Spoilers: New weapon types?

[Tyreek]

Still no slicers? Ugh. Guess I'll still be holding out hope for the eventual return of PSO/PSU's lovely weapon set. Been waiting on katana class to come back though. Had a feeling it'd return. At least to satiate the folks who miss the single saber classes over gunslashes. Hope the attacks functions are a step up from the PSO style.

[Laxedrane]

Nice to hear that. I was actually hoping they made katana their own class again. Even though my main has a tech focus my melee character will be fun with this addition. Although I won't go OMG until I hear sega officially announce the release of new weapon classes.

Now we just need Shotguns, Slicers, and whips to round out the "Most requested weapon classes" circuit Sega!

[NoiseHERO]

hopefully this katana will also cover some people's issue with gunslash not really being the kind of normal sized sword they wanted. (hell put me on that list of people even though GS grew on me, but then GS wasn't pro nuff.)

Hopefully katana will be an awesome/decent standalone weapon that won't have to be accompanied by a gun(because this isn't PSU) and won't be too weak to use for longer than lower levels (because it's not a basic saber.)

[Alisha]

wheres the katana because im not seeing it?

[NoiseHERO]

wheres the katana because im not seeing it?

Nothing visible, same with bow OP was just making a guess.

But those names alone are in game data. (I'm assuming we won't even see them first half of this year since we only got half of the road map.) And they're probably still in major development.

So yeah people can put their pants back on, because it'll be a long few months otherwise. D:

[gigawuts]

The biggest thing is the fact that there's stuff in the files about boosting rare droprates for your current class.

That's kind of a big deal.

edit: Also, I too hope they do slicers with the katana class. Just had a thought of a talis-like melee weapon, performing very similarly. You can do all PA's at point blank, or do a normal attack to fling out a blade to cast PA's off of. Normal attacks would still hit 4 targets and be much stronger than a talis, obviously, and use SATK as well.

[Alisha]

what if katana's just turn out to be wands. would you still want them?

[gigawuts]

You mean if they were split damage, had a gear that only brought them up to ordinary performance, were on a mediocre class that essentially demanded being combined with another, much stronger class when mained, and had no unique PA's but instead performed identically to a pre-existing weapon except worse in every way but one tiny niche role?

Yes, I think people would still want them, because they're katanas.

[UnLucky]

You mean if they were split damage, had a gear that only brought them up to ordinary performance, were on a mediocre class that essentially demanded being combined with another, much stronger class when mained, and had no unique PA's but instead performed identically to a pre-existing weapon except worse in every way but one tiny niche role?

Yes, I think people would still want them, because they're katanas.

I hope it's all-class so I can show it off without switching mains.

[yoshiblue]

If it did become a force weapon, I can see it mixing Tech attack for damage much like slicers in PSZ. Maybe add light saber mode to it too. Light blade on, light blade off.