Compound bows NEED more damage.

[LiveFreeOrDie]

I was excited to hear about them being brought into a16 now from what ive read on wiki max quality dam is 45 and crossbow is 55. That bothers me, they are a pain to find parts for and it will take a while to get a purple one but i can craft and buy blue or purple bows fairly quick and it ruins the compound bow for me.

Is the wiki wrong?

[tekkalord]

I don't know what the exact base damage is for them, but Compound Bows need way more damage.

With whatever my Archery skill was at:
600 Bow - around 60 damage
600 Compound Bow - around 66 damage
600 Crossbow - around 110 I think?
They're supposed to have more accuracy and a higher firing rate compared to crossbows, but the
Compound Bow still kinda sucks. Hopefully it will get some love in the next update.

For being the absolute hardest to get arrow firing weapon, it's severely lacking.

*blergh* Just noticed that while my crossbow was never loaded with anything other than Steel Bolts, the bows were showing numbers for stone arrows since that's their default ammo. So my damage numbers above are not comparing apples to apples.

[LiveFreeOrDie]

Originally posted by tekkalord:

I don't know what the exact base damage is for them, but Compound Bows need way more damage.

With whatever my Archery skill was at:
600 Bow - around 60 damage
600 Compound Bow - around 66 damage
600 Crossbow - around 110 I think?
They're supposed to have more accuracy and a higher firing rate compared to crossbows, but the
Compound Bow still kinda sucks. Hopefully it will get some love in the next update.

For being the absolute hardest to get arrow firing weapon, it's severely lacking.

I was thinking about this but maybe it trumps the crossbow in DPS, can you get off 2 shots with the compound the time it takes to shoot and reload crossbow?

[brad-bader]

Originally posted by Islam Is Cancer:

Originally posted by tekkalord:

I don't know what the exact base damage is for them, but Compound Bows need way more damage.

With whatever my Archery skill was at:
600 Bow - around 60 damage
600 Compound Bow - around 66 damage
600 Crossbow - around 110 I think?
They're supposed to have more accuracy and a higher firing rate compared to crossbows, but the
Compound Bow still kinda sucks. Hopefully it will get some love in the next update.

For being the absolute hardest to get arrow firing weapon, it's severely lacking.

I was thinking about this but maybe it trumps the crossbow in DPS, can you get off 2 shots with the compound the time it takes to shoot and reload crossbow?

it definitely shoots faster and is a little more quiet than the crossbow. better for night looting and hunting zeds, though the crossbow can stay loaded.

[LiveFreeOrDie]

Originally posted by brad-bader:

Originally posted by Islam Is Cancer:

I was thinking about this but maybe it trumps the crossbow in DPS, can you get off 2 shots with the compound the time it takes to shoot and reload crossbow?

it definitely shoots faster and is a little more quiet than the crossbow. better for night looting and hunting zeds, though the crossbow can stay loaded.

Just went into creative and did some testing with a stop watch.

With archery at 100 and 600 quality for both the crossbow with steel bolts does 58.4 and the compound does 60.61

With the first arrow pulled back till the second shot is fired we got 2.54 seconds on compound.
From first fire to 2nd fire we got 2.92 seconds with crossbow.

So it looks like i got a little ahead of myself on this but it will forever remain a pain in the balls to get a 600 quality compoud thats for sure.

[Nightstrasza]

Crossbow was one of very few things capable of penetrating plate armor, streanght of a good crossbow should rival even guns in power so compound bow should not be stronger than it... but reload speed on crossbow is a joke, who would load just like that a crossbow while running as a 20th century weakling when medival soldiers needed considerable strenght and special mechanisms to load this thing.

[felmari]

you can aim with the composite bow though. withe the normal you can too but maybe this is a prelude for instance the normal no longer gives any crosshairs when zoomed(stealth still gives it though).