Board Thread:QQ Threads/@comment-24108228-20160207114752

About a month ago someone said to me "Mind making a thread on the new ranged weapon changes? The forum doesn't let me do it." Having not used ranged weapons for a while, I forgot soon after. Context/Rant= A while back, I provoked a hacker with a longbow. This got them to show off their unobtainium armour to my camera, and I left once I got the picture. While I was doing this however, I noticed that when I missed, it consumed a bolt, and some hits dealt no damage. I assumed this was because the hacker had done something funny with the server, and thought little of it.

Recently however, I was co-leading a tribe of unresponsive idiots independent progressors, and after I realised giving them steel tools and weapons would achieve nothing (they died of thirst periodically), I made a crossbow. After a series of events involving a pair of hackers who were trying to be subtle, a load of boat thieves, and me having to go soon, I fired my crossbow 5 times, hit once, and lost the rest of the bolts to misclicking and the bolt hitting some terrain/thing they were dragging in my face.

This, I feel, is pretty detrimental to ranged weapons. Not only are they now easy to counter by dragseating/dragging in general (being seated into the ground doesn't trap you there anymore, but it'll seriously mess up your camera and cause you to shoot at some grass), but they're more expensive than ever, they don't come with any ammo and if you misclick you have to load it again (which takes 10 seconds per bolt). Countering a crossbow is quite simple. Drag large objects/seats onto their face until they waste all their bolts, which won't take long since they can't load many bolts without sitting around for an age for their weapon to reload, and then charge them with a melee weapon that cost about 1/4 the amount they spent on wasted bolts.

Frankly, it's gotten back to the point where I may have a woven vest and a quiver, but I'll still make a javelin purely because it works. Shorter Version= So basically, ranged weapons have had the following changes (to my knowledge):
 * You lose the arrow if you miss or misclick.
 * You lose the arrow if there is something in the way of the target and your bow.
 * If the target is on a catamaran or a similarly fast boat, the arrow can miss even if you hit them due to lag.

And therefore I'm sad because ranged weapons are ineffectual again, and javelins are better at what crossbows used to be for. What are your thoughts on the new changes? 