duel wielding bows : V

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:34 am

okay if you weren't turned off by the title,
don't you think it would be cool if instead of duel wielding bows, you would instead just shoot two arrows and do double damage?
what do you think?

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:22 pm

Considering dual wield is (as far as we know) not something you unlock, I don't see how and when you'd trigger this as opposed to just using one arrow? Besides they've already made bows to a lot more damage, which is fine by me

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:17 pm

Be a cool perk.

But you neeeeed a better title.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:05 am

So, not duel wielding bows, but the arrows? Ya, that'd be find. Though, accuracy might go down a bit, and you'd have to be half decent with marksman before you got that perk.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:55 am

I think it would be cool if we could shoot two arrows, and it would raise the damage but lower the accuracy. I doubt that'll happen though.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:06 am

Be a cool perk.

But you neeeeed a better title.

Yeah change the title to "Fire 2 Arrows with 1 shot" or something. It would be an excellent high level perk.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:57 am

Unless the perk is sprouting extra arms like Mehrunes Dagon, it's not physically possible. And GI already confirmed that bows do significantly more damage.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:07 am

Yeah change the title to "Fire 2 Arrows with 1 shot" or something. It would be an excellent high level perk.

I think it would be sorta over powered? I mean double damage geez

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:54 am

I have to say, it seems a bit over-the-top to me. As previously said, you should experience a significant drop in accuracy, at least.

As a perk, I'd rather have some way to increase the speed of shooting the arrow.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:17 pm

It'd be cool to fire multiple arrows at a time... I thought you meant use two bows at once...

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:36 am

Like Legolas? That'd be cool

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:28 am

Unless the perk is sprouting extra arms like Mehrunes Dagon, it's not physically possible. And GI already confirmed that bows do significantly more damage.

Do you know how bows are fired? This is very possible you just hold one arrow between the index finger and middle finger, and the other between the middle finger and ring finger. As for damage balancing maybe you can't use it while sneaking. They did say that bows would be powerful enough for SNEAKY characters to kill in one hit, implying sneak attack. Also maybe the arrow speed is reduced or something so arrows don't go as fast.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:52 pm

No. Impossible. Try to dual wield bows. You will fail. Perhaps a 'perk' for overextending the bowstring but not two bows. Just doesn't work. Crossbows with some sort of ammo clip, maybe, but then we are getting into fallout with swords territory.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:08 am

No. Impossible. Try to dual wield bows. You will fail. Perhaps a 'perk' for overextending the bowstring but not two bows. Just doesn't work. Crossbows with some sort of ammo clip, maybe, but then we are getting into fallout with swords territory.

OP says two arrows not two bows. Read the post.

too slow.

Anyway. It is possible why not. I watched too many cheesy movies with those kind of stuff. Maybe trying it myself would be better.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:13 pm

Maybe the topic should be different?

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:07 pm

Sounds like a nice perk. How would you do it controller wise.Hold down both buttons, or maybe you can have the left button cycle threw your different tick shots. You know they will have more then on.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:09 am

No, thanks.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:36 pm

It'd be cool if you could hold your bow sideways and then fire off multiple arrows in a horizontal spread, like the "Barrage" skill in Guild Wars. Would probably be best left as a temporary ability or something, though.

Now if we had crossbows on the other hand...we could really dual wield. :evil:

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:09 pm

I personally wouldn't like it and it's not probable I'd use it...but have it your way.

(In short: Yes to the freedom of choice).

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:45 pm

Now if we had crossbows on the other hand...we could really dual wield. :evil:

Hmmm. I admit I had some though along these lines... ^_^ *sigh* So so cool I don't even care about the over-the-top-ness. But I don't see how it could be implemented : you'd need two crosshairs, no ? It could be done for a controller, but how do you adapt that for PC ?

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:24 am

But, wouldn't the power behind both arrows be divided according to Newton's Third Law of Motion? Both arrows would move slower and with less momentum if fired at the same time. The only reason it would be feasible would be if the game featured a highly comprehensive combat system complete with wounds and bleeding. Then two arrows wouldn't do more damage, but would increase dps from blood loss since there is more than 1 wound. The other application would be hitting multiple enemies in a crowd at once. Considering how quickly you would run out of arrows, and how there wouldn't be any increased burst damage, I fail to see how it would be overpowered.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:04 am

It'd be an interesting perk, all right. And probably one that in all likelihood we'll get. Double arrows are a pretty common fantasy trope.

But, as far as actual dual-wielding goes, I wouldn't mind having two crossbows at once. Wildly unrealistic, but just oh-so-cool.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:04 pm

It'd be an interesting perk, all right. And probably one that in all likelihood we'll get. Double arrows are a pretty common fantasy trope.

But, as far as actual dual-wielding goes, I wouldn't mind having two crossbows at once. Wildly unrealistic, but just oh-so-cool.

Honestly, the only thing unrealistic about dual wielding crossbows is resetting with only one hand. I'm sure they could cook up some Dwemer magical mechanical engineering contraption that would make crossbows semiautomatic allowing for dual wield, but will they? Not sure. Besides, even if we find a way to make it realistic, I'm not sure if it would be practical..

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:42 pm

This is something that would work better as a perk. If it worked at all. How would you aim it at a single target without wasting an arrow?

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:18 am

Dual means two. Duel is something you do with swords.