Which do you guys prefer/ think is better? And, more importantly, why?
Personally, I like the bolt driver, but that’s mostly because I’ve been playing weaker (str-wise) characters, where such a weapon is really the only thing available.
However, this time I rolled a power-house and the rng gods have blessed me with a Granade-buff bringing my str to 16(!). And so, per some advice here on the forums, I’ve stuck to bows. But now that my mechanics has been brought up to par, I’m wondering if I should stick with bows (I currently have a reflex bow, which I found randomly in a basement, and metal arrows). It’s doing decent damage, 2-3-hit kills on normal zeds, 5-6 hits on armored foes (military zeds). But I do miss my hand-made bolt driver (which I called “John Henry”, for obvious reasons, in my other file)
Anyway, here is my piece on the matter:
Bows are superior due to increased rate of fire (bout 33% faster) and no need to reload. You can keep shooting until you run out of arrows (which means you can shoot for a long time). They do less damage then the bolt driver, yet I get the feeling that at higher levels of archery (and with a recurve reflex bow) this will cease to be a problem. For someone with the str I think this is the better option.
What do you guys think?
