In TFA, the First Order Trooper who calls Finn a TRAITOR!!111one uses some kind of shock riot baton. The easy assumption is that the electrical field helps it block the lightsaber, but I have no idea how it's "supposed" to work canonically.
I've played the demo for both, and they are both on my list. Can't wait for Wandering Village to exit early access.
My mentality when I was reading the pre-built character things was: Okay, what if we go full unashamed Malkavian + Hunter S. Thompson, but Also A Cop?Don't worry, the game will do that for you.
"Flechette guns" and, in some scenarios, "needlers" are often the sci-fi equivalent of the noble shotgun. My only quibble is when they make them look and act like a coach gun, a design that should have died in the 19th century, as soon as they invented the pump action and the tube magazine.
All shotguns are functionally melee weapons. Any one of my shotguns is heavier than all the firearms, except for my DMR. And that has a bull barrel.
IIRC, Din Djarin acquired a beskar spear as well, which gave him a weapon capable of parrying a light saber. While I love The Mandalorian very much as a series, I still think this is not the direction warfare is headed. Ever since the invention of the yew longbow, doing unto others from a distance before they do unto you up close has been a thing. And with missile systems and now drones, the distance is just getting larger.
You'd be surprised at the general reliability of most firearms nowadays.
It's called a "butt stroke" for a reason. Only a knucklehead would club someone with the barrel of a firearm.
Mechanically, RiME is middling, and thematically, maybe a bit too vague. But I almost want to revisit it, because the more I thought about it, the more it intrigues me. I think the different areas are actually representative of stages of grief (denial, anger, melancholy, etc.). But being honest with myself, actually playing it again wouldn't be a great experience.
LOL I am not saying it is primarily a melee weapon. It is very obviously a ranged weapon, people use them for hunting ducks. What I am suggesting is anything heavy with a solid buttstock is an effective melee weapon. This is why back in my bootcamp days, they spent some time with pugil sticks. An opponent can sometimes get close enough to make using a shotgun problematic, a buttstroke is a tactic you use to discourage that behavior.
All good, happy to clarify. And I am not saying melee weapons are useless, in cases where your opponent is a mindless, unthinking creature you may need to use melee weapons. But the game I am playing, Stellar Tactics, is turn-based, so my "melee guy" has to either charge at these unthinking creatures to attack them first, or wait for them to get within range. Granted, you can switch back and forth between two different weapons so it is not a huge issue. I feel that 400, 700, or 1000 years into the future, we should be beyond using sledgehammers and spears, especially if we have one-handed energy pistols.
For what it's worth...
What turned me off from Dragon Age was that the adventuring areas were tiny compared to the Baldur's Gate games' fields, cities, and so on. Which was, in part, due to stepping up the graphical quality of the game, taking advantage of newer and much more powerful hardware... but it still resulted in relatively small maps that only had a small handful of encounters, events, or places of interest. Some DA maps were literally on-rails set pieces (particularly the opening scene of DA2, I think?).
That was more of a DA2 problem than the first one. It was rushed
This. I had somehow missed it when it was released, and then did a series replay a little while back. I bought DA2 on the cheap and played it, but the only real value I got out of it was understanding more of the dialog and motivations in DA:I (which I also did not have the DLC to yet, so that was a nice new thing to play as well).
.DAO's maps were pretty much perfect. BG1 & 2 had a similar problem where, because every map was, more or less, exactly the same size they were often boring stretches of nothing or overfull with combat. Both games (and more 2) did have some very interesting looking and creative maps but it was much more inconsistent than DAO's.
I'm waiting until all five episodes are released before I pick it up, because I know I won't finish it if I start it before it's all available.
