Are bone arrows supposed to convert to regular arrows after one use???

[Jazz4Dayz™]

This seems like it's either just a glitch or a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ feature. If the latter, there doesn't seem to be any point in waisting bones on making arrows. might as well just use them for armor or something.

[Catfish_Hunter1972]

It's a glitch, I think modern arrows do the same thing.

[ULTRA]

It's been in the game and been reported for almost 2 years now and in the meantime they've touched up the plane, added weapons, bobsled tracks, and a hangglider so I'm going to guess it's just a "feature" now

[r]

Is it a feature or a bug?

endnight: Yes

[Hamatula]

modern arrows stay the same for me, any upgraded arrow downgrades after shot.

[Jazz4Dayz™]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

It's been in the game and been reported for almost 2 years now and in the meantime they've touched up the plane, added weapons, bobsled tracks, and a hangglider so I'm going to guess it's just a "feature" now

oof x_x

[Catfish_Hunter1972]

Originally posted by Wajax:

modern arrows stay the same for me, any upgraded arrow downgrades after shot.

yes, that's right. I forgot. If you make fire arrows they downgrade when you recover them.

[Angry_Viking]

So I guess there's no reason to make upgraded arrows if all the arrows just default to regular arrows when you recover them.

[MekaDovah]

Poison and fire arrows basically lose their upgrade coating after use. I find this acceptable mostly, though I also feel it makes the easier to setup poison arrows the better choice even though I'm a bigger fan of fire arrows. Poison's cheap to make, easy to use, doesn't get nerfed damage on hard mode, and if you miss the headshot, you at least slow them down and deal some extra damage.

Bone arrows doing the same is annoying and I do wish they would change that. I should logically be able to make bone arrows poisonous or burn too. I feel the issue is there's too much overlap between the arrow models and the game can't distinguish them: they all look the same when you put them in the arrow basket.

On top of everything else, once you can headshot fairly reliably (especially with the modern bow) and got decent feather production going, you can get by on regular old crafted arrows just fine. I don't even really use them on the bigger mutants: I find throwing spears or bombs better for that.

Or, if you find a lone armsy in the woods, get up behind him with the chainsaw and he's doomed.

[ULTRA]

There's also the fact that after practicing for like 20-30 minutes you can just headshot any cannibal coming at you with relative ease so damage is irrelevant. If you're trying to kite the larger mutants to death with arrows then you are probably in too dire a situation for a slight damage upgrade to matter anyway

[Hamatula]

Theres plenty of modern arrows on the map (film crew camp). I still use fire arrows or at least have some on hand for cowmen. Other than that its all modern arrows and throwing spears. Ill use fire arrows more often if Im playing normal mode, but in hard survival I really only use fire arrows to stop cowmen.

[40oz to Freedom]

I noticed my bone arrows converting to regular arrows after recovering them as well. My guess is that it's an intended feature. The reason is, you ADD something to regular arrows in order to augment your first shot with them. In the case of bone arrows, you're adding a higher damage arrowhead, so when you pull that arrow out of a corpse the arrowhead stays inside. It's the same with fire or poison arrows, you added an element to the arrows that was expended when they hit their target.

It would be nice if you could simply reattach another bone arrowhead to your normal arrows after recovering them instead of having to build another batch of arrows though.

[MekaDovah]

Originally posted by 40oz to Freedom:

I noticed my bone arrows converting to regular arrows after recovering them as well. My guess is that it's an intended feature. The reason is, you ADD something to regular arrows in order to augment your first shot with them. In the case of bone arrows, you're adding a higher damage arrowhead, so when you pull that arrow out of a corpse the arrowhead stays inside. It's the same with fire or poison arrows, you added an element to the arrows that was expended when they hit their target.

It would be nice if you could simply reattach another bone arrowhead to your normal arrows after recovering them instead of having to build another batch of arrows though.

It's really just a matter of gameplay convenience. Unless you're doing a LOT of killing, bones aren't necessarily easy to come by. That can make bone arrows impractical since the extra damage they do might not be as helpful as poison's slow, fire making the enemy flail around, or the damage over time effect of either. Also headshot from any will OHKO. Being able to keep a bone arrow after one use would make them, and the damage boost they provide, more practical.

These days I find myself using poison arrows primarily, if not regular crafted arrows. They're cheap, easy to make, and I get headshots reliably enough. Especially with the modern bow. For anything bigger and badder, I have other weapons.