Rework the War Club

[W0LFsR4GE]

The War Club is (very likely) widely considered to be one of the least useful weapons for Predators in the game.
I have an idea to improve upon it.
If I am not mistaken the War Club has no secondary attack- this leaves the option open to add something to it. My suggestion is to make the War Club a Predator spin on the historical hand cannon such as what was shown in Deadliest Warrior used by Vlad the Impaler.
The hand cannon function would do some damage, not much- the main point would be to give it a flashbang effect on hit with accompanied vision blur like being hit by the club. Change the wrist blade “spike” out on it which is just an old art asset recycle anyways, and add an actual spike which can be used as a grip for aiming, moving it a bit lower on the club like on a hand cannon. Also make the club longer giving it more reach on swings, more like a spiked kanabo than the stubby club currently in the game. When firing the fire speed and blast AOE should be similar to the Rocket Launcher that was added recently, but with an overheat recharge instead of ammo.
The point of this is to not only add some flavor to the War Club but make it possible to more readily attack a Fireteam target that you catch out of place and away from their squad by disabling their vision temporarily, giving you an opportunity to get in that full combo with the War Club.

[Robo_2696]

This is an interesting idea
But we would still need the melee tracking to be fixed first

[W0LFsR4GE]

True, but a separate issue altogether. Appreciate the feedback

[Robo_2696]

Can’t put the horse before the carriage

[Mith]

The war club definitely needs some changes. I’ve used and found uses for all of the predator weapons except for the war club.

It would be cool if the war club had a heavy attack or if there was an option to throw the war club.

[NomadClan]

This would go perfectly with my Oni build😱😱😱

[KameofWar]

while a good idea i think that this is simply too much work for the dev team to do in a reasonable amount of time when they could do this in probably a month

War club is still the worst weapon in the game for the predator

just done a few private games with the war club against a well trained FT and the conclusion is the disiorient is useless as it only makes the screen go black and white (correction in quote but the disorient is so fast it doesn’t bother the FT at all) they can still just shoot me to death in 1v1 situations without moving to kill predator first they can also just spam L2 parries to parry every single attack without a thought in their brains which causes the 3rd unparryable hit to never even occu…

[W0LFsR4GE]

I think they could do it without too much trouble tbh. There may be things that illfonic has issues with in development, creating and implementing new models for weapons and characters isn’t one of them. That’s the one thing we consistently get more of with each dlc.

[REYNOSO_FUA11]

Tbh the war club wouldn’t be all too bad if they would just make the final hit be it’s heavy attack like the axe has and switch the regular light attack combo up a little. As it stands with berserker the full 3 hit combo can down just about down anyone but a support with thick skin.