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Weapons, Melee range, Cooldown, etc.

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I love TFC but there are many weapons I think should be added

Weapons: even though the time period of the mod might not even be close to modern there are quite a few weapons I feel are missing

Ranged:

  • Bolas: a caveman's best friend, helps catch those fast prey

 

  • Atalatl: basically a javelin thrower

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  • Sling: a early projectile weapon

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  • Slingshot: a early elastic weapon

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  • Harpoon: WHALES!!!!

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  • Explosive firelance: a gunpowder filled tube attached to a stick, thrown, explodes on impact, needs to have flint and steel to use

  • Shot filelance: a firelance filled with a single lead ball or shot, right click shoots it off, chance to misfire and explode or to break the item.

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  • Flame thrower firelance: a firelance that spays out fire.

  • Throwing stick: a stick that you throw

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  • Hunting boomerang: a large club designed for throwing, does not return to thrower

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  • Dart gun: poison darts for the win

 

Melee:

  • Cestus: clobbering time

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  • cinquedea: five finger death sword

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  • Gladious: for sparta

  • Boar spear

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  • misericorde: ha armor, what armor

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  • falchion: hacking my  way to the top'

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  • Khopesh: like an Egyptian

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  • Estoc: pokey, pokey

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  • Flameberg: flame sword

 

  • Rapier: stabby stabby

  • Claymore: inferiority complex much

  • Executioner Sword: off with their head

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  • Zweihänder: for Scotland

 

  • Sword breaker: bye bye sword

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  • Shotel: WTF is that sword

 

  • Lucrene hammer: who's hammer

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  • Horsemans pick: horse not included

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  • Flail: I don;t have a joke for this one

  • Morning star: the last star you will ever see

  • Brandistock: ouch

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  • Pike: stay back I tell you

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  • Sword staff: is it a sword attached to a staff or a staff attached to a sword

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  • Ahlspiess: what nice armor you have

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  • Bill: not a name

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I really like the idea of a sling that consumes rocks as ammo.  You always end up with way too many rocks.

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11 minutes ago, Lorkenpeist said:

I really like the idea of a sling that consumes rocks as ammo.  You always end up with way too many rocks.

Thats exactly what I was thinking, to many rocks not enough uses.

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9 hours ago, Diego il Catanico Jr said:

GREEK FIRE

Well a flamethrower firelance does exist and it is similar, sadly does not burn on water.

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I've been proposing Slings for ages. I'd love to see them added.

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36 minutes ago, Pwnlord said:

I've been proposing Slings for ages. I'd love to see them added.

Both the sling, Bola, and atalatal were chosen with consideration for the stone age.

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What advantage does the atlatl provide over just throwing the javelin?  Also, would the atlatl take damage, or the javelin, or both?

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In real life the atlatl  allows you to throw the javelin farther, in some cases doubling the distance which in turn also changes the strength of the weapon on short distances.

Game wise  I honestly do not see much advantage to have so many weapons added to the game.

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be cool to have a whole bunch of different weapons. I just can not justify all the work involved in coding those weapons.

Since we only have 3 different kinds of damage. Piercing, Slashing and crushing. In the end one weapon would be superior and everyone would use that one in detriment to all others.

I can see how useful things like the bolas would be for hunting, as they immobilize the animal allowing the hunter to get close. Not sure how it would worked against Monsters or animals that you want to domesticate.

As far as Slings or slingshots, I understand how people want to have the ability to throw rocks for crushing damage, but that would make it too easy to kill skeletons. Monsters are already too easy to kill, we do not need to make it even easier.

The only way I can see to justify adding more weapons is if the Dev's were willing to completely overhaul weapons to allow  for mixed damage. For example weapons with crushing and slashing at the same time and in different degrees.

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Tony's right.   Most of this has been suggested before.  Just posting pictures of weapons doesn't contribute much - we all know how to use google.  It'd be much more helpful to suggest *how* each weapon will be different, and balanced against each other.  Will the mace be a castable bludgeoning weapon with slow speed and middle damage, while a lucern hammer requires anvil work, and does higher damage, while being slower yet?  A warhammer is smaller and faster, but also requires anvil work, but does less damage?  Swords do more damage than bludgeoning weapons, but require several stages of smithing?  Spears do low damage in general, but extra damage to large creatures (a la dwarf fortress)?  The discussion would be much more productive, I think.  Because as tony says, absent any mechanical differences and balances, I doubt the devs spend the time to add a bunch of weapons for show.

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I think the idea of mixed damage types is very interesting.  In Dungeons and Dragons I was always confused by big heavy battle axes (greataxes, actually)  being ineffective against skeletons because they do slashing damage.  Surely an axe that heavy would do crushing damage too?  Of course they would be super slow to swing.  Perhaps you would try to crit and take a skeleton down in a single blow (or more depending on metal tier), but if that fails you're screwed for a couple seconds. 

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Ya, I always felt there was a gap in the 'traditional' damage types of D&D and most other system, and that falls squarely on axes.  I think there could be a 'chopping' damage type.   Because frankly, bones are like wood.  And axes are great against wood.  Axes should utterly destroy skeletons.  Bones are actually resilient, and pure blunt damage - logically speaking - shouldn't be as effective as a similar size axe vs skeletons, imo.  But in terms of game balance, if you have too many damage types, you run the risk of having an orphan damage type that's not great, and nobody uses.  So you could for instance say blunt has no damage advantages vs creatures (except if they were made of glass or something), but are castable weapons.  slab/chop/pierce have certain advantages, but they all require smithing.  If a sharpening mechanic were brought in, that would be another advantage of blunt weapons - never having to be sharpened.

I'm not a fan of the notion of a single weapon doing multiple physical damage types, unless the difficulty of obtaining it is quite a bit greater.  If you let a morning star do bunt and piercing damage (in the current 3-type system), why would anyone use anything else?  Having four damage type would give more combos though.  So to me, stick with simple and easily categorized weapons, unless a good balance can be come up with to spread the usefulness around.

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Agree, agree and agree.

In real life there is no such a thing as a supreme weapon. In a game is a really bad idea.

Not sure what the numbers are, so I will just throw some aleatory ones.

Suppose a sword has a 200 points slashing damage.

Suppose a club has a 200 points crushing damage.

Now if you create a weapon that can do 100 points of slashing and 100 points of crushing it would still be superior, in the sense that you do not need to switch weapons depending on the mob.

The only way to make this work would be to completely overhaul the combat system and do a lot of calculations so weapons are balanced.

Some of the things that would need to be balanced are:

The damage types; Piercing, crushing and slashing.

Speed and durability.

Another consideration that could be done is about range. Close combat or long range.

An example, if you are fighting  a bear a lance would be better, but once the bear gets close you are dead. 

With so many possibilities it would be a really hard and a monumental task to create all those weapons and properly balance them in the game.

 

 

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Hello, don't forget about weapon charge time! Charge time should also be taken into consideration when thinking about balance. Let's say, a broadsword would have more damage than a short sword (yet same proportion of damage types), but it would take longer to fully charge, resulting in only a slight increase in DPS. A gladius would have more piercing proportion than a sword but less than a spear. Et cetera.

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Now I wrote this. This is only an idea. I'll probably modify it in the future.

Legend:  R = Range, D = Damage type (Primary and secondary), En = Effectivity/Damage (Iron), Ea = Effectivity/Damage versus armor (iron vs iron), C = Cooldown* (for iron)

*You will not be able to hit the enemy when the cooldown is under 50%, then the damage will be calculated in the vanilla way.

**For "two-handed" I mean "used in the main-hand with the off-hand slot empty", not a two-handed weapon.

 

Sword:

Spoiler

R = 2m

D = Slashing

En = 100%

Ea = 40%

C = 1.0s, 0.75s (two-handed**)

The sword has a new attack, the stab, that will be done by shifting in the moment of the attack.   (new animation)

R = 2m

D = Piercing

En = 100%

Ea = 80%

C = 1.25s, 0.75s (two-handed)

Mace:

Spoiler

R = 2m

D = Crushing

En = 200%

Ea = 100%

C = 1.5s, 1.25s (two-handed)

Spear:

Spoiler

The spear should have a new attack animation, where it pierces the target.

R = 3m

D = Piercing

En = 60%

Ea = 50%

C = 1,25s, 0.75s (two-handed)

When thrown:

D = Piercing

En = 160%

Ea =150%

C = 2s

Bow:

Spoiler

D = Piercing

En = 150%

Ea = 125%

C = 1s, 0.5s (quiver)

Axe:

Spoiler

R = 1.8m

D = Slashing

En = 90%

Ea = 80%

C = 1.5s, 1.25s (two-handed)

Hammer:

Spoiler

R = 1.5m

D = Crushing

En =60%

Ea =50%

C = 1.0s, 0.75s (two-handed)

Knife:

Spoiler

R = 1.0m

D = Piercing

En =50%

Ea =20%

C = 0.25s

Pickaxe:

Spoiler

R = 1.8m

D = Piercing

En =90%

Ea =90%

C = 1.75s, 1.25s (two-handed)

Shovel:

Spoiler

R = 2m

D = Crushing

En = 35%

Ea =10%

C = 1.5s, 1.0s (two-handed)

Slashing attack (Sneak + Attack)

R = 2m

D = Slashing

En =50%

Ea =15%

C = 1.5s, 1.0s (two-handed)

Hoe:

Spoiler

R = 1.8m

D = Slashing

En = 50%

Ea =20%

C = 1.5s, 1.25s (two-handed)

Chisel:

Spoiler

R = 1.0m

D = Piercing

En =35%

Ea =10%

C = 0.25s

Prospector's Pick:

Spoiler

R = 1.5m

D = Piercing

En = 50%

Ea = 50%

C = 1.25s, 1.0s (two-handed)

Saw:

Spoiler

R =1.2

D = Slashing

En = 25%

Ea = 5%

C = 0.5s

Scyte:

Spoiler

R = 2m

D = Slashing

En =100%

Ea =25%

C = 1.5s, 1.25s (two-handed)

 

Edited by Diego il Catanico Jr
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