I have to say I have never had a problem with this, in the very limited capacity I have tried PvP. If someone is spamming a bow making it hard to get close to them I would just lob a Splash Potion or use a shield or just stand back and use a bow yourself.
That said if it is a problen and I just haven't experienced it, I would be fine with this but 3 to 5 seconds is too long, that is longer than it takes for the bow to charge fully. If it was say... 50% of the remaining charge time that would be more balanced. So since the minimum bow charge time is 3 ticks and the max is 20 ticks if you did the minimum charge the cooldown would be half of the total charge minus charge used, or (20-3)/2.
That would make the cooldown 8.5 ticks, the total time it takes to spam fire a bow and be able to again 11.5 ticks, meaning you could only spam arrows about 25% as much as you used to be able to, or fire at most about 1.8 shots per second, rather than the current 7.66 shots per second.
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You got to relate in real life. You can fire bows very fast.
I mean, you can't fire almost 8 arrows per second.
But OT, the bow already has a timer. If people aren't fully charging the bow, it will do next to no damage, and you can just hold a shield and deflect all the arrows anyway.
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I mean, you can't fire almost 8 arrows per second.
But OT, the bow already has a timer. If people aren't fully charging the bow, it will do next to no damage, and you can just hold a shield and deflect all the arrows anyway.
Exactly.
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No thanks. Bow spam is a part of the game. It may not be liked, but it is. If you quickly missed a shot, and you have to wait 5 seconds before you can shoot again, what if the person you're shooting at gets away? That's quite a long delay.
No thanks. Bow spam is a part of the game. It may not be liked, but it is. If you quickly missed a shot, and you have to wait 5 seconds before you can shoot again, what if the person you're shooting at gets away? That's quite a long delay.
I agree. Having a bow cooldown would seriously depopularize PVP games like One in the Chamber, Hunger games, The Walls, Skywars, and other minigames that have bow PVP available in them.
Please make a bow cooldown. I'm tired of people that spam bow. Make 3 to 5 seconds. I almost quit Minecraft because of this.
I have to say I have never had a problem with this, in the very limited capacity I have tried PvP. If someone is spamming a bow making it hard to get close to them I would just lob a Splash Potion or use a shield or just stand back and use a bow yourself.
That said if it is a problen and I just haven't experienced it, I would be fine with this but 3 to 5 seconds is too long, that is longer than it takes for the bow to charge fully. If it was say... 50% of the remaining charge time that would be more balanced. So since the minimum bow charge time is 3 ticks and the max is 20 ticks if you did the minimum charge the cooldown would be half of the total charge minus charge used, or (20-3)/2.
That would make the cooldown 8.5 ticks, the total time it takes to spam fire a bow and be able to again 11.5 ticks, meaning you could only spam arrows about 25% as much as you used to be able to, or fire at most about 1.8 shots per second, rather than the current 7.66 shots per second.
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What would be the impact on unlimited elytra flight?
You got to relate in real life. You can fire bows very fast.
I mean, you can't fire almost 8 arrows per second.
But OT, the bow already has a timer. If people aren't fully charging the bow, it will do next to no damage, and you can just hold a shield and deflect all the arrows anyway.
Goofy reason to almost quit a game. If the enemy can spam arrows, then... so can you. I don't see this as a problem at all...
Exactly.
Watch out for the crabocalypse. Some say the day will never come. But it will.
Feel free to drop by for a chat whenever.
If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
People hate the sword cooldown. Do you really think they would like a bow cooldown too?
No thanks. Bow spam is a part of the game. It may not be liked, but it is. If you quickly missed a shot, and you have to wait 5 seconds before you can shoot again, what if the person you're shooting at gets away? That's quite a long delay.
I'm white. Not asian.
I agree. Having a bow cooldown would seriously depopularize PVP games like One in the Chamber, Hunger games, The Walls, Skywars, and other minigames that have bow PVP available in them.
Maybe for elytra only though...
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It sounds like your pushing for a change merely because of your own inadequacy in PvP.
Archery is balanced. Most people enjoy it and the games that utilize it.
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Awesome a Tusken Raider agrees with me on the minigames with bow usage.