As mentioned, a few legendary bows are tentatively strength based, which is well and good.
Crossbows, this one is so sad they were removed from the admin panel.
As a weapon, they provide greater consistency and ease of use as the can be kept in a ready to loose state. They are always charge shots and the stamina is expended when loading (which would be a longer animation, such as bandaging) rather than pulling the trigger. Later Medieval crossbows were quite heavy in and of themselves. Then there were Chinese foot bows and later repeating bows…
But those are digressions from the topic.
Implementation of crossbows now, especially with the goals and intents behind the stamina rework, seems unlikely. Or at least, unlikely to be satisfying.
That said, more strength based range weapons would be nice. We have axes, why not hammers? Possibly slings? A larger atlatl based “javelin”. A caber is a bit of stretch.
But moreover, why can’t we literally throw rocks at enemies? Small rocks, big rocks, boulders, whatever.
We have the joke legendaries that are table legs and such… Why isn’t there an equally tongue in cheek thrown pot or drink stein?
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