What is the first best sword to buy?

[Shin_Hell]

as above, I'm in the first hour of the game and I've unlocked the camp where I can buy 3 sword, are they worth anything?

[Aemony]

Did you go back to the Factory and pick up the sword you lost from the Prologue? If not, do so. You access the area through the highway close to where you landed in the city ruins. You access the highway by jumping on top of an old bus that's situated just below and at the end of the highway.

The sword in question (a 2-handed one, I believe) can be found outside of the factory, at the end of the platform (where you previously ran down across that miles long road that crossed the water and fought the final boss of the prologue).

Beyond that, it's mostly a matter of choice and preference as you'll eventually unlock the ability to level up weapons, and so weapons mostly just differs in their combos and slightly different base stats.

But with the initial one-handed (light) sword you've got combined with the two-handed (heavy) sword you had in the prologue, you'll be set for quite a while if you don't want to buy another weapon.

[Prinny]

the best weapon is no weapon. barehanded only.

oh you mean based on the stats? pick the one with the highest dmg stats. it's easy to see.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Spears and gauntlets have ranged attack and I like them.

In the end you have to upgrade everything, so might as well practice with all weapon types.

[Distance Of Shadows]

At first I liked a Spear, Virtuous Dignity, (found between city ruins and amusment part after climbing a ladder in the sewer, and a Long Sword combination. After light attacking with the spear and then using a long sword, it has a cool spinning attack combo.

But then I started to love 2Bs starting sword, Virtuous Contract, which I upgraded and the long sword stuck in the ground in front of the factory, Virtuous Treaty. They also look really cool ^^

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by The Zebu:

the best weapon is no weapon. barehanded only.

oh you mean based on the stats? pick the one with the highest dmg stats. it's easy to see.

maybe for 9S, hard pass for 2B and A2. The damage is completely lost in losing your ability to combo.
This isn't Dark Souls where you need to worry about sneaking a single big hit into an opening, you can just dodge-spam and abuse the hell out of counterattack i-frames for the entirety of the game.

[Totenheim]

Damage is very similar among the same weapon type. Go for the ones you like the most visual and gameplay wise, very rarely your election will be a problem.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Doktor von Totenheim:

Damage is very similar among the same weapon type. Go for the ones you like the most visual and gameplay wise, very rarely your election will be a problem.

That too, that goes for everything in game.
I got almost all the way through the S-rank colosseum at level 76 with a trash-tier plugin layout and no pod upgrades.
Switching to mediocre plugins and maxing out the gatling just trivialized the whole thing.
You don't have to put any thought into a build until special rank.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Well you won´t win rank 99 colosseum if you don´t know what you are doing. THAT´s the real proof of skill.

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by Aemony:

Did you go back to the Factory and pick up the sword you lost from the Prologue?

Haha, I was "stuck" on some of the first objectives (the Trader and the Weapons guy) in the first camp, and I was looking all over for anything to do, trying to find the scrap I needed...

When I suddenly realized I was heading back to the beginning area of the game, so I kept going. I finally found a spot with someone (an android?) lying on the ground, and there was a sword sticking in the ground straight up. So, I grabbed it. I also picked up one of the loot items and immediately received like a hundred Small restores, all the junk to complete my objectives, and a million other generic loot items. I was like wtf?

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Originally posted by Aemony:

Did you go back to the Factory and pick up the sword you lost from the Prologue?

Haha, I was "stuck" on some of the first objectives (the Trader and the Weapons guy) in the first camp, and I was looking all over for anything to do, trying to find the scrap I needed...

When I suddenly realized I was heading back to the beginning area of the game, so I kept going. I finally found a spot with someone (an android?) lying on the ground, and there was a sword sticking in the ground straight up. So, I grabbed it. I also picked up one of the loot items and immediately received like a hundred Small restores, all the junk to complete my objectives, and a million other generic loot items. I was like wtf?

That's your corpse, you should always go loot it after you die, like Dark Souls but you stand to gain more from it.

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Haha, I was "stuck" on some of the first objectives (the Trader and the Weapons guy) in the first camp, and I was looking all over for anything to do, trying to find the scrap I needed...

When I suddenly realized I was heading back to the beginning area of the game, so I kept going. I finally found a spot with someone (an android?) lying on the ground, and there was a sword sticking in the ground straight up. So, I grabbed it. I also picked up one of the loot items and immediately received like a hundred Small restores, all the junk to complete my objectives, and a million other generic loot items. I was like wtf?

That's your corpse, you should always go loot it after you die, like Dark Souls but you stand to gain more from it.

That's strange. I haven't died since the Prologue.

Wait.. Was that part of the scripted story (cutscene)? I took my headphones off and wasn't looking at the screen at one point. Bet that was it. Thanks for the heads up. I won't be distracted again.

[Aemony]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Originally posted by Aemony:

Did you go back to the Factory and pick up the sword you lost from the Prologue?

Haha, I was "stuck" on some of the first objectives (the Trader and the Weapons guy) in the first camp, and I was looking all over for anything to do, trying to find the scrap I needed...

When I suddenly realized I was heading back to the beginning area of the game, so I kept going. I finally found a spot with someone (an android?) lying on the ground, and there was a sword sticking in the ground straight up. So, I grabbed it. I also picked up one of the loot items and immediately received like a hundred Small restores, all the junk to complete my objectives, and a million other generic loot items. I was like wtf?

Yeah, that's your corpse and items from the end of the Prologue chapter, the scripted cutscene that plays out.

[burnoutberry23]

unless you're playing on very hard mode it really doesn't matter what you upgrade first. I'd say just stick with your original weapons. Even on very hard it gets pretty easy later on