I agree that no ammo and no durability is best, when you play a game set in a fantastical world you kind of expect things to be a bit more fantastical 
like weapons that dont break, thats a given of course. In games that focus primarily on draining an enemies HP as fast as possible, such as Monster hunter... Durability would just ruin the rush and excitement of combat. Monster hunter has a "sharpness" gauge, but it lasts long enough.
Also, the shield in ST was removed from ST: Abyss. I think its better that way, and I have given up completely on a shield mechanic for SOM now. There wont be shields in my game either.
SOM has a hit window for each weapon, which collects as a singular hitbox at the center of the screen. With John's editor you can specify the length, hit timing and swing animation for the weapon - so to determine when a weapon hits, you would line up the frames in your attack animation with SOM's frame gauge. So if I made an animation in meta with the 55th frame as the primary hit time, then I would input 17 in the hit timing.
The only issue here is that you only get one hit range. So your damage wont travel - it will just hit at say 2.4 meters at exactly the 17th hit time. Meaning you have limited range and timing on a crossbow or bow. Does that make sense?
like weapons that dont break, thats a given of course. In games that focus primarily on draining an enemies HP as fast as possible, such as Monster hunter... Durability would just ruin the rush and excitement of combat. Monster hunter has a "sharpness" gauge, but it lasts long enough.Also, the shield in ST was removed from ST: Abyss. I think its better that way, and I have given up completely on a shield mechanic for SOM now. There wont be shields in my game either.
SOM has a hit window for each weapon, which collects as a singular hitbox at the center of the screen. With John's editor you can specify the length, hit timing and swing animation for the weapon - so to determine when a weapon hits, you would line up the frames in your attack animation with SOM's frame gauge. So if I made an animation in meta with the 55th frame as the primary hit time, then I would input 17 in the hit timing.
The only issue here is that you only get one hit range. So your damage wont travel - it will just hit at say 2.4 meters at exactly the 17th hit time. Meaning you have limited range and timing on a crossbow or bow. Does that make sense?