While Eternal Crusade is a flop, it's not the worst flop out there. The game is still playable, so chin up and keep gaming.

I've been doing the beta/alpha access for a long while, from almost fifteen years ago when it was closed signups that gave you something to put on a resume through purchased access to the hideous mess that is Steam's Early Access program. In all that time, sure... I have a few stinkers, but largely they're nowhere near as disappointing as they could be.

Except StarForge. Bolted together from Unity store assets in a cash-grab, it hemmorhaged features each update until the released game was a shadow of the first alpha build I played, and was nowhere near the promised features list. The developers claimed they had finished with game design, the usual spiel... and then submitted Reign of Kings, with the same UI as StarForge, less than two months later. On Steam. And then couldn't figure out why their forums were inundated with very angry players who had been ripped off. It sat, mouldering on my hard drive, until an update some months back rekindled a bit of rage.. "We're removing the game from steam with this update, and offering it for free on our website." No refunds were ever given, with the developers pushing responses to that off to their community managers (who were unpaid Steam volunteers), and they raked in enough cash from the asset flip second game to continue to stay afloat.

So, ya know. It can always get worse, and experiences like StarForge have given me the understanding that it takes a lot of work for a dev house to [expletive deleted] up that hard, and usually almost has to be intentional. Yeah, VH3 had some... rough elements to it on release, but Neocore largely actually does what Neocore does, and soldiers on to deliver solid content that actually takes our concerns into consideration.

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I duno I think the aesthetics of it are just as underwhelming as the audio and visual effects. This is just my my own preferences though. 

Well the sword is just a stick that wiggles around anyway. Length pretty much seems to be somewhat irrelevant here.

As for the glow effect.

We do need some glow effect.

Perhaps worth taking into consideration future skins might have an impact on length, although likely not because the animations correlate. 

Yes, and they also tend to fire bolt pistols that apparently weigh nearly as much as a fully-loaded, all-the-bells-and-whistles M249 SAW... one handed.

Without power armor.

I want my chainaxe before ya'll get longswords. :P

Well it feels more like a power blade rather than a fully sized power sword which I would also prefer. Especially since our dude has a background as crusader.

So imho a european knight sword style should be preferred. Most notable something big.

Keep in mind on the heroic scale of WH40k Crusaders run around with swords as huge as they are themself.

One-handed.

Without power armor.

Well, we can already see two or three variants of each weapon as-is with the current Forge World prefix; I wouldn't be surprised to see more prefixes and some affixes modifying the model of the weapon (especially as many of the 1h weapons' cleave effects extend past the end of the weapon, to where a "full size" version would end) and having access to some of the interesting stuff like power tulwars, falchions, epees, longswords, etc.

I didn't think it sounded like a plastic tube though, I think they sound like lightsabers (which actually makes sense when you consider what a power field is and what it does). Could use a little tweaking, especially considering the visceral wet-smack-bone-crunch of the Assassin Death Cult blades, but... this is what I do. Offer a differing viewpoint with reasons to support it. I'm contrary and ornery. :P

Thing is though, while being fluff appropriate. It just looks meh. It is probably entirely in proportion to what it's intended to reflect. I know neocore took care in making all proportions fit.

But when a character model swings a weapon that barely extends past their own character frame it's the opposite end of the spectrum to being "badass"

Actually, it's not uncommon to find short swords, arming swords, gladii, etc as power weapons in the realm of the fluff. The *gag* Smurfs largely carry the gladius format, while unaugmented humans tend towards (because of the weight) short/arming swords. Why this happens whilst we're in power armor I can't say, but like everything else in the setting it's largely Astartes gear that's XBox Huge.

Every thread is read, I can assure you of that. Most if not all is copied and pasted into a format for the developers themselves to them go through and digest. 

The difference is though EC developers might have been more vocal but they did nothing to improve their game.
Neocore on the other hand don't reply to everything - but they do act on most of it.

I actually completely agree with all of this.

Sword barely extends beyond the reach of your shoulder

Sword sounds like it's hollow plastic being waved around. 

1/2 the animation are looking good - Mostly the assassin ones tho!