Swords and katanas

Hazmat616

Hazmat616

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How have we gone this long and never got a katana at the very least? That’s a zombie trope staple. Mechanically they’d be classified as knives similar to how smgs are handguns so all those perks and such would apply to them. They’d have better range but less attack speed and heavily rely on stacking bleed and dismemberment with poor raw damage against armored targets. I’m thinking you could have the base tier be something makeshift like a sharpened lawnmower blade as iron and steel as a katana. Also these would probably not have the sneak bonus so there will be reasons to use them or knives of similar quality. Think bows vs crossbows.
 
Hazmat616 said:
How have we gone this long and never got a katana at the very least? That’s a zombie trope staple. Mechanically they’d be classified as knives similar to how smgs are handguns so all those perks and such would apply to them. They’d have better range but less attack speed and heavily rely on stacking bleed and dismemberment with poor raw damage against armored targets. I’m thinking you could have the base tier be something makeshift like a sharpened lawnmower blade as iron and steel as a katana. Also these would probably not have the sneak bonus so there will be reasons to use them or knives of similar quality. Think bows vs crossbows.
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I have felt for years that bladed weapons did not get enough love in this game. There are tons of people in the world that are sword collectors, myself being one, so I don't think it is unreasonable at all to think you could find them in houses, or even museums and such.
 
gofantasy542 said:
There are tons of people in the world that are sword collectors, myself being one
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That justifies, maybe, finding it as a "legendary weapon" (e.g.: like "gofantasy542's Katana") but in my opinion shouldn't become the norm, especially considering in AZ most people use guns.
 
Hazmat616 said:
How have we gone this long and never got a katana at the very least? That’s a zombie trope staple. Mechanically they’d be classified as knives similar to how smgs are handguns so all those perks and such would apply to them. They’d have better range but less attack speed and heavily rely on stacking bleed and dismemberment with poor raw damage against armored targets. I’m thinking you could have the base tier be something makeshift like a sharpened lawnmower blade as iron and steel as a katana. Also these would probably not have the sneak bonus so there will be reasons to use them or knives of similar quality. Think bows vs crossbows.
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I'm into this.

I'm not sure it matters, but my assumption would be that most swords we find in real life would be decorative replicas with low durability. I'd happily be proven wrong, and again I'm not sure that matters here.
 
Hazmat616 said:
Sledge hammers are more nonsensical than a katana.
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I disagree. If I had to squash zombie heads in an apocalypse I'd probably be able to put together a makeshift sledgehammer by using a shaft and a big rock, can't say the same for a katana. Also, sledgehammers can be found in hardware stores all over the place.

I understand that many players have this movie fantasy trope about katanas, especially after the huge success of the Kill Bill series from Quentin Tarantino, but to be honest, even in that movie, the main lady character had to travel to Japan and find a weaponsmith who still knew the crafting techniques for that weapon.

So, no, your example is not even remotely close.
 
zztong said:
I'm into this.

I'm not sure it matters, but my assumption would be that most swords we find in real life would be decorative replicas with low durability. I'd happily be proven wrong, and again I'm not sure that matters here.
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Good point but honestly steel melee weapons are all basically hand made from junk so honestly the “real” sword would be iron and the steel one something hand made. So flip what I originally said. Compare iron to steel sledge hammers. One is a real sledge hammer the other is a dumbbell on a stick.
 
Hazmat616 said:
How have we gone this long and never got a katana at the very least? That’s a zombie trope staple. Mechanically they’d be classified as knives similar to how smgs are handguns so all those perks and such would apply to them. They’d have better range but less attack speed and heavily rely on stacking bleed and dismemberment with poor raw damage against armored targets. I’m thinking you could have the base tier be something makeshift like a sharpened lawnmower blade as iron and steel as a katana. Also these would probably not have the sneak bonus so there will be reasons to use them or knives of similar quality. Think bows vs crossbows.
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These have already been suggested before, but even though i'm all for adding swords and katanas (as seen in The Walking Dead), I guess TFP doesn't want em in the game, otherwise they would of been added a long time ago.
 
If enough people ask for it maybe. Perhaps because they don’t see it as something new. We have the machete which is practically a sword in real life at least. If swords were new weapons strength or perception would be the best skills for them if not agility. However even that’s not a great reason since strength has both bats, sledgehammers and mining tools with skills to buff their entity damage. So I honestly think perception or agility would benefit from a new weapon and skills. I never use knives because they’re too close range and a bow is far superior for sneak attacks. So I’d go either way as parkour and most agility skills are worth getting even if you don’t use an agility weapon and I think perception is a lacking path if you don’t use spears or rifles.
 
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