>game doesn't have half-swording
dropped
Game doesn't have half-swording
Aaron Sullivan
Carson Price
okay
Sebastian Thompson
Why is the guy in armor so afraid to take a hit? Like, you have armor, dude, take advantage of that and take a hit when you go in for your kill move.
Ayden Green
>I have watched one Matt Easton/Lindybiege video
Carson Torres
how does he not cut his hand?
Jaxon Perry
>slides hand up and down sword edge
Tyler Adams
Because he's a larping pussy
William King
just grab the pomel when he gives it to you and disarm him, he has basically no grip on the sword to resist
Ryder Gray
Swords are shittyass weapons. Halfswording was just making the best out of a situation you shouldn't have been in in the first place.
Aaron Cooper
people (autistic larpers on youtube) who claim you can half-sword with bare hands without getting cut up are fucking retards
making any sort of impact makes an object in your hands move about and with a sharp blade edge it'll cut you up pretty bad.
Dylan King
European steel was generally low quality and dull. If he was using a katana however....
Daniel Moore
>he picked the iron skin skill
Thomas Collins
>game won't let pommels be thrown
Nathaniel Butler
If you get hit you lose the bout, obviously. They aren’t fighting with real weapons either so he wouldn’t be afraid anyway.
Julian Robinson
But why would he go with the tank build when it seems he actually wants the dex build?
Landon Cruz
theyre using edgeless props
Justin Collins
I think the speed of the pommel would break your hand.
Jayden Ward
Armor is light as fuck, mobility and defence are NOT mutually exclusive.
Not getting hit >>>> getting hit regardless of the situation
Jose Thompson
b-but of course in real life it would also work...
Parker Perry
then what's the point of even sharpening it?
might as wall just use a blunt or piercing weapon.
Charles Perez
Imagine actually being this stupid
Joshua Morales
it would if the moron actually wore gloves
Jose Sanchez
This makes zero sense. If all swords were dull, there’s no point in making them swords. The blades are thin because it’s supposed to cut.
Nicholas Gray
Nope these are HEMA guys, they are trying to simulate a real fight.
Gabriel Howard
if he was using genuine nipponese steel he would have lost both of his hands. his first hand for touching the blade, and his second hand as punishment for touching the blade
Josiah Hernandez
So you can get hit and continue fighting? I used to fence so that sort of confuses me I guess. What qualifies as a winning condition then?
Brandon Gomez
>RTL II
Jayden Clark
that crossguard will dent your fucking armor in
thats the whole point of that grip
Ayden Baker
He's a filthy gaijin, his inferior gened hands would melt at touching pure Nippon steel.
Jonathan Gutierrez
MORDHAU lets you do both
Gabriel Hill
m.youtube.com
As long as you slide your hand along the blade, or stab your hand with the point.
That said, a blade that’s gotten a lot of slippery blood on it would be impractical to half-sword.
Gavin Hill
Eli Russell
Stab in the neck or in your eye slit will fuck you up.
Samuel Murphy
>ummmm no that knight can't go off on a quest by himself wearing armour to find the grail he has to have a squire and several horses with which to transport his various layers of armour and also he wouldn't use the shining sword of bravery like swords are useless and nobody ever used them although they're kind of okay when half-swording
is there anything more insufferable than HEMAfaggots trying to dictate the rules of medieval fantasy?
Jaxson Edwards
Wrong. I’ve watched HEMA matches, and people in tournaments don’t pretend to have lost an arm like a larping idiot.
Jayden Morgan
what an embarrassing "fight" :3
Jason Morris
Yeah. Fags like you that believe swords are good on the battlefield. Spears are superior.
Julian Richardson
>game doesn't halve have-swording
Ryder Cook
did I suggest swords were good on real battlefields?
video games aren't real life, sweaty, and fiction is boring when it conforms to your autistic realism checklists.
James Myers
>Skallagrim
Aiden Gomez
i mean the best things are things that are perfectly consistent and all the stuff is generated with simple rules that interact with each other to create complicated realms.
so the game having swords means it'd be cool to have a half-swording feature.
Joseph White
This.
There are many cool things you can actually do in HEMA, but axing something cool just due realism is fucked.
Lucas Cox
Is sallet the best looking helmet?
Josiah Fisher
Fuck, someone beat me to it.
Thomas Mitchell
and MORDHAU is a fucking waste of $30 because there's no bugfixing or balance
Aiden Powell
you get health back from kills so the game is really really gay.
Jordan Torres
you need to be smashed in the head like the knight did
Joseph Richardson
Lots of medieval soldiers carried whet stones to sharpen their blades during down time. Sure the weaponry wasn't always good quality but new weapons were easily available on a battlefield due to looting the dead.
Levi Lewis
Lmao who replaced the katana with a euro sword on the close up
Austin Perez
are you dumb. the guy is reverse wielding his sword because that can actually break his bones.
Jayden Barnes
Lucas Scott
Well that's because in a real fight you'd have almost certainly lost the fight if you lost your arm. But that doesn't mean any hit to the arm always counts, if it's too light or the edge alignment is obviously very poor. But the main point is that in the context of simulating armored fight, they most certainly wouldn't fight as if a tap on the armored guy with a sword would end it, that would have nothing to do with simulating a historical fight and therefore nothing to do with HEMA. There's the other type of armored form of swordfight which doesn't care about simulating a real fight where people literally just swing at each other as if the other guy was unarmored, forgot what it was called. But John Clements and ARMA aren't into that.
Cameron Thompson
>If he was using a katana however....
Jayden Howard
Why would an armored combatant try half swording against an unarmored opponent?
You sacrifice your range for nothing. Any part of the opponent's body is an injury if you hit it, you don't need the extra tip control.
Jaxson Cruz
Blades only cut with friction
Parker King
This was just some kind of demonstration they did for some documentary or something. There probably wasn't any "winning condition" per se and they were probably just trying to LARP really hard that they were in a fight. But it's a bit of a poor demonstration because as said by many the armored knight is unrealistically and unnecessarily cautious.
Sparring and tournaments, with winners and losers and all that, is done in HEMA but usually to simulate unarmored fight. The rules of what counts as a proper hit vary in that context and can be a bit vague, sometimes there might be judges who try to evaluate whether a hit would have been fight ending, sometimes "afterblow" is also used where your opponent immediately after getting hit is still allowed to strike once and you are supposed to defend yourself from that - if you're hit however would have been judged to be immediately incapacitating (like a strong blow to the head or something), the afterblow might have been not counted. Armored combat is simulated much more rarely, I'm not sure how they figure out loses and winners in that if they ever do that.
Hudson Roberts
It doesn't really make any sense to me either, but they were probably imitating a picture of this kind of scenario (where and armored guy is halfswording against an unarmored guy) from some medieval HEMA source. Now why this kind of situation that doesn't really make any sense was depicted in the first place I have no idea.
Henry Martinez
half swording is effective in getting in the gaps of armor. Or he could use his crossguard to smash the armrfag's skull in.
Jaxson Adams
hold a sheet of metal against your head then smack it with an iron rod
Adam Collins
>people responded earnestly to this obvious ass bait
Colton Peterson
It won't dent shit with such a inherent piss poor grip
Grayson Peterson
i will never not be mad at girls last tour being blemished by this.
Nicholas Clark
>game doesn't have sallet helmets
Fucking piece of shit.
Evan Gray
>game won't get a 4th instalment
Dominic Harris
Swords were never really used in combat, they were mostly status symbols for the higher ranks and nobility.
Making a sword takes a lot of time and requires a lot of training to effectively use. Making a spear takes a fraction of the time and you could put it in the hands of a peasant an hour before and it would be more deadly than a sword (simply because of reach alone)
Bentley Kelly
is this legal?
Juan King
retard
Daniel Howard
I'm pretty sure if you grip it and swing it like in OP, it's going to slide a little and cut your hands. There's no way you get a grip on it like a club
Colton Harris
Me too my dude. Me too.
Tyler Wilson
Find me one picture of someone using a sword in combat, jackass. And not some portrait-op of some limpwristed noble
Thomas James
Google medieval art and you can see dozens of pictures of people using swords. Just because they weren't necessarily a primary weapon doesn't mean they were never used. If swords were purely decorative there would be reason for infantryman to have them as a sidearm, which you see throughout history.
Aiden Barnes
If you told me this wasn't mordhau gameplay id say your were crazy