Weapon Variants: The Bow

[Willy Pete]

What if we had more bow variants? Enough to match the current rifle variants, perhaps. We already have the Woodright's bow, but what else could we have for more variety?

Timmy's Bow (or Youth Bow)

This bow would weigh half as much as the Survival Bow at .25 kg but would only be able to use fire-hardened arrows due to its lower draw weight and size. Other than that, it would be identical statistic-wise to the Survival Bow or maybe have greater durability or slightly reduced sway. Maybe one could find this in Pleasant Valley near the archery target along with some fire-hardened arrows.

Rainsford's Bow (or Compound Bow)

This bow would weight more than the Survival or Woodright's bow, probably clocking in between 1 and 1.5 kg and would take slightly longer to draw than these bows. However it would have greatly reduced sway and deal more damage as well, perhaps just shy of the rifle damage-wise. This bow would probably be found somewhere hard to reach like Mountain Pass once that is implemented.

Modern Arrows

To me, the name Simple arrows always implied the existence of a more advanced arrow, and what better way to complement the new bows than to add another arrow type? These arrows would need to be found, probably in the same region as Rainsford's Bow, and once broken wouldn't be repairable or harvestable. They would however, decrease bleed-out times compared to the Simple arrow.

I was thinking it would be cool if there was some note-based story to go along with Rainsford's Bow and the Modern arrows similar to the one for the technical backpack. You would find an initial note that Rainsford was hunting some sort of dangerous game like the cougar and you would find the arrows sticking out of trees where he had missed while chasing his target down.