Update #42: Weapons and animations!

Throwing swords would've been cool to see. Also that whip motion really reminds me of Mirror of Fate. Come at me fanboys.

Seems like it.

And I love the spear's animation. Dunno why, but it feels so fluid to me.

All right, so thoughts on things. I'm basically on the same page as croc here, also:

Large weapons/two-handed sword: Slightly disappointed that the two-hander sword animation is the wood chopping again, lol. I guess it makes sense though if you need to categorize them with hammers and "rods", which I'm assuming they're talking about larger clubs, bar maces, big staves? When I think "rod", I think of a smaller single-hand wooden magician's rod with a crystal or elemental gem on top of it.

Whips: Speaking of crouching attack animations, I imagine that the whip's would have to be something especially unique since the normal standing attack already covers the same space that a crouching attack would. I must say that I will definitely miss the classic, perfectly straight horizontal freeze frames of the whip attack, but maybe a few select weapons could still do that ("chain whip", "whip of alchemy"?)

Guns/ammo: Like you other guys, I'm curious about this. The Sorrow guns weren't particularly great, so here's hoping that giving them limited ammunition this time around means they will be a significant weapon category. I do wonder how convenient/easy it will be to switch to another method of attack quickly to use not-ammo during standard gameplay when you just want to hit a candle or test a wall. She will need an attack that doesn't have a cost associated with it for just exploring. It would be pretty annoying if you had to even hot swap your equip set just to do that.

Lastly, yeah...good call on the speed run contest, but they did just say "a future update" right? They could save that announcement for when the demo period ends. Similarly, they had called for umbrella videos to be featured in future updates, but I think only a couple of people were nerd enough to do that (I was one of them heh).

I'm pretty hyped now, I enjoyed looking at every animation there and I really love how they added an idle stance for each weapon type.. this is sick!

I'm just wondering how would the whip animation work mid-air ?

The whip animation was awesome.

Kinda vaguely reminded me of one of the attack animations from Lament of Innocence...

The gun's shooting animation and idle pose gave me a chuckle (in a good way)

Maybe she can use the butt of the gun for close attacks? or when she is out of ammo

That whip animation!!

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I want to do some analysis / speculation about the weapon types and it's characteristics!

Considering the update, the demo, the info we already had, older Igavanias and some speculation, i THINK the weapons will work more or less like this:

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WEAPONS TYPES	DAMAGE TYPE	ANIMATION	DAMAGE POWER	RANGE	ATTACK SPEED
Shoes	Blunt	Kick	Low	Low	High
Swords	Cut	single-handed horizontal slash	Medium	Medium	Medium
Maces	Thrust	single-handed horizontal slash	Medium	Medium	Low
Short Swords	Cut	single-handed pierce	Low	Low	High
Rapiers	Thrust	single-handed pierce	Low	Medium	Medium
Katanas	Cut	single-handed vertical slash	Medium	Medium	Medium
Great Swords	Cut	two-handed vertical slash	High	High	Low
Axes	Cut	two-handed vertical slash	High	High	Low
Rods	Blunt	two-handed vertical slash	Medium	High	Medium
Spears	Thrust	two-handed pierce	Medium	High	Low
Whips	Blunt	own whip motion	Medium	Medium	High
Guns	Thrust	shooting	High	High	Low

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As i said, this chart is based on many things AND speculation.
Anyone agree with me?