sabers vs katanas?

[⋆ Beetroot ⋆]

Which one is better?

sabers - good for making the fight longer and survival

katanas - good offensive but require good defence

[Morkonan]

Katanas starting out. They're fast, have some unique animations and are going to be very good for skilling up Dexterity. Sabers are good for their +Def bonus, but that should be for something like a Taunt Tank that is gathering enemies to it in the early game. For DPS in the early game, they're not as good as katanas.

Later, some special sabers have nice bonuses against certain enemy types, so they're worth training up for a few characters if you expect to be dealing a lot with those enemy types. (Some other weapons have better bonuses against certain enemy types, but late-game sabers have a wider spread of bonuses.)

[Minty]

It all comes down to what you're planning on fighting, really. I have one crew that has exclusively trained hackers for tech hunting because they're amazing against Security Spiders and other machines. Desert sabres are amazing if you live near spiders, particularly in the south and the Swamp where skin spiders and blood spiders are common, and the raw damage output is stellar, but the range of a Nodachi and its ability to hit multiple opponents on a regular basis make it the best option if you plan to be fighting a lot of lightly armoured people in large groups.

This is one of the things I love about this game - weapon selection often comes down to what you do for a living and who you've made enemies with.

[Azunai]

katanas are good for slicing up starving bandits and other unarmored victims.

hackers seem like a decent choice for heavy melee troops. the generic long cleavers have bonus armor penetration and the special "paladin cross" (also "hacker" class) has huge damage bonus vs. robots (but reduced vs. humans, so not a very good general purpose weapon).

don't know if sabers are worthwhile. they are basically just reverse katanas with defense bonus and attack penalty. maybe if you have a bunch of defensive melee guys in taunt mode "tanking" for squishy high dps crossbow snipers