small explosion? ^^

Like the idea of a grappling arrow or something like that you could perhaps make it so that after attaching you could hoist yourself up (or your enemy )with it and hook it to yourself and firring another weapon from the point where your haning on the rope . But that may be a little bit weird perhaps

Get the NinjaRope mutator, and maybe talk to the guy who made it about using the code. It's really well-done. The rope even wraps around surfaces properly.

very many ideas

some ok i guess.. this bow idea seems very interesting..

I really like MMM's concept art. Simple, but very Skrith-like indeed. And it looks like it could be placed on the wrist, which is my favorite proposal, partly because I loved Deus Ex, partly because it looks more sci-fi.
But since the Skith are a melee-oriented race, I think that thing needs bigger blades.

My proposals for the bow would be:

1) Per default the weapon is a single wrist blade, maybe a protoss-like energy blade would be possible, so that it doesn't look like the wristblades that are already in BW. Primary fire would strike. On top of the device are the arrow components, they acivate when pressing altfire. The blade slides back into the device and the bow unfolds. In this state, primary fire shoots a dart that either poisons or electrocutes the target to slow it down significantly, maybe even distort its view. Once the target's ability to run or fight is decreased, switch back to the blade and finish it. Special function could lauch the previously discussed tracking dart. The monster magnet thing sounds neat as well, but it wouldn't fit the Skrith theme to let primitive predators kill their precious prey instead of doing it by themselves.

2) I also like the grappling hook concept. Maybe it could be implemented like this:
Again, default is a melee weapon (a narrow but rather long 4-sided blade) and secondary switches modes. In bow mode it will shoot the blade. The blade is so sharp that it passes through any player, it only sticks to vehicles and level architecture. If the latter happens, the player can press fire at any time to create a connection between the weapon and the blade. This isn't exactly a physical connection like a wire, but a highly damaging electromagnetic tractor beam filled with deadly plasma, so one can create traps with it (anyone played Painkiller? The default weapon worked similar.). Once this connection is established, altfire pulls the blade back while primary now spreads the tip of the blade to transform it into a hook (or barb/fluke, dunno the right term). In this case the player will pull himself to the blade, not the other way round (as long as he doesn't press primary again to release). Pressing altfire while towing stops the reel-in process, so the player can swing around Spider-man style. When the player presses altfire while the blade is back in the device, it switches back to melee.

I might have to provide further explanations on the trap-function of the beam: Imagine an Onslaugt match and a narrow canyon, a Scorpion is nearing fast. A player shoots the projectile into the opposing wall, takes cover behind a rock and waits for the right moment. When the Scorpion is near, he activates the beam and the scorpion drives right trough it... Boom. In DM it's harder because enemy players can jump over it and kill the now vulnerable player, who needs to reel in the blade before he can fire again. But when a talented player presses primary twice, the the connection between the blade and the gun is established right when it leaves the device, so when an enemy is hit he gets impaled and toasted at the same time... I guess that the device can only be used as an offensive weapon by highly skilled players, and for the mediocre rest (like me), it is more a tool to get around the map faster or to lay traps. Something in it for everyone.


I know this would be a nightmare to code, but I didn't want to hold back with my ideas...

Skirths are stealthy, sneaky, melee aliens?
Just as I suspected ^^

Maybe some Skrith Stealth device pickup would be cool. Chaos UT made a gravity belt, you can turn it on and off by pressing B. Skrith Stealth device would be a keynum too, limited ammo and more visible when moving.

But this topic is about the bow ^^

I'm very fond of Doc's idea.

Kinda complicated, though. Might need sponsored for DC to willingly tackle something that code-intensive.

I like Doc's idea too, but I think it would be better off as an entirely different weapon than the bow, because I would really like to see a fairly simple bow (compared to your idea) in the game, too.

Yeah, you're right. I got a bit carried away, not realizing that this concept has not much left in common with a bow...
Hmm, I think I should copy the suggestion over to a new thread so the bow discussion doesn't get split up...
Will do so now.

Don't they have a longbow weapon in Prey?

Oops.. Neve realised it was a old board.

yes they do, i think its called the spirit bow or something like that, you use it when in spirit mode.

pretty cool but wouldnt it fit beter in jw

Ranged weapons fit better in BW.

Junk Wars = Meele combat
Ballistic Weapons = Ranged combat + small amount of meele combat.