Swordsman Archive

Note: I haven't confirmed this myself and things may change, at present consider this -- at best -- a rumor.

There is word that the Acklay in the geo caves is dropping bone fragments that act as high-powered reinforcement cores which get used in power hammers. This could mean a nice new way to enhance your weapons.

Right now the stats that people have been reporting seem almost too good to be true (adding literally hundreds of damage). We've killed Acklay a few times and haven't seen any of these (just some padded segments and some grenade enhancers).

Anyway, that's just an FYI. I wouldn't be surprised if these guys were changed a bit before the Geo caves open, we'll have to see. They do seem perhaps a bit too powerful (if adding a couple hundred damage to a power hammer sounds nice, imagine doing that to a stun baton -- ouch!). Either way I'm excited to finally see some worthwhile enhanced weapon components for swordsmen to play with. If I get time I'll try to mount a prolonged camp on the Acklay later this week.

StGabe.

Message Edited by StGabriel on 02-23-2004 11:23 AM

Awesome!

Thank you for the update.

Exploiting now, eh?

Think it was made with this component somehow?

Well it's quite possible that the story in that thread is legit: that these are exceptional looted reinforcement cores. Or they could be hiding the fact that they snuck into the Geo caves. I would have to see some bone fragments to better guess.

StGabe.

Can you make the scythes without going into the geno caves?

Message Edited by QuadLazerX on 02-23-2004 01:53 PM

Really I would hope they dont remove them. As you said they promised us damage increases which we really do need since our bleeds have been taken away from us. It's pretty unbalanced against us now.

Just great...

What are the devs smoking? We've told them a thousand times at least, that we are SWORDSmen not HAMMERmen! Bloody hell, I don't know if my level of pissedofficity can get any higher with this game.

Now if it could be used in a cleaver or scythe, that would be awesome. Or even better, if they gave us a new sword that wasn't freakin' kinetic damage.

---

NashDarksabre wrote:
Just great...

What are the devs smoking? We've told them a thousand times at least, that we are SWORDSmen not HAMMERmen! Bloody hell, I don't know if my level of pissedofficity can get any higher with this game.

Now if it could be used in a cleaver or scythe, that would be awesome. Or even better, if they gave us a new sword that wasn't freakin' kinetic damage.

---

We've also told poeple like you a thousand times that we like our hammers, axes, maces, scythes, flails and whatever other awesome 2h weapons there are.

Leave em alone.

All I can say is, for the love of god, make these avalible somewhere other than the Geno Caves. I dont care if they make it 50 times harder to get them, just make some of the drops from the caves avalible elsewhere. Just think about it, on my server there are already quite a few people already in the caves (exploiting), imagine how impossible it to get any drops when they open up. Us loyal, non-exploiting swordsman arent going to see the benefits of the new drops for months if everything keeps getting packed into these caves...

It's important to remember that not all comment is directly geared towards swordsmen.

These loots are reinforcement cores which are usable in several weapons. It just happens that the only swordsman weapon they can be used in is the Power Hammer.

I dunno what will happen here. Heck I can't even say for sure that these are real. Half the reason for posting this thread is to make sure rumors don't go too rampant. This -is- unverified so keep that in mind. Try not to get too upset over something that we aren't even sure exists yet, let alone in what form.

StGabe.