Eastern

[Sushiscientist]

It's been described that Huxley will blend eastern and western designs. While this might mean it's time to go to china town for some players and see the fireworks, will there be weapons, armor, and fashion that reflects this quality? Samurai armor, ninja grappling hooks and suits, chinese and japanese star knives/shuriken, japanese spears and samurai/ninja swords/katana, nunchuka and bo staves, dragon mecha, ninja power armor, smoke grenades? I thought a Sapien or alternative Phantom class sniper with his ninja short sword or katana and his grappling hook with shuriken or caltrops would certainly be interesting. Or hybrid slaying with japanese Yari spears and kabuki masks would be interesting. What about Tengu japanese demon crow-man powered armor complete with long nose and agile wings?

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[Bluez]

Pffft. everyone knows that American stuff is teh coolest.
You can keep your Katanas, tantos and the like, It just doesnt match up to the M1 garand, the chicago typwriter and boots with spurs.....

Im not even sure if im joking...however Im sure that there will be asain looking armor, however I dont think there will be any sort of close combat at all...I could be wrong.

[Xyrael]

Samurai = Medieval Knights 600 years too late to matter. Looks like they really missed the fashion train there.

I hope the armor in this game transcends culture as we know it, but if you like Asian you're going to like Alternatives. If you look at their armor, it is distinctively more scale/leather type, while the Sapiens look like Third Reich meets Starship Troopers.

[Grind]

Unfortunately I don't think anyone knows what the melee weapons will be yet so they might throw something like a katana in there (thought it doesn't seem very futuristic).

As for armor I haven't really seen anything that resembles samurai armor (unless I'm forgetting something) but I'm sure there are plenty of armor sets we haven't seen and even more that are still in development.

[Decent_xVICIOUSx]

Its not going to be like that more like futuristic armor not samurai lookin people look at some of the vids and how people look its like US EURO and CHINA military uniforms etc.. combined into the most effective design or there could be but they havent shown it yet

[Xyrael]

The Alternative Enforcer armor looks like medieval Japanese infantry armor. Not everyone was a samurai. Anyways, it's probable there are multiple variations of design within an armor class, different skins etc. I would hope that not all Avengers look the same, for example.

[Grind]

Originally Posted by Xyrael

The Alternative Enforcer armor looks like medieval Japanese infantry armor. Not everyone was a samurai. Anyways, it's probable there are multiple variations of design within an armor class, different skins etc. I would hope that not all Avengers look the same, for example.

Yeah, hopefully what we've seen in videos and screenshots are just the basic armor sets.

Since this game seems pretty good about customization (tons of variations for each weapon along with customizing your character and their armor) I would assume that they'll have plenty of different looks, including more eastern looking gear.