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[Mephansteras]

Axes can be pretty brutal. They do massive damage to lightly armored areas, and have decent armor penetration. I find them to be pretty good in the mid-tier realm of fights before everyone has full plate on.
I've had a duel wielding axe guy just maul everyone that I came across in the novice and adept level arena fights.
And my current arena group has an NPC with a two handed axe who is quite reliable at taking people out.

No idea how good they are in the dungeon, though.

[SalmonGod]

I think they're a good middle ground between blunt and slashing weapons for fighting both armored and unarmored.  Their problem is you have to be really precise with them.  If you don't land your hit with proper leverage on the cutting edge of that axe head, it does very little.  So they require more attention to distance and footwork than all the other weapons.  Even something like a polehammer will have enough weight to it to matter if you hit with the shaft instead of the hammer head.  Not so much with an axe.

[Egan_BW]

Has anyone here played both this and Hammerfight? I'm wondering if the "feel" of swinging around weapons is similar between the two.

[Mephansteras]

Hmm...not in a long time. Though I think the skills kind of translate?

[Fire and Glory]

As far as armor penetration goes I have a hard time getting an axe to go through even leather, guess they're not for me.

Has anyone here played both this and Hammerfight? I'm wondering if the "feel" of swinging around weapons is similar between the two.

Sort of not really? One is 2D and involves spinning a lot whereas the other is not and does not. Though anything that involves moving your mouse to control a weapon is at least vaguely similar.

[Fire and Glory]

I mentioned in the OP that I didn't really know how people controlled the height of their swings but I think I'm beginning to grasp the shape of it. Somehow I never realised that you don't have to be facing your opponent in order to hit them, so there's a whole bag of tricks in keeping your opponent on one side of you so you can either hit them with the start of an attack or the end of one. Kind of like the sort of shit people get up to in games like Chivalry, but a little less stupid looking. Interesting stuff anywho.

[Virtz]

Has anyone here played both this and Hammerfight? I'm wondering if the "feel" of swinging around weapons is similar between the two.

Not particularly? In Exanima you click and hold to make your guy attack towards where your cursor is pointing rather than manually swing. You can influence momentum a bit by moving the mouse around (rotating the character), but that's more of an optional bonus with its own downsides than a primary control method. And when you're not attacking, your character automatically attempts to block incoming attacks. So it's a lot less manual and more automated than Hammerfight, but still very physics based.

[Egan_BW]

Ah, you don't get to waggle your stick manually? Disappointing.

[Fire and Glory]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/362490/view/5612046175808103528

Examina 0.8.3 has been released. Woo. A lot of this stuff has been available in the beta branch for some time but now it's official. The abridged version of the update is as follows:

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• Most weapons are now procedurally generated.

Rather than being set in stone weapons are instead built from unique components consisting of the blade, the grip, the pommel, etc. These components also come in varying sizes and lengths, so some swords are long, some are short. Some axes have spikes you can stab people with while others don't. Lots of differences like that. One proc-gen sword is much like the other but overall weaponry is more diverse than before the update. There was talk of giving the unique story mode weapons this treatment as well but I don't think they've gotten to that yet.

• Randomized item quality.

In addition to randomizing a weapon's components, weapons and armor now come with varying craftsmanship and degradation levels. So it's possible to find a masterwork sword that has decayed and rusted over the years, adding new factors into what makes something good or not. Items don't degrade through use but in story mode there's a way to restore a rusty weapon or helmet to its former glory.

• They reworked the rendering engine and assets.

The game looks a little different now, and in theory should be better optimized. Notably I think leather items look more leathery now.

• The UI got changed too.

Menus are transparent and stuff.

• Arena mode got an overhaul.

Tournaments are now a thing, where you design your own fighting company and compete with other companies to win high quality weapon and armor prizes. That's the big thing but there's also a lot of little things like the redesigned inventory management, the new match types like Captain, where two high rank dudes and four lower rank dudes duke it out. There are also new arenas and some new music too which is cool, the old tracks got a little tiresome. Interesting stuff overall, gives a bit more structure to the endless fighting.

• Combat AI has been changed.

In the future it's planned so that different opponents will employ different tactics, but right now the AI is more aggressive in general I've found.

• Changes and tweaks to combat in general.

As usual it's hard to say exactly how things are now vs how it was before. The only concrete thing I can touch on is that there's a new animation set for great swords. That is, the long ass swords which are closer to polearms than swords when it comes to length. They're a bit funky imo, but they don't get stuck on the ground now.

Most importantly, however...

• There are new facial hair options in the game.

Still no wavy beards but you can have a nice 'stache now.

It's not force thaumaturgy or a new story level, but the changes to the arena are quite enjoyable. Mephansteras should be pretty happy.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to checking out the new update this week!

[Fire and Glory]

Of the new proc gen weapons, I have to say some of my favorites are the one handed hatchets and axes. Before they always felt weak and difficult to use, whereas these new ones are right choppy and feel powerful as an ax should. It's enough to make you want to raid an English monastery or two.