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Winter Teaser #4 - Artifact Weapons

Winter Teaser #4 - Artifact Weapons​

On the First day of Christmas
My good lord brought to me
A sword with a gilded filigree.

Hello and happy holidays! Hope you’ve had a grand time celebrating, or maybe you’re already preparing for the new year?

With the Royal Court a plethora of new weapon looks will be made available. They can be carried into duels, or shown off in your courts where they will be placed prominently on weapon stands for all to view. In this teaser we’ll be showing off a few more of them up close.​

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The King of France, Charles II, trying to live up to his ancestor Charles Martel “The Hammer” name in battle, wielding the signature weapon.

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When they are crafted or generic weapons are wielded the game will pick an appropriate weapon from either the culture of the character's origin. So any weapon a character has acquired and equipped in their personal inventory will be wielded.​

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Swords and sabers, elegant and a way of showing off one's wealth

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Daggers may not have reach, but they’re much more up close and personal. Et tu, Brute?

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What self respecting berserker would be caught without his axe?

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Mace, for chasing off attackers since before recorded history.

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For the experienced spearman.

And with that its a wrap for this short teaser, hope your holidays have been a great one and until next time, Happy new years!
 
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Imagine the in-game lore you can make with that. Like imagine you and your dynasty have a rival dynasty for generations and in a duel with the current dynastic head, you whip out the weapon that stomped that dynasty in war generations before just to stomp them again, honoring the memory of your ancestors. Such bliss!
 
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Imagine the in-game lore you can make with that. Like imagine you and your dynasty have a rival dynasty for generations and in a duel with the current dynastic head, you whip out the weapon that stomped that dynasty in war generations before just to stomp them again, honoring the memory of your ancestors. Such bliss!
Orrrr, whip out the sword your grandfather won from your rival's grandfather two generations ago, so you can add a healthy dose of insult to injury when you defeat them. Oh that would be so satisfying.
 

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Will there be just few sets of generic weapon looks tied to few major cultural groups, e.g. like it is with the map city models tied with 3-4 culture groups?


Or one can hope there will be enough regional weapons variety.
 

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This looks awesome! Can't wait to finally play it!
One thing I would like to see is some sort of hooks or something so that the weapons don't seem to magically stick to the wall, otherwise great work!
 

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I liked this dev diary but I cannot help but notice the conspicuous lack of shields used by characters in battle.
Do you plan to add them in this update or later on?

Later on, if the mortality of characters would be too high.
 

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If you think medieval warhammers were hulking monstrosities like the ones that hollywood / anime / videogames are using all the time, I might advise a quick google search on how they actually looked like.
I was like "what tiny hammer? did they show mjolnir and I missed?" but no he was talking about hammer that guy was using
my god... That thing is great for battle and when not breaking stuff