That new bow... - by Hewer
jtr7 on 28/3/2013 at 08:44
:sly:
Always taking the easy path. The safe path.
Back to the lack of sights on the bow:
Oh man, please no auto-aiming!
HSM on 28/3/2013 at 14:21
Quote Posted by jtr7
auto-aiming!
Holy Cross...hairs, Batman!
Starker on 28/3/2013 at 15:22
Quote Posted by jtr7
Oh man, please no auto-aiming!
This.
I don't particularly care what the bow looks like... as long as it fits with the overall aesthetic and the new backstory, but auto-aiming would be pretty bad for a Thief game.
Judith on 28/3/2013 at 15:33
I bet there'll be no gravity calculated for arrows, like in the latest TR. Because, CONSOLITIS! :mad:
Beleg Cúthalion on 28/3/2013 at 17:17
Well that would really be a shame, but I'm more worried about the homeboy aiming you could see in that one screenshot. This makes aiming IMHO unnecessarily more difficult.
jtr7 on 30/3/2013 at 17:43
If there's auto-aiming or the aiming is unintuitive, it will be very difficult to not be angry that more was spent on the ridiculous, and needless, and not credible look of the thing, when the feel of it through the visual and controls and rapid self-mastery of it should have the highest priority.
jtr7 on 3/4/2013 at 04:34
If the primary gimmick of the new bow is portability, and the collapsing design is meant to make it more portable, then why does the folded version still look too big and clunky to satisfy that need? The half-Transformer comlplexity is apparently too kewl for people to notice it doesn't do the job. It wouldn't fire as well as the little stick and string bow 'n' arrows set with the suction cups I had as a little kid, either.
Inline Image:
http://www.3riversarchery.com/images/medium/2378.jpgVivian on 5/4/2013 at 14:52
Hmmm. The cams are symmetrical not elliptical, so they are acting as simple pulleys not as moment-arm tuners (i.e. it is not a compound bow in the normal sense). I would say this thing is designed to fire using mainly the (pneumatic?) rams built into the arm joints as a work sink, with maybe some normal spring-like storage in the tips of the limbs. All except the very tip of the limbs looks like it's stiffened to actually avoid deformation. A pneumatic action could fold with no real difficulties in maintaining functionality - you would just have to open a valve somewhere. Interesting. Don't see why it woudn't work.
jay pettitt on 5/4/2013 at 15:21
Isn't that string, err, shock cord.
