Arrows, Bolts, Feathers.

[FranticDan]

With being able to retrieve most of your arrows now, I feel it would be more balanced if each arrow and bolt cost 3 feathers to craft. My ammo box is a third full of feathers with 100% loot, day 27.

[Bolliz]

Nobody cares about the feathers Dan. Saying that may provoke some to start caring about the feathers....but the truth is that they dont.

[PoppaTot]

With being able to retrieve most of your arrows now, I feel it would be more balanced if each arrow and bolt cost 3 feathers to craft. My ammo box is a third full of feathers with 100% loot, day 27.

 

Maybe make another box? Just sayin....

[Jugginator]

As someone who plays on the harder difficulties, those arrows are indeed needed lmao. But yeah, I played on Nomad with a friend because they're not too FPS friendly and I do indeed see a massive overstock of arrows after a while.

[Aerial]

LOL. I'd rather see feather drops reduced a little bit. Given that loot gets rebalanced nearly every incremental release, I suspect this will change a few more times before A17 stabilizes.

[Gamer_62]

ooPs wish i seen this before my post..Soz

[lil_joha]

gads no. I run with 3 others. in the same area. I barely get enough feathers and such to keep up with my missing the zombies. And only get back maybe half those that hit.

[LuckyStar]

Okay Dan so if Feathers get Nerfed and in the next patch everyone is complaining....

 

 

... we know who to blame.

 

[Vulgarius]

Please don't nerf the feathers! And please fix the meat!

[FranticDan]

Well I am fairly hardcore, I destroy every birdnest I loot (no respawn) and that usually gives me an extra 2-3 feathers. I now have over 6000 feathers just sitting in it's own box!

 

I think for a rebalance, the archery perk could reduce the chances the arrows break by 10%-15% per rank

[AtomicUs5000]

Craft a giant vulture suit so that the zombies ignore you.... stealth perk 11

[FranticDan]

Craft a giant vulture suit so that the zombies ignore you.... stealth perk 11

 

HAHAHA, go Walking Dead style and cover myself in zombie guts!

[LuckyStar]

Craft a giant vulture suit so that the zombies ignore you.... stealth perk 11

 

 

I'm totally on board for this!

 

+1

[PPanda0421]

With being able to retrieve most of your arrows now, I feel it would be more balanced if each arrow and bolt cost 3 feathers to craft. My ammo box is a third full of feathers with 100% loot, day 27.

 

Not enough data to justify the increase to feathers in making arrows/bolts. You don't mention if you're on SP/MP. You don't mention the difficulty level, what level you are, etc.

 

MP games will use up more feathers to make ammunition. Higher levels of difficulty will require more arrows/bolts to kill enemies. If you're level 100+ you're more likely to be at end game and have access to higher damage weapons like firearms, turrets, traps, spiked club, etc. At that point you won't need arrows/bolts so you'll accumulate a lot more feathers. Also vultures drop feathers when you harvest them so your count is not an accurate count, unless you do not harvest vulture corpses at all.

 

 

Well I am fairly hardcore, I destroy every birdnest I loot (no respawn) and that usually gives me an extra 2-3 feathers. I now have over 6000 feathers just sitting in it's own box!

 

I think for a rebalance, the archery perk could reduce the chances the arrows break by 10%-15% per rank

 

The number of feathers you get in birdnests is random so I think it's ok for now. If you always get 15+ for each birdsnest then I see an argument for nerfing feathers but I think birdnests are fine just the way they are.

 

If you're complaining about finding too many feathers just don't collect them. Or just pick them up and drop them and let them disappear from the world.

[FranticDan]

I'm on single player, I average 3 levels per day. Yeah a get feathers from vultures and I even changed the cost to 3 feathers per arrow/bolt in the xml file. I also have just over 300 eggs.

 

I'm starting a fresh game now on warrior so I'll see how that plays out.

[AshaMarie]

Yea, just ditch excess feathers because I go through sometimes 30+ arrows to hit a stupid snake since I always get jump scared by a snake anywhere in any game or in life so my aim is really bad and I never have too many feathers.

 

I always stay miles away from it and snipe it with a sniper rifle, or in early game, I build a giant tower and shoot it with arrows from atop or if I find a rocket launcher, molotov, or whatever early; I use those instead. I hate snakes...

[Jugginator]

Yea, just ditch excess feathers because I go through sometimes 30+ arrows to hit a stupid snake since I always get jump scared by a snake anywhere in any game or in life so my aim is really bad and I never have too many feathers.

 

I always stay miles away from it and snipe it with a sniper rifle, or in early game, I build a giant tower and shoot it with arrows from atop or if I find a rocket launcher, molotov, or whatever early; I use those instead. I hate snakes...

 

Hahaha. I chuckled verily at the thought of someone building a huge tower firing rockets/throwing molotovs at snakes on the ground. Those bastards are hard to hit though.

[AshaMarie]

Yea, their hitbox is so tiny that I might die in melee trying to kill it.

[Jugginator]

Right. I usually avoid them unless I just have to. Ill pistol-whip or shotgun them usually. My aim is good but they wiggle about a lot.

[AtomicUs5000]

Yea, just ditch excess feathers because I go through sometimes 30+ arrows to hit a stupid snake since I always get jump scared by a snake anywhere in any game or in life so my aim is really bad and I never have too many feathers.

 

I always stay miles away from it and snipe it with a sniper rifle, or in early game, I build a giant tower and shoot it with arrows from atop or if I find a rocket launcher, molotov, or whatever early; I use those instead. I hate snakes...

 

I heard that they were going to make the vultures drop snakes on you.

[Jugginator]

I heard that they were going to make the vultures drop snakes on you.

 

Lmao. Better yet -- bears.

 

Nothing wakes you up in the mornin' like a good ol' drop bear attack.

[AtomicUs5000]

Too bad the body harvesting is gone. That was a missed opportunity to randomly find one full of snakes.

[Jugginator]

Too bad the body harvesting is gone. That was a missed opportunity to randomly find one full of snakes.

 

a body full of snakes?

 

Wait. TROLLAND! Re-enable goreblocks from zombies as a prank and fill them with snakes that explode out onto the player. About 50 should do.

[Bhaaltazar]

As someone who plays only melee and bow - maybe little bit of rifles on horde night, i don't actually have that many feathers. And for some reason on a dungeon run I always like use 50 of the arrows not getting them back ( doesn't matter if they are steel or iron ) so I go through my fethers quite fast - never have more than 2 stacks of it in storage - even at lvls 100+.

[AtomicUs5000]

As someone who plays only melee and bow - maybe little bit of rifles on horde night, i don't actually have that many feathers. And for some reason on a dungeon run I always like use 50 of the arrows not getting them back ( doesn't matter if they are steel or iron ) so I go through my fethers quite fast - never have more than 2 stacks of it in storage - even at lvls 100+.

 

Seems about right to me.

You can end up with a lot of feathers if you don't use arrows that much... and I am sure the real culprit to the overabundance of them is the fact that we have to eat 10 times a day and bacon & eggs is the choice meal -- especially early game.

 

So, if a bowman needs feathers, and needs a lot of them, then I am sure the number of feathers in game is just fine where it's at. For anyone else with a taste for breakfast 24/7, I think they can be burned for fuel. (not playing right now, can anybody confirm?)