They have the time to design a whole grenade launcher but can't design a sword or an axe?

Every day GGG makes me wish I didn't spend over 1k on this game.

I hope you're joking

The grenade launcher unique + base type isnt even close to being equivalent to designing a whole new set of skills for a weapon type, in terms of development effort.

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

The grenade launcher unique + base type isnt even close to being equivalent to designing a whole new set of skills for a weapon type, in terms of development effort.

Are you implying that they are at 0% progress on swords and axes? They could be 80% done with marauder and duelist at this point we dont know.

New weapon means new animations and potentially other adjustments, like skill tree. It's a lot easier to make a new weapon from an existing type than it is to make a new type of weapon.

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MSilv#5857 wrote:

New weapon means new animations and potentially other adjustments, like skill tree. It's a lot easier to make a new weapon from an existing type than it is to make a new type of weapon.

You're right, swords and axes are completely foreign to ggg. That does sound like a lot of work.

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Lonnie455Rich#2087 wrote:

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

The grenade launcher unique + base type isnt even close to being equivalent to designing a whole new set of skills for a weapon type, in terms of development effort.

Are you implying that they are at 0% progress on swords and axes? They could be 80% done with marauder and duelist at this point we dont know.

Ultimately its true we dont know, I think its not 0% but not a significant amount either. Based on how GGG have described their development style I dont think they are working on all the classes in the background. The big thing that this applies to is the campaign however.

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KingRajesh#0213 wrote:

Every day GGG makes me wish I didn't spend over 1k on this game.

I mean, they're just gonna be functionally ranged weapons anyway because this game isn't designed for actual melee combat. Maybe they're done already and they were held back to help spread out general disappointment over successive patches. They might even have done you a favor here.

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KingRajesh#0213 wrote:

Every day GGG makes me wish I didn't spend over 1k on this game.

100%

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Skutz123#5377 wrote:

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KingRajesh#0213 wrote:

Every day GGG makes me wish I didn't spend over 1k on this game.

I mean, they're just gonna be functionally ranged weapons anyway because this game isn't designed for actual melee combat. Maybe they're done already and they were held back to help spread out general disappointment over successive patches. They might even have done you a favor here.

I laughed hysterically at this