As an archer IRL, I think that the bow and arrow in Starbound will be really awesome, as I can go hunt purple alien monsters and then (hopefully) BBQ some delicious tender purple meat (ohhh the dreams I have with this game...). But, they then said that the bow will mainly be used as a starter weapon, for killing monsters when you don't have a gun, so that means that the bows will maybe be tier 1 and 2. Yeah sure, guns could be more effective than bows, but there is something special about killing with bows, it feels so rewarding(and according to some gamers it is "Cool"). What I'd like, is that bows had more tiers, and more special abilities and uses. How this would work is that you have an quiver on your back(or wherever fits), filled with arrows, and you have your bow, in your hands or with the quiver on the back, depending on state. Your quiver can only hold this many arrows, and these types of arrows (will come to the arrows later), while the bows are specialized with draw weight, that will determine how far your bow can shoot, and what type of bow it is (will also come to this later). Bows: The bows can be fitted with different accessories, like e.g Plot tracer: determines where your arrow would fall, only useful if there is some kind of gravitational pull.Multiple arrows: Allows you to shoot n arrows at the same time, with some kind of spread.Sight: Allows further sight beyond what you can see on the screen and with the ALT key.Hook: Allows "Rope Arrows" to be fired and used like an grappling hook.They can also be of different types and even have special abilities, e.gLong Bow: This bow is a flat long bow, it shoots far, and has huge damage, but the shooting speed is slow.Recurve Bow: This bow shoots with incredible power, but lacks the range.Compound Bow: Overall good bow. (But is really shit, sorry compounders )Glitch Bow: Has huge damage, but can only fire an special type of arrow, as the heat would melt or burn the regular arrows.ETC. Arrows: Each arrow has it's own damage and tier. The tier decides the values it has e.g knockback, on_fire time, etc. Regular Arrows: Are made with simple materials, like wood, stone or maybe even steel, nothing special.Fire Arrows: A regular arrow with a mounted fiery tip, that can set monsters on fire.Metal Arrow: These arrows are made of more advanced materials, like special metals.Rope Arrow: An arrow with an rope attached, will attach itself to ramps or ceilings (only if enough power is applied to the arrow, depends on distance and type of material to attach to.) but can also be used as a grappling hook but with longer distance.Explosive Arrow: Duh, an arrow that explodes and destroy tiles on impact.Race-specific arrows: Arrows that apply bleeding, do special things while in air, etc.ETC. I hope you get what I'm looking for. If you want this too, please vote this suggestion up, so it has a higher chance to get implemented some time. (I might pretty this up later, or not.)
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I'm intruiged by this idea and would love to see some pictures or maybe drawings of what you had in mind to fully understand it =x? Other than that, nice detail and stuff on the different arrows, deffinetly a plus from me.
well, the glitch are medieval styled, and every race has different styled weapons, so I bet that there will be futuristic looking bows that use your energy bar. so if I am right about what I am saying then you can expect to find bows for the glitch later on in the game. if not, moding it is
Yes, I will definitely do that. Also, make sure to really vote the suggestion up by clicking the link the bot posted and click the arrow. You have to remember that bows are not originally from the medivial time, but dates back to the prehistoric time. So what I'd like to see is like how starwars did with the swords, they made them even cooler. ::update:: If it doesn't end up like this, I'll definitely make a mod for it.
And I will download it because bow are not "old weapons". Look at deus ex human revolution who take place in a near futur,there is still crossbow!
Hmm this kinda hits both the "sounds awesome!" and the "Not likely" categories. I WOULD LOVE to use these bows/arrows it would probably be my weapon of choice, but the Devs wouldn't put that much time into something like this. Even though it's cool don't get me wrong, but the weapons don't rely on ammo. I think there isn't ammo because there are SOOooo.... many weapons they didn't want to make a type of ammo for each type. (not to mention they all rely on energy)
A bow and arrow would be a cool physics based weapon. Though they could have a generic ammo that most of the guns use.
A bow is confirmed to be added in-game. Also ammo is non-existent from last I checked, It's all energy based it seems.
I know the ammo for the guns is energy based (which honestly seems very weird to me for the weapons that aren't really energy based ones), but they could just use a generic item called ammo or the like for the guns. That being said, what will the bow and arrows use then? Will they use just energy too then (which would be very weird to see them pull arrows out of nowhere to use on it)?
That would be something to ask in the faq's section. All I do know is there are bows in game, and I remember talk of energy bows. Like what the green arrow uses.
It's already been suggested before, but I'll do the same to it what I did to the old thread. +1. But use the search bar next time.
Something that could be cool is that when you run out of ammo for the bow (or you unequip the ammo), that the bow can be used as a somewhat high-knockback staff. This could make the bow more versatile, and the bow will have a use without ammo besides taking up inventory space.
I would love this. Killing things with bows is the main way I like to fight in games as its quite satisfying, especially if they do some weird effects.
bows are seriously underrrated. They are one of the few handheld weapons that can penetrate bulletproof vests, and who knows when scientific augmentationes are made?
Mostly that comes from the fact that arrows (and I think you mean crossbows) are very heavy and our ballistic armor is designed to protect against almost exclusively bullets. Heck the regular bullet proof vest doesn't protect against knives. MIND YOU!!! I'd love for no weapon type to be purely outdated. So I'd love for even Bows and Crossbows to have their T10 counterparts, even if they are rarer.
i was thinking ablut bows with high tech mods,like alloy frames,High penetration arrows, ect ect you get the Idea...
Yeah but Starbound is also a comedy game and a stonesoup. The Sci-fi bow and arrow is a sci-fi trope. Heck "Melee weapons" are kind of useless with guns in the picture if you want to get technical.
