bow aim

[Morocka]

There is no outline or reticle for the bow? I put the target up and what seems to be a perfect center shot goes 2 feet left and 2 feet low. This is the composite bow. How do you aim the damn thing?

[Rootiga]

Aiming system was so much better in the first. The range and arch made way more sense and was far better too. I almost feel like the bows were ruined intentionally because they were borderline OP in the first and because they wanted to encourage usage of guns

[Dragow]

Originally posted by Rootiga:

Aiming system was so much better in the first. The range and arch made way more sense and was far better too. I almost feel like the bows were ruined intentionally because they were borderline OP in the first and because they wanted to encourage usage of guns

Your bowstring is made of generic rope. It shouldn't shoot at all tbh.

[The Guy in Your Closet]

I'm surprised the laser pointer doesn't work on the bow, then you could actually see where you're aiming at

[Zed]

Essentially, as I've worked out, where the tip of your arrowhead is pointing is the direction/target it will go in.

As I've now become a world class archer in less than a day, basically, if you point the arrowhead at a cannibals head, it will hit their head, and so on.

[Smaisteri]

Originally posted by Dragow:

Originally posted by Rootiga:

Aiming system was so much better in the first. The range and arch made way more sense and was far better too. I almost feel like the bows were ruined intentionally because they were borderline OP in the first and because they wanted to encourage usage of guns

Your bowstring is made of generic rope. It shouldn't shoot at all tbh.

Why not?

[Blax43ver]

Originally posted by The Guy in Your Closet:

I'm surprised the laser pointer doesn't work on the bow, then you could actually see where you're aiming at

It can go on the crossbow

[Stoned Ape]

Originally posted by Smaisteri:

Originally posted by Dragow:

Your bowstring is made of generic rope. It shouldn't shoot at all tbh.

Why not?

probably cus rope isn't elastic enough to pull back enough to matter

[The Guy in Your Closet]

Originally posted by Blax43ver:

Originally posted by The Guy in Your Closet:

I'm surprised the laser pointer doesn't work on the bow, then you could actually see where you're aiming at

It can go on the crossbow

It does, but it blocks the aim, they badly need to fix it

[Smaisteri]

Originally posted by Stoned Ape:

Originally posted by Smaisteri:

Why not?

probably cus rope isn't elastic enough to pull back enough to matter

Bowstrings aren't elastic. If the string is elastic, it classifies as a slingshot. All the power of a bow comes from the bow limbs.

[Erudite]

Acclimating to the Crafted Bow was dead easy, playing as a skirmisher running up to close-mid range would let me rattle off headshots and leg shots back to back even when badly outnumbered. Vast majority of things get dismantled by these even if the damage is low, so it made Hard mode an absolute breeze.

Enter the Compound Bow and I *still* don't have the damn thing fully figured out. Best estimation is your Y-axis point is directly on the arrow point, and the X-axis point is the center of a circle on the bow's upper arm about 3 or so inches above the arrow point. Further complicating this is the wild alteration to Y-axis trajectory when looking upwards or downwards, it's absolutely maddening.

Of course, this is nothing next to the GALAXY BRAINED idea to place the Shotgun's flashlight rail attachment right in the effing middle of your iron sights. If not for the existence of slug ammo, this might not be as much of an issue but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I hope they correct that mistake.

[Mr Chicken]

One thing that's throwing me off is that the character when using the bow appears to be left handed, me being right handed it just looks awkward, wish there was an option to make him right handed.

[GrindSultan]

None needed, just use the center of your screen to put them on target. Its how video games work.

[Smaisteri]

Originally posted by Mr. Bunny:

One thing that's throwing me off is that the character when using the bow appears to be left handed, me being right handed it just looks awkward, wish there was an option to make him right handed.

This is a bit annoying to me too, yes. But I suspect it is the way it is because the game already has animations for pulling out the lighter or the GPS and they'd have to make new animations for these off-hand tools to be used on the right hand.

[NoticedByMany]

I didnt like the aiming at first because I kept missing alot and I was only using the tip as a reference, but you have to take into consideration the end of the arrow as well as the tip and imagine a line coming out from the tip starting at the end. You can't just aim using the centre of your screen because the angle of the arrow actually changes when looking up/down and whether your on a slope/hill.

[Fractal_Phoenix]

Originally posted by GrindSultan:

None needed, just use the center of your screen to put them on target. Its how video games work.

It doesnt go to the center of the screen though. I have a built in option on monitor to enable a reticle, and its definitely not the center