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Greetings Slayers!

Welcome to the Focused Feedback thread where we present a featured topic for you to share your thoughts on in a centralized fashion. For this cycle of Focused Feedback, we'll be choosing the most recent and relevant topics to cover for the next few weeks, and each will have a poll at the end for the people who would like to participate, but don't have the time to compose. This thread is dedicated to all your feedback, and serves as a centralized hub for the developers to gather your responses.

Our topic for this week: Sword Rework

The long-awaited Sword rework has finally arrived in the hands of Slayers, and it is time for us to take a closer look and assess the reworked weapon. All the questions today were prepared by Phoenix Labs combat designer u/PhxDibs who was also featured in the Reforging the Sword article. 🙂

What is the thing you like and dislike most about the new Sword rework?
What are your thoughts on the new Valour system introduced with the Sword rework?
How do you feel about the new Special meter gaining paradigm where only the last hit of a core combo counts towards gaining Valour?
What are your thoughts on the new Sword mods and specials in comparison to their pre-rework versions?
How difficult or complex do you find using the new Sword in combat?
Is there anything in particular that you are struggling with the new Sword? Why or why not?
As a weapon designed to be "decent at everything, but great at nothing”, how balanced do you think is the new Sword, and do you think it still lives up to its core design?
Do you find yourself enjoying the Sword more or less after the rework? Why or why not?

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below. Submissions related to the topic will be removed and redirected here. This thread will remain open for everyone to leave their feedback in for the next 2 days, after which, it will be locked. Organize and format your feedback well and you may just get a response from the developers themselves! 😎

Upcoming Focused Feedback topic: Ramsgate Renovation

And finally, our poll for this week:

How would you evaluate the new Sword rework as a whole?

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over 4 years ago - /u/CreatureTech-PHX - Direct link

Thank you all so much for your feedback. The devs have been reading over it and soaking it all in.

Keep it coming :D

over 4 years ago - /u/PhxDibs - Direct link

Thanks for the feedback everyone, sounds like most of you are enjoying the new sword quite a bit!

We've got our eyes on the damage being too low, as that's the most consistent feedback we've gotten. Playing the Sword optimally asks a fair bit from the player, especially compared to the old Sword, so we need to make sure the damage is correctly representative of that engagement. We'll have lots of hard data on this soon, and will be able to cross-compare that data with stuff like player veteran-ness, which specials folks are using, which mods, which cells etc. to see where the right place to tweak the numbers would be.

It was a blast to work on this revision and we learned a ton from it, it makes me happy to see a lot of you really enjoying the new sword.

[2020] Focused Feedback: Sword Rework

How would you evaluate the new Sword rework as a whole?

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