Diversity of weapons?

[AirBreather]

I’ve posted an earlier thread (no real replies) about diversification of equipment:

Weapon & armour (& clothing!) differentiations of the same type/slot?

Hello, This is an inquiry into how weapons and armours can/will be differentiated from each other. By which I mean, in most other (fantasy!) rpgs the progression is usually based on (rare) materials (e.g. iron -> steel -> DoomMetal) followed by magic (e.g. Fire Lvl1 -> Inferno Death Lvl99), however since this is based on realism, I am wondering what it could be. To get more specific, what determines the differences between weapons and armours of the same class? Are every short sword and meta…

Please bump/reply to it and maybe we can see some official answers.

[Beortnoth]

I really hope so! I also think it would be kind of silly if there weren’t multiple “skins” for the weapons.

I personally would LOVE to have a sword that looked this:

OR

Even though this design is at this stage in time a few hundred years old…

[213]

it just looks like an arming sword with a midget hilt and pommel.

[Beortnoth]

It is an arming sword with a viking lobed style hilt/pommel. Not something you would probably still see in the time of KCD but one can hope haha

[thiomay]

What kinds of weapons will farmers and other non solider NPCs carry in there everyday life. Most of these weapons don’t look appropriate for this purpose. Clubs and staffes and ‘Lange Messer’ could be variations of other weapons but Sickles, Flails and Scythe would need there own animations. I really liked how the NPCs in Gothic 2 use weapons like that in great number. Also if the KDC series where to eventually fokus on the Hussite wars those would be very fitting.