Would it be possible to add a bow and a crossbow in an update or one of the DLCs ? As much as I love the gunplay and VATS in Fallout, there's something exhilarating about primitive weapons. I find it much more satisfying to land an arrow into a bad guy's neck from 50 meters or so.

How would they work

I was thinking of 1 Wooden Bow and 1 Wooden Crossbow which would then progressively be upgraded through various looks and materials of a Compound Bow/Crossbow or some similar Fallout 4 look. Since all weapons in Fallout 4 are about weapon mods and changing the look of the weapon, the similar would be with the bow and crossbow.

Upgradable mods like :

String

Grip

Sights

Limbs

Material

Maybe arrow types (Anti-armor, flammable, explosive arrows, normal).

And by changing the mods on the weapon, the appearance of it would go from very basic bow made of commonwealth wood to / Refined Bow-Crossbow / Recurve Bow-Crossbow / Compound Bow-Crossbow and so on... maybe an Alien Bow which shoots glowing arrows.

Materials being like normal commonwealth wood, oak and similar materials.

What do you guys think ? To me personally, it would be a great addition to the game and spice up the gameplay a bit.

I agree an official add-on would be great, until then I noticed your sig said PC player. http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10484/?

Yeah I noticed that mod and looks fantastic. I had it tracked actually, waiting for it to be fully finished.

But as you said, I'd rather have an official bow/crossbow addon which would have arrow physics/weapon mods ^^

Yeah, should be a cinch, can't they just copy and paste the animations from Skyrim

Doesn't really fit to me but more options isn't a bad thing

been wanting this forever! just port over all the killer stuff from Skyrim!

craft arrows, crossbows and bows from pipe parts like guns, add in crafting syringer-type poisoned arrows!

I would say so considering they had them in concept.

Probably. I am sure they are everywhere on Elder Scroll games?


So Bethesda won`t even have to make new motions... which they just hate. lol

I like it! I probably wouldn't ever use them but I like it!

Haha. This ^

What can I say. I'm a fan of more options for everyone usually.

I was hoping for this before the game released. With a compound bow and explosive tipped arrows, you could run around the wasteland like John freaking Rambo (or the female equivalent, whoever that is).

Jane Brabo or Jane Bimbo either way.

I'm hoping they get them into Far Harbor like they did with Dawnguard.

Like I mentioned in another post, im surprised after 200 years of little to no tech, someone would have made a bow and spear by now lol

Didn't some enemies in New Vegas have throwing spears or am I misremembering..?

No wooden Bows please.

I can agree with a Bow, but they have to be the more modern looking bows made of alloy and metal.

Yes they did. Caesar's Legion used some spears and the tribes in Zion had spears and clubs and probably some more primitive weapons I'm forgetting.

Doubt they add it, they already get flack for having there games being called "X elder scrolls with guns", dont think they wanna fan the flame by blurring the line between the franchises.

Damn, just remembering the different tribes and factions in New Vegas makes me wish for more diverse groups in Fallout 4. Hopefully the DLC will add some new cool gangs and factions.

Yeah there was a lot of cool little factions in NV

Nuclear tipped arrows!

Take down recurve would fit in the most limbs , limb tips , draw weight, string , shelf, misc, grip, material and arrows crafted separately 1 steel 1 wood.


Compound same deal

But with pulley instead of limb tip


Raider variant junk bow but fun options like missile conversion, or something raider esqe that would give it overall superior moddability and inferior stats


Also alternate arrows such as Broadhead ,spring loaded, electric, fire, Molotov, explosive, radiation, poisons, maybe the crazy gas could get used for a chaos type, possibility for a stimpak arrow to heal companions


Just my input

I always thought that bows and crossbows would fit in well in the fallout universe.. Of course so would simply being able to throw any item. Without any perks related to bows though what weapon type would they fall under? Crossbows could easily fall under pistols and rifles based on their build.. but a bow?.

This idea sounds great, but I personally would prefer to see the Chinese AR back! It seems it was supposed to be in the vanilla game but scrapped at the end. Hope they add it soon on a patch/free dlc or worst case scenario on one of the paid dlcs.