In this screenshot, Medic is holding a Katana.
If you look closer, you could see him having Type 100 SMG at his back. This means Katana couldn’t be the Main weapon then.
This is how the Medic slot looks like, no secondary but only a Main weapon, Pistol and melee weapon. so and since that they’ve said Katana would be available for all classes, Katana would be a Meele Weapon.
Katana is the counter of the shotgun, so is a main weapon
And maybe, can be even is usable only by assaulter/medic
It doesn’t have to. Then how the medic is holding Both Katana and Medic Backpack, and Type 100 altogether? if it is the main weapon, he only would have been carrying Katana.
No it definetely is not. Are you kinda blind?
This can be given to any soldier in your army.
It makes clear at the start. While Browning Auto 5 is declared to be a Main weapon for Assaulters, Katana is to be a weapon for any soldier.
The description cant be trusted, the most recent and famous example is the Sherman 76 withaut the stabilazer, (but is in the description)
Maybe they changed madic layaut and fused medic box and medic bacpack in bacpack slot, and free the second weapon slot
Anyway i dont belive it if i dont see it
Keofox have already mentioned it few moth ago at Russian Forum, He said it is one of the Future plans and would be added in near future. But Katana needs no other Technical/coding issues or problems, it just could be added.
Actually, that makes no sense even more than giving Katana only to Assault/Medics.
Medic already has a Medic backpack which gives you a Syringe to heal allies, and the Medkits box at the Secondary slot is to be placed and used once. Both are different, and by code, they couldn’t be merged.
I stand by the thesis about katanas being melee weapons.
Their strength will come from the fact that, unlike event swords, they can be spammed without restrictions, potentially giving to every Japanese soldier a OHK melee weapon, with the attack speed of a knife but the range and lethality of a bayonet.
Meanwhile, the semiauto shotgun is locked to assaulters, and will probably NOT be spammed since SMGs tend to still be better at the job in game.
kinda buffles me that people thinks it’s in the primary slot.
when the guy it self has an smg plus what i believe it’s a grenade pouch on the stomach.
but oh well.
Well since that guy is a Medic, i think that pouch is just one of the customization examples though.
But even if he is a medic, since he is still carrying his SMG at back, Im pretty sure Katana would be as melee weapon.
Also
This is 100% speculation
But it would make sense to take this chance to refine melee combat, ever so slightly, by tweaking attack hitboxes.
Example: sword is the best melee weapon, OHK, fast attack, high range AND wider area of effect (the soldier swings it around). MAYBE, even potentially hitting two enemies at once (side by side, not cutting through).
All other options are weaker, and each others’ sidegrades:
Could it work?
Sounds lovely, maybe you could make a suggestion for it
nah, in enlisted medic related cosmetics are with bags.
muricans also have this bag ( which medical bags are located at the back, and the bad arm at the front arm ):
I See.
Interesting, why anyone thought it could be the main weapon at all?
There has not been such a thing in the game yet.
I’m disappointed in you.
ironic talking of being disappointed for something that i have stated multiple times that i’m against.
way to go shoen.
A-hmen.
it was just a reference for the kid in question which will sum up banzai charges.
and that’s the meaning it self. i don’t… really see how effective swords will be, but it’s iconic. and if banzai will be integrated, even better.
Well in context you can tell he picked that up.
The subtaitarus say “I said my sword was a tool of justice. Not used in anger. Not used for vengeance. But now… Now I’m not so sure. And besides, this isn’t my sword.”
It seems it was the wind.
Nope. Medics, engineers, flametroopers, AT soldiers and all the classes whose secondary slot is preassigned to something specific cannot pickup weapons unless replacing their main one. And the medic in the picture obviously still carries his main weapon on his back.
If the katana is a main weapon then I highly doubt it will be used much. Only way I see it to be viable is if it is a melee weapon. It would make more sense as well since they have sheathes for the swords.
