by Rynn Sat Mar 16, 2013 3:16 pm
There is two ways for this to occur. One is only visual, one is a massive exploit.
1: Sometimes when you spawn into a players world, you'll not properly load their weapons, which cause any two handed swing to appear to be a straight swords swing. This can't be done on purpose, and on their screen you'll die abnormally quickly, and as a result... confuse them. It's not an intentional thing and can't be replicated accurately.
2: There is a major exploit that you can do to replace any weapons moveset with the moveset of another weapon. Tolvo knows how to do it, and I spent about 4 months figuring out how to do it myself. The glitch persists through death, but not through other forms of loading screens, such as teleporting to anor, using the warp of a lordvessel, or being summoned. So this one is exclusively done by hosts.
You'll be happy to know that replacing a moveset with that of a dagger corrupts their data though. So does curved swords. The bad news is that means it's difficult to see if someone has learned the well guarded exploit, or if it's just a random error on your side, because they behave identicle, the only difference is if the host knows they did it.