Id love using a bow or/and a crossbow, it would be fun having to aim above enemies heads and watching an arrow stab them and stay in them

Because there are none. I would like to have some though that would be epic. GO RAMBO.

Compound bows would be quite cool.

You could add explosive head to the arrows as well.

Because theres so much military hardware lying around in good condition
I'd like a post-Apocalypse game where pre-war artifacts where much rarer and most people/communities had to rely on what they could make themselves for the most part. Thats not the Fallout setting though. Now if they set one in Britain where a rusty old shotgun and a dozen rounds would be a rare find that'd be interesting

RAMBO!

Yes,yes to have a bow and go full out RAMBO on the NCR. So awsome!

I was playing Majora's Mask with my sister yesterday, and I shot an arrow through a giant wooden spinning flower through a burning torch to light an unlit torch, and I said, "Just like Rambo would'a done."


So yes I want bows in Fallout.

Nice man, awhile back me and my brother broke out the Nintendo 64 and decided to play Ocarina of Time and Majora's mask, such fun games. Anyways, yes any type of bow would be cool to have, and on the note where someone was talking about if people made their own weapons because guns were scarce, in Metro 2033 (Post-apocalyptic fps) there are a lot of custom made weapons, which I think fallout could also use a lot more of too.

In FO4, definitely. With a new engine and using the same kind of bow-fighting shown in the clips of Skyrim. In NV's Gamebryo? Heh... it would probably show you clubbing your enemies with it, in a big, overhand swing... :shakehead:

hardcoe mode: Must stop for tea & biscuits every three hours or suffer stat penalties.

There's none because people are able to manufacture new firearms, and there were already huge stockpiles of weapons lying around.

Immediately post-war (and still in the tribal areas) I would be shocked if bows weren't in fairly widespread use, but at this point they're not needed.

@tzimisce yeah, and must have a fancy ball with crumpets that make your teeth yellow. What other stereotypes are there about us?

Well, surely the future lack of dentists won't be an issue for them.... :laugh:

I think humans building new guns is more likely then resorting to building bows. Case in point
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pipe_rifle_%28Fallout_2%29

There are ALOT more people in the world who know how to make a gun then a bow. More improvised firearms would be a better move then bows. A flaregun converted to fire shotgun shells, a blunderbuss etc. Surivors of the great war aren't going to think. "Gee I should try and learn how to make a bow!" there going to think "Gee I should try and learn how to make a gun."

There aren't bows in fallout because they aren't common weapons in this century, only a small handful of people know how to make a bow. Firearm knowledge is much mroe wide spread and thus more likely to survive the war. Also guns aren't rare in the United States, I must stress that for our European posters. Counting private ownership, military and law enforcement agencies there are more guns then people in the U.S. Guns would also survive the nuclear war more easily then there owners. So its really not surprising that guns basically grow in trees in the fallout universe. You'd have scavangers pouring through rubble trying to find the gun collections from the pre-war era.


You do realize Oblivion used the gamebryo engine right?

I couldn't tell you "why" they aren't in Fallout but I can say that I would love to see bows and arrows in the game.

Too bad we probably won't get them.

Yes, bows! Tribals should have bows. There are the throwins spears, I want bows aswell. And crossbows. Super Mutants (and humans with a Strength above 10) would wield http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1091/hpqscan0002m.jpg.

If we had a bow or crossbow, I'd be very happy. Perfect for a sneak character, bolt to the back of a poor Trooper's head.

Im pretty sure a strength of 7-8 would be far more realistic.

Really? It's pretty much a portable ballista
Not strength for pulling the string back, the nuclear engine deals with that, but the shear weight of the thing. It has a leaf spring and an engine attached to it, damnit!

Oh theres a engine on it. Sorry lol.

Why are there no bikes?

Ok... just about every pawn shop and sporting goods store on this continent has a compound bow for sale; The sporting good shop would have self bows and more complex hunting bows as well. And Fallout (the setting; not the previous games themselves), would have a had 50's-esque bow sets for teenagers, and young advlts. Lil' Bear youth scout bows for the kids, and full size bows for Dad ~and Mom too.

I'm still surprised that Fallout:New Vegas (and FO3) didn't have one, because there could have been an entire stealth aspect for using silent range weapons, and there is the fact that the engine supports pinning limbs to the wall; and Oblivion at least, had arrows embed into enemies and the PC alike.

In Fallout 2, people were making rifles out of pipes and rigged parts for need of a gun; and lacking that even used knives and spears. People could (and would) make bows.

The excessive prevalence (in FO3) of firearms, high tech, and even nuclear weapons was a real disappointment for me. In Fallout you usually only found such in an isolated and dangerous (perhaps even rarely discovered) locations ~or you might find some in the larger settlements where others had acquired them, and they weren't cheap.