The bow is a rifle which makes no sound

@WhoTookCrossfire The bows damage and bullet (arrow) travel is honestly one of the most brain dead dev ideas i've seen in a while, outside of far range this weapon is pretty much a hitscan weapon with how fast the arrows travel and the damage is so high they it could probably rival a kraber in DPS. Your idea of the bleeding seems interesting but i think a good way to mix up the bow would be to have it do a lot less damage then have some of it damage health through the armour. It would bring a very unique level of play that is already there with valk with her tactical (her tactical does a small amount of heath damage through shields) so i think giving the bow this option while massively lowing the damage of this fing thing would solve a lot of the issue with it while also keeping it unique. Its an interestingly fun weapon but how it is now, it needs to either be fixed or it needs to go. (also i agree with OP on the matter of sound, its annoying to get shot at with one of these from far off, all you hear are the arrows hitting you and you have to spend time looking at where they're coming from, sometimes you dont get the luxury of doing so.)  

The only issue I have with the bow is it hits a little too hard.  I know, that's the point of the weapon but from mid-long range is literally a glorified sniper.  Why use an actual sniper when you got a bow, probably would've been in the drop package if it wasn't a new weapon.

I think the bow is absolutely fine snd it’s really not OP.

@KelRiever  The bow is overpowered in accurate hands. I'm primarily a sniper on apex, played around 6 games last night with the bow and clocked 2k+ in every game I used it, with low effort on my part (wasn't actively looking for fights).

Now don't get me wrong....I love the weapon but it needs a slight rebalance on its stats.

Damage should remain the same, a slight nerf to arrow velocity is required, and a slight nerf to fire rate or the removal of the tempo hop up entirely.

Honestly speaking the bow concept I threw out a year and a half ago was more balanced than this and i'm no dev lol....crazy stuff.

@VdstrkSo just played 3 games right before going to bed or doing something less intense so my focus wasn’t there and I can honestly say sound is there...

Every time a bow flew past me or hit me, I knew the general direction it came from if it wasn’t in my FOV. If I was looking in the direction I could see where the bow was coming from both by sound and trajectory.

Obviously it gets more silenced the farther the archer is and if you’re in a massive firefight, the same can be said, but I had someone shoot me from between 20-35m and I still heard the bow releasing from the wire. Same as a gun. If I can distinctly hear it from that distance, the sound is fine. When I shot at ppl they also knew where to look (either due to sound, trajectory line or damage indicator).

The reload is fine... I used it a couple of times with deadeye as a shotgun and honestly if you’re that close using it as a shotgun, you’re going to get melted. Between 10-20m it’s better to use but still the reload is not an issue imo. It’s a good boon over ppl who for instance fire automatic weapons and have to reload or swap weapons but other than that, not OP or anything. 30m+ normal...

@WhoTookCrossfire So my assumptions (at least for now and for me personally) were correct. It has no actual business in Apex but it could have been implemented way worse and now it’s actually practical and fun to use. 

How about that, selffulfilling prophecy in the works. 

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@Koochi-Q wrote:
@WhoTookCrossfireHAHAHAHA WAIT WHAT?! You kidding me right?

How do you call that an opinionated stance when literally the only opinion here is my first paragraph and that is almost exactly condensed in 3 sentences what you said in your whole previous post but with some alterations on how it would work in your opinion in the game.

Only difference; I have not yet played it. Lolz if I said the bow was OP, take it out of the game, make it have sound and let ppl clearly see the bullet trajectory or anything like that, then yes, that would be an opinionated stance. What I said in the comment you quoted is hardly opinionated but more well-thought out post based on how this game plays.

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I wasn’t just referencing that one post. All of your previous posts had some form of opinion in them and you shouldn’t really be drawing opinions based purely off of what others say. 

@Peri_Longbow_plzSorry my friend this is not Hollywood...

I didn’t shoot a compound bow indeed but it’s not necessary, but I served 12 years at the armed forces and shot with several different guns...

I shot with a longbow atleast and even if a compound bow had 3x the power of a longbow it’s still nothing compared to the forces that get unleashed when you Shoot with something like an mg3 .

If you compare a simple assault rifle like g36 and A compound bow and you still don’t see significant differences in things like g36 having a 870yards effective combat distance compared to 30-60yards effective range of a compound bow

We don’t even talk about bulletspeed/arrowspeed and Bullet/arrowdrop...Firerate, maximum range and so on 
Simple question, if conpoundbows are as lethal as you think they are how come special units of armed forces are not using them ?i mean the value of it beeing completely silent should be worth it right ?but guess what besides that they are inferior in every single aspect compared to a modern firearm... every t4 body armor with ceramic plates will stop the arrow


And you dare to compare it to a modern sniper rifle wich is on a completely different lvl than even modern normal longweapons when it comes to stoppingpower