For EA/Respawn this Bow is a gold mine. Its great for content creators, its also great for the casuals. The Bow takes skill to be used? Don`t kidding me. It doesn`t.
The hardest part in Aiming is the tracking, and to be able to able to keep up on target, as well as go in 1 on 1 duel, and to be able to strafe better and to aim better.
The hardest gun in terms to masters in Apex has always been the Wingman and the R99. And yeah i know there is many people that are claiming they one mag people with R99, but in reality can`t do 50 damage on a moving target.
As far as the bow, the arrow thickness is huge, its easy to hit your shots, and which is kinda strange, its super easy to hit head shots. The damage on this Bow is ridiculous, but Ea/Respawn has always been terrible at balancing.
From the beginning till now, only the last season we can said that the weapons were balanced properly with some being a bit stronger and so, but there wasn`t any totally OP/Broken weapons.
Before that it took them ages to fix the Wingman at first, then the R99, then it was the PK(it was absolutely always been OP), they needed to fix R301 at some point(it was early in the game existent), then it was Mastiff legend that was absolutely insane for a half year.
Now Bow will be absolutely insanely broken for probably even longer.
The way the game is designed, such weapon was the last thing that the game was needed. The weapons were fine, but all they care is $$$$$$ and $$$$$$$ again.
Why the Bow is great cash for them, eh everyone wants to be Rambo, everyone wants to think he is a god aimer, even tho he is terrible, and the Bow is super noob friendly, and super strong, and average people will feel super strong with it, just like its in Warzone. And this mean a lot of $$$$$ for them, cause so many people will skins, skins, skins, BP and so on.
Its same with certain legends. They introduce Horizon beyond broken, so a lot of people to play her, and to get skins for her.
Now its the same with Valkyrie. I don`t think they will ever introduce a weak legend or weapon at least in the beginning, cause they are losing $$$$ that way.
They want to stock up as much people as they could, to squeeze as much as they can.
70 body damage, and 120+ headshot damage on super easy to land, without reload weapon, and especially if you are in a safe distance, where you can spam, spam, spam and think you are a god aimer. And you could think that they at least make the hipfire hard, think again, its super easy, and its super easy to hit headshots, and you are on a full speed in there .....
Some people will think, okay where then Snipers, and or lets said click timing weapons are skill based, its easy, lets said like in CS:GO with the AWP, where if you miss a shot, you are pretty much ending dead. Desert Eagle and Wingman is a good comparison as well.
And the balancing "god" team that obviously are terrible at anything, they even nerf the AR headshot damage, and buff the "Marksman" ADS speed.
All they are doing is lowering the skill ceiling and the gap between levels. They tried this with straight up lowering the HP/Armor, and making some Energy Weapons Broken, but they got a huge backlash, so they just decide to make some weapons do insane amount of damage, and here it goes the TTK drop significantly.
The greatest part of Apex Legends was dueling, go 1on1 and the better aimer/dodger wins.
Now with the 394847349384883484 dota abilities in the game, its absolutely garbage.
There is absolutely no need for new legends/weapons every new seasons, but this mean $$$$, so of course they are going to focus on this. Why focus on the actual game issues, why focus on garbage server, why focus on cheaters that are probably half of the player base, no its just better to create new legend/weapon and get as much $$$$ as possible, and here and there copy/paste some ridiculous stupid and unwanted game mode like the Arena, that is even slower than the actual BR gameplay, yeah great idea ....
OP, bro did you even expect something else, where they introduce legends like Horizon who gat zero sound and can Q behind you silently, and the game Audio was/is still broken for like 2 years already, and you want the Bow to have audio/sound, really? :D As far as balance goes i think i already said it, you can`t expect a balanced stuff, from a team that for a 2 year of a game existent, the weapons were balanced for like 1-2 months combined, and the rest of the time there was always some totally broken weapon in game. And i`m not even going to open the thread about Legends balancing, cause this is the biggest joke in the history.
P.P. Are this guy for real, that are trying to somehow say that a BOW is somehow more deadly, than AR in reality? 😃