My New Weapon Idea

[Metou]

Chain daggers weapon drawing idea

 

 

Dagger

Sword

 

Edited August 5, 2013 by Metou

[PsychedelicSnake]

Aside from the animation trouble coming from a weapon like this, it seems like it'd be fun to use.

[GIMO]

How would you use this? Like Nunchucks but more geared towards slashing?

[Metou]

Well I am not a programer, I would assume you just need two hit boxes like Orthos or Orthos Prime have.

Edited August 5, 2013 by Metou

[PyroPaul]

Sword-Chuck yo'

ah, 8-bit theater...

 

 

That aside...

you're thinking of a kusarigama... which is a scythe and counterweight attached by a chain...  

 

dual daggers attached by a chain would be... impractical to say the least, as catching it after a sweeping attack would mean you'd probably end up trying to catch the blade with your hand.   Ouch.

[Metou]

I have made a kusarigama, it was the second 3d model I made.

 

[PyroPaul]

the implementation of a sickle and chain would actually be do-able.

primary attack's would give you a fast dagger speed attack while charge attacks launch a large sweeping attack as you twirl the chain-linked off weapon in a large arc and happen much so at the speed of a heavy weapon like the 2-handed weapons.

 

the balancing trade off is that the sweeping attacks have a large area of effect, larger so then a 2 handed sweep, capable of hitting more foes then most weapons... but you do this with much lighter damage. 

 

difficulty would could be rendering, animations, and realizing it (ie- making it fit in the game's rule set), as you're looking at trying to implement what effectively is a short weapon with about 8 feet of chain link's attached to the end...   

 

on that thought... you could have it 'energy-locked'  using the particle effects similar to the osprey shield drone ray connecting several 'links' which can condense and expand the perspective 'chain', allowing only a foot of slack to be able to transform into a 3 meter sweep.