Add archer speed to arrows

I've just noticed the reason why I can never seem to hit anyone when I jump off of towers as an archer.
When falling, arrows fall SLOWER than you do!
I propose changing arrow speed from a fixed number to arrow velocity + player velocity.

This will get rid of some really funky situations where you can actually outrun your own arrows such as falling, slingshotting, or bouncing off trampolines.
As it is now an archer is HELPLESS against enemies in front of him when moving sufficiently fast because his arrows simply can't keep up.

 

I'm sorry, But I just tested this on sandbox, and arrows fly faster than the archer, even just slightly. It's probably server latency.

 

Arrows do need a speed increase, but mainly to increase the distance fired. They don't fire very far at all, and a distance buff would help nicely.

 

yeah, that would be a good buff.

 

Well I tested it on sandbox too. How fast were you falling when you fired?

 

What about making arrows fall faster, and then adjusting their firing speed so they have the same trajectory they do now?
Or is the engine set up to make that more difficult than it sounds?

 

If you give archer a bow, someone will always be firing arrows from ages away.

Not much you can do about it, but sniping is not all that effective anyway.

 

Archer is just weak as a builder in a fight. You can only hit 1-2 health unless you are realky close to the knight. But you have only 2 health and knight have 4. Also i think the Accuracy need to be improved 2. 3 shoots never hit one spot. Unless u have a huge lag.....

 

I might as well not be here on this thread. All I need is a recording, saying "archers are a suppourt class"

to be an effective archer, hover ten tiles behind a knight, and shoot arrows into his opponents. Make his opponents afraid to take their shield down.

 

I've been having decent luck using archer as an ultra close range damage class. Basically you just hover JUST outside jab range and continuously stun a knight. This works perfectly until they learn the ultimate strategy of walking forward while spamming jab...
Once you get decent at aiming you can also pretty much bar any open area to builders and other archers.
The problem there is when half your team goes archer after seeing your success without realizing that having more than one or two archers at a time is useless...

 

you are correct, archers can serve as an ultra close range class, but knights do it better. Remember, every archer you have is a knight you don't have.

 

...doing anything but sitting there taking the punishment as this would not work on any knight of a slightly above average caliber.

 

Shield -> tripleshot
start charging a slash -> get hit with an arrow and stunned
jab -> whiffs and either destroys the arrow or takes damage and gets stunned again

Worst case, you just run away and try again later.
Only times knights win are in water and those weird times when you get wedged inside something while trying to grapple away.