[2023] 4th tier melee weapons instead of just 3 or even just a graphic overhaul for them.

Originally posted by Will: For Agility it can be a Katana.
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I have been asking for this for about eight years now, and they keep telling me "No". We did end up with a machete though.

Originally posted by Alucard †:

Originally posted by ...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...: Do you know how difficult it is to find a real, japanese forged Katana in USA?

I'm not saying it's impossible, mind you, but even the most dedicated and rich collectors in the USA probably only have a "cheap" knockoff of the real thing. Heck, I think nowadays it would be difficult to find a good one even in modern Japan !

Why not make one out of scrap? Our character can make really high quality weapons and machines out of bunch of scrap. He/She is better than MacGyver ^^

Well to be honest, a true Kata is a lot more rare because of how they are made. It's blended metal that is tuned many times in the forging process. I have a blade that is around 1200 years old. It has been turned more than 300 times. Which basically means that a smithy spent a large portion of his life making this one sword. I have two others that are more recently made (only a couple of hundred years old), and you can certainly tell the difference in quality. It is considerably different than how the European sword blades are made. (I have a few of those as well.)

So I can see how from a "player can make this" mechanic that it would not really fit properly. They should be something like a very rare loot item though IMHO.