Add Metal bolts and Explosive tipped bolts for the crossbow!

[Martell]

Metal bolt - Stronger than normal arrows. These armor/hide piercing bolts are effective against players in armor and dinos with thick hide. Better than guns against dinos but not as good as guns against players.

Explosive tipped - Deals a small AoE damage and is capable of pushing players or smalls dinos back a few yards.

[Peter Pan]

I don't know, there needs to be a reason why you would use a crossbow as opposed to a gun.

They both need to play different roles.

If this was a zombie game, the crossbow is the silent weapon that does bleed (damage-over-time) damage. The gun is the noisy weapon that does high instant damage.

If you give the crossbow explosive bolts, it would be no different to a gun.

I prefer if the crossbow is the hunting weapon, the metal bolt will do damage over time. So good for hunting those dinos that run away, but eventually they will die due to losing too much blood.

[JP]

I would agree on metal bolts doing small damage (50% of arrow damage) on hit and then DoT for like 5 seconds, and that would do 100% of arrow damage (in full 5 seconds, does not stack). So after 6 seconds it will do 150% of arrow damage...

[Martell]

Originally posted by Peter Pan:

I don't know, there needs to be a reason why you would use a crossbow as opposed to a gun.

They both need to play different roles.

If this was a zombie game, the crossbow is the silent weapon that does bleed (damage-over-time) damage. The gun is the noisy weapon that does high instant damage.

If you give the crossbow explosive bolts, it would be no different to a gun.

I prefer if the crossbow is the hunting weapon, the metal bolt will do damage over time. So good for hunting those dinos that run away, but eventually they will die due to losing too much blood.

They do play different roles. Right now guns are not very viable to use for dinos because 1) They don't deal a significant amount of damage to them and 2) the ammunition is expensive. Guns are mainly used as defence against other players because they are more effective against them. The crossbow is better against dinosaurs in the sense that it is more cost effective and has a better damage/cost ratio.

And for explosive bolts they would be AoE damage. A lot less damage than a grenade and really the main use would be like I said, just for knocking away smaller enemies.

Originally posted by JP:

I would agree on metal bolts doing small damage (50% of arrow damage) on hit and then DoT for like 5 seconds, and that would do 100% of arrow damage (in full 5 seconds, does not stack). So after 6 seconds it will do 150% of arrow damage...

I do like this idea. Maybe just have another type of arrow that does DoT. DoT arrows would be better when hunting or kiting an enemy versus the instant damage arrow that would be used for scenarios where you need quick damage.

[Defektiv]

Just as long as they don't make bolts a separate engram purchase.

[Martell]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Just as long as they don't make bolts a separate engram purchase.

Yes it should. I believe that would be the whole point becaue everything else requires an engram.

[Fork117]

Originally posted by Peter Pan:

I don't know, there needs to be a reason why you would use a crossbow as opposed to a gun.

They both need to play different roles.

If this was a zombie game, the crossbow is the silent weapon that does bleed (damage-over-time) damage. The gun is the noisy weapon that does high instant damage.

If you give the crossbow explosive bolts, it would be no different to a gun.

I prefer if the crossbow is the hunting weapon, the metal bolt will do damage over time. So good for hunting those dinos that run away, but eventually they will die due to losing too much blood.

I believe they are going to add the 5 senses to dino's AI at some point down the road, hence the silencer. So the silent crossbow will be a better option to not attack predators then.

[SilvaDreams]

I can some what agree with this though the explosive bolts should more be named flash bang bolts. Maybe cause a knock back and a small stun as well for dealing with the faster moving Dino's even something like a Rex and would work great as a defensive weapon against mounted raiders.

[Martell]

Originally posted by SilvaDreams:

I can some what agree with this though the explosive bolts should more be named flash bang bolts. Maybe cause a knock back and a small stun as well for dealing with the faster moving Dino's even something like a Rex and would work great as a defensive weapon against mounted raiders.

I like this idea as well.