Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

That's not fair at all. A Walmart crossbow would not have all those pointless function-reducing greebles and customer-support-nightmare parts asking to break.
 
I get there's a rule of cool thing, and you're being facetious, but bowcasters (in their 'verse) are powerful (predominately) energy weapons, whereas this.... to be frank wouldn't look out of place on the shelf at Walmart.

Why do fancy crossbows exist now? People should just use rifles.

 
Why do fancy crossbows exist now? People should just use rifles.


1. Hunters like to use it. Silent (no scaring away prey), deadly, no brass to pick up, and the bolts can be reused.
2. Weapons laws. In Germany, possessing a firearm requires leaping through some interesting legal hoops. A crossbow, on the other hand, requires me only to be of age in order to purchase it; I don't have to have it registered. I wouldn't use one for home defence, myself (a raven's beak works SO much better (evil grin)), but...
 
Why do fancy crossbows exist now? People should just use rifles.


I'd agree, but thats a hunting tools and we're playing a (at the moment) quasi-military game where everyones laden down with enough armour to stop a few heavy rounds, and there's vehicles driving all over the shop and theres nothing akin to what you'd use that one you linked for.

It just doesn't feel... right or useful to me. I know it seems petty, but it just seems a ill conceived idea to me.

Unless it turns out this is some sort of electro-magnetic railgun crossbow thing, but it doesnt look the case.
 
I'm pretty sure I saw a crossbow in a SC related photo, far ago before this one... I think I remember it involved bunny ears, and cardboard boxes with strange things in.
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Yes, but at least that crossbow made sense from a practical perspective. Even the tennis ball.
 
1. Hunters like to use it. Silent (no scaring away prey), deadly, no brass to pick up, and the bolts can be reused.
2. Weapons laws. In Germany, possessing a firearm requires leaping through some interesting legal hoops. A crossbow, on the other hand, requires me only to be of age in order to purchase it; I don't have to have it registered. I wouldn't use one for home defence, myself (a raven's beak works SO much better (evil grin)), but...
In my country crossbow is illegal to use in hunting. Allegedly because one psycho used it (and stolen army assault rifle, yeah real thing with select fire ability) to massacre people. Even policeman teaching in our hunting course chuckled about that ban saying that as far he knows hunting humans is illegal whatever weapon is used. :D Other types of bows are legal for certain game species, as long as certain minimum draw power limits are fullfilled.
 
I assumed that was the joke. Now I'm confused.

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