05-29-2020, 02:17 PM
(05-29-2020, 03:01 AM)Flaborized Wrote: IMO a better change would be to lean into what current weaknesses and strengths it has and to lean into those.
That's probably the best way to go.
I don't think it needs to be louder. I can't think of any time someone deployed a saber without someone else hearing it. It could use a running noise, like a dull hum, so the noise is trackable the whole time it's deployed.
I do like the idea of it giving off more light, since that both makes it more obvious and serves a utility of providing the wielder a light source.
Maybe it also generates heat and can keep you warmer in colder environments? Or be used to cauterize bleeding?
Now that blocking is a thing, maybe both the katana and csaber could get block bonuses as well? The c-saber at reducing energy weapon attacks, the katana at physical ones?