PixelMagic Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I want to suggest a mod that will make stealth archery much more immersive. To start, imagine that I am a hunter taking aim at a wild elk while hidden (well, I am hardly hidden, I'm just not seen at this angle). I fire, and the arrow whizzes right past my target's ear. Slightly annoyed, I ready another arrow and fire again. This one lands right in front of its feet. I am getting a little bored, but I ready a third, and this one pierces its head, and the elk stumbles over and dies. Grinning with pride at my excellent marksmanship, I run over to loot my game. I propose a mod that will make this experience more realistic. Arrows flying or landing near a target should alert that target by its sound and make them suspicious of the presence of an enemy. I have found stealth archery to be a little too easy to pull off, especially with my mods that increase damage output (you know, the most popular combat mods right now), but with a feature like this archery will be a deal more realistic, difficult and engaging (and a much better fix than that superhuman sidestep behavior vanilla used). I am not entirely sure how NPC behavior works, but I imagine there being two steps to this feature. First, the arrow emitting a sound that will draw an enemy's attention to it, and second, the enemy becoming suspicious of its attacker, possibly inferring the archer's direction by the direction of the arrow. And I imagine prey would just run off at step 1.Though of course that is only my approach. I hope that any mod author who picks up this idea will enjoy implementing it in their own way. That is all, thank you for reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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