I just want to know if anybody thinks starting damage for the bow should be less. Currently, you can spam the bow for 53 base damage. That seems excessive. I personally think that the base damage should be 30, but 40 might be okay. It just feels to easy to get into close range and just quick fire the FT until they run out of stims.
Otherwise, maybe increasing the time to draw the base shot back could bring the effectiveness of this weapon more inline with the others.
Quickfire is basically gambling so no not really. How about bringing other weapons up to par with bow?
The bow is already difficult to use at range, and coming in close is dangerous for Predator.
I think bow is in a good spot.
What they should do, is add a bow like reticle to all Predator ranged weapons so we can gamble less when we snap-shot those.
considering the base shot is very inaccurate as it has no auto aim mind you it doing 53 dmg is fine that’s 2 shots before a FT would consider needing a syringe assuming there are no Ai shooting them and the arrow has to travel so the FT could just strafe it and not be hit by it
meanwhile the fireteam has hitstcan weapons with bullets that travel instantly where 9 seconds of sustained fire will kill the predator for getting into a firefight with them
the only thing i would consider with the bow is perhaps making the “smoke trail” more easily visible as in my experience as a predator fireteams just don’t notice it quite often even when they are shot by it or i miss entirely but i know it went in their sight cone
COUGH Squirt Gun Needs love lol ;) It’s supposed to be a plasma hand shotty but it’s more like a puff gun
You lost me at spam the bow. Jesus Christ man 🙄
I see what you’re all saying about travel time. But I find it easy to leap in close, aim shoot and leap away before they can do much about it. After the last patch it’s really easy to land uncharged shoots.
I currently use that for fun, I am hoping it gets a buff soon and turns it into a serious option for Predator.
well yeah if your using as a claw into ranged shot like people do the plasma caster it is quite easy as most FT will walk backwards instead of going to the sides to avoid the shot but in that event
if they were running say the LMG where it will kill you in 4.3 seconds flat since your in melee range they probably aren’t going to miss you would die for doing this likely before you shot him to death
and even if you were doing a short distance shoot out if they were running a sniper or the magnum you would likly lose that firefight if they were strafing at all
at that point it comes down to loadouts and some skill which tells me the bow is fine
Bow is fine , is the hardest weapon to use in the game and it can easly be dodge by moving side to side. Sniper rifle is way much easy and effective from long ranhe compare to bow (specially long range).
I used to think this. I’d go snipe from the distance in safety. Lately been going up against a lot of experienced players and experienced 4-man teams and they’ll trace that first arrow no problem. Its gotten to the point where I struggle to even aim the bow if I’m not already facing them when cloaked as they’ll spot even just my rotation.
well yeah i have seen a number of players myself who react on the first arrow some of the PC players literally do full 180s and still see the trail in time to know where the arrow comes
it’s just alot of the times players just don’t seem to see it perhaps it’s just super tunnel vision or i just expect the human race to have better eyesight than we do but it’s a thing i’ve thought about
I don’t know, maybe its because I am on PC, but the bow is the easiest weapon to use. Super accurate, doesn’t give you away. And fully charged it is two hits on most classes. Once you get a knockdown unless the person is near a building there is no way the team can safely revive the downed person. It’s kinda OP.
