how do i aim the bow?

[icarus the improviser]

i am using the bow for the first time, and i am missing my shots, i would gladly learn to shot it willy nilly, if the ammo didn't deteriorated/broke with every shot.

so can anyone tell me how to aim it?

i know that rocks you aim with your target above your thumb, how about bows?

[russmiller4445]

The number 2 key will cycle though your weapon inventory. LMB to draw, RMB to relax. Must fire from a standing position. LMB will bring up a tiny dot, cursor, hard to see in the white snow, look for it. When sneaking up on a deer in a crouch position, aim for his knee caps, stand & shoot. Only have 2 sec to shoot him in the neck.

[bulbatrs]

when fighting wolves/bears think about what to do if you miss/they ignore the wound. fighting hand to hand is always bad, so pick your fighting spots accordingly

[icarus the improviser]

Originally posted by russmiller4445:

The number 2 key will cycle though your weapon inventory. LMB to draw, RMB to relax. Must fire from a standing position. LMB will bring up a tiny dot, cursor, hard to see in the white snow, look for it. When sneaking up on a deer in a crouch position, aim for his knee caps, stand & shoot. Only have 2 sec to shoot him in the neck.

ok, the aim dissapiers after i start aiming, so whats the point in having it?

also you tell me to aim at the knee caps, firstly, how. do. i. aim? thats what i am asking here.

do i place the animal at the tip of the arrow? below it? above it?

how do i aim? can you answer that?

Originally posted by bulbatrs:

when fighting wolves/bears think about what to do if you miss/they ignore the wound. fighting hand to hand is always bad, so pick your fighting spots accordingly

that has nothing to do with anything.

[Kvakosavrus]

Practice on rabbits. It's the best way to get feeling of a bow and increase your archery skill.

[gaymer]

Originally posted by icarus the improviser:

i am using the bow for the first time, and i am missing my shots, i would gladly learn to shot it willy nilly, if the ammo didn't deteriorated/broke with every shot.

so can anyone tell me how to aim it?

i know that rocks you aim with your target above your thumb, how about bows?

Well, you aim with the top of arrowhead (its perfectly the centre of your screen).
Arrow is a projectile and its flight trajectory forms an arch; also it takes some time for arrow to hit the target.
It (obviously) means that you have to consider target distance, position and movement while aiming.

[NOVA7258]

Originally posted by icarus the improviser:

Originally posted by russmiller4445:

The number 2 key will cycle though your weapon inventory. LMB to draw, RMB to relax. Must fire from a standing position. LMB will bring up a tiny dot, cursor, hard to see in the white snow, look for it.

ok, the aim dissapiers after i start aiming, so whats the point in having it?

Aim above your target so you see the tiny dot. Lower your aim and the dot disappears, judge where the dot (aim point) would be, and release LMB.

As Kvakosavrus says, practice on rabbits.

Careful!! spoiler ahead: get two pieces of thread and 4 strips of tape. Place thread to form a cross on your monitor and tape on the sides. Do not put tape on your monitor screen!

[russmiller4445]

Hi, Arm your bow, when relaxed a very tiny white dot appears, cursor. Move it to the spot where you want it to hit. Go look at a black rock face, pull out the bow, the white dot should be visible to you. Very hard to see in a snow background. When you click RMB, the arrow rises up, the cursor disappears. but the arrow will go where the cursor was pointing. IT does take lots of practice to hit your target. For now, learn to find that white tiny dot. The arrow will go where the dot was, taking in distance, elevation. Go practice on something, don't save, then reload game. It will save your arrows from wear.

[Mauro4691]

there is a mechanic for the arrow. the arrow curves down in its path. the farther the bigger the curve.

[Icarus]

i used to practice on doors way back , from different distances and angles

[iwasa]

If one just want to get experience in where the arrow goes.

Put a reishi mushroom on a snow bank and step back to fire arrows at it, how far depends on you. The mushroom makes for an obvious target and the snow bank has less of an impact on arrow condition than most anything else.

Once beyond relative point blank range, then things get more complicated because of arrow flight (note arrow flight can rise above line of sight then fall below) as opposed to firearms which have no trajectory. But one can still stand farther back and peg shots at the mushroom target (or targets if needed for visibility) and learn about elevation. Shooting uphill and downhill has its own effects as well.

Put in the time and effort and you might become as good a bowman as Geltaz who could pull off some rather startling shots in his day. Of course we often only saw the good stuff but it was surprising what we did see.

[NOVA7258]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-terdxncKo
Geltaz does it.

[Bean]

The bow is the best weapon in the game. Lowest weight for it and arrows. Great damage with great criticals. It’s just got an arc the arrow will follow. You have to become good at judging distance and then adjusting the height of your aim to match. If the deer is far enough not to spook by seeing you, you need to aim over it’s back by half a deer’s height. If it’s further, maybe a whole deer in height.

Rabbits are the best targets to practice on. Usually your missed arrows hit snow which doesn’t damage them much. It’s easiest to shoot rabbits when they are moving left to right because the bow doesn’t get in your line of sight.

The bow is powerful. I’ve lost track of the number of bears and even moose that I’ve one shot killed with it.

[russmiller4445]

Icarus, did you get the bow to work for you?

[icarus the improviser]

Originally posted by russmiller4445:

Icarus, did you get the bow to work for you?

i made the bow, and made like 22 arrows, wich took around 20 hours of game time to make, having to go back and foward through forges, and my main base, with a ton of scrap metal, and coal, and finding wood, and finding hammers, and finding barch trees, also got this ridiculous condition called cabin fever while making them, and to pass it i made a snow shelter outside my base, and slept there for hours untill it was gone, i know whats more confortable than staying indoors in my warm house, its staying in a snow hole for hours right next to it.

and to avoid this condition i just started sleeping outside my house in the snow hole, wich is dumb.

then i went on a expedition with the bow, and there was nothing to shot, sure i can shot rabbits and train, but it took me way to many hours to make the arrows, i am not wasting them, especially since the birch trees don't respawn(according to the wiki), what am i going to shot? wolves? i can kill them with 1-2 revolver bullets, and i don't have to risk them running away with my ammunition stuck in them,and the revolver is faster, guaranteeing a kill if i just riddle them with bullets.

am i going to shot deer? why? hunting wolves is easier, since they run straight at you, instead of away from you, sure they give haf the meat, but its a guaranted meal, instead of having to track a deer with the frustrating tracking system through the mountains.

bears? i don't know how to aim the bow, if i shot at a bear, and miss, i am ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

moose? i never even seen one.

so this expedition i was making was in unknown territory, i wanted to see the vistas and some cool ♥♥♥♥, wich i did for like 10 minutes, untill heavy fog settled in, i was like crossing this large train track suspended between mountains, and i remember seeing in the trailers that it had a cool vista, but i cound't see it because of the fog, so it felt like when you go to the top of a mountain to see the valey, and then fog rolls in, and ♥♥♥♥♥ your day up; I didn't had much food, so i had to keep moving, with no clear direction, since i didn't knew the place.

i found this road leading down the mountain, and i knew a blizzard was going to come soon, so i just followed it betting of it leading to some place to stay, i barely found a place to stay before a blizzard hit, its in this fishing camp near the ocean, so since the bow had no real porpuse, i just dropped it in a box, and went exploring with my revolver, and i found so much ammo for it in the houses around, i have around 120 bullets for it.

it doesn't help that there are some regions where i don't find birch trees at all, and there are some where i find like 6 at most, and i do look all over the place, the ammunition is just as finite as the revolver, or rifle, so i don't see much reason to use it, especially when firing it is slower, sure its deadlier than a revolver(for some reason), but i don't think its as viable, it also loses 4% durability with every shot, while the revolver loses 2%, making the revolver better for expeditions.

so yeah, i don't think i will use it, at all.

[gothmog77]

My two cents:
If you have a revolver and rifle, then you are right that you do not really need the bow. But if you are going to throw away the bow anyway and use revolver instead, why not experiment with the bow a bit and not worry about wasting arrows? After all, if you waste all your arrows you still have revolver to use, and you were not going to use the arrows anyway.

A lot of players agree with you about Cabin Fever and think that it is dumb. Fortunately there is a setting to turn it off in Custom games.