Shield Samurai? | Forums

[ZenBearV13]

Anyone else irritated that they have not only the basic samurai mooks with shields, but also actual "hero" characters (ie target-able, duel-able enemies) in the demo? I know it's not direct historical accuracy, and the Samurai of this world likely have plenty of metal to craft shields, but I don't like it. I would have been happier if shields simply didn't exist in the Samurai faction.

[Arashitora]

Anyone else irritated that they have not only the basic samurai mooks with shields, but also actual "hero" characters (ie target-able, duel-able enemies) in the demo? I know it's not direct historical accuracy, and the Samurai of this world likely have plenty of metal to craft shields, but I don't like it. I would have been happier if shields simply didn't exist in the Samurai faction.

I agree with you.

[Ymir.exe]

I can deal with ashigaru (footsoldiers) having shields. After 1000 years of war against vikings and knights it's not a stretch to think they would realise how useful shields can be. But the hero characters and player characters definitely shouldn't have them. Maybe they could do something else that's more thematically appropriate, but still has the same function, although personally I'm not opposed to asymmetry. I would actually probably prefer asymmetrical gameplay. Having them all behave exactly the same and just be different reskins would be a downer.

[Eidard]

I dont mind samurais with shield as long as every faction has different mechanics for their shield classes.

[DerHerbman]

They could use double sword style instead of a shield, like a Tanto and a Katana. Or a Sai, or double Sai, a Kusarigama, where the chain works like the shield.... so many options!

[Sir_Beefing]

Really like the idea of duel wielding swords. I picture it being like how fencers us parrying daggers.

[TripleJay_X]

double sword sounds good.

a club and a sword..... you can throw the club at one oppoenents face and the sword to stab the other one.....and a leg-kick to the other opponents nuts..... ultra-execution... epic stuff

@sir-beefing. is that fight in your avatar gameplay-stuff, becoming gameplay-stuff?!

[MisterWillow]

I was pretty surprised to see a Hero samurai with a shield. I agree that dual swords would have been more suitable.

But then, I remember one of the devs saying that there were some elements in singleplayer that were not going to be in multiplayer, so the Shield Samurai might be one of those things.

[Sir_Beefing]

@sir-beefing. is that fight in your avatar gameplay-stuff, becoming gameplay-stuff?!

I have no idea. The footage was taken from the cinematic story trailer but i would love to see something like it actually in the game. Maybe as a form of quick execution or something

[HideoshiKaze.TV]

They said this is their own world in the masterclass. Also it's not going to be totally historacally accurate.