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KissYourHomieUw's avatar
5 years ago

The Bow-Kekw already seem like it needs a hot nerf

Basically, a Sentinel overdosed on coke, devoured the soul of the Longbow and chew the entire pistol category for dinner and we have an abomination of a weapon:

- Deal the same base damage as a Sentinel but with much much faster rate of fire, 1 hit headshot blue helmet and your purple shield is gone, can 2 tap in the head extremely fast and blue armor will die almost instantly while the longbow give your opponent some room to counterplay

- Making nearly zero sound for its victim, you have to rely entirely on the damage indicator to spot the sniper using bow

- Has better ammo economy

- Better hip-fire for close range potential and can also turn into Mozambiggie 2.0 for even better close range engagement.

This thing is a death machine incarnate and pro player already confirmed it's too "Oppressive". ESPECIALLY in the Arena gamemode, this thing is a nightmare to deal with. 

Reduce the base damage to 60 and lower significantly the fire rate and consider remove the shotgun hop-up, this thing is overloaded with functionality, fulfill too many role on both the battle royale and arena. But welp atleast Valkie isn't as overpowered and broken as the dev said, good job on this one guys

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  • @KissYourHomieUwU The bow should never have been introduced into the game. However, streamers had the chance to test Valk and the bow and stated the bow was far too strong already. They had time to adjust some of it already but did nothing.
  • ervan321's avatar
    ervan321
    5 years ago

    I have been playing s9 for to days and I already want to stop playing because of that dam bow every one carries around.

  • Yes, now it's basically like everyone has a sniper on their team, when typically they did not before because they would be at a disadvantage close range. Close or far range, this weapon is pretty overpowered.

  • the fact that the bow somehow can deal the same damage as a sniper rifle in the first place is mind-blowing logic for me

  • Schaapje1987's avatar
    Schaapje1987
    5 years ago

    Yeah, it shoots faster, projectile drop is almost 0, it hits harder, and the longbow bullets only have a higher velocity, but only a little bit.

    The bow makes all sniper rifles obsolete, and in medium range it's also pretty strong.

    What an absolutely terrible weapon.

  • LordloshBang's avatar
    LordloshBang
    5 years ago

    And the bow is like 100x time more accurate than the Sentinel, and around 150x time easier to use. :D

    But its Respawned.

    They tested it. 
    They have great balancing team.

    And even so call "pros" was testing this season before it was fully released.

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