Does the Bow not one shot in the chest anymore?

[Majestic]

My friend was saying he was having issues using the bow and chest shot instant killing them. I decided to test it myself and had the same issue. In my instance, the enemy was no more than 15ft from me which should have been a one shot at full power but he survived. In neither of these instances did we have hundred hands.

[Misery]

Bow has been unreliable oneshot kill for long time now.

[BEAЯ]

apparently not, i was just doing a solo bow run and was like i was throwing decoys at enemys

[Majestic]

BUSHWHACKED님이 먼저 게시:

apparently not, i was just doing a solo bow run and was like i was throwing decoys at enemys

Actually how it felt lol

[mccluckers]

well i havent used it much but, they buffed the damage, so in theory it should be better than before ....

[BEAЯ]

mccluckers님이 먼저 게시:

well i havent used it much but, they buffed the damage, so in theory it should be better than before ....

i heard that too, but honest to god it feels more like equipment instead of a main weapon

[Antpile]

it's always had the issue that it doesn't penetrate limbs like all bullets do. If you shoot a person from the side, the bullet passes through the arm and hits the chest, counting as a chest hit. The bow and xbow do not. It's an arm hit on them.

When shooting from the front it becomes even more unreliable. Depending how they are holding their gun, you can hit their arm with a shot that's pretty center mass. Again, any bullet in the game, even poison which penetrates nothing, will pass through the arm and count that as a chest hit. Not the bow or the xbow, though. What should have been a 1 tap is now an arm hit. They live, even though your aim was solid.

It's just how these weapons work. This is why the shot-bolt is so good at ranges you can make it work. Whatever it hits is treated like you put pressed the barrel of a shotgun up against it and pulled the trigger. It will 1 shot even if it hits their foot. And there's no damage fall off, because the range of the "shot" begins wherever the bolt hits.

The shot-bolt also the only bolt or arrow type weapon that can wall bang.