What archery/bow and arrow/crossbow video game stuff/tropes annoy you?

what archery/bow and arrow/crossbow video game stuff/tropes annoy you?

>treats firing arrows like some sort of automatic weapon

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When it does relevant damage. Action games have the right idea by making ranged damage fairly garbage and only melee damage good.

>stone-tipped arrows don't bounce off of plate armor

i fucking love bows and xbows so much but theyre always bad in most games, literally whyyyyyyy

>DEX not STR

why do archers always wear hoods? isn't it actually a bad idea? even Legolas took off his hood when firing his bow

makes me feel like a badass when I go to the range and snipe some targets wearing a hood

Play Far Cry 3 and 4 then, god tier weapon.

What games let me play as a real archer
youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk

Shooting someone with a crossbow will kill pretty much every time if its in the right spot.

>bow limbs are as thick as trees and have thin fucking strings bending that shit back
>archers uses only their index and thumb to pull the ARROW back not the string
>all quivers in games are placed on the back
>left arm is almost NEVER rotated
>bows don't scale off strength
>arrows have impractical tips

That's applicable to fucking anything dummy.

Playing 4 now.

The bow is often not silent and doesn't 1hko on all headshots. No reason to use it over a silent sniper.

>game has fire arrows

So will guns except they're more effective

flaming arrows are actually real, but not how games represent it

they're more like tipped with something that is easy to be inflamed, and are meant to torch buildings than actually fire piercing arrow with flames

This picture.

Yeah but he is implying they don't do shit.

That video is a meme though. The "SECRET TECHNIQUES" are well known and highly debated and would most certainly not be applicable in all scenarios. He's a trick shot, not a scholar of archery.

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why is there a fucking guard on the bow

Leaving the bow stringed/ never accidentally having the string snap.

maybe it's a brass knuckle type of thing in case someone gets too close. Sort of like a pommel for a bow.

its so the box will spin as it flies and go through multiple targets.

>why do archers always wear hoods?

Robin Hood

>even Legolas took off his hood when firing his bow

why the fuck are you trying to learn archery from fantasy

it's more of practicality than anything

also funny you say that, isn't the most common depiction of Robin Hood the one with a small hat than an actual hood?

William Tell > Robin Hood

if someone gets to close to you when you're using a bow, you throw down the bow and stab them with your side-arm

>also funny you say that, isn't the most common depiction of Robin Hood the one with a small hat than an actual hood?

Both

But a hood helps an outlaw considerably more than a beret. Robin Hood was lynch-on-sight for local lords

This Having a guard there would fuck up arrow trajectory and get in the way
Why would you want to punch someone with your fragile wooden bow

Wtf is wrong with that guy's face?

it's really weird though, in many games because you are specialized in bows, you're still dealing damage with it even against up-close monster since you have high bow skill or something

he also was more of an alias right, like there are "many Robin Hoods"?

If you hunt with a bow, you should be used to shooting with extra layers of clothes or a hat on. Odds are good you're going to be dealing with shitty wind on a cold day after having sat on your ass for an hour not moving.

>he also was more of an alias right, like there are "many Robin Hoods"?

Could be, but Hood is a legitimate English surname for someone who sews or wears hoods.

>The historicity of Robin Hood has been debated for centuries. A difficulty with any such historical research is that "Robert" was a very common given name in medieval England, and "Robin" (or Robyn), was its very common diminutive, especially in the 13th century;[70] it is a French hypocorism,[71] already mentioned in the Roman de Renart in the 12th century. The surname "Hood" (or Hude, Hode, etc.) was also fairly common because it referred either to a hooder, who was a maker of hoods, or alternatively to somebody who wore a hood as a head-covering. Unsurprisingly, therefore, medieval records mention a number of people called "Robert Hood" or "Robin Hood", some of whom are known to have fallen foul of the law.

AoE attacks. Especially the one where the archer fires upwards and it rains arrows.

Technically, that is how arrows were used... but fired en masse from multiple archers, not just one.

It's actually stranger (more ahistorical, whatever you wanna call it) to have an archer shoot a single target alone multiple times, which is typical in RPGs and MMORPGs

Heads up everyone, Archery fags having their time of the month again.

>fires upwards and it rains arrows.
fuck realism, its my favorite attack
pic related

THIS THIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS
STR AFFECTS BOW DAMAGE, DEX IS JUST SKILL/AIM
HENCEFORTH, QUALITY BUILDS ARE OPTIMAL FOR ARCHERS
FUCK

Why is fucking Skyrim of all things the only good game with quality crossbow gameplay?

You should see Dragon Age II's bows. One of them has a fucking shield attached

>Guard on the bow
>Quiver on the shoulder
>Bowstrings not even attached to anything
>Handle under the guard is thinner than the rest and would snap if that were a heavy draw-weight bow
Worst of all, Sera is an ugly elven fucking shit.

hmmm

>Lars Andersen
>real archer

No nigga. Imagine a shield attached to where the brass knuckle should be

STR doesn't affect bow damage, STR affects whether you can draw it at all

You're not going to magically do more damage if you draw the string back even further. You'll just snap the bow because you're exceeding its poundage rating.

So

>STR to equip
>DEX to aim

Bow and arrow in shooters to me represent cruise ship sized hit boxes, massive damage, and getting instakill headshots on everything but the target you were aiming for.

>mini-pavise like a buckler

what could possibly go wrong

that's a good thing though, see dragons dogma
one that annoys me is
>archery
>usually uses/scales with/levels with dex instead of str

>Huntsman release day

>archers uses only their index and thumb to pull the ARROW back not the string
Sounds like you're talking about thumb draw, which is a legitimate technique for low poundage bows that natives and children use

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>hand guard on a bow
>thing in the center for a longbow
>the notches appear to be made of plastic and relatively modern

A bucker that obscures the arrow and your vision? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Oh wait, Hawke's a jedi.

That one's different. wot game?

Runescape.

>Bow deals more damage than gun
>Bow deals significantly more damage than gun
>1 arrow deals more damage than an entire clip of pistol

>clip

Removing longbows was a fucking mistake. Only fags like short bows.

>9mm deals less damage than an arrow
sounds about right :^)

Oh lord the huntsman was such a fucking salt mine, I loved it. People seemed to hate it even more the better you got at leading targets and abusing the arrow drop.

>enemy sniper is constantly peeking out of the same place on upper 2fort with fairly regular timing
>calls me a shitter because I'm using the huntsman and getting kills
>go to ground floor and arch an arrow over the bridge and headshot him

It's one of the most basic "tricks" you can pull with that thing and it still got me accused of wallhacking a few times.

This video is such horse shit. Archers were not fucking legolas running around battlefields doing sick kickflips because their hanzo string was so good they could kill anyone.

>Bow deals more damage than gun

>Most bullets, even from pistols and
.22 rim fire rifles travel at velocities 750
to 3500 fps (foot per second). Arrows
travel at velocities of around 300 fps.
Arrows are designed to cut vital organs
and do not tend to crush or tear tissues
like a bullet along the wound tract.
Therefore, arrow wounds are fundamentally
different from a pathological point
of view, than bullet wounds. This fact
should be kept in mind while examining
carcasses which are claimed to be
archery killed animals.

fws.gov/lab/pdfs/Stroud.2007.pdf

Arrow/bolt and bullet wounds are significantly different that they can't really be compared to each other. One cuts and bleeds, one mushrooms and crushes. I'm pretty sure you can trust the wardenfaggots who are in charge of determining who cheats during bow hunting season with forensics.

Fucking pdf formatting

Maybe firing speed though. You can draw the bow faster if you're stronger.

Good point

amazing. everything about it is wrong.

>all bows in the game are roughly the same size
>all arrows in the game are roughly the same size

>bow string is over the fucking left arm

God dammit. That pisses me off the most.