What are our thoughts on melee weapons like baseball bats, batons and sledgehammers?
TL;DRMelee weapons like swords, crowbars or improvised axes are wanted, and the existing melee system could support them, though a baseball bat specifically is doubtful and animation work is needed.
That's a short answer. I played all of Cyberpunk with a baseball bat. Legendary difficulty, beginning to end, baseball bat. I don't necessarily think we'll have a baseball bat, but we might have something similar, like swords, more improvised weapons like crowbars. You might find a junky-looking axe that someone's assembled and taped together kind of thing. And we definitely want to do things like that. Something that might be stored on your back, in one of your weapon slots on your back. It's got a much wider and longer range of attack. The melee system is already there, right? We've got the system with the knife, and we've tested it with a few other things. So it does potentially work. And obviously, it's a lot of animation work and tweaking work to get it actually feeling good. But you can do it with a two-handed weapon. You can do it with a one-handed weapon. So definitely something in the future that we want to look into and have talked about already.