It can be fun to use but it's seriously annoying because it's practically silent. You can't tell where enemies are shooting from most of the time. I keep hearing arrows fly past me and I've no idea where they are coming from.
All in all, I will say that I'm pretty happy with the bow. From a user standpoint, most of it feels pretty good. When I'm hitting or missing my shots it all seems pretty fair. It gets a little muddy once you introduce the shatter caps into the equation. But I think that's true of anything that works like a shotgun in this game. I will also say that it feels pretty amazing in both ADS and hip fire. My personal favorite is to crouch with it, so the bow is horizontal, like Hanzo in Overwatch. That's really fun, especially with Revenant.
As far as being against people who use the bow, I haven't really had much issue. Again, outside of a little bit of RNG with the caps, Every hit or miss they got on me felt pretty fair. And as far as the sound goes, I haven't had an issue with it. The audio from the bow is pretty distinct from anything else in the game, So my ear picks up on it pretty quickly. And a lot of the times, visually, I end up seeing it whizz by me or I can kind of tell where it came from based on how the arrow landed.
All in all, things feel pretty good with it on both sides for me.
I will say, that if they nerf it, I hope they don't go all overwatch with it, to the point where they nerf it into the ground or change so much about it, that it loses what was so fun and enjoyable about it in the first place. But I do understand if they feel it needs a bit of tweaking.
That's all I really have to say about it at this point.
@bosourd wrote:
@JonStriker126"I hope they don't go all overwatch with it, to the point where they nerf it into the ground or change so much about it, that it loses what was so fun and enjoyable about it in the first place"
Umm really? they did that already, to legends like Wraith, Pathfinder, Wattson, Caustic. That's just respawn thing, streamers seem okay with it though because they can demolish casuals easily with that and make some content. So let's see how long until they nerf it.
They will reduce the damage for sure, it's just the same as wingman, it's pretty hard to land the shots, but if you have a good aim, it's not much of a problem. It's obviously OP and there's no excuse around it. You don't even need kraber anymore as long as you have 3x and a bow. It pretty much hits the same.
I know this. I just said I *hope*, I didn't say I think they will. There is a difference.
And I know how they've been. I used to feel this game did balence better than Overwatch. But, recently I've been proved wrong about that quite a bit. They're maybe not as bad as the OW balencing team, but it's pretty close sometimes.
Sadly, can't say I'm too surprised. Especially, when you get streamers and pro players complaining about every little thing. So, like my days in OW, it's the same BS, just a different color.
I do not hate the bow.
I LOVE the bow.
I like firing it, and I do not mind getting hit by it. I think it is a great add, in a game when weapons aren't nearly deadly enough and every time someone gets killed by something, they start screaming about that the weapon was too good. Sometimes, it is true, a weapon might be OP. But for the most part, in this game, weapons are completely underpowered so people can feel better cause they died to 100 bullets rather than ones.
Weapons should kill you and hurt you in a game with shooting weapons. It sucks to die, that's why you must learn to go kill others. Not all weapons should be loud, some should kill you real good, and I'd dare say even with one shot. If you learn the weapons, instead of asking for them to be nerfed all the time, you will find that most are fine. To me, including the bow.
Come on, you have to actually aim the thing. People act like the person killing you with it didn't have to use it well.
"Isn't that the same with every gun though" no lol if you cant see or hear where enemies are shooting from with guns then you really need to start paying more attention 😅 it's easy af to spot enemies as soon as they fire a single bullet.
On the note of the bow being silent.. isn't that the whole point of a bow? It's not a gun.. it's a silent assassin weapon.
