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PinoyPablo Mar 30, 2021 @ 1:38pm
WHY IS THERE NO GREATSWORDS
I wish they added a Greatsword type of weapons I mean there are great hammers why not greatswords?
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Wyrlish Mar 30, 2021 @ 1:41pm 
There aren't really any greatswords dating from when the vikings as we know them were in operation. It just wasn't a weapon style that is associated with them historically.
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Cougarific Mar 30, 2021 @ 1:42pm 
If you really want it there are some kick-ass weapons mods on Nexus (including greatswords).
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Combat Wombat Mar 30, 2021 @ 1:46pm 
Not a Viking weapon. Im pretty sure Vikings rarely used any 2-handed weapons other than spears.
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Landorf Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:01pm 
Vikings did not use twohanded swords. Since they had no good steel and tech.
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Gremmy Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:05pm 
Originally posted by Landorf:
Vikings did not use twohanded swords. Since they had no good steel and tech.
They did have pretty decent steel actually, but it was expensive af so even owning a sword meant you were very wealthy, and the steel required for a great sword would be stupid expensive for one weapon as well as that expensive weapon being impractical for the tactics vikings used.
Last edited by Gremmy; Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:05pm
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Landorf Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:15pm 
And, i'd say, twohander is a weapon of a very strong man. And it cant be his ONLY weapon.
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Charcharodonto Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:21pm 
Originally posted by Landorf:
And, i'd say, twohander is a weapon of a very strong man. And it cant be his ONLY weapon.

Not true. Swords are well balanced, they require less strenght to use then a mace or axe. even two handed swords.

And no soldier went to war with only 1 weapon, they all had at the very least a sort of Dagger or small sword as back up.
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pipo.p Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:29pm 
Originally posted by Combat Wombat:
Not a Viking weapon. Im pretty sure Vikings rarely used any 2-handed weapons other than spears.
And halberds.

Great swords have been disruptive weapons (in all meanings) used by berserker champions against tight enemy formations. They are useless to a single adventurer or a small group.


Originally posted by MeaNGremmy:
They did have pretty decent steel actually
Quality steel was bought from southern lands, as I read. That's why it was rare and expansive.
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oulala Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:31pm 
Originally posted by Wyrlish:
There aren't really any greatswords dating from when the vikings as we know them were in operation. It just wasn't a weapon style that is associated with them historically.
im neutral if it makes it to the game or not, but really historical accuracy isnt the selling point of this game.
the wikings arent known to use super heavy two handed hammers either.
or have horns on their helmets, unlike popular belief (drake helmet) or make weapons out of silver ect.....
Last edited by oulala; Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:32pm
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Katitoff Mar 30, 2021 @ 2:59pm 
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
I wish they added a Greatsword type of weapons I mean there are great hammers why not greatswords?
Because vikings haven't used them?
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oulala Mar 30, 2021 @ 3:03pm 
Originally posted by Katitoff:
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
I wish they added a Greatsword type of weapons I mean there are great hammers why not greatswords?
Because vikings haven't used them?
there are many things ingame that the vikings didnt use, this isnt a valid argument.
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Octopuses Mar 30, 2021 @ 3:33pm 
Originally posted by Wyrlish:
There aren't really any greatswords dating from when the vikings as we know them were in operation. It just wasn't a weapon style that is associated with them historically.

Carrots were also purple and not orange, I don't see your point.
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Humpenstilzchen Mar 30, 2021 @ 3:41pm 
Depends on if the developer want to keep at least a bit of realism in the game, if so then there can´t be greatswords.

Norsemen and Vikings didn´t use great swords. They primarily used spears, then axes and then swords. Swords were expensive so most of them used spears and axes.
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Rat Mar 30, 2021 @ 3:48pm 
They should add Greatsword because it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome, and RUNE has it, so, why not? its fantasy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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Gromarch Mar 30, 2021 @ 3:55pm 
They didn't build in stone, had windmills, blast furnaces, magical mead potions and a ton of the other stuff we see in Valheim either.
Realism have never been part of this game.
Only one helmet were ever found in Scandinavia and is confirmed by archeologists and other scholars as a "viking" helmet and yet we have what, 5 different helmet type headgears?
One of them even with dragoon horns...
Please, stop talking about realism in Valheim; its a viking inspired fantasy game.
And it's utterly awesome, dont get me wrong, but not based on historical realism.
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