As for my soundsystem I use the onboard intel HD Audio.
The broadsword is already comparable to the katana, but it still is overkill if the player could get two of the most powerfull melee weapons during a side quest!
How about broadsword vs broadsword?
In my opinion the LaSombra shouldn´t have a boring knife which most common human thugs have.
And are you sure that Broadsword is not (slightly?) weaker than the Katana?
Good idea. The only technicial question is can the LaSombra wear and fight with a Broadsword?
He uses an Uzi so a knife would fit better to that than a katana. And his tactic is to avoid melee fighting anyway!
Besides that this would mess the cutscene up, the Lasombra only drops his melee weapon if you kill him while in melee so you might end up missing it!
A Uzi is more unique and better fit for a Boss fight.
So we have a nice duel with Broadswords.
Or just give the LaSombra the weaker version of the Katana the Shin Gunto. :)
That guy is wearing a suit, I can't really imagine him carrying a broadsword around!
That would look stupid and we would have a double "unique" weapon! The broadsword is intended to be a ritual weapon for that situation only.
I already contemplated that, but after my reasoning above I think a knife would make more sense. IanW, what would fit a Lasombra the best?
Of course he isn´t always carrying this thing but if he had choose between an broadsword which already lie around or a knife well i would take the sword. ;)
After all these years the Katana was ok for the LaSombra to wear but now not the " mass-produced version of the traditional Japanese katana. " which basically the same weaker weapon?
He can't use the sword because the player gets it first!
So he instead fights with a knife against someone to wear a Broadsword.
Hm. Can you just go into the sound folder and play the mp3s there to see if some of them cause problems and others don't?
As for the katana/knife/broadsword (since I apparently woke a beast there), the kanata at the point when I did the library quest was quite a few quests in the future, so I stand by the point that it does matter.
Having Lasombra drop another broadsword is the best mechanics-wise because it would just be an unpickable item by that point, although I get the suit argument wesp5 makes.
Also I have played the game multiple times and this is the first time it dropped, which makes sense because it only does that when actually using it in melee which it it not prone to do. So by that measure having a knife would matter little when it does drop. But dropping the katana can "mess up" the loot curve a bit.
I got to the VV cutscene you added recently and after it was over (and I got the autohgraphed photo reward notification), I saw only black plus the stadard life/mana bars and crosshair).
You can start the Library quest only at Chinatown and you get the earliest katana at Zhao.
A suit foe (and MacLeod) can still wear something bigger than a knife under suit.
For me the Uzi is a lot more rare because i favor melee over gun so i often get the Katana. The Katana isn´t therefore really new.
Maybe we can find a good compromise for all. What do you think about given the LaSombra a Shin Gunto instead of the Katana?
Which clan and gender is your character?
Also the neck and feets of my character were much longer in the scene as it should it be.
So I hope that Plague played RC 1 or RC 2...