u/Kestrel1207

Budget is ideally in the 200-300€ range, but I am willing to consider beyond that to ~500€. Central Europe.

I currently have the AKG N9 Hybrids, owned them for a few weeks now, and while I've been very happy with their audio, unfortunately I started experiencing some connectivity issues in the last 2 weeks. They also have what I assume to be a very aggressive sleep mode/battery saving feature that eats the first 1-2 seconds of audio when there isn't being any played previously. While this was pretty annoying I could have lived with it, but now with the connectivity issues I've decided to return them.

- Don't need a mic (Have a standalone one already)

- I need very low latency - I tried the Sennheiser Momentum 4 with BTD700 dongle before the AKG N9 Hybrids and still found the latency to be too bad/noticeable. At this point I believe Bluetooth isn't really an option and I do need 2.4ghz (which is why I tried the AKG N9 Hybrids).

- But I still want good sound quality, I'm aware 2.4gz is mostly used by gaming headsets but those tend to have very bad sound quality.

- They need to be decently comfortable - I tried the Audeze Maxwell a few years ago and they were definitely too uncomfortable (too heavy and IIRC, the clamp force was also a bit much, but not sure on that one anymore)

- Strong battery life (40h+) would be very nice to have, but ultimately optional

These is all the weapons you could acquire via disarming or picking up from the ground, which does not appear to be returning in the remake.

I think it's a bit of a shame, especially throwing knives and muskets served a proper gameplay purpose. I suppose the lack of throwing knives is why they moved rope dart to unlock much earlier.

Single sword or boarding axes being made equippable main weapons could have introduced some much needed minor variety from dual swords, especially since there will be a small gameplay distinction between rapier and cutlass in Resynced too.

No hidden blade combat, no unarmed combat, no disarming and picking up enemy weapons. This is a very big gameplay downgrade.

I would have loved the ability to equip and instead of dual swords use the weapon types you could get via disarming, like musket, boarding axe and single sword.

I often used stolen a musket for an assassination mission, since they had a 30 meter range where you can just shoot the target to get the no detection bonus. Or during boarding sequence when you have the objective to kill lookouts, the fastest way was usually to disarm the musket of the first to shoot the other with. Most pistols lacked the range.

You could disarm the fast runner enemies to get a throwing knife, which is the only instant lethal silent ranged option in the game until you get the blow dart.

Neither will be possible anymore.