Why do two hand weapons like maces and axes get the same holding-attacking animation as the two hand swords in so many games?
Why is it so hard to make like 6 new animations for it instead of doing for example tons of useless emote animations that noone ever uses?
>>339356841
How exactly is an axe attack different from a sword attack?
They use the same animation because you swing the weapons the same way.
>>339356841
because its 10 year old game and devs are super lazy making anything new
>>339357063
most new mmos, and tons of rpgs does this
even dark souls does this, while also having tons of emotes from which people only use like 3
>>339356998
there is a much bigger distance between your 2 hands when holding a large axe or mace
Well, after quickly searching for pictures of historical treatises, hands on "proper" two-handed swords typically seem to be depicted about as far apart as the size of the hilt allows (picture from Joachim Meÿer's treatise).
And anyway, two-handed maces for example weren't even a thing. Never mind with fantasy proportion heads. There's no "proper" way to wield such a weapon.
More importantly, why are there no games that allow you to half-sword?
>>339359113
Well, The Witcher has a few halfswording finishing animations and a few Renaissance Mount and Blade mods (Eagle and the Radiant Cross comes to my mind) have half-swording as well.
>>339358750
You know there are always sword schools but are there any old mace and axe schools?
Want a real answer? It's because:
>More work, and most players dont have the autism to care
>Requires an additional test pass for QA to verify nothing clips or fucks up, and with more permutations come more bugs, pissing off QA management and artists alike
>Remember, artists are people and if they have to spend all day making boring shit like alternative weapon hand placements they will seek less boring work
>>339361738
Well, when and where they were widely used, there probably was competing schools of thought on how to best use them, I think that pretty much goes with human nature.
However, it's worth noting that surviving treatises tend to be post-Renaissance (for various reasons: more recent works are more likely to have survived, and more people were able to buy books so there was more of an incentive for weapons masters to write a treatise) and I don't think axes really were a thing at that time, and maces weren't very common either (it's a specialist weapon used by armoured men against armoured men, and polearms were more popular anyway). Many treatises do showcase a wide variety of weapons of war (or perhaps more commonly civilian self-defence/duelling weapons, or even bizarre stuff like man vs woman juridical duel weapons like pic related from Talhoffer) but I don't know if there's any treatise dedicated to the use of axes or maces, and they weren't ever common weapons, even less so when most of the surviving treatises (or later, military drill instructions) were made.
>>339361738
>>339363130
And as far as modern HEMA practice goes, it's not really safe to train most weapons if you want the practise weapons to handle in any way like the real thing. A blunted sword without a point is safe when you use fencing masks and other appropriate safety equipment, but the mass and leverage of polearms for example makes them dangerous no matter how much protective gear you war.
