Why players should start with their weapon in front of them?

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Raycheetah wrote:

Need to make the provided weapon more visible. I've seen two playthroughs (by folks who have been doing playthroughs since before 0.9.3) and they didn't even know they had a weapon available. Fortunately, they managed (a Marauder and a Templar) to get by on bare hands until a weapon dropped. ='[.]'=

My 2 093 chars and their 3 support chars all started with no weapon in the beach.
So all my chars had to kick / punch their way to a weapon.

Not shure if its a bug or what, i made them before 093 - to reserve the name.

Well some of us didn't notice the item on the ground the first time we made a character and went on punching mobs until one dropped....
Or was that just me?

Personally, the default weapon laying on the ground just before me was quite noticeable (and a strange situation too...). On the other hand, finding ways to point the weapon out more than the norm, would possibly end up being ridiculous.

Never the less, I somehow like the fact that some people may have problem with this, as this boosts even more the acceptance and implementation of the no-weapon scenario as described in the original post :P