Llama on 18/6/2012 at 17:57
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
I'm not sure the bat-bow is 100% modern compound - though it's obviously taking stylistic clues from suchlike. It's a little hard to tell amongst the video compression artefacts, but it looks to me like *all* the stings are being pulled back with the arrow when Mr G fires it. That doesn't happen with a compound bow - two strands remain to pull the arms and tension them vertically via pulleys and cams.
I'm not sure how the bat-bow is supposed to tension its arms, but not by classical mechanics as you and I know them. Not that deviating from Newtonian physics is a problem.
But I do think it looks seriously naff.
I don't think the person who developed the bow in this video did any extensive research into bows, how they're made, and the history of bows. You're like a bunch of snobby people at an art gallery always trying to won up one another with how much you can pull out of your ass by looking at a painting. except in this case its a bow. I bet they spent a lot more time on how cool xxgarrettxx looks in anime form.
Renzatic on 18/6/2012 at 19:53
Quote Posted by Llama
...won up...
"One" up.
Llama on 19/6/2012 at 03:11
Quote Posted by Renzatic
"One" up.
you're right. my argument is invalid. well played.
Renzatic on 19/6/2012 at 08:59
Capitalize the first words of your sentences. How do you expect any of us to take you seriously if you don't capitalize your words, continue to make constant spelling mistakes, and misuse your punctuations?
Vivian on 19/6/2012 at 10:49
'Continue to make constant', eh?
jay pettitt on 19/6/2012 at 12:18
Grammar Nazi :mad::mad::mad:
deathshadow on 19/6/2012 at 12:47
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
I believe the last time we had this discussion several people pointed out that only a children's bow would fire as "fast" as the bow in TDS. You should probably check your hardware... or not leave when the discussion gets factual.
I just figured nobody in that thread had fired a bow made prior to the industrial revolution... what most people call a 'childrens bow' today -- like say a cheap sub $100 30 pound recurve with a foot-and-a-half draw, is two or three times what a classic medieval non-composite decurve shortbow delivered -- which were little more than a piece of green yew or other softwood.
.. and that cheap modern 30 pounder delivers MAYBE 60fps average over 50 yards, not the 130+ of larger/better bows -- and a far cry from the 1500+ that TDS seems to deliver.
Opening courtyard scene after the tutorial where you're supposed to take out the brazier to get the cook to open the door, take out the guard wandering back and forth so you have room to play, load up a broadhead, stand by the gate as far from the remaining guard as possible... draw, let fly.
Hits in less than a tenth of a second, at a distance anything less than a longbow should take a second or MORE to reach, since I figure that to be around 40 yards.
Unless we're talking two entirely different games -- TDS' arrows move absurdly and ridiculously fast -- faster from what I saw in the game than most firearms!
Of course those stupid 'trails' didn't help the effect.
Vivian on 19/6/2012 at 17:22
Un-related, but if an arrow does anything more than jack shit to that space-robot in Crysis 3 they Crytek are even further out of their barn than anyone suspected.
Azaran on 19/6/2012 at 22:01
Quote Posted by Brethren
Maybe Garrett IS a ninja.
Maybe he's just found a better way of disguising himself by covering his face. Interestingly enough, one of the original concepts for Thief before they settled on thievery, was a ninja type stealth game.
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
There is a will? Who died?
:cheeky:
