Crossbow Improvement

[ArrrrrrBOOTY!]

I missed this completely in the Beta release notes Have to say, from a distance, it's a friggin killing machine! I like.

The dot pointer is exactly where the bolt hits, every time. Although I was never a fan of the to the side shoulder/hip aiming I don't really care anymore.

A berated weapon since its release now a decent killer.

Definitely a distance weapon, good for 1 shot kills. Not tested on a bear yet but my guess is if you miss the head, the bear will survive and charge. I'd swap out immediately to the bow or spear as the reloading is slowish ... if a two shot to the body is guaranteed a kill then stand yer ground and flip that bear the bird!

At this stage I go as far as saying it's now my weapon of choice, and as such, I'd like to see bolt tranquillisers too please, and per past requests, a secondary quiver/pouch external to the backpack?

[Shinigami]

I did not see any mention of the crossbow upgrade in the beta notes. I only just saw it in the 16.17 notes. I haven't bothered with it since it didn't seem much better than the bow and I didn't want to make/carry another weapon since its inception. Since the badies dodge the arrows, I sounds like it's again time to craft a crossbow.

[ArrrrrrBOOTY!]

LoL .. assumed it was mentioned in Beta release notes and I missed it ... oh well ... it's mentioned now and it's a good weapon at last IMO.

[Shinigami]

I'm about to test it

[Macdallan]

Opprinnelig skrevet av GrumpyOldGamer:

Although I was never a fan of the to the side shoulder/hip aiming I don't really care anymore.

Yeah, I noticed that the character we're playing holds it at almost a 45 degree angle instead of mostly pointing it straight ahead. It looks and feels very, very strange to me. It's something I would expect to be adjusted at some point but definitely not a very high priority.

[b.millis]

Unlike the bow, which has a cool zoom effect when pulled back, the crossbow does not. So.... Could we PLEASE have a scope with cross-hairs that can be added as an accessory that has a huge zoom, so we can snipe the infected from long range, ?

[ArrrrrrBOOTY!]

Opprinnelig skrevet av b.millis:

Unlike the bow, which has a cool zoom effect when pulled back, the crossbow does not. So.... Could we PLEASE have a scope with cross-hairs that can be added as an accessory that has a huge zoom, so we can snipe the infected from long range, ?

Definitely, even an iron sight would be an improvement with the same zoom effect as the bow.

RMB bringing it up to shoulder aim I don't think would work with the current crossbow design because of the height of the metal hook going over the rope. Would block the view etc. But if the current view would zoom ....

As it is, I adjusted my camera settings to 5 and this vastly improved the ability to track and shoot long distances with just the white dot ... eyes squinting a bit though LoL.