IDK if I would penalize certain weapons or playstyles. The "broken" dual wielding only happens late in the game when the player can also have artificial limbs and God tier stats. It's also balanced out by the brutal difficulty of some of the end game enemies.

Thus in early game, dexterity requirements could put players off some builds, while in late game, they wouldn't matter for players that build for high stats.

Handedness could be a nice hidden statistic, like talents. But if we have right handedness, we should definitely have left handedness!

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I think the three fighting styles are well defined, designed and with the shield buff even well balanced. Dual-wielding is not really OP, IMHO. See how many enemies use two-handed weapons and are deadly with them.

RE: buffing sword blocks. You would need to balance this change out. The swords are already pretty good. If you boost their block without some counter, you're buffing already good weapon for no good reason.

I think so, too.


I think you misunderstand. The lower block value is not a problem, it's intentional, because of game balance.


You cannot mix "realism" and superpowers. With as much LStr as it takes AStr to dual-wield halberds, you can kick down weaker walls (you can try it in UT, it's fun!). When the PC has enough AStr to dual-wield halberds, they are basically superstrong and can wield whatever they please.


And can you swing with it at an opponent? Or at least try stabbing it into something. It will be very awkward, if you can even retain your hold.

That already is in the game.

If you check, larger weapon already have overall lower accuracy ratings than smaller weapons. Adamant dagger will still be rather accurate, but an adamant longsword will be very inaccurate. Dual-wielding smaller weapons is already much more viable than using any larger weapon, until we start to get into superhuman AStr and Dex, and then any real-world analogy falls apart. And two-handed weapons are already stronger than small weapons because they use AStr of both of your hands, pack a bigger punch and are good at blocking.

The spreadsheets are a bit hard to compare, given how each has differently sized columns and different order of entries.

Two-handed weapons are generally big, which also means that they have higher damage and block values compared to one-handed weapons made of similar materials. They don't really need another buff.

But as fejoa said, 2H weapons are already strong when two-handed, but become even better when you have the AStr to dual-wield them.

Can you still load the backup file? When you try loading the game, it should prompt you to use either the backup or the autosave, maybe the backup will not be corrupted.

I don't think that will be necesarry with the smaller/better worldmap fejoa wants to work on.


That's my dream, too. Maybe one day I will figure out how to do that.

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I share that sentiment. I do think they are weak/fragile enough not to be a danger unless they surprise you, but they are annoying as hell.

The FC level with several sirens was envisioned as about as annoying as the Enner level. Not directly as damaging, but very dangerous if you don't come prepared and let yourself get into a bad position.


I could make it weaker.

Right now, they're like kobolds - just don't eat them. There's always the guaranteed altar to Seges.

BTW, what are your thoughts on nurphe bats?

They have a different color, bot maybe not different enough. Nurphe bats are pale with purple eyes, maybe I could make them bright purple? And aranea spiders are reddish, so I will make them deeper red.