A peak of Titan Weapons in action...

I'm maxing out the height slider for mine. I saw that, and at first it took me a second to figure out what the guy was holding. But when I enlarged the screenshot and looked at it, I was all like "OMG, WANT!"

Seriously, I can't wait to get this. And I can't wait to see the vanguard version either.

It's a trick. Their showing us a screen with a Titan Weapon, but in the spirit of Halloween, we'll be getting another powerset.

So, this means the set will definitely be out in time for the event (the 20th)?

Really..really tempted to reroll my BS/DA Scrapper.

Bleh.

Enjoy, folks who wanted this sort of thing... I hate the way it looks so much >.<

I didn't think this powerset had even been tested yet, let alone was anywhere close to being released. Not that I would complain if there's been some sort of closed beta testing and it's ready to roll

(In case you couldn't tell by my sig) I've got plans for a big gargoyle with a bigger sword! Been what I wanted since Issue 0, but at least in a post I6 world, I can roll him as a Brute too Momentum, Bruising, and Fury

Oh em geeeeeeeee

socool

hope theres a giant axe in there somewhere so i can actually have a brute concept id be happy with.

If it doesn't have a scythe as a weapon choice...."I'm disappoint"....

Ugh, the character using the sword is clad in blue.

Titan weapons is fail.










/sarcasm

[QUOTE=ItsJustJake;3933558]if its free/QUOTE]

It isn't

I can't help thinking it should be bigger, myself, but I stopped and asked myself "why." My original requests were two - that the weapon be larger than the Legacy Broadsword for women, and I think this one is, and that the weapon when stood on its end be taller than the character wielding it, which this one looks like it will be. So why does it feel small even when it's not?

The answer is actually quite simple - the weapon is close to half hilt. That is to say, almost half of the weapon's total length looks to be hilt. This is a problem for a couple of reasons.

1. Proportionally speaking, having such a large hilt-to-blade ratio makes the weapon feel unbalanced and also makes it short. By putting much of the weapon's weight behind the grip, it makes it feel like less of a cleanly swinging weapon, and by putting the grip so far forward, it makes the weapon feel shorter than it is.

Ideally, I'd like to see weapons with longer blades and about that length of hilt, as a weapon's length is really mostly measured past the grip if the dominant hand. From the right hand forward, that sword is a little short.

2. The weapon doesn't have enough blade, on speaking more generally, it doesn't have enough "contact area." It's a big weapon in terms of physical size, but much of that size is behind the character and not really taking part in the action. A larger contact area and a longer weapon body would help mitigate that greatly. In fact, I'd like to see a weapon that, when stood on its end, brought the gripping hand up to the character's shoulder level, if not higher. I don't think the weapon in this pic does that.

Ideally, I'd want to see a weapon which is significantly longer than it is wide, which isn't a request to make the weapon narrower, but rather to make it longer. Right now, it looks a little stubby.

Actually, here's an example of what I'm thinking - take a Rularuu's Bane and lengthen the blade to be as long as the character is tall, then lengthen the hilt by a factor of about two or three, and that should be a bout right.

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Of course, that's me being analytical. I still LOVE what I'm seeing from the set, and hope to see longer weapons as part of it. I love the VERY wide grip, as that really helps make the weapon feel bigger, heavier and stronger, and I actually do like that stance, even if the coat tail clips through the right leg. The weapon in question does look like a Buster Sword, but I like the Buster sword so I have no complaints here.

As for the weapon not seeming to make sense with non-sword weapons, let me put it like this - from the very beginning, it was obvious that Titanic Weapons would be structured with a hilt area and a weapon body area, and they will have a fist-grip hilt. That was true for all the three weapons shown. You can't wield the sample Buster Sword any other way. It's probably not going to be a literal sword set, in the sense that it will have weapons other than bladed swords, but it's still going to be a swordLIKE set, just by virtue of the weapon type framework the set works off of.

Overall, I'm happy with the screenshot, but I still hope that a longer-bladed alternate weapon exists. I'm also hoping for a tech/energy one, as well

*edit*
It occurs to me that I failed to overstate a particular point: I WANT THIS SET! Even just that one weapon is awesome, and looks like it weighs a ton. I can so use that weapon. Please, GIMME!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.