How much do you charge to consult on games for people? Have you ever tried reaching out to places like From Software? Do you have a video on Kingdom Come?

First we got Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert. ( huge fan) And now we get David Rawlings, a Sword Master. now we need a fighting master to make a holy trinity or something. ( O and would David Rawlings like to do a video about monster hunter world weapons. Because how realistic are those weapons fighting animations)

Irregular Dave, is this all your doing as well the Load out series? If so or no Good Show!

I'm honestly chuffed about David and Da'Mon in this video. Jonathan's gun knowledge is amazing, and these two also seem like great additions to the team. Maybe you could also find a vehicles expert? Or branch out and do architecture or other things like that in video games too. I love this series.

Some For Honor videos where Dave, Da'Mon, or other experts weigh in on the different forms and tactics could be cool.

The mark of an expert is knowing just how much you don't know yet and making use of all your sources of knowledge. I wish we could see this same level of professionalism in ALL fields. Imagine how many political issues, industrial accidents, and other things we could avoid if more people just said "I don't know, let me ask someone who specializes in this." haha.

That's why I watch Shadaversity!

@@joaquinvelasquez6252 I like how when Shadaversity wants to talk about something he isn't familiar with he talks about the theory behind it then gives examples of similar things that he is familiar with, he'll often follow up with another video where he has what he was talking about and with his thoughts after testing it for himself

@@Chamomileable "Ask a specialist? But I am special!" Even in systems with minimal variables there will always be one, and that is the human variable. Consistently inconsistent.

Yeah, his grace and humility in that was superb. Let's have David and Da'Mon back for more videos like this!

Sounds like something you could find in a DeathSpank game 🤔

Is that the weapon or the user?

@@lyndas.8765 That is correct.

Hahahahaah brilliant ! Or the 2 flails of improbable ball sizes

I already have a flail with improbable ball size😂

I mean, you could have an expert on medieval magic talk about how different fantasy magic is from how medieval people thought magic worked.

Underrated comment. 10/10

And also a real life inquisitor for the Catholic Church to comment on the Confessor

I just want to see someone with a broken arm explain Artorias' moveset.

Irl Wizard here, a lot of wizards irl Actually Prefer spells That let them freely move around and/or Be physically active, Instead of Judt standing and casting like in Some games like these, actually a fair amount are actually fist and swordfighters, Many Of Them Prefer Magic that Buffs Speed/overall melee ability or just gives a general buff Swordmages Or Magefighters you could say, even the more ranged fighters have weapons that Believe it or not Are not actually as backseat as you may think, We don't often Wear robes and pefer armour or just regular clothes.

in your head yes

He looks like the blacksmith that always has the best weapons

So does Da’Mon, and what a name, too!

They're all bald

@@Psycorde the lack of hair is to deny the enemy an easy grip on you 😉

Same thing that makes the vids with Jonathan Ferguson so great! An expert in their field, but also somebody that really enjoys games and understands concessions that often must be made to make gameplay better! So absolutely sign me up to watch more experts that game lol

Yup, that's why we loved Jonathan so much, because he wasn't going on like other facebook video "experts" who were like ".50 cal should obliterate this brick wall, totally unrealistic, 0/10" or "this shot should have killed that guy on spot, horrible game"

Absolutely. Swordfighting experts often (but not always) fall into two big fallacies when evaluating them in video games. Either they're a historian or archaeologist who knows a lot about the weapons themselves, but really has no idea how people actually fought with them, so they think the big, telegraphed and slow movements are realistic. Or they're into HEMA and don't play games, so they rag on the big, telegraphed and slow movements as being unrealistic, which, while true, misses the point of this being a video game where you don't have the ability to react in the same ways as you do with a sword in hand. Same can be said of swordfighting in movies sometimes. If a game or movie depicted swordfighting as close to realistic as possible, you probably wouldn't have very much fun playing (or watching it), because you wouldn't understand what was going on most of the time (and how you were dying). All that to say that I agree that it's great to get in experts that also understand the medium they're evaluating. And Dave is right, dual ultra greatswords are loads of fun.

@@benjaminjohnson6936 The latter is how I feel with a certain few well known channels

Count me in✨✨✨

Check out London Longsword Academy. David Rawlings is the lead instructor there, and an excellent resource for HEMA material.

He's done a few 'reaction' videos for other channels, mainly regarding good and bad historical combat in film and TV. Fun and educational, definitely worth a watch.

@@Amaritudine yeah for GQ or Wired, perhaps both here on YT.

He’s the first weapon expert I’ve seen talk about FromSoft who actually plays. So he knows how the gameplay considerations have to balance with actual use.

That separates the smart from the ignorant. Self awareness, there are so many people who aren't self aware, they think they know something because they've heard of it. However if you were to ask them to bring it up you wouldn't get a proper explanation. It's important to know and discuss what you know openly, however also to know when you're too uneducated and when to stop before you spread misinformation. Saying you don't know something, doesn't make anyone dumb. Ignorance isn't stupidity.

@@Kyrious You are correct.

Doesn't take an expert to know Armor in Elder Rings doesn't work like protective Armor either.

@@Kyrious That's called the Dunning Kruger effect in a nutshell. You don't know what you don't know, and for every question you get answered, you get 10 more questions, so the less you know about something, the closer you THINK you are, to having it all figured out.

I just learn everything from Jordy B. Peterman. He is omniscient and in no way a fascist propagandist

The satisfaction of smashing two heavy weapons onto a person's head from the back is pure ecstatic

Yeah I was sad he didnt use a great sword but if its not like irl it might be grating to use in game too.

Not really,if you are underleveled melee is actualy more easy to take down bosses like dragons than using magic and had your fp extinguished

This is when the fun begins !!!!

Pure melee is hard period, but Souls Veterans tend to go for it simply because it is the easiest to get familiar with. Elden Ring mixes it up a bit, given that I started rolling Str/Dex, and am now raising Int and Faith beyond the minimum to play around simply because magic is an excellent opener for a _lot_ of fights. Still favor ranged (arrows) for pulling and then beating the enemy with a stick or sword, but I am having _fun_ playing aorund with magic options now. Also, Sword of Night and Flame. Nothing like setting the enemy on fire or hitting him with a kamehameha and then charging in to stab. Actually making me consider doing a magic build.

Da'Mon is super great. I love the work that he's doing to highlight fighting traditions from Africa and the diaspora.

He used a summon.

Yeah, that was wonderful.

And Da'mon had some good stuff to say there. I'm sure if you haven't played you wouldn't know that the Shotel does high damage against blocked strikes, but as he said, that's not what's being communicated on screen and it'd be tricky to.

@@bradoliver9324 Yeah, it's a very fromsoft way to represent that aspect of the weapon, only other thing they could have done was give it a unique animation set, which considering how off the beaten path the weapon is, I wish they'd actually done that now that I think about it.

Style & mechanics match. Devs did a great job. 10/10 IGN.

So if Jonathan reacts to guns, and this guy to swords... Huh,what's next? Devil May Cry?😅

Also he knows what he doesn't know

@@nealang9520 with full sincerity; Engines of War(if that technically isn't Jonathan's area with the *Artillery* part of Firearms and Artillery). From Leonardo's Tank in AC2 to the Leman Russ to whatever in God's name Borderlands's games have for vehicles.

Sounds like a job for The Chieftan, except since he already works for a games company, I'm not sure he'd be comfortable critiquing other games' tanks.

I agree ! He is awesome and charisrmatic. He could analayze all melee armaments in Games and movies

@@BloopTube In the Dark Souls trilogy that was how it worked, heavy attacks would still deal like 40% or 60% damage to a blocking target. It was really bad for a multitude of reasons, but still. Looking it up, it appears the same in Elden Ring.

@@BloopTube More or less. You can see it in the video that it's doing chip damage through the greatshield.

And maintaining the combo, most one handed r1's would bounce off of a shield like that

I only wish its weapon art would do the unblockable attack that the fist weapon has i think that would make it perfect for how it was described

@@Voingous I've only really played the first, but the problem I find with the shotel is how niche it is. Sure you can damage through the shield, but then the enemies can usually just eat your damage and then give it back thanks to poise. Backstabs, ripostes, and range are typically safer and more effective ways to handle shields. A possible buff would be having its ash of war stagger blocking enemies, to somewhat symbolize you hooking and disrupting their guard. Don't know if it would fix everything, but it seems simple enough to implement mechanically and would make the weapon more viable imo

Would still be cool as heck to have a specific weapon art for pulling away a shield. Maybe for a later title.

​@@SquinkyThreepwood Agreed. Either a unique ability for those kinds of weapons, or at least the shield break ability like the straight swords have.

Aha, yes i knew there was a slashing attack with rapiers! just forgot it was after a back step

they didnt even use the best representation of rapier in this game which is estoc that have both slashing and thrusting moveset

@@artikelservice796 The issue with the estoc in the Souls series is that it is the one thrusting sword in the game which actually shouldn't have slashing attacks. Estocs were explicitly edgeless swords, usually with a diamond or even square cross section, which were only meant to be used for thrusting. They have no sharp edge to slash with. You could beat someone with it like a club if you wanted to though, I guess.

From made rapiers do mostly thrusting attacks for the sake of variety, since a lot of swords have thrusting attacks.

Oh yeah, they could've shown Great Epée too. Any of the heavy thrusting swords have several slash attacks. Not to mention the stance shifting your character does between attacks with the Knight's Greatsword as a counter-example to how we handle colossal swords clumsily.

Wait ... He's bald now?

😂

@@artyomgunard4491 and grew a mean moustache

I thought he was being sarcastic

@@catodes1295 He was.

That stealth aspect was 100% sarcasm.

He also said he wasnt a fan of using a gigantic sword in one hand, but if you put another gigantic sword in your otherhand they should just balance out. Lol.

@@Brokenlance Yeah probably, but then again I've worn enough heavy helmets while walking in heavy armour that I'm not sure I could hear and elephant in full plate sneak up to me in those :D

You mean "half-swording" and "mordhau"?

I wouldn't say Unusual, just not overused in mainstream media. I mean there's an entire game called Mordhau

Well, most steel alloys have a density of around 7-8g/cm^3, while woods are under 1g/cm^3 (lighter than water, hence it swims). So about 10 times the mass, give or take.

Just wait until you look up the "Smelter Hammer" from Dark Souls 2. That thing would weight over a ton in real life. But of course, you can just swing it one-handed :)

@@villelepoaho4105 If you have 70 strength

yeah, dark souls is perfectly realistic, it's just that real life humans cap out at 18 strength

I've heard that Smoughs Hammer from Dark Souls 1 would weigh about 5 tons when the player wields it, and over 40 for the version the boss has.

oh god yes. i love shad, but sometimes he just needs to realize that he isn't an expert in certain fields

There is historical precedence for dual (make sure you write it with an a, a duel is a bout between two individuals) wielding, but usually you would go with a long weapon and a shorter one you could use to manoeuvre around binds. Two long weapons would get tangled too often and be a detriment to your success.

@@metallisika2745 To add to this, you dual-wielding is more something you might do in a duel or other civilian context. It generally wasn't done on the battlefield (at least, not until people starting wielding pistols and swords at the same time). Main reason is that a shield is more essential if you don't have a lot of armor, and otherwise a polearm is more useful on the battlefield.

Check his channel. He has a dedicated video on the subject that came about as a critique for the awful way it was done on the Tower of Joy fight of GoT.

Vermintide has a really great variety of weapons in it. Would be cool to see them go through those games too.

Also get Johnathan to react to the firearms

lol tell that to my scimitar bleed build.apparently anything bleeds

this, they use rogier rapier and not the best representation of rapier which is estoc as it offers both slashing and thrusting moveset

Generally when someone says "épée", they mean the type of sword used in olympic fencing, in the discipline of the same name. Those swords are absolutely just thrusting weapons, because that's how the ruleset of olympic fencing has influenced techniques and strategies.

@@Demonstormlord "épée" straight up means sword though

@@AlphaI250 I know that. Context does still matter.

@@AlphaI250 And katana straight up means sword, but everyone knows that's not the meaning you're talking about when you say that word, language works through context.

I think the note he's making is that while the game (and players) say; "This does 30-60% less damage against full armour foes, that's ineffecient, don't use it." The reality is, "Your slashing sword will just bounce off, chipping and damaging the edge, 98% of the time. This is a suicidally ill choice."

Well, rolling around shouldn't be much more effort than regular fighting. The invincibility aspect is true, though. And of course the telegraphing and ending basically every strike in the ground. 😅

A few of the greatswords use a more "proper" (in quotes because i have no idea if it's an actual fighting style) form involving controlled swings when used in both hands, rather than wild side to side strikes or slamming the sword into the dirt like a club. Specifically, the Inseparable Sword, Banished Knight Greatsword, and Knight Greatsword.

@@Double512 I like long swords, but the Banished knight greatsword is the only greatsword i will use cuz they dont throw this sword to the ground like it weight 20lbs(and it looks really good)

@@Double512 even then though, I think all their heavies are slams rather than pokes. Weird lack of variety among the category tbh

Well it makes sense really, the Ultra Greatswords would weight between 10 to 20 kilos and Colossal weapons weights up to 40 kg. It's not easy swinging around a massive steel lamp post.

They have basically the same take on every shared weapon analysed with Shad going the extra mile to demonstrate a fixed moveset with the given design in mind, so I find this a very unfair take. Don't let the presentation fool you, if thats your problem.

Shadiversity would have a meltdown over anything these days.

Didn't he mention in the video that he does play it?