[2020] Roadmap | Dauntless

Originally posted by Kryyss

Remember that a rework of the underlying systems for weapons means rewriting much of the existing code and creating the functions nessersary to support changes for other weapons. Studios typically want to make the functionality easy to transfer between weapons to reduce the time needed to do each weapon while also future proofing the code. That is quite a big project and it's safer to push it out in waves of smaller updates as bugs are no doubt going to be found by the fanbase and its easier to identify which part is broke if the patch has a small collection of changes for just one weapon rather than it being a big patch with all weapons.

The sword is not only the most basic testbed for these changes, due to it not having any complicated mechanics, but is also isn't very popular compared to things like the hammer and strikers. So if these changes do improve how swords feel and improves how they function it will help to make it more popular as well.

This is not to say however that warpike is not being worked on. In fact, during the October livestream for the Haunted Shadows huntpass the developers did say that warpike was being worked on at the time and advised us that "the world of weapons is changing". So the fact is that the weapon revamp has been on-going at PHX for almost 9 months. The fact that sword is getting the first release, as mentioned, is most likely due to it being the quickest one to adjust.

Also remember, from a marketting perspective it is better to release the revamp bit by bit rather than in a single update because it gives Dauntless more exposure over a longer period of time as gaming news websites and youtubers cover each weapon separately rather than all at once.