Bow and Arrow / Breaking

[Cheapside]

Hey does anyone know what determine an arrow break i can not for the life of me find out what to do to prevent it if possible. (playing on Grounded Diff).

[Cheapside]

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[stage]

Is random, specially on grounded 8f you speak about enemies

if u miss and hit a stone/wall is always break

[bpewien [AT]]

I think if you get headshots, the chance of the arrows breaking is significantly less than any other enemy body part.
I've tried it with clickers, and most of the time an arrow headshot let's me retrieve the arrow right afterwards.

But that's Normal/Hard, don't know about Grounded to be honest.

[Dante]

No offence but this is stupid thinking that you will not lose arrows after use. Just think of them like ammo. Also be thankful that you can recover most arrows from headshots in this game. There were gazillion games before this that dont have arrow recover options and still were legendary games.

[acowsik]

Originally posted by Cheapside:

Hey does anyone know what determine an arrow break i can not for the life of me find out what to do to prevent it if possible. (playing on Grounded Diff).

Its totally random tbh. I am also playing on Grounded and its my first time playing the game. I have shot an enemy in the body and the arrow sticks and sometimes a headshot sticks but other times it breaks so not sure what gives.

As a result of this, I try to minimize weapon usage as much as possible and rely on stealth kills from behind to avoid using ammo with no guarantee of getting it back. You have to be a bit innovative in your approach as ammo is extremely scarce.

[Chris]

I just thought it was like the shiv i.e. It lets u recover once then breaks?

[💖⎛⎝Silver Knight⎠⎞]

Arrows seem to break on harder difficulties even with a headshot

[Xato]

from what ive learned, Arrows are LESS likely to break if shot in the head area. If shot in the Body then it will most likely break. If shot at the ground, walls, etc. it will 100% break.

From what ive also gathered. Shooting a clicker, infected, or whatever at short blank with full draw on the bow will have it break more easy. If your closer to the clicker then shoot it with less draw. I think that will cause it to not to break so easy.