Hi guys! I know this has probably been said before, but I'd really like to see bows in Starbound. I know what some of you are thinking "But Galactic, why would we have bows in a game that already has guns" Well, bows are much more ammo-efficient, you can hit more targets (Shooting over a wall, causing the air to fall down and hit them) and bows are more silent. With bows, you can silently kill someone at a range without causing enemies to go like "Huh? What was that?" And seek you out and kill you. I think bows would be a nice addition, and with planets having different gravity, it may be interesting to try and figure out how high you have to aim to hit someone.
Exactly! Oddly enough, no one has talked about bows before. At least there are no specific threads about bows.
I'm inclined to say the reason people don't talk about bows in Starbound more often is because they realize that bows are out of place in a futuristic game. Personally, I prefer bows to guns, but don't see them as appropriate for this — at best I could compromise with some sort of bolt launchers. (Or spike/rivet shooters... either way, something that fires projectiles that can fall noticeably within the distance you'd see on-screen.)
Yes, but you could add technology to the bow to make it possibly almost the same as a gun. Somehow. I dunno, really. It's all up to the devs.
it's not horrible, you throw the flashlight, wich has an anti gravity orb attatched to it, and it work like a bow fiering turret with a light on, wich arrows got lights on them
Well more like a bow is a turret (hovering in the air), emitting light and shooting arrows, wich also would emit light, but your way of understanding it was much cooler
Crossbows are my favorite ranged weapon. I also like regular bows too. I think they could fit in a game like this, after all star wars had crossbows.
yep, they would fit perfektly if you modified them a bit. maybe a bow that consumed energy instead of ammo, and made a lightning arrow every time you pulled back the string
Mm, I agree that bows could still make it in if things are given a futuristic touch. Things such as Compound Bows could easily look swish enough to be included in a futuristic game. Besides, we still have some peon weapons such as lumber axes and sticks, heh. As for a turret that fires bows... It would honestly be futuristic enough to work! It would also make for a great joke weapon, aha ha. We all know that Starbound loves its little touches of humor.
it wasn't me suggested plasma bow. It was someone "who I know" suggested plasma bow and I thought like that way too...
