Bow And Books

[Mosi2142 35]

I really Miss Books And Bow in the game Are they ever have plan to add them in the game ? it been like almost 1 and half year and we still waiting For Books and bow and Old Stuff.

What do you think guys ?

[Guest]

I've asked about this multiple times. Bows and books are some of my favorite mechanics. Afaik, they're adding some mechanics back, like vaulting and climbing. Bows I'm pretty sure are coming back too. But books and notes? They didn't mention any of that. Wish they did.

[ThePugman 280]

1 hour ago, haxordie said:

I've asked about this multiple times. Bows and books are some of my favorite mechanics. Afaik, they're adding some mechanics back, like vaulting and climbing. Bows I'm pretty sure are coming back too. But books and notes? They didn't mention any of that. Wish they did.

Look at Impulz’s reply, a few days ago, on the post titled ‘A simple pencil...’ in ‘Suggestions’... Notes are definitely still planned.

[rickyriot 1009]

I presumed the ability to throw was linked to the reintroduction of bows, after all it's the same mechanics. I'm not sure if we should expect bows in vanilla, but once the mechanism is fully implemented then I'd expect the modders to run with it. So... bows? Probably modded but I wouldn't hold your breath for vanilla.

As an early adopter I still remember the book man who would wander Chernarus with a backpack stocked only of books. No weapons, just books, fighting the good fight with knowledge alone! I have to say I cannot see any particular difficulty in introducing books again - unless there is some sort of limitation on the id database. How well you want that integrated will determine the time and difficulty. In the original SA implementation it was just a big overlay, you never really saw your character reading. I'm guessing when people say "add books" by implication they are also saying "add an animation that shows someone picking up a book, sitting down in a cross legged position and allow them to read by using the ADS mechanism (similar to how to use paper maps). Oh, and animate them turning pages too. Plus I need to be able to look out for any danger so that needs to be a thing". Clearly those two things are similar in nature but take an inordinate amount of time for one while the other is pretty easily achieved via a simple overlay.

Notes should be easy enough; we have paper, we have pens so combining a pen with paper in your inventory should bring up a simple overlay allowing you to enter some text. That text is associated with the item in the database. For reading the text it would be the same as reading a paper map. Hold in hand, ADS to view. As the content will be plain text the overhead of rendering it on top of the paper shouldn't be too bad. Now I say "easy enough", if people want the animation of physically writing the note that would clearly take some time and would be, despite my love of immersion, overkill and not necessary.

Obviously I am getting ahead of myself here. Thanks to the previous press release, my expectations are now in the minus category and if Bohemia announce they will be adding this or that the simple truth is I simply won't believe them as they have been "economical with the truth" in the past.

[maxon-69 35]

they say, in patch 0.62 "the Bible" book reduced the zombie's radius of visibility for the player....

Edited August 6, 2019 by maxon-69

[Guest]

On 8/6/2019 at 11:53 AM, maxon-69 said:

they say, in patch 0.62 "the Bible" book reduced the zombie's radius of visibility for the player....

I remember those prayer beads from Red Dead Redemption that lowered the chance of you being shot. Pretty funny, although I'd prefer such small additions to be a secret.