Make the bow useful
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:03 am
Nearly all combat in Daggerfall is an up close and personal melee. The bow is a ranged weapon and is clumsy and slow in a melee. I'm usually dead before I can pump enough arrows to off my opponent. I can hit F6 to equip a melee weapon, but the equip time lag usually sends me to my pallbearers on the way to my burial crypt.,
Many games allow you to equip both a bow and a 1-hand melee weapon, with the ability to switch back and forth at need. In the classic and DFU, you can equip two 1-hand weapons and go back and forth (using the H key in DFU). The bow is a 2-hand weapon and equips in the left hand, with the right left empty (presumably to feed arrows). If you use the H key while holding a bow you get your right fist, which you can use hand-to-hand.
How about making the bow a one hand weapon which would allow equipping a second 1-hand weapon in your right hand and the use of the H key to equip it when needed. This would give the best of both worlds and keep some hardcore archers alive a lot longer!
Many games allow you to equip both a bow and a 1-hand melee weapon, with the ability to switch back and forth at need. In the classic and DFU, you can equip two 1-hand weapons and go back and forth (using the H key in DFU). The bow is a 2-hand weapon and equips in the left hand, with the right left empty (presumably to feed arrows). If you use the H key while holding a bow you get your right fist, which you can use hand-to-hand.
How about making the bow a one hand weapon which would allow equipping a second 1-hand weapon in your right hand and the use of the H key to equip it when needed. This would give the best of both worlds and keep some hardcore archers alive a lot longer!