One Handed Throwing Hatchet: A new niche in weapons revealed

[Trentiel]

Why don't we have a one-handed throwing blade?

With the new One-handed secondaries and Glaive combo system, I went to equip a silenced pistol / glaive pair on my Ivara and found that the only single-handed silenced pistol in the game is Ballistica. Which got me thinking... Why don't we have a one-handed throwing blade? What would that look like?

Clearly, it needs to be a hatchet. SO! I drew one like the Zoren / Scindo.

The idea is that it's a throwing hatchet, heavy hitting, low magazine size / fire rate.

Single handed, rather than two handed. Unlike the throwing knives and stars we have currently.

Edited July 5, 2017 by Trentiel

[.LeiA._]

Ooooh ! Hatchet ! Nice idea you got here. Add Chain & Sickle, too, please, so we can throw the sickle, stuck on an enemy and pull it towards us. Chain & Sickle is one of the famous ninja weapon so why not ?

The pic you're linking is not showing btw

Edited July 5, 2017 by .LeiA._

[Trentiel]

12 minutes ago, .LeiA._ said:

Ooooh ! Hatchet ! Nice idea you got here. Add Chain & Sickle, too, please, so we can throw the sickle, stuck on an enemy and pull it towards us. Chain & Sickle is one of the famous ninja weapon so why not ?

The pic you're linking is not showing btw

I updated the image. Had to finally go get an imgur account.

I think you'll see, this is not a Melee weapon. It's a Secondary throwing weapon. Like throwing stars, but heavier, and one handed. Would probably need new animations.

[NinthAria]

34 minutes ago, Trentiel said:

Would probably need new animations.

Not to be a downer, but this right here is why it'll probably be a while before we see anything like this, if we do at all. The speargun weapons had a gap of probably a year or so between the teaser/concept and the implementation, entirely because new a new grip type means new poses, animations, idles, etc. for both animation sets on 30+ warframes--and needless to say, that's a pretty tall order.

Would be cool to have some single-handed throwing weapons though. Axes, spears, bigger throwing blades--to say nothing of whatever DE is crazy enough to come up with themselves.

[Trentiel]

1 minute ago, NinthAria said:

Not to be a downer, but this right here is why it'll probably be a while before we see anything like this, if we do at all. The speargun weapons had a gap of probably a year or so between the teaser/concept and the implementation, entirely because new a new grip type means new poses, animations, idles, etc. for both animation sets on 30+ warframes--and needless to say, that's a pretty tall order.

Would be cool to have some single-handed throwing weapons though. Axes, spears, bigger throwing blades--to say nothing of whatever DE is crazy enough to come up with themselves.

Yeah I know. But I just had to.