Realistically Wielded Two-Handed Melee Weapons

[Ruminos]

Hello!

First, thank you for taking the time to read this insignificant post. It is my first one so bear with me on this...

Also, I tried searching on the forum if something similar has been suggested, but I have not found anything. Forgive me if this is essentially a repost.

 

So... I've been playing some vanilla Zomboid when I noticed a teeeeeny tiny detail that I could not ignore (and thus I am on the forums for the first time).

 

Am I crazy, or is Janelle Hoffmann (the poor survivor pictured below) holding that shovel right?

 

 

Why is she holding and swinging that shovel like a baseball bat?

My gripe: The weight and material* would not allow a normal person to use a shovel like this.

It looks like the same animation is used for all two-handed weapons.

 

I would realistically keep both hands on the shovel. For your information, I'm referring to the optimal shovel-holding-as-a-weapon technique from another hit indie game that is just as LETHAL as Zomboid is...

 

*Shovel heads are typically made of steel, and occasionally aluminum, fiberglass, or plastic. However, considering the textures of the shovel in the game and the context provided, it is unlikely that the shovel being held is made of a material other than steel.

 

This also leads to the discussion of other weapons being wielded in the "wrong" way, with each given a unique animation that is appropriate...

(Also, I haven't seen any mods that fix this immersion issue either.)

 

 

 

[Badgzerz]

I swing a shovel like a bat that has a longer handle than the zomboid shovel all the time. I've even sharpened the sides of it with an angle grinder to hack limbs, vines, and brush with it. When I'm in the woods I dont even carry an axe because a small army shovel works 75% as good as an axe when the sides are sharpened with a file or grinder. 

Shovels should be considered as axes because they are definitely not blunt weapons irl. It takes 5 minutes and a file or angle grinder to turn a shovel into a 75% effective axe, I've done this at work with my shovels and I use them to hack saplings, roots, vines, and brush. In the woods I dont generally carry an axe, I carry an army shovel with sharpened sides and use that for chopping.

I'm not an exceptional person either. I'm only 145lbs.