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Apparently a shield is not a weapon they are ever interested in adding
umm, I’m sorry you’re super misinformed. It’s not the weapon we’re currently working on, but it’s absolutely on the list.
So you're saying a shield is possible in the future?
And happy new year.
Yep. One of the earliest weapon concepts we have is a Spearish-Sword and Shield concept that took a lot of inspiration from this fight sequence. The shield concepts that I’ve been discussing, in the last year or so, are not the tanky-knight fantasy, but instead a skirmisher’s weapon where the shield is more for deflection. What we don’t want is this initially. Though the fantasy of Braum is also interesting and something we should think about, but that’s not the fantasy we’re currently discussing internally. Again, it’s beyond early though and not actively in development.
Well they hit your 2019 list 95% so here's hoping.
Let's see how fast we can hit the 2020 list ;)
Well I’m sorry to have gone on previous information from Dev comments made, but your attitude sucks..
I’ve seen nothing but wonderful support and communication from this whole community but this is the first time I got the shits by a reply. I’m actually excited by the sword and shield concept, just keep coms open and honest and you will keep the loyalty of the fan base. Peace dude.
That's 100% my bad. In rereading that I see that I was more flippant than I intened to be. My apologies. I was short handing from my phone and should have reread it before hitting send.
Don't feel like an idiot. GTez doesn't control everything else every other lobster says, and this is the very first time we've been told anything other than "no" or "that's nice" on the topic of shields.
It's not misinformation - it's old information, and no communication to a pivot on design until now.
I'm also not privy to all conversations too. The combat team may not be in a place where they are ready to talk about this stuff. And our industry trains Devs that they get in sh*t if they say something before it's ready to talk about. Either by their boss or the community if they change the design. We try not doing that (all of us) but old habits die hard.
Honestly, this being the first time we've had a public-facing statement about shields that isn't a straight "no" or diplomatic "that would be neat", has got a lot of us excited and talking in the community, since every other time we've had the topic, it was very much in the camp of "not happening". It does mean that some people's hearts for weapon 9 or 10 is definitely gonna be set on it now, though, so I hope the community-at-large treats what's been said here with a bit of charity, especially if things don't turn out so neatly.
Everybody's looking forward to whatever comes for Dauntless in 2020 regardless! Can't wait for another year of supporting this great game and community.
Me too. And we have BIG year ahead of us. I'm just putting a lot of the vision stuff together for the team. I'm really excited to share more. I'm also excited to find new ways of showing what we are up to, while still being able to stoke the fire when it's time.