Do you think From Soft ever gonna change this dumb shoulder carry animation for 2h weapons to something more pleasant to look at? (2024)

Character's wrist is broken on 90% of them for starters

>just rest the edge of this giant, heavy blade right on your shoulder, bro
Looking "cool" isn't an excuse for how moronic this pose is

But I want the cool, weighty animations of a two-hander.

that would look absolutely fricking moronic and i am so so so so SO glad you dont work in game development

moron take, that would completely break the balance

Based, I ran through DS 1 to 3 with a cheat engine table replacing the animations for 2h weapons with 1h and using the weapons was so much more enjoyable.

They already do essentially have two breakpoints, since you "gain" a +50% bonus to STR when two-handing. Using a two-handed sword should be cumbersome with one hand; however, what I think they need to do is incorporate more movesets like they created with the Milady. There's NO reason that the light greatsword moveset shouldn't also be applied to other greatswords and even some colossals. Go look at real life zweihander combat. They can be agile as frick.

Wow there buckaroo, next you're gonna say DEX should increase the amount of strikes you can deliver or allow you to Sekiro-parry
Not gonna be dishonest anon, if stats at different values increased how easy you can wield a weapon or give it special effects it would be kino but good luck making From Soft upgrade their engine for such things, besides bosses and AOW they are really conservative with their mechanics.

Actual reasons to pump stats beyond the softcap would be welcome so it's not just the same meta sh*t build every single game. softcaps not existing would also be welcome so that people have to actually choose to sacrifice damage for health/carry weight/stamina/ect instead of getting their cake and eating it too as long as they're high enough level.

If I wanted a straight sword moveset I would use a straight sword FFS.
Why would you take away the entire purpose of using an ultra greatsword, which is to get the satisfying feeling of those big meaty swings?

They hated him for telling the truth.

guard over the shoulder, resting the hilt on the shoulder

That's 1h being held with two hands.

why the frick didn't we get this back. i hate how straight swords are held 2-handed now

Why is my gramps your player character?

well they had to make stuff from scratch for AC6 at least

that's more on them being codelets and having sh*t dev cycles than anything else

>>but not complaining about how you hold it exactly like a straight sword in your left hand
That drives me up the frickin wall.
How many games has it been?

>it was in Demon Souls, can't two-hand off-hand, sure, old game
>it was in DS1, a little ridiculous that they didn't fix the "left hand weapon just attacks like a shield with R2 being the first R1 attack," still can't two-hand off-hand
>completely fixed in DS2, left-handed weapons is legitimate strategy (but then fricked it up by making you lose out on like 10% damage and use up more stamina for literally no reason despite the existence of power-stance, one of the best things the series added, only the Artorias Greatsword is viable because of this)
>EXACT same sh*t in DS3, but at least you can two-hand offhand...?
>finally fixed in Elden Ring, left-handing is an actual strategy, but awkward to use with ashes of war and shields since shield R2 is technically an ash of war, so it just casts the ash of war of your left hand
why the frick is being left-handed in these games such a sin, that Artorias himself was drowned by the abyss for it?

am i the only one who thinks they should just drop the whole dual weird thing? the movesets and stances look absolutely fricking moronic and take me out of the experience

Play Nioh 1 & 2.

Just play kingdom heats it's better than every single soulslike

i always assumed the huge weapons with high STR req are meant to be two-handed by default and going to the actual STR req one-handed is basically that

uhm actually you could carry it in your rectum in dark souls 2

Yeah, I wish all weapon types had two light and heavy variations of attacks.
And the ones that do, there should be a more even split of them.
Knights greatsword is cool, but only 3 greatswords have that moveset out of the like 2 dozen greatswords is sh*t.
Weapon categories should be more like the halberds.

>I hate that I know how every greatsword and straight sword will handle before using them
no you don't because some of them do have different light/heavy attack animations
if you want a new moveset then pick up another weapon type, it's dumb to give entirely new animations to every single weapon

genuinely ugly, I hate this in every game that does it. Looks so fricking moronic. Yeah let me just keep my weapon behind me
even the monhun bodybuilder sword carry is way better

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