How I Beat Calamity With Shortswords Only
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Shortswords are often overlooked in Terraria as the weaker version of broadswords. But what would happen if these were the only weapon you could use in a playthrough? Would it be possible to beat the game? Watch to find out!
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Hey, Calamity dev and creator of the Sahara Slicers here, this was a cool video and you had some good input about the shortswords! The whole class except for Sahara Slicers and Cosmic Shiv will probably get reworked sometime in the future (no guarantee it's anytime soon though!). There's plenty of fun and interesting concepts to explore with these kinds of weapons.
Hey! I think mechanically the Sahara slicers are by far my favourite of the run, but considering how long you have to use them I could only put them in A rather than S. having an option between the scourges would be real nice, as it’s definitely the largest gap currently for the subclass
I think shortswords would be much benefited from leaning into fixed attack patterns over the broadswords' generally circular arcs. Like, they don't necessarily need to have pitiful range, maybe something like a plus pattern, or a gladius-style forward flurry would help them be viable and interesting while keeping the feel of the original shortsword patterns.
Honestly I love the Sahara Slicers, they're such an interesting idea and I love it. I wish more melee weapons were like that xP
If they were, I might try Melee instead of Mage.
we want the Exo Gladius line back :(
I'm really loving the direction you guys are taking with new weapons and reworks, they have great actually unique and fun mechanics and really good visuals
i really miss the exo gladius, and the whole terra shortsword line, easily my favorites of the removed weapons
They should've kept them and reworked them. Could've been a hit.
Remind me, why they removed it?
@@VasiliyOgniov I don't remember exactly but I think it was due to them being irrelevant as there where much better and harder hitting weapons at the points of time you would get them, Like for exo-gladius why use that when you could either use the exoblade or Murasama
@@angrymoose7777strange how they didn’t consider reworking them to be different, there’s already a ton of weapons you’re never gonna use because they’re outclassed
@@angrymoose7777 if this is true, then it is a really dumb reason. In the same vein you could argue "Why use P-HM ore swords, when you have Blade of Grass (relatively) easily available?" or "Why use minishark, when you have Boomstick?". Not every single weapon should be OP. Moreover, I'd argue that not every weapon should be good. They have to be fun, though and as far as I concerned EXO Gladius was fun. At the very least it had its gimmick and use case
3:45 “the Sahara Slicers are one of the best shortswords in Pre-HM” you can tell from that one line that this is going to be masochistic
To be fair, I can also say that the Brittle Star summoner weapon is one of the best in pre-hardmode on a minion only challenge run. The reasoning? There aren't many minion-focused weaopns that can do what it does - the stars fly, deal somewhat small but very consistent damage and don't make you feel like you have to constantly reposition yourself to be able to deal damage.
The extra range granted by the "projectile" spawned by the starlight is no different than the extra range granted by all the spear changes in the last update
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Good job beating it, I didn’t think this was even close to possible. Truly one of the most impressive challenge runs I’ve seen
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Sahara Slicers are genuinely such a fun weapon, im glad you enjoyed them! i agree that the loop of going in for true melee to charge up projectiles is really fun! also you missed the Wulfrum Screwdriver, another pre-hm shortsword with the same concept, which is expanded by requiring you to stab the projectile to shoot it!
I binge watched your other content and other play through a during my stay at a hospital, and now I’m home and able to watch this. They helped me get thru it all and was very entertaining. Thank you❤️
17:09 that falling star really went: Yeah, Imma steal this dude's kill lol
As (to my knowledge) the first person to ever upload a run of Calamity Shortswords Only to RUclips, this gets my stamp of approval. Top job mate.
(And as someone who's had a 20+ minute fight of my own against Aquatic Scourge, I know your pain.)
Tons of people have done a calamity short sword run
But not this recent tip all the calamity short swords 😢
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@@cozycherry2497 I thought it felt like there were some missing shortswords, like the Terra short sword
@@HappyIsaac0420 according to another comment I saw, they've been removed 😢
honestly, i think one of the biggest issues with shortswords late game is the fact that pretty much all the bosses are programmed to stay like half a screen or more away for most of the time, so a really short range weapon would be literally impossible to use, and you would never be able to hit anything
From CrabBar's true melee Calamity playthrough to this, you guys are crazy
I know the Terragrim, Arkhalis, and Devil's Sunrise aren't even swords, but they feel like shortswords. I suppose they don't quite stab, but they don't really swing either, so it's kinda like the Starlight.
To me the Starlight feels like it’s stabbing so fast that you only see the after-image, it definitely doesn’t feel like a swing like the terragrim or arkhalis
@@ChiefLogan_The starlight does actually stab and you can see it in the animation
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Your Calamity Sentries video and Daggers video both got me to finally download Calamity and give it a try myself and I've been really enjoying it so far. Looking forward to whatever content you put out next!
Thanks! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
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Some of those swords definitely just feel more like a magic weapon with no weapon as you said
In working on a vanilla short swords only playthrough and it’s not fun. Huge props to you for doing it in calamity
How are you managing to do it in vanilla? Surely your only option for most of hardmode is the gladius??
@@ChiefLogan_ i mean someone already managed to beat terraria with the lawn mower sooo everything is possible in terraria
@polomierer thats sorbet cafe though, so it’s probably still impossible for us mere mortals
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@@ChiefLogan_ well the arkhalis and terragrim are viable, and I can use those to kill empress for the starlight
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17:09 run invalid, a falling star killed retinazer, not the shortsword ☝🤓
That's 1k dmg and unavoidable. Completely random.
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The SMG music makes this WAY more enjoyable, brings back so many memories.
Great video!
1:22 Copper shortsword is an easy s tier, dunno why you put it in c tier.
Nah bro that shiv was S tier on my first playthrough, especially infernum
The cosmic shiv?
Nah the elemental, carried me past infernum DoG, totally didn't die about 300+ times
@splashyatom22 I’d have put it higher if the Galileo gladius wasn’t available so quickly after it and so much better than it
@@ChiefLogan_ ya you right
Im so happy you have a sponsor cuz it hopefully means you can make videos without too much financial problems. Fantastic video as always chief!
Most people shutter at the mere thought of True Melee Calamity in in of itself. THIS is a level of masochism where Masochist mode seems like classic mode by comparison and Infernum might as well be as trivial as breathing.
Honestly it wasn’t so bad, the biggest blockers were the aquatic scourge and golem, and once those fell this was a pretty standard difficulty playthrough
Something tells me this mans loves his Mario Galaxy 2 I don't blame him.
your videos are always really cool, I especially enjoy how thd ranking of the shortswords is integrated into a really interesting challenge run
I've been waiting for this since watching the dagger only playthrough. Great video! Especially enjoyed the comments about shortswords making you think differently about the game.
Damn you knew this one was coming before even I did!
Underrated youtuber using underrated weapons. What a combo
I liked the editing style of this video a lot more than the dagger one, keep it up!
I didn't expect to see such a challange after most of the shortswords were removed
Until seeing this I forgot there were shortswords after the base ores lol, this was awesome to watch and something I might try.
Love the sm galaxy ost in the background
My only gripe with this video is not hearing the awesome boss music that Calamity has to offer
Other than that, you're insane lmao good work
Really nice vid, big fan of the SMG OST, great choice :)
"Now some of you may think this isn't a shortsword." The Starlight is clearly a Shortsword. The Lucrecia however is just a modified Vilethorn.
Hmm, I think one big point here is that a good few bosses are literally untouchable without range given by projectiles. In this regard, I think the Starlight earns some respect for trying to stick to a true melee feel. It's projectiles extend the sword but don't fly off. Plus it kinda looks cooler in action lol. The cool factor alone would have been enough for me to use it over the other viable options at that stage.
There’s an over abundance of super mario galaxy music here so I’m subbing and staying ty very much
Ok, thanks, now i know a lot more about calamity, i did so much wrong on my ?first ever Time? (Not really, i cheated every time after plantera) now i will do my first ever death-expert calamity play through
Not playing the Crabulon theme while fighting him seems like a felony
Yeah, dudn't think it was possible at first, but then you tanked several boss attacks in a row- that's when i knew it would be easy. I'm just used to getting oneshot when playing calamity, cause my melee playthrough was on master+revengeance.
I fell in love the second I heard the Mario galaxy music❤
I like to think the starlight is being swung so fast it creates the rainbow colors
Awesome video, you're very underrated
Congrats!
Really like the terra shiv from clamity addon, thing is a monster of a shortsword
Really impresive How Far you got with the Sahara slicers
shortswords are a really interesting idea but it was very clear from the beginning they were always intended to only be the cheap earlygame alternative to broadswords
they're replaced by spears in hardmode, at least thats how i kinda see it since instead of shortswords for the hardmode ores you have spears
now i havent seen the shortsword roster of clams in a very long time so i still thought that they had a terra shiv here... i remember that from the last time i played clams, back in 1.3
they made all of those fricken toothpicks more busted than the clock in my living room and i thought that there was just something inherently off about it, even if they only went in two directions
Cool, now do it on infernum (I’m actually unsure if you could kill skeletron with Sahara slicers before daytime? It stays outside of true melee range for such a long period of time during infernum)
Wait. Didn't Calamity remove shortswords in one of the updates?
Most of them yes, but it kept a handful
This was a heavily nerfed version of the submarine shocker. About 4 months ago I used it to kill dog and it was still good. And with the right true melee buff on single target I got 20k dps
The desert scourge Shortsword is so fucking broken early game. I solo’ed the eye and brain in 20 seconds
It's significantly easier to fight the Empress on a skybridge. That way, you can drop down when going up isn't an option. In general, almost every boss I fight is on a skybridge
Galileo Gladius will always be a favorite of mine, it's a shame I only got to DoG with it, then i had to unfortunately put it to rest...
Niiiiiice, I was thinking of doing this challenge too, or true melee only but I chose to do Yo-yo only.
Oh some short swords were removed? Well my night is ruined :(((
Honestly, with how Calamity bosses are designed, it feels like any kind of true melee shortsword is sort of just impossible for the endgame.
Bro out there beating gods much scarier than the Moonlord and I cant even beat a master mode ML
They got to add the Exo gladius back to the game bro
fun fact but gladius literally does not have a hitbox on the third stab. its just missing entirely somehow. check the gif on the official wiki page and you can clearly see it yourself
most shortsword dps is higher than their broadsword counterpart's dps, theyre pretty much just a high risk high reward weapon
technically the starlight is a rapier which contradicting popular belief are actually often if times heavier than many broad-/longswords, if you feel like it plays enough like a shortsword I wouldnt judge your opinion anyways tho since as the creator you make the rules one way or another
Super Mario Galaxy music is so good
a few notes i'd give on the builds along the way that i noticed, Early on the Abyssal Amulet would have made all of PH way easier, since it's a very strong debuff, and means that hit and run tacktics are that much more effective.
for most of Hm it's decent enough, but later on it's odd to see boots in use at all, as they are in most cases just a wasted slot, as you use Wings so much more, and with bunny hopping you can keep up a good ground speed still, so on fights like ML especially, it would have definatly been better to have the Celestial Shell on for major stats and resistance to the Night Wither Debuff that ML inflicts, this would also have helpped in the EoL fight as she also inflicts this debuff.
as for early PML, any Tracers are just an instant no go, they again provide very little benefit over other wings, as you tend to not just run around, and even then the bunny hopping works just fine, as well as them just having significatly worse flight time then other Lunar Wings, and especially considering Wing set bonuses you should be using pretty much any other wings over them, though Vortex abnd Nebula wings are actually worse then some Mid-HM wings, so they are an even bigger NO then Tracers, still, Solar, Stardust or Exodius wings are all equally good options if you aren't playing as any of those specific classes.
as a seperate note, killing Providance in the Hallow is not needed, since the Wings re not much better then just Tarragon Wings are as wings, and in fact in some cases Tarragon can be better thanks to more Flight time, but with Tarragon Armor on Elysian Wings have even less of a use, as the Wing set bonus stats form Tarragon just out perform the minor mobility ups you would get form Elysian. So you only even need to kill her in the Underworld, which is nice, since you should clear an arean down there for Brimstone elemntal and Signus, as well as Guardians and Providance, meaning far less time on arena's spent in the world. (i did notice you actually used them, but never mentioned this, so i did)
For DoG, unless you are doing very much so a Pure dps build or are extremely confident (even then still most of the time), having the Fleash Totem on is an incredable safty net as it let's you tank a Head hit and still be left with most of your hp, so i would always recommend it be on.
On Yharon, there are 2 things, 1 that is not that major, and 1 that is just outright baffling, 1st is the used of Chalice of the Blood God, it's at best mediocre, and at worst (more often) a wasted slot and a hindrance. it's pretty much just a Charm of Myths (not Blood Pact) with a 25% max hp buff, ans it does still fully stack with Blood Pact, but the problem is that the effect it has on top of that is just not good, the Bleeding you take is equal to the hit that triggered it, the 5 damage you take up front still doesn't protect Adrenalin or dodges, so that's not a use for it, and the item wants you to use a healing potion to cut the Bleeding in half, but in most cases, if it's your 1st hit, let's say for 300 damage worth of bleed, and you instantly heal, then you just wasted half of the potions own healing on damage you have yet to recive, and half of that 300 original damage still goes through as bleed, meaning you just wasted 75% of your potions healing, on getting half the effectiveness while still taking half the damage, and if you wait to get hit again to get more bleed to cut, more often then not you would have already bleed the original damage, meaning you are now on 2/3rds hp, where yes the item finally has some use, but again if you now take a 300 damage hit, then you can heal for the original damage of the 1st hit and cut the next damage in half, which sounds good, until you realise that this is on a 45 second cooldown, still, so if you get hit 2 times in that time your potion is on cooldown then you just bleed to death along with all the other debuffs you might get from the hit. All it's doing in reality is making you look away form the fight and at the specific hard to see Dark red numbers, your hp during the fight and consider if you can use a potion now to get any value out of the effect, and then you most likely will get hit again in that. as for Tank builds, it offers no benefits, as it does not increse the total number of hits you can tank in pretty much any build. and in higher level casual play you just wouldn't get hit 2 to 3 times in a few seconds every minute or so, it's closer to getting hit once every 20 second to 60 seconds, so the bleed is jsut limiting your response time form a hit, since it takes multiple seconds to see the full effect of a hit on you since you can't just reactively heal after a hit, and the damage is just delayed.
That was the more minor note, as in actual play it serves no benefit with little hinderence, but it has the potential to cause a lot more harm then it can ever help in anything, but the major thing is using the Elysian Tracers, they are the worst option at a stage comparatively, to any stage in the game, as they are pretty much just 1.80x to 2x worse then the next best option, and i can't think of another stage where there was this big of a gap on the options, as Silva Wings as a base have a general 80% better stats as wings, which if you then use any flight stat buffs will become jsut a far bigger gap fast, so Tracers are probably the worst option you can use on Yharon, since they literally are the worst of the 2 by all accounts. And that is the reason why the Elysian Wings form Providance are just useless, as Tarragon already covers there role, and Silva just out performs Tracers so hard that it's not even funny.
and for the finally same notes as the 2 previous on the gear, though Celestial Tracers are bad they aren't nearly as abhorrently ass when compared to the best option of just not "upgrading" Drew's Wings.
Still a fun video overall, and i personally think that as a sub-class the fact that it changes form an up close one to more ranged is not inherently a bad thing, obviusly it's just an opinion of mine as don't see the damage type tag on a weapon as a good way to judge how it should be, but more so as a place to draw ideas form.
another easy trick is that the pickaxe you make with earilite (the sky ore) it is very high pickaxe power
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17:10 star clutch
YES HE UP LOADED
Ah yes, using lead armor for the majority or pre-hm, an amazing strategy.
Copper short sword is obviously S+ tier
What a cool run! Could you provide a mod list?
Cool good job ❤
great video
1:40 why not gladiator armor? You are already grinding the biome, you get full knock back immunity, and more defense than lead
I’d say in calamity they’re roughly equal, you get extra defense but miss out on 10% DR and +1 regen, so there’s pros and cons to both
Beating calamity with the circumcision knife
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Shortswords remind me of the cube world alpha
Wulfrum screwdriver not getting mentioned :( its my fav first craft for Melee
Bro wtf 600£ for a simplest table is a rip off💀
It’s a motorised standing desk, not just a simple table
i forgot how sloww the dog was in normal calamity mod
Long shortswords i guess would just be spears or lances
Bro is OP! No fancy qol mods and large arena. Just vanilla calamity exp. True pro!
I miss shivs ngl. One of many things that fabsol could directly tell me the exact reason why, and I still wouldn't get it.
that must have been painful
I love your accent its so nice
what makes the fairy boots better than the terraspark boots?
S Tier Bro wdym? 1:20
9 year olds describing how they’ll destroy an army bare-handed(they can’t walk across the street): 19:09
Gladiator armor give you knockback resistance and it has the same defence as platinum armor
Considering the 10% DR and +1 Regen from lead armor, it's really a coin toss between which is better. The one clear advantage for lead though is that it's much easier to get
Isn't gladiator armor reworked into rogue armor in calamity
Yeah, but it still gives knockback resistance
What is the music around 9 minutes, it really sounds like it sampled from the GTO theme?
more like 8 50 ish my bad
That's Fleet Glide Galaxy from the SMG2 soundtrack
Isn't the empress of light sword (I forget what it's called) a hardmode shortsword?
Technically it’s not since it spawns a projectile rather than using the sword itself, but I think of it as one
copper shortsword is top tier it's da og
Is a spear a short sword
I thought this challenge was impossible, I guess I was wrong.
10:41 how will you fight aquatic skoruge before wall of flesh?
Seafood just requires sulphuric sand, shark fins, and corroded scales, all of which are pre-hardmode. Crafting doesnt even need a hardmode station.
The thing about the copper short sword is that you cant make the best sword in the not modded game without the worst one
Idk if this is possible but can you do jousting lance only
Remember guys, size does *not* matter.
10:41 how will you fight aquatic skoruge before wall of flesh
The spawn item for him can be crafted in pre hardmode
How did he fight aquatic scourge pre-HM?
You can craft the spawn item in pre hardmode, it’s just “intended” for later
10:46 Why would you place the arena buffs down? The effect takes place when held in any inventory. (Pig, voidbag or normal inventory)
That may be another mod you have that adds that, it’s not a thing in vanilla or calamity
Quality of terraria does that