Fix archers or remove them

[ostrowanet]

I stopped playing because of disappointment in patch priorities. Archers/crossbowmans are implemented game feature that is totally messed up. If you are not planning to fix it then remove them together with bolts littering the map. I would punch the cute hippo in the head if I could, really.

[Diarmuhnd]

Originally posted by ostrowanet:

... If you are not planning to fix it then remove them together with bolts littering the map. ...

1st of all, proper dwarfs like crossbows and Armok looks favorably on crossdwarfs.

Fixing the ranged dwarf bugs is on the menu, they've talked about.
I'd like an official fix now also but it probably will take more ages.
Its DF, thats normal.

PS :

I got crossdwarfs to work for me in more than a few forts with the simple no bin multiple floor bolt storage workaround. I also used burrows to line up my crossdwarfs and keep them in place. sort of, where I wanted them.

I saw an bolt (crossdwarf) community mod recently uploaded.
I have not had time to test it out.

good luck have fun

[mishlerrobert]

Lol, if they were to remove every broken feature instead of fixing it, there wouldn't be much left to do in this game.

[Someone]

archer bugfix when?

[Haethei]

Would like to be able to equip my dwarves with bigger weapons. Greataxes and mauls are awesome but unusable, and trying to mod it will break the game in other ways unintentionally. Hopefully both of these things are done by the time next content update is released

[Cookiezai]

Yes it is not free now. But. The price of it compared to games like Diablo IV etc is way too low, especially considering the depth DF goes into. Playable hours on D4 is incomparable to DF.

[malthenielsen]

Originally posted by natsukashinoneko:

Originally posted by Cookiezai:

Yes it is not free now. But. The price of it compared to games like Diablo IV etc is way too low, especially considering the depth DF goes into.

According to VG insights[vginsights.com], DF's average playtime is 80 hours, and its median 40 hours
That's just a run of the mill duration for a game of that genre.

Going Medieval: 60/30
Against the Storm: 65/45
Farthest Frontier: 50/31
Stranded Alien Dawn: 55/100 <-- a streamlined RW clone with nice graphics beats DF
Oxygen not Included: 280/95 <-- and the true winners are...
RimWorld: 580/300

DF has like 15 years of play time not recorded on Steam.

There's still plenty playing the old free versions as well, for Adventure Mode for instance.

[malthenielsen]

Originally posted by ostrowanet:

I stopped playing because of disappointment in patch priorities. Archers/crossbowmans are implemented game feature that is totally messed up. If you are not planning to fix it then remove them together with bolts littering the map. I would punch the cute hippo in the head if I could, really.

You can actually easily remove them yourself, simply by not creating a marksdwarf squad.

I did many forts without any because it takes some time to get them to work. Marksdwarves atm are a thing you can play around with if you feel like it, but you can do perfectly fine without them.

I fnd them only to be indispensible to kill enemies stuck in water, but probably I could also kill those in some other way as well.