Medieval Sword

[Sauerkraut]

Just found a 1,5 Hander medieval longsword is it a good melee weapon ?

[Deathwhisper]

It is a reliable weapon in my opinion. The Best ist the Katana but the Medieval Sword is also capable of some Action. With the Katana you can kill mostly all puppets with one hit, a Medieval sword needs a averange of 3 hits (if armored Puppet then you will most certainly more.)

[Sauerkraut]

Thx

[Bunny]

All swords, aside form the wooden one - are pretty viable for PvE. With a high enough melee skill level, they can make all puppets ( except the suicide ones ) trivial to handle.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

It is a reliable weapon in my opinion. The Best ist the Katana but the Medieval Sword is also capable of some Action. With the Katana you can kill mostly all puppets with one hit, a Medieval sword needs a averange of 3 hits (if armored Puppet then you will most certainly more.)

If this is true then it´s pretty stupid , since katanas in real life are in no way better than medievil european swords, rather worse due to the fact that the blade is not fully hardened which means it bends in combat.

Furthermore the handguard leaves a lot to be desired and if anyone thinks a medievil european sword can´t be as sharp as a katana then he should stop watching movies and get his hands on some real swords.

I have a replica of a 9th century viking sword and this thing is freaking scary and sharp as hell, you can flex it as much as you want it will always go back and it cuts like crazy, which is why I know how good those swords are.

Plz devs make the swords on par for the sake of credibility and realism, Katanas are really not those wonderswords hollywood made people believe.

[Driblus]

If you are good at handling puppets, all you'll ever need is an improvised axe or a knife and zero melee skill and you can deal with anything. Better melee weapons makes it quicker and more efficient and last longer, but none of it is ever really required. Just wanted to make that statement.

In my opinion, the best, most efficient way to deal with puppets is with bows or x-bows. There are a lot of tricks that can be used here to ensure dealing with any amount of puppets quite easily and without making any noise other than the puppet death sounds.

[Linea]

Maybe later we could get a simplyfied medical system for puppets, limbs, organs, hitzones and armor values.

Since the european sword is designed to break bones through armor and pierce armored targets it should cause more damage to armored targets and cause sever damage to limbs and organs depending if you smash or pierce the target.
While the katana is designed against unarmored targets and causes sever cutting damage when you slice a target.

[Sugam]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

It is a reliable weapon in my opinion. The Best ist the Katana but the Medieval Sword is also capable of some Action. With the Katana you can kill mostly all puppets with one hit, a Medieval sword needs a averange of 3 hits (if armored Puppet then you will most certainly more.)

If this is true then it´s pretty stupid , since katanas in real life are in no way better than medievil european swords, rather worse due to the fact that the blade is not fully hardened which means it bends in combat.

Furthermore the handguard leaves a lot to be desired and if anyone thinks a medievil european sword can´t be as sharp as a katana then he should stop watching movies and get his hands on some real swords.

I have a replica of a 9th century viking sword and this thing is freaking scary and sharp as hell, you can flex it as much as you want it will always go back and it cuts like crazy, which is why I know how good those swords are.

Plz devs make the swords on par for the sake of credibility and realism, Katanas are really not those wonderswords hollywood made people believe.

Oh boy, here we go. This age old debate can go anywhere as there are many angles to this and mostly are opinions while other facts only work in a 'perfect scenario'. Its true about Hollywood but they do that to nearly everything including your preferred European swords so that's kinda moot.

These these swords are dangerous but to claim one is better then the other is a pointless endeavor.

[Hedge]

I love my poor mans Lucille.

[Your Neighbour]

Originally posted by Sauerkraut:

Just found a 1,5 Hander medieval longsword is it a good melee weapon ?

I think it 1-2 shot any puppet like activated chainsaw

[‡ Torro ‡]

medevil sword will kill most zombies in 2-3 hits..katanas 1-2, bushman knife 2-3.

[Cylixx]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

"something about swords"

Okay Sword-man.