the bow just sucks

[nazgull2k1]

There's not one redeeming quality for this pixilated turd.

This aint VR, give the player an aiming reticle. There's literally ZERO legit reason to not have one.

[vali]

Originally posted by Kaezeribato:

Originally posted by workingmatt:

Aiming a bow without looking down sights is how traditional archery works. Either Olympic or instinctive, it’s all about practice at looking at the bow (in your peripheral vision) holding the bow and string identically for every shot (which the game does god you) and knowing/feeling where the arrow is aimed, via lots of practice. Only in a modern compound do you get “sights” to look down.
Practice.
You can even find paper targets in-game to help.

"Traditional archer" use the arrow to aim, cose they use their bow proprely and not like the idiot in the game. It's the same with the mutan girl that use her gun like a retarded gangsta.
Like someone else said, in a game like Kingdom Come you can use the bow without any aim reticle ant it work fine, in this game you dont aim you fire wile remembering were the arrow fly.

You're thinking of a longbow. Thats not how you use a shortbow like the crafted bow.

Originally posted by Vali:

Mate a military survival expert that teaches the military that ♥♥♥♥ said you wouldnt even be able to do ♥♥♥♥ with such a crafted bow and better be off with a spear to stun your targets / prey. When he checked out the forest

Since when a "military survival expert that teaches the military" became a expert in archery? Most of them never even held a bow in their entire life. Also authority argument are dumber than people who use strawmen all day long.

A homemade bow can fire way further than 10m if done proprely. And if a bow can kill someone with an armor then it should fire at more than 10m.

Its not about being an expert in archery. Its about if you're not an expert a crafted bow would be useless. Which our character would be.

[[BIO] Orangecoke]

one thing I have noticed is 3D arrows seem to shoot very high and the stone ones have more of an arched trajectory.

[NekoiNemo]

Considering we already get guiding line for spears and stones - might as well

[leshx]

I shoot bows in real life, this is how bows without sights work. You need to learn the trajectories and develop intuition. I think you are just expecting halo style crosshairs and are frustrated that this takes practice.

A few of you have mentioned close range misses as an "ridiculous issue" medium range is range you want to engage at, imagine trying to shoot someone that's 2-3 meters away and moving with a bow..

I know "Its just a game" - but also looking at the gameplay it seems to me that some practice and this level of efficiency makes sense, you are not legolas

[Nik-Naks]

Originally posted by NekoiNemo:

Considering we already get guiding line for spears and stones - might as well

wtf... Children...........

It's like anything in life. Use it often, to learn how it works.

Try it!

[ronvon]

Originally posted by Saicko:

Originally posted by NekoiNemo:

Considering we already get guiding line for spears and stones - might as well

wtf... Children...........

It's like anything in life. Use it often, to learn how it works.

Try it!

its a video game mate, no ones going to learn advanced bow trajectories so they can shoot a damn funny bow weapon at cannibals.

[Nik-Naks]

Originally posted by lenard:

Originally posted by Saicko:

wtf... Children...........

It's like anything in life. Use it often, to learn how it works.

Try it!

its a video game mate, no ones going to learn advanced bow trajectories so they can shoot a damn funny bow weapon at cannibals.

Yeah, so damn advanced..

Run down to the beach and kill some birds.. You can hit a bird three times to get a ton of feathers.. Kill 3 birds, you can make like 50 arrows.. Make 20 arrows and lose them all on practice, make 20 more.. Voila!....

You are now one step closer to run around full speed, dodging enemy hits like it's some kind of Apex Legends game and not even the forest.. All of a sudden. Hitting every 2-3 shots as headshots, which btw is an instakill on most of the enemies you come across.. Every arrow.. Everytime.... Even the ones you can farm from ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bird feather ones...

Which you would know, If you actually tried to hit the head at least once..

What's wrong little baby boy.. Is the trajectory to advanced that you need Daddy to come and mod the game for you.. Cause you need someone so badly to hold your hands?

You click the button so many times without aim, but the thing on the screen it just wont die.. Cryyyyy.. Dad Fix auto aim..


You want a reticle? use the spear like every other scrub.

[archenstone]

At first I was with all of you who said 'wth is up with this bow?' I had a lot of trouble shooting it at first too. However after a while it did become easier as I learned to adjust and now I do like it. Now mind you, I've been mostly base building cause that's something I like doing so I haven't gotten an upgraded bow yet but I have found the basic one very useful now that I am familiar with it.

After reading this thread it got me thinking and I realized something. The basic bow is a lot like a kids plastic practice bow. The really cheap kind that my old elementary school had. It doesn't have a lot of power to it and to get any kind of good distance you got to arc your shot. Even still, the basic bow has become a standard part of my defensive toolkit for dealing with enemies I don't want to be close to and at times I have found myself shooting accurately when they are moving quick. So I got to say I like how it is currently.

But since this thread has gotten me curious, I think I will push to find some other bows and check them out.

[leshx]

actually just got the compound bow, it has a targeting system but the character doesn't use it, I assume they will make it usable in the future

[n0xide]

Originally posted by nazgull2k1:

There's not one redeeming quality for this pixilated turd.

This aint VR, give the player an aiming reticle. There's literally ZERO legit reason to not have one.

skill issue and a you problem. Git gud....

[ronvon]

Originally posted by Saicko:

Originally posted by lenard:

its a video game mate, no ones going to learn advanced bow trajectories so they can shoot a damn funny bow weapon at cannibals.

Yeah, so damn advanced..

Run down to the beach and kill some birds.. You can hit a bird three times to get a ton of feathers.. Kill 3 birds, you can make like 50 arrows.. Make 20 arrows and lose them all on practice, make 20 more.. Voila!....

You are now one step closer to run around full speed, dodging enemy hits like it's some kind of Apex Legends game and not even the forest.. All of a sudden. Hitting every 2-3 shots as headshots, which btw is an instakill on most of the enemies you come across.. Every arrow.. Everytime.... Even the ones you can farm from ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bird feather ones...

Which you would know, If you actually tried to hit the head at least once..

What's wrong little baby boy.. Is the trajectory to advanced that you need Daddy to come and mod the game for you.. Cause you need someone so badly to hold your hands?

You click the button so many times without aim, but the thing on the screen it just wont die.. Cryyyyy.. Dad Fix auto aim..


You want a reticle? use the spear like every other scrub.

i never said I wanted a reticle, i don't meant to hurt your inflated sense of ego looking down upon us people who have a hard time hitting a small moving target like we are literal fetuses, reticles are literally useless, spears don't have a reticle they have a literal trajectory marking thing that lets you know where it will land. it's literally such a small thing to ask for thats really just a quality of life improvement.

[BubonicDuck]

Originally posted by NekoiNemo:

Considering we already get guiding line for spears and stones - might as well

I agree, and also let us toggle it because it's clear there are plenty of people who want it and plenty who don't. I really dislike it on the other weapons an would like to turn it off.

[broclee]

Originally posted by Ichbin:

FR. Can't aim for ♥♥♥♥. Absolutely worthless, with how fast things dash around. Could at least have your character hold it up to your eye, correctly.

mad cuz bad

[[♛]Rolex-Rüdiger]

For anyone thats using HudSight: Offset from screen center, X= -30 Y= 40

[Whorable]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

Litterally so good it's almost broken. I'm excited I get to use the following phrase unironically.

Skill issue.

This sounds like another elitist reponse, should we remove the reticule marker for the rope gun too with your logic? cause "skills"...