- Councilor_117H2
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Posted by: Master Megatron
Councilor, you keep saying "Oh, you can just attack multiple enemies with two swords! SWORD CHUCKS YO!" It doesn't work like that. Even dual wielding will only let you attack one target at a time.
Let's take your example in gameplay terms. Five Ultra Sangheili attack you at once, you have two swords. Were this God of War, you could take them. You could kick them clean into next year in tiny pieces. As an FPS, there is no way to attack two enemies at once with the current layout. You would kill that one Ultra, yes, but the remaining four would still carve you like holiday ham.
Now, let's work out a control scheme for two reticules at once. one control stick would have to control one sword. You would be trying to maneuver one reticule over one charging Ultra AND put another over another Ultra. This would take time you don't have. By the time you get it, you're shish kebab because of the other three. And since the sword has the lunge, unless those two Ultras are right next to each other, you won't be able to lunge in two directions. Physics says if you tried, you'd fail or tear yourself in two.
So there goes the lunge. That leaves default melee. Pulling the triggers would perform this in dual wield mode, and against Ultras, tough as they are, would be worthless. You'd knock them back or block, but there's your other three behind you turning you into bouillon cubes to stick in a buddy's showerhead (cookie if you get the reference).
So no matter what, those five Sangheili get credit for killing a Demon. It's just an unwinnable fight.
And for MatchMaking, it's more than useless outside of a Swords match, which you never find outside of social playlists and even then, it's rare. And how often do you see more than one sword in a standard map? Never?
Firefight? Let's assume only two Ultras are here. With backup dropping in all over the place, trying to slice two targets at once would be suicide. Your buddies would have to cover you every time you want to look cool. And even if it is literally just the two Ultras, your buddies could finish them off before you got locked on properly, and you'd owe them for the help.
So yeah, your dual-wield sword idea is so worthless and stupid it's not funny. This is a bad idea, this is a bad thread, and you should feel bad, OP.
oh, I feel bad for you... you say my own idea would make me feel bad??? thats crazy.
If I say that 4 or 5 chieftains fight a ODST you would say that it wouldn't work, and that ODST can't weild hammer because they are retarded...
NO the ODST have 2 hands.. so they can weil the Hammer (that myth is over the humans can weil a hammer) and in firefight you WILL fight many chieftains and you CAN win...
the Ulta elites are by far les dangerous than a Chieftain, and you with 2 swords would be able to win.
If you can fight many Chieftains you can fight many Ultas....
[Edited on 09.08.2009 1:37 PM PDT]