Specialty arrows can be used in a shotgun

Just a little something. This might be slightly overpowered, but I think it'll be really balanced out by how the current shotgun works.

Currently, you only fire one arrow of whatever type, and two extra regular arrows if you have some extra. I'd like to see this changed.

How it works now:

Upper Shot - Standard arrow
Middle Shot - Any arrow
Lower Shot - Standard arrow

How I'd like to see it work:

With 1 or 2 specialty arrows:
Upper Shot - Standard arrow
Middle Shot - Any arrow
Lower Shot - Standard arrow

With 3 specialty arrows:
Upper Shot - Any arrow
Middle Shot - Any arrow
Lower Shot - Any arrow

This cannot be used to rain down 3 fire/bomb arrows at once over the enemy wall. Just like a regular shotgun charge, the upper and lower extra arrows will dissolve after a set distance. You can't rain down hell on the enemy, but you can unload your payload faster if you can get closer. This also means that if you misjudge your distance to the enemy wall, your bomb arrows will turn to dust and gently breeze the enemy's wall as would an airy wisp of toilet paper when massaged over the sweaty, rock-solid buttocks of the enemy.

I'm not a great archer. I'm not a good archer. I'm not even an archer. If there's something unbalanced about this, please, do tell; I wouldn't know.

EDIT: Removed the 2-arrow exclusive shot.

 

This would make archers worse. Think of all the countless times when you waste two bomb arrows just because of this.

 

A benefit firing three single bomb arrow shots too is that you can drastically weaken a point in a defense to breach through which spead shot wouldn't give by spreading the exposive penetration damage.

Same situation with water arrows as you want to space out single shots on a enemy to stun him for a longer period compared firing three at once that will only give you the stun duration of one arrow.

Fire might be fun but overpowered considering they do a fair bit of damage (2 hearts full single shot?) resulting in a one hit kill on full health knights with a close range shotty.

Sounds fun but might not be the best :)

 

Yeah I could definitely see it being fun to use, but it'd be more wasteful if anything. Bomb arrows are used to get deeper. You wouldn't want to waste them with a large spread. Fire arrows don't stack to my knowledge. This could be pretty funny with water tho.

 

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That's not something I thought of.

I would presume it would only use arrows that you have equipped. If you have, say, two water arrows, and you have one fire arrow equipped, the fire arrow will be fired in the center and two regular arrows will be fired on the top and bottom if you have them. If you equip the water arrows, then there will be no fire arrow in the middle.

As for the one on top and one on bottom, I'll edit the OP. I was just going for symmetry; I didn't think of how inaccurate that would be. I don't think this system will interfere with regular gameplay, though, simply because it requires you to use the shotgun charge. If you have 3 bomb arrows and don't want to waste two of them in a shotgun, there's nothing stopping you from just firing them one-by-one. Firing all three at once has some niche applications, but applications nonetheless.

--- Double Post Merged, May 23, 2015, Original Post Date: May 23, 2015 ---

Fire arrows stack twice, although I doubt that's what you mean. If you mean the fire spread, then no, they don't stack; a shotgun of fire arrows would, however, be useful if the enemy wall had a lot of wood and stone mixed around in such a figure that one fire arrow wouldn't burn it all down. That being said, firing three fire arrows individually would probably be more accurate, but a shotgun of them would be much faster if there were, perhaps, some enemy knights coming after you.

EDIT: I have another proposition. No idea if it's good.

I just removed the 2-arrow exclusive shot (up and bottom any arrow, mid regular arrow). Since you can now only fire either three specialty arrows at once or one specialty arrow with two regular arrows, would a buff be necessary for those two extra specialty arrows?

I was thinking making only the upper and middle arrow cost ammo. If you had three bomb arrows, you could either fire 3 of them individually for a deep impact, or you could fire 3 spread over the enemy wall, and then fire an additional one for slightly less depth and much more impact. The same would go for regular arrows. I think some sort of buff is necessary, though, just because of how the upper and lower arrows fade to ether after a set distance - it really devalues the power of putting specialty arrows in a shotgun, I'm afraid.

 

why do you think kegs are so easy to dislodge, and can only be lit by knights? Doesn't it defeat the purpose if an archer can just slide up to the enemy base and immediately put an enormous hole in it with much less effort?

 

What...?

I don't see your point. Launching 3 bomb arrows at once isn't that much different from just firing 3 bomb arrows repeatedly, and has the downside of a low maximum range (must be close or else the upper & lower arrows will dissipate) and accuracy (will hit the wall in 3 points, instead of making a deep hole that would actually be useful). Having the ability to gain an extra bomb arrow from shotgunning three, as I suggested, wouldn't make it that much better.

This would only really be useful if you were trying to blast enemies over a wide area with water arrows, or if you were trying to light multiple, random fires at once.