As some might have noticed in the Beta, the ADS speed of the Bow seemed off, seemed to be too fast. The reason was that the ADS did not take the zoom of the Bow into consideration. According to the Patch notes of Data Patch A, this should have been fixed - or changed:

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Patch A changelist:[/b]
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? Predator Bow ADS sensitivity reduced
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Which should mean that the Bow ADS speed has been changed independently of all other weapons.

Sadly, this is not the case. Nothing has changed.

I tested for about an hour now, made sure the Data Patch was online, and I even made this nice little video:



And just for you to compare, here's the same test done in the Beta (but without the fancy annotations...):



And the result: Nothing. Has. Changed.

And I'd really like to know why? I may have more problems with this than other people, but Crytek acknowledged the issue and repeatedly and specifically mentioned that the bow would get and did get a separate ADS change. Only the bow. Not the other weapons.

That would mean, there would have to be a difference between the pure Beta (the Xbox NEVER got the Data Patch back then) and the retail version WITH the Data Patch. But there isn't. The speed for a 360° turn in ADS with the Zoomed Bow and an Un-Zoomed weapon are still the same.

And taken together with several reports of melee damage and Pinger turn speed being unchanged AFTER the patch, I might suspect that the patch does not really work all that well...

Ya i gotta add pistols seem weak still...

Never played the beta, but yeah after playing the game and getting the bow I immediately felt it was strange that the bow ads is so sensitive.

I hope they fix it soon.

The really annoying thing is that they already said they DID fix it - even during the Beta (well, to be fair, the Xbox Beta never got the patch back then, it was only for PS3 and PC). But the Data Patc A should have done it for the retail version:
http://secure.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=59195

I don't know what the problem is, if it's just the Bow thing, or if the whole Data Patch A (the one that should have fixed things) is not working. It just irritates the hell out of me.

It seems that both aim speed changes - Bow and Pinger - the Patch was supposed to bring are not working as intended.

Bow ADS is still too high. Pinger Turn Speed is still way too low:

http://secure.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=609381#p609381