Bulky sword. SPOILERS!!!

Keeper Hellzon on 17/1/2001 at 20:41

OK... SPOILERS if you haven't gotten halfway through Hong Kong.

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Whip up the Dragon's tooth. See how you pick up a grip (or whatever you call it). THEN, a blade emits from the grip. So why does it take 5 spots in my inventory, when it's actually as small as the combat knife?

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(And it doesn't really work with the talking of steel mixed with nanites and stuff.)

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Itsatrap on 17/1/2001 at 22:25

My impression is that it was a regular sword (accounting for the size), except with nanites on the blade (accounting for the glow).

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frozenman on 17/1/2001 at 22:43

Loophole! Weve found a loophole. Either way, it was enough fun just to bring out the Dragons Tooth just to feel the power of it. Ya know?

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davpod on 18/1/2001 at 22:08

It was a blatant lightsaber rip-off, but it was a fun one. Perhaps the size issue is to do with not actual space but possible space.

Think of it this way, JC has to cram so many valuable items of equipment under his coat and then he finds this sword that extends - he places it in his inventory but leaves enough space so that if it accidentally extended in the middle of a fight or something it wouldn't cut through all his lockpicks or embed itself in his shotgun or whatever... Our JC, always thinking ahead.

Mr Chimp on 18/1/2001 at 22:10

Probably more to do with balancing than anything else, I mean, let's face it, the Dragons Tooth was a pretty awesome melee weapon - making it occupy only 2 slots in your inventory would be out of place in a game where the design dictates power or convinience, and then puts the choice to the player.

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frozenman on 18/1/2001 at 22:48

I cant wait to get the Dragons Tooth again when i replay it. Im gonna be the JC that wields the magical melee weapon of death.

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Hidden_7 on 20/1/2001 at 21:59

What they shoulda done, is make a kinda emiting blade. lke a pole extending out and making it the size of a word. then when you turn i on, the pole-thing emits the balde. still a kewl nano wepon (with the glowing bladE) but makes sens for it to take up 4 spaces (not five)

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frozenman on 20/1/2001 at 22:14

Either way. Its great fun to slice people to death with.

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xarax on 9/5/2001 at 01:22

A found that the regular metal sword occupied less inventory space and had better chopping power against everything. I now always dump the nano sword at Tong's place and forget about it. A regular sword or combat knife is usually sufficient for breaking crates. Sometimes I use a baton for crates (takes less space than a sword).

Smedley on 9/5/2001 at 04:23

I always drop the Dragon Sword right after I pick it up at Maggie Chow's.
I don't know of any real reason to carry it unless I'm playing low tech ninja-style.

But I agree that hacking people to death does have a certain appeal. <IMG SRC="devil.gif" border="0">