi game with swords? Go play warframe.

Hm... variety is good, but I'm not sure they'd really fit in with the setting of DUST. ((EDIT-- By which I mean, we barely use swords now. It's a bit hard to believe they'd use them in the far off "Hey, we colonized other planets" future of the EVE universe. With Nova Knives, you can at least kinda halfway argue that you can use a knife in ways other than as a weapon, but even that falls apart when you consider how they work...)) Also, I think your fitting requirements are a bit low, but that may just be me overestimating what's a fair amount. It "feels" like they should have relatively high reqs based on how I've gathered the Nova Knives work-- by using an internal igniter and gravity field to make a "blade" of plasma. But then you look at the Nova Knife reqs, and they've actually got the second-lowest requirements of Sidearms, so... I dunno. No real opinion on swords, I guess.

I personally probably wouldn't use them, but I suppose they could be a pretty fun weapon to have on the field. Maybe give them something other than "better reach" to differentiate them from Nova Knives-- Compare the Flaylock and the Mass Driver-- the former fires straight, quickly, with a tight blast radius and high splash damage, while the latter arcs and has a larger clip and blast radius and much less splash. Perhaps a Halo Plasma Sword-esque "lunge" attack. It'd have to drain stamina quite a bit to prevent spamming for the quickstep.

As an aside, I always thought it was "wakazashi", with three As.

I've based the suggested fitting reqs on the differences of the light arms and the comparative fitting reqs of the nova knife. Also, the nova knives aren't plasma blades. When charged, the edge of the blade carries a high energy plasma charge to facilitate shield/armor penetration.

The differentiation is not just a larger blade, but a slower attack speed with a higher damage. Really want to differentiate it and generate a river of tears, give it a sweeping strike that hits all targets within a 165 degree ark across the aim reticule of the wielder's visual plane at full reach distance.

Nope. It's actually wakizashi with an "i".

Something I'd like to see is light arms classed charged weapons.

Example
Nova Sword: Basic / Advanced / Proto
Name: Wakizashi / Katana / Odachi
Damage: 150 / 250 / 333
Charge-Up Time: 2.25 sec
Reach* in meters: 1.14 / 1.33 / 1.52
Slot: Infantry Light Weapon
CPU: 16 / 39 / 69
PG: 3 / 7 / 11
Skill Reqs: Weaponry 3, Light Weapon Ops 3, Nova Sword Ops 1 / 3 / 5

Skill Tree
Nova Sword Ops: Unlocks at Light Weapon Ops 3. 3% reduction to charge time per level.
Nova Sword Prof: Unlocks at NS-Ops 3. 3% bonus to damage per level.
Nova Sword Wielding: Unlocks at NS-Prof 3. 2% bonus to attack speed per level.
Nova Sword Focusing: Unlocks at NS-Prof 4. 2% bonus to charge strike damage per level.

*Reach is not just blade length, it also assumes an average extended arm length from chest and shoulder meeting point to thumb webbing of aproximately .61 meters which should logically put the nova knife's reach around .81 meters.

I use Japanese swords for my example as they're the swords I'm most familiar with.

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

No swords or we lose Nova Knife.

- Shotty GoBang

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

+1 for a sword as a light weapon.

Better range and able to take out multiple opponents at once would be good. But it better make the user of the blade be more vulnerable (to prevent it being both way better than the shotgun and easier to use by a large margin) by causing damage to the user every time the user takes a swing (over heat damage would not need to prevent weapon switching or throwing grenades in this case probably) and the overheat period would only need to be roughly 1.4 seconds.

Having animations for the overheating event of the sword would not be necessary if the sword overheated with every swing and had a very short over heat period. The reason being that the animation would become too boring and monotonous.

If this weapon is put into the game it would be necessary to have certain game mechanics in place to prevent the sword being a weapon of preference over the shotgun. (don't want the shotgun becoming extinct)

Edit: I would be ok with other ways of making the sword user more vulnerable. (making the sword user more vulnerable would probably only be needed if the basic sword could OHK well fit medium frame proto suits and the proto sword OHKing fully tanked heavy proto suits)

Well nothing should be able to OHK a fully tanked heavy.
As for the over heat, it should only completely overheat if it's a full charge. This way you would choose between safe, quick strikes that deal low dmg or a dangerous heavy attack that could 2-hit kill a full tanked out heavy. (Flux + Full charge = assassination)

Maybe instead of swords there should be heavy melee weapon?

Going to keep bumping this because when we star fighting inside ships or mining rig, or on breaching missions how cool would it look to you guys if you saw a squad of fully armoured Amarrians led by a captain with a power spear?

LoL oh damn!

Now I'm amped for this game again

Something I'd like to see is light arms classed charged weapons.

Example
Nova Sword: Basic / Advanced / Proto
Name: Wakizashi / Katana / Odachi
Damage: 150 / 250 / 333
Charge-Up Time: 2.25 sec
Reach* in meters: 1.14 / 1.33 / 1.52
Slot: Infantry Light Weapon
CPU: 16 / 39 / 69
PG: 3 / 7 / 11
Skill Reqs: Weaponry 3, Light Weapon Ops 3, Nova Sword Ops 1 / 3 / 5

Skill Tree
Nova Sword Ops: Unlocks at Light Weapon Ops 3. 3% reduction to charge time per level.
Nova Sword Prof: Unlocks at NS-Ops 3. 3% bonus to damage per level.
Nova Sword Wielding: Unlocks at NS-Prof 3. 2% bonus to attack speed per level.
Nova Sword Focusing: Unlocks at NS-Prof 4. 2% bonus to charge strike damage per level.

*Reach is not just blade length, it also assumes an average extended arm length from chest and shoulder meeting point to thumb webbing of aproximately .61 meters which should logically put the nova knife's reach around .81 meters.

I use Japanese swords for my example as they're the swords I'm most familiar with.

I'm just spit balling here, but I have come up with a all new name for it too, I thought "Ninja" would work.

i don't even use Nova Knife, but i fcking LOVE this idea...

Would be nice if there was also a spec'd suit for, Jet black in colour with super high stealth...

I'm just spit balling here, but I have come up with a all new name for it too, I thought "Ninja" would work.

Then I demand the Amarr have a Crusader Suit with its sole redeeming quality to yell loudly as I charge into combat!

Really swords? Hate to break it to you gents, but your on the wrong system with the wrong game. It's called Halo, it's on the xbox, you know where all of your kid buddy's play this sort of rubbish. Do the rest of the Dust 514 community a favor, and go play there. Your child antics are not needed here.

Really swords? Hate to break it to you gents, but your on the wrong system with the wrong game. It's called Halo, it's on the xbox, you know where all of your kid buddy's play this sort of rubbish. Do the rest of the Dust 514 community a favor, and go play there. Your child antics are not needed here.

Really swords? Hate to break it to you gents, but your on the wrong system with the wrong game. It's called Halo, it's on the xbox, you know where all of your kid buddy's play this sort of rubbish. Do the rest of the Dust 514 community a favor, and go play there. Your child antics are not needed here.

i don't even use Nova Knife, but i fcking LOVE this idea...

Would be nice if there was also a spec'd suit for, Jet black in colour with super high stealth...

I'm just spit balling here, but I have come up with a all new name for it too, I thought "Ninja" would work.

Something I'd like to see is light arms classed charged weapons.

Example
Nova Sword: Basic / Advanced / Proto
Name: Wakizashi / Katana / Odachi
Damage: 150 / 250 / 333
Charge-Up Time: 2.25 sec
Reach* in meters: 1.14 / 1.33 / 1.52
Slot: Infantry Light Weapon
CPU: 16 / 39 / 69
PG: 3 / 7 / 11
Skill Reqs: Weaponry 3, Light Weapon Ops 3, Nova Sword Ops 1 / 3 / 5

Skill Tree
Nova Sword Ops: Unlocks at Light Weapon Ops 3. 3% reduction to charge time per level.
Nova Sword Prof: Unlocks at NS-Ops 3. 3% bonus to damage per level.
Nova Sword Wielding: Unlocks at NS-Prof 3. 2% bonus to attack speed per level.
Nova Sword Focusing: Unlocks at NS-Prof 4. 2% bonus to charge strike damage per level.

*Reach is not just blade length, it also assumes an average extended arm length from chest and shoulder meeting point to thumb webbing of aproximately .61 meters which should logically put the nova knife's reach around .81 meters.

I use Japanese swords for my example as they're the swords I'm most familiar with.

Those dead set against a light class melee weapon, such as the swords I have only suggested, should call on CCP to remove the %5 per level melee damage bonus the Minmatar Scout gets and replace it with 5% per level damage bonus to SMG.

Polearms, spears and halberds, as heavy weapon variants is an interesting idea but not one I'm not pursuing at this time, especially with heavy suits being as weak as they are in CQC due to low turn speed.

If you play a stealth role, most of the firearms are impractical as they readily give your position away to anyone who might be nearby and paying attention. The knives don't.
.

Let me stop you right here :P The knives in dust are anything but a stealth weapon. Enemies can both hear when they're charged and an incredibly loud and distinct noise when you swipe them.

I greatly enjoy melee in dust, and the use of knives. Some bugs/issues make them annoying sometimes to use, but there is nothing more satisfying than strafing through some guy's fire with a knife out, and watching him try to avoid you because he knows he's about to get stabbed while he reloads. The only thing that even comes close is squishing people with a dropship.

However, I highly disagree that just because there's one melee weapon, that CCP needs to turn it into a completely separate class. We're getting three more racial variants of Knives in the not too distant future, which is enough for me. "SWORDS" is something that a lot of FPS games are trying to gimmick these days, and I'm not a fan. This is a gun game. If some wierdos like myself want to run up and spam the melee button, cool. However, CCP needs to focus their attention on the "Shooter" part of FPS.

I'd much rather have them spending time improving the movement and controls, and smoothening the animations we already have than trying to make the melee system more robust to accomodate a whole lineup of hand to hand weapons.

Besides... Something tells me that when MTACS come out, you're going to have all the fun in the world just clobbering things with a giant robot fist, and you'll forget all about something as silly as "SWORDS" :P

Let me stop you right here :P The knives in dust are anything but a stealth weapon. Enemies can both hear when they're charged and an incredibly loud and distinct noise when you swipe them.

I greatly enjoy melee in dust, and the use of knives. Some bugs/issues make them annoying sometimes to use, but there is nothing more satisfying than strafing through some guy's fire with a knife out, and watching him try to avoid you because he knows he's about to get stabbed while he reloads. The only thing that even comes close is squishing people with a dropship.

However, I highly disagree that just because there's one melee weapon, that CCP needs to turn it into a completely separate class. We're getting three more racial variants of Knives in the not too distant future, which is enough for me. "SWORDS" is something that a lot of FPS games are trying to gimmick these days, and I'm not a fan. This is a gun game. If some wierdos like myself want to run up and spam the melee button, cool. However, CCP needs to focus their attention on the "Shooter" part of FPS.

I'd much rather have them spending time improving the movement and controls, and smoothening the animations we already have than trying to make the melee system more robust to accomodate a whole lineup of hand to hand weapons.

Besides... Something tells me that when MTACS come out, you're going to have all the fun in the world just clobbering things with a giant robot fist, and you'll forget all about something as silly as "SWORDS" :P

Let me stop you right here :P The knives in dust are anything but a stealth weapon. Enemies can both hear when they're charged and an incredibly loud and distinct noise when you swipe them.

I greatly enjoy melee in dust, and the use of knives. Some bugs/issues make them annoying sometimes to use, but there is nothing more satisfying than strafing through some guy's fire with a knife out, and watching him try to avoid you because he knows he's about to get stabbed while he reloads. The only thing that even comes close is squishing people with a dropship.

However, I highly disagree that just because there's one melee weapon, that CCP needs to turn it into a completely separate class. We're getting three more racial variants of Knives in the not too distant future, which is enough for me. "SWORDS" is something that a lot of FPS games are trying to gimmick these days, and I'm not a fan. This is a gun game. If some wierdos like myself want to run up and spam the melee button, cool. However, CCP needs to focus their attention on the "Shooter" part of FPS.

I'd much rather have them spending time improving the movement and controls, and smoothening the animations we already have than trying to make the melee system more robust to accomodate a whole lineup of hand to hand weapons.

Besides... Something tells me that when MTACS come out, you're going to have all the fun in the world just clobbering things with a giant robot fist, and you'll forget all about something as silly as "SWORDS" :P

Let me stop you right here :P The knives in dust are anything but a stealth weapon. Enemies can both hear when they're charged and an incredibly loud and distinct noise when you swipe them.

I greatly enjoy melee in dust, and the use of knives. Some bugs/issues make them annoying sometimes to use, but there is nothing more satisfying than strafing through some guy's fire with a knife out, and watching him try to avoid you because he knows he's about to get stabbed while he reloads. The only thing that even comes close is squishing people with a dropship.

However, I highly disagree that just because there's one melee weapon, that CCP needs to turn it into a completely separate class. We're getting three more racial variants of Knives in the not too distant future, which is enough for me. "SWORDS" is something that a lot of FPS games are trying to gimmick these days, and I'm not a fan. This is a gun game. If some wierdos like myself want to run up and spam the melee button, cool. However, CCP needs to focus their attention on the "Shooter" part of FPS.

I'd much rather have them spending time improving the movement and controls, and smoothening the animations we already have than trying to make the melee system more robust to accomodate a whole lineup of hand to hand weapons.

Besides... Something tells me that when MTACS come out, you're going to have all the fun in the world just clobbering things with a giant robot fist, and you'll forget all about something as silly as "SWORDS" :P

Cmon a mercenary with a Nova sword and his smg as a sidearm is awesome! Think, Dante and Dead Pool.

I still think we should be able to throw the knifes really fast especially if u have the myofibril stimulant module cmon, more muscle power, more knife damage.

What's an Odachi?

Just watched an action movie and boy do knives appear alot lol. I love it. So yea, I'll take the short sword for cooler assassinations!
Guys, remember to kill the enemy again so he won't revive.

knife the clone u just killed, he'll turn to a dull color. In his screen it should switch from clone failure imminent to CLONE TERMINATED lol

Interesting...

yea this works, I do it whenever I kill a proto cuz I hate when ppl use proto gear in pub matches. I've even gotten myself killed to ensure that the guy never gets back up.

If they guy isn't taken out by a head shot or explosion then he can still get back up via needle. Troublesome reds should never be given the chance to get back up (FG, MD, Proto ANYTHING,etc).

P.S. If you see a red getting into a knife fight with a blue then just remember to NEVER GET IN THERE WAY! They will BOTH hate you for it. Ginja and minja have a code that they would rather not go against.

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.

I admit that I've never had my clone knifed when it was down, but I have had my clone shot and it never affected my clone failure timer.

G.I. Joe movie has ninjas with short swords, havent seen it though.

G.I. Joe movie has ninjas with short swords, havent seen it though.

G.I. Joe movie has ninjas with short swords, havent seen it though.

Maybe not a japanese sword, but we could use something reminiscent of ninjas. Also a heavy weapon thats a hammer, does like 1.6k damage

Any non AV weapon doing that kind of damage in one hit would be way WAY over powered.

Something I'd like to see is light arms classed charged weapons.

Example
Nova Sword: Basic / Advanced / Proto
Name: Wakizashi / Katana / Odachi
Damage: 150 / 250 / 333
Charge-Up Time: 2.25 sec
Reach* in meters: 1.14 / 1.33 / 1.52
Slot: Infantry Light Weapon
CPU: 16 / 39 / 69
PG: 3 / 7 / 11
Skill Reqs: Weaponry 3, Light Weapon Ops 3, Nova Sword Ops 1 / 3 / 5

Skill Tree
Nova Sword Ops: Unlocks at Light Weapon Ops 3. 3% reduction to charge time per level.
Nova Sword Prof: Unlocks at NS-Ops 3. 3% bonus to damage per level.
Nova Sword Wielding: Unlocks at NS-Prof 3. 2% bonus to attack speed per level.
Nova Sword Focusing: Unlocks at NS-Prof 4. 2% bonus to charge strike damage per level.

*Reach is not just blade length, it also assumes an average extended arm length from chest and shoulder meeting point to thumb webbing of aproximately .61 meters which should logically put the nova knife's reach around .81 meters.

I use Japanese swords for my example as they're the swords I'm most familiar with.

*que music*



Really, guys, you want to go through a scifi game with swords? Go play warframe.

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

20,000 years into the future and the Minmatar are still using duck tape as armor repairers.

Former semi mechanic. Duct tape fixes everything.

A wakizashi is the short sword paired with the katana.

As to the OP's idea I have to say no. The whole space samurai idea is not only stupid but totally over played. Also, while knives make sense as a standard infantry tool (more for utility but also a weapon of last resort), swords have very little utility on a sci-fi battle field.

What would having swords bring to the game? A slightly longer reach for hand to hand combat? That really isn't a dramatic change and definitely won't increase survivability in hand to hand combat. I can still back away and throw tons of (insert deadly projectile here) at you. Also since there are no block/parry mechanics build into the game melee battles are just glorified slap fights (not a ton of fun for anyone).

That being said what we are left with is that you want to add swords, Japanese style swords in particular, to add more flavor to the game. I for one don't need more action movie/anime chich+¬s built into the game. Lets push CCP to build solid core mechanics, finish all the suits and planned vehicles, add in the ability to interact with EVE more fully, develop the non-fps elements of the game and then we can start talking flavor.

Question: What is with the modern obsession with Japanese swords? You know that the japanese did/do other really neat stuff too right? Dueling holiday shrines for example. Why don't young men in our country have a strange enduring love of this (kenka tanabata festival incase you were wondering), it is so much cooler than the swords. Or what about the amazing Japanese tatoos or even their great food (there is so much more to it than sushi). Come on folks lets end this ninja/samurai obsession here and now, its dated and silly.

A wakizashi is the short sword paired with the katana.

As to the OP's idea I have to say no. The whole space samurai idea is not only stupid but totally over played. Also, while knives make sense as a standard infantry tool (more for utility but also a weapon of last resort), swords have very little utility on a sci-fi battle field.

What would having swords bring to the game? A slightly longer reach for hand to hand combat? That really isn't a dramatic change and definitely won't increase survivability in hand to hand combat. I can still back away and throw tons of (insert deadly projectile here) at you. Also since there are no block/parry mechanics build into the game melee battles are just glorified slap fights (not a ton of fun for anyone).

That being said what we are left with is that you want to add swords, Japanese style swords in particular, to add more flavor to the game. I for one don't need more action movie/anime chich+¬s built into the game. Lets push CCP to build solid core mechanics, finish all the suits and planned vehicles, add in the ability to interact with EVE more fully, develop the non-fps elements of the game and then we can start talking flavor.

Question: What is with the modern obsession with Japanese swords? You know that the japanese did/do other really neat stuff too right? Dueling holiday shrines for example. Why don't young men in our country have a strange enduring love of this (kenka tanabata festival incase you were wondering), it is so much cooler than the swords. Or what about the amazing Japanese tatoos or even their great food (there is so much more to it than sushi). Come on folks lets end this ninja/samurai obsession here and now, its dated and silly.

Something I'd like to see is light arms classed charged weapons. Especially as we already have a dropsuit (Minmatar Scout) built to take advantage of this kind of weapon.

Example
Nova Sword: Basic / Advanced / Proto
Name: Wakizashi / Katana / Odachi
Damage: 150 / 250 / 333
Charge-Up Time: 2.25 sec
Reach* in meters: 1.14 / 1.33 / 1.52
Slot: Infantry Light Weapon
CPU: 16 / 39 / 69
PG: 3 / 7 / 11
Skill Reqs: Weaponry 3, Light Weapon Ops 3, Nova Sword Ops 1 / 3 / 5

Skill Tree
Nova Sword Ops: Unlocks at Light Weapon Ops 3. 3% reduction to charge time per level.
Nova Sword Prof: Unlocks at NS-Ops 3. 3% bonus to damage per level.
Nova Sword Wielding: Unlocks at NS-Prof 3. 2% bonus to attack speed per level.
Nova Sword Focusing: Unlocks at NS-Prof 4. 2% bonus to charge strike damage per level.

*Reach is not just blade length, it also assumes an average extended arm length from chest and shoulder meeting point to thumb webbing of aproximately .61 meters which should logically put the nova knife's reach around .81 meters.

I use Japanese swords for my example as they're the swords I'm most familiar with.

Optional charged strike: Instead of doing massive damage to a single target, the weapon does it's normal damage to all viable targets with a 165 degree arc centered across the aim point.

Amarrian EM spear thing...
Zap!

The Minnie's can have something like this... Very tribal feeling.
Brutal.

I imagine the Calamari having a sword because its practical...
FUUTUURRREEE SWOOORRDDD!!!

Are u crazy were in the future not middle ages lol

This is a great idea that definitely should be played with. I'm not sure it will ever get added but damn it's interesting to read the banter.

I personally think a melee class would be great if they could balance it right. Great speed with damage so you dont just get dropped instantly. It would be a great mix. I'm not too happy about the idea of being one-shotted in proto though and losing 200k instantly as most melee weapons would work out.

Id like to see a minmatar based maul out on the field. Just a big ass spikey hammer.