You want to chamber a big lance by a small arrow thats made of wood and a steel (or whatever) head? :p
No less realistic than doing the same with a practice dagger!
Would be better if you could carry two types of arrows and switch between them (with secondary mode). Would be much more useful than trying to stab someone in plate with an arrow.i beg to differ, multiple arrow types are pretty useless because everyone just carries the the ammo of their preference and you really dont need more than 30 arrows a life. plus it would look hip :lol:
i beg to differ, multiple arrow types are pretty useless because everyone just carries the the ammo of their preference and you really dont need more than 30 arrows a life. plus it would look hip :lol:
Being able to switch between stronger cut arrows, and weaker pierce arrows is useless? You do realize that the bodkins work better on heavily armored targets, but you're better off using high cut arrows on low armor targets?4 damage is not something id give crap about in crpg, if you are shielder you block them anyways and if you are pole or 2h you either dodge or die.
I'm predicting:
Melee get close, archer switches to arrow, archer stabs, archer glances, melee kills archer.
Really, it just sounds like giving every archer really shitty, one direction pikes to prevent them from running when anyone with any sense would run anyway.
4 damage is not something id give crap about in crpg, if you are shielder you block them anyways and if you are pole or 2h you either dodge or die.
plus changing arrow type could be theoretically executed by sliding mouse button [imagine having two bows in ur inventory with the weight of one and different arrow type]. not to mention that if you have masterwork arrow type you dont really care about other types unless you loom another type.
I thought of this idea while watching an archer get lanced by a horseman and I just had the thought, "what if?"
I don't think you understand the difference between cut and pierce and how they are affected by armor (or lack of). Having both cut and pierce arrow types and the ability to switch between the two, would be extremely useful for archers, much more so than being able to do a weak stab with your arrow...you speak of this feature as if it was already added and it sucked, imo doing 10 piercing damage as an archer can save your life from a near death enemy. plus as i said we all can have both, with ammo switching to be like weapon switching.