The explosion from the gun makes the blade vibrate to cut better

Intuition tells me it's like rocking the blade back and forth, but like hundreds of times a second. But maybe it is more to do with friction.

sonic weapons are underutilized kino

summoning fire from thin air is okay

totally normal

logical

dragons? normal

a giant fucking cactus that poses as a swastika? fine

but a gunblade? WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THERE

This is the hill? This is the one you're dying on?

Fuck you

Yes.

always harping on about the gunblade but nobody ever brings up picrel

Rule of cool.
Even Lightning's gunblade is cool as hell and I fucking hate the character.

This is fucking awesome

Magic is magic but when you try to explain bullshit with bad science it just becomes more obvious. As odd as it might sound NO explanation is better than a bad explanation.

it's kino and teenagepilled and that's all that matters

Magic gun. Problem solved. Notice he never reloads the revolver cylinder after 6 shots?

See that's cool as hell but you can see how it works. The explodey bit is behind the cutting bit. The gunblade however doesn't work that way. The exploding bit is running parallel to the cutting bit so that extra force isn't even going anywhere useful.

Various art does show it has ammo.

i can smell the r*ddit on this post

Angelo cannon is amazing though

blow hole into the target

they become much easier to cut

makes sense to me

The only thing you're gonna blow up is your hands.

>The explosion from the gun makes the blade vibrate to cut better.

Who says this? Official or some (gay) fan theory? I always knew pulling the trigger made the gunblade deal blunt damage, rather than the normal slashing damage, and I never once gave a further shit about it because fuck get a life you fucking gay+fat ass bastard lmao

except that isn't how the gunblade works

That has always been the official canon function of the gunblade in Final Fantasy 8.

physics is gay

uses a revolver for vibration instead of tuning fork or a dildo

retarded japs

presing R1 at the right time gave you a guaranteed crit for 1.5x damage on that base attack(a regular crit was x2 damage though

How would you know? Do you frequent reddit?

The kinds of people that defend FF8 gunblades are the kind that use those useless vibrating toothbrushes instead of the spinning ones or just normal ones.

as a member of the ADA, I'm telling you they're worthless

Lightning's gunblade is an actual fucking gun
You ever notice how you never use the bathroom a single time throughout the adventure? This is what you sound like.

Real life gunblade that is also a fucking calendar.
Checkmate, fantasy.
Your FF8 gun blade wont tell you when Easter is.

Raiden's sword from MGR and MGS2 does the same thing

I want realism!

it's not supposed to be realistic, stupid!

That's what you sound like.

Imagine NOT using the official FFVIII gundildo that uses real bullets to vibrate bigly

Lightning's gunblade is an actual fucking gun

It's basically a giant bayonet

A calendar won't unless it does moon phases.

Watch how Squall uses it in Dissidia so you know how cool it can be

This is the coolest sword I've ever seen

The gas from the cylinder gap and the end of the barrel would do more damage than the vibration

As a kid I used to think pulling the trigger shot a bullet as you slashed, so Squall slashed the enemy and left a bullet inside it at the same time. But that's not the case as the Gunblade doesn't actually have a muzzle. So it fires blanks.....despite the shells having bullets attached to it.

Yes, I have 1 million updoots on r/Anon Babble.

It's the dumb people way of representing guns. Some people think the entire cartridge is fired (there was a video on YouTube waaaaaybackwhen with someone holding a full cartridge saying that round was pulled from their body), and movies make people think there's 1000 moving parts that click every time the gun moves.

Soon Gunblade bros.

What the fuck is s gun anyway? Like, what is that?

Everyone hates gun blades

How about we make key blades

Everyone loves them

If I designed the gunblade, I'd add a muzzle that angles the muzzle flash upward, so pulling the trigger accelerates the slashing speed via recoil, sorta like Sam's katana in MGR.

what would happen if you used this on a person?

We sell them as school supplies.

It would be extremely painful.

This feels more like a flamethrower

Rule of cool, nigger.

You'd go to jail.

What if it was only $949 worth of murder in California?

that dude’s reaction

Is the only proper way to respond to wielding such power.

It's not really cool.

It's gotta make you feel like fucking Thor or some shit.

>a giant fucking cactus that poses as a swastika? fine

this literally happens in real life though

The real question is why does a gunblade give you 255% hitrate?

Basically the bladed version of the super sledge from fo4 huh. Neat

A gun that shoots a hundred bullets that never leave the blade is a bad gun, but a key that opens a hundred worlds is a good key.

255 is the highest percentage that something can be

Not like TheEricButts?

You're a big guy.

Nigga it's fantasy and a videogame kys

Fantasy isn't an excuse to be retarded. That kind of low brow thinking only results in lazy bad fantasy.

For Ram.

That's true, I saw it on Bill Nye.

explain further

255 is a guaranteed hit even with blind or something like that.

explosions from the engine makes the wheel spin to car faster

I'm neither an engineer nor a wheel re-inventor but that's stupid as fuck. And someone should have told them that was stupid as fuck.

IT JUST HEATS THE BLADE BECAUSE THE BULLETS ARE MADE OF FIRE YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

Final FANTASY

Might as well bitch they can shoot magic from their hands whilst your at it.

William Nye, known science guy, explained to me in an episode of his popular entertainment television show that nothing can be greater than 255% except for the love shared between two men. I'm not sure why he included that last part.

It was the episode where they pit a sword with a sworded gun against a gun with a gunded sword

The internal combustion engine and all it's mechanisms make perfect sense you disingenuous Luddite

See
Retard

firing a gun means it's actual fire

Lmao bro got his eyebrows on fleek

How can an explosion not generate a reaction ?

Impregnating mating press!

To be fair, you can reasonably explain internal combustion because it's real. The gunblade is just something a Nomura came up with while rebelling at people who bitched about him putting beltan zippar on everything, so he decided to swordan gun. His logic isn't really something that can be explained, nor does it need to be.

accuracy is probably stored in bit format so 255 being the highest it could go (1-256 but 1 is likely 0)
they basically just gave it max accuracy so even during blind you can slap

Yes but why specifically does a Gunblade give you perfect accuracy?
Actually it's because 255% is coded normally give you auto crits but for Squall his critical hits require a button press. The devs didn't want the player to have Squall miss the player hits the trigger button succesfully so they gave Squall perfect hitrate.

Yeah but what's the lore reason for it having such high accuracy.

The gunblade uses an internal combustion engine (it combusts gunpowder) and has an internal piston that moves the blade back and forth like an electric carving knife

woah...

I liked Seifer's gunblade more

That doesn't make sense, because internal combustion engines are repeat explosions on pistons on both sides of the cam. It makes more sense that, despite the art showing actual bullets, they fire blanks with high grain and the explosion itself does a momentary vibration (which is why you have to hit it right as you hit the enemy).

I think the idea is that it works sort of like how a super sledge or rocket hammer is supposed to work but instead of one continuous source adding force its a single explosion adding a burst of force to a swing.

incest

sauce?

You think wrongly because that isn't how it works.

hard disagree

the explosion is routed via pipes into the blade and it just blasts pressure from the holes on the blade. it doesnt propel the axe forward, it propels the cut pieces away from each others widening the cut with explosive force.

This is badass but it's more like a low-tech pile bunker. The shotgun shell is directly propelling the axe head forward and down through the target on making contact with explosive force.

A gun blade doesn't have the shells fired from behind to drive the sword through enemies, it has the shells striking the sword blade to vibrate it, making it basically a ghetto vibroblade.....which is a lot dumber

never played ff8 but what i assume is that there's some magic involved in the process since that's what all the cool shit in final fantasy games eventually boil down to.
i assume the 'ammo' are just like, charges of concentrated materia or something. you pull the trigger and the spell gets infused into the blade, firing it out from the tip because i assume the metal is magic too. stupid but effective enough reasoning for a videogame.

You assumed incorrectly.

The more likely explanation is that someone said "What if a sword was s gun?" and they spent no more time thinking about it.

its simple, the heat from the rice cooks the egg lil bro

That's how garlean/hrothgar gun blades work in ff14, the shells are concentrated aether and pulling the trigger allows them to trigger spell effects in combination with strikes, and they're used by the garleans who are incapable of non-magitek aether manipulation and Thancred after he's crippled and loses his natural aether sensitivity.......but in FF8 they're not loaded with spells, they literally fire and make the sword wobble fast

some dude invented the axe 2.0 just for lulz

pretty funny

that's just an injector axe

I thought that was myth busters?

Trying to look smart by applying logic to fantasy settings is the most retarded thing a pseudointellectual does. Just copy paste other people's opinions and pass it off as your own like you usually do

STFU bitch it doesn't have to make sense

i'm counting this as me being technically right

Based as hell. It's a sword that shoots, who gives a damn how, it's cool and that's all that matters. Let the nerds cry about vibrations and pressure while we Gunblade uppercut a T-Rexaur into orbit.

ENTER

metal gear?

novelty > realism

My only problem with Red Queen is that to actuate the throttle, you'd have to break the grip on the sword, mid swing, reach your fingers out and squeeze the handle. That's stupid.

I always figured pulling the trigger caused a reverse recoil, adding to the downward cutting force of the swing.

the gunblade is considered an extremely impractical weapon in-universe. squall uses it because he thinks mastering something tough makes him look more impressive and seifer literally does it because of a fictional character in a play using one and him basing his entire life on it AKA they're both autistic

Whenever Nero revs it he either;

has it strapped to his back

is 2-handing it like the windup for streak

or otherwise has it pinned somewhere like in the enemy's face in a lot of devil buster moves

And if you're talking about EX-act then the timing for that is always just AFTER the move connects.

It makes more sense when you think of it as a jackhammer

I swear this would fuck up your wrist somehow despite being 90% of a normal sword. I know because i'm an expert in sword craft and have seen some sword battles in my time

Burning Heart

Not so fast!

Sorry, mid combo, which is stupid. Look at how far youe fingers have to go forward when you break your grip. Do that on his arerial move and it's mid swing.

OP btfod by evidence

Imagine going back in time and making that the default weapon of your foot soldiers and claim it's powered by magic from hell. They'll believe you.

they bash someone's shield

it flies off their hand like a frisbee

so good

Nero could probably easily swing the sword with his thumb and index finger since the Red Queen can only be properly wielded by monkey strength

I'm pretty confident in my uneducated assessment that fighting with a sword is more likely to break your wrist than any other types of weapon. The gunblade inherits that weakness by default on top of having a nightmare-tier shitty handle.

Anon, it doesn't cut better. Its easier to cut, but it doesn't make the blade magically capable to cut through harder material.

Isn't the Pulverizer from KF2 just this

It's retarded but I like it so its cool

Brother, even in canon the weapon is retarded

Now we just need to find the technology to conduct the shockwave into a sword slash.

whats even the idea here

why do Anon Babbleedditors seethe at cool shit?

You have no idea how excited I am for that weapon in particular
Though I really hope ther is some kind of fist weapon as well

Its not cool.

I was always under the impression they were like musket+bayonet
Like the ammo casts magic, and the sword is used for melee

It's because Squall is supposed to be so autistically focused on improving his skills with a dead-end weapon that he never misses.

Im not 7

Hey, cool thing ISN'T COOL! Now praise me for being so above it all and counterculture.