Infested Bow! (Need Your Help!)

[SeargantHaztagazpacho]

My idea is, it would do less damage since it's muscle powered, but stick to a target and inflict viral damage over time and make the enemy surrounded by a cloud of gas that stays after death.

I even have art for it:

Except it's not done and I need your suggestions to make it look better!

So give me your ideas!

Edited February 15, 2015 by SeargantHaztagazpacho

[(PSN)Matsypie]

I'm not a good artistic ideas guy for weapon concepts, but so far looks pretty good. I support their concept as it's just plain cool, maybe it would be good if it were more anti infested than other bows, given infested can hoard you this could have like a radial toxin affect (like gas proc) to take out groups, but not be so op that it puts other bows to shame.

Edit: in addition to the gas effect you said, so first it does this and counts as hitting all of those targets for viral or toxin, but then the cloud you suggested could appear on a target if directly hit by the arrow, still giving incentive to be accurate.

Edited February 15, 2015 by (PS4)Matsypie

[-Mandachordian-Tenno-]

have tenno hold like how Lars Andersen does.

if the purple eye-thingy is really an eye, have permanently coloured like sauron's

 

[Kthal]

Many Infested weapons are made based on the models of existing ones, so it might be worth coming up with a design for a Corpus/Grineer bow in parallel, or 'borrowing' someone else's (with consent preferable).

 

Or you could design it as a variant/upgrade on the Cernos. Thinking as a variant on the Cernos, having the same basic damage with an added 30-50 toxic (innate) would be good, but not broken, among other upgrades.

[MechaKnight]

That's a lot of features you mentioned, but it feels like a Torid in bow form. Any toxin variant sounds fine.

[Institute-Marksman]

Finally, someone has the same idea! 

Also, make the arrow leave a Fartsprey gas trail, and explode in a gas cloud on impact.

The idea of incorporating muscles and other organic tissue in the design is really nasty, but quite unique.

[HAYABU5A]

hm yes it could have arrow heads that function the same as the acrid - 100% toxic proc and dot

also higher base damage than other bows, high status but very low crit rate - this will allow it to effectively create gas procs that scale off base dmg

[(PSN)KidKosmo]

make it shoot Infested Kubrow teeth

[akira_him]

Can it fire tar moa's projectile?

[flamedance58]

Really needed though? I know people like the bows but the Infested arsenal already has quite a few weapons. Though I'll admit the idea of an Infested bow does sound pretty neat. Like maybe it shoots arrows that the tips are like infested leeches or something.

[Vanadium]

I think it would be baller if the eye(s) was(were) on the front of the bow, looking at the enemy. I feel like the point of infested weaponry is that the weapons are also semi-intelligent and have a programmed instinct to kill.

 

Personally, I think the zombie arm is too overt, like it's trying too hard to be creepy.

 

I would go for a skinned/de-feathered bird wing look:

 

 

Really, I wouldn't mind if it was just a bow-torid. The Torid, though obviously lethal, is kind of a pain the butt to use, with its small mag, long reload, and painful projectile speed. A bow version would be much more usable to me.

 

Can it fire tar moa's projectile?

 

This would be nice, though. Torid's biggest drawback right now is that it has no innate snaring to dish out its DoTs.

[flamedance58]

I like the idea of it being like bones and sinew, like you see the joins and muscle move, tense up, and release as you use it. Something very very organic to the point where you kinda wonder if this is really a weapon or just a chunk you ripped outta an infested.

[(PSN)theelix]

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The Fan Zone frequents are much more creative and would probably be able to give you more/better ideas. 

 

But my idea of an infested bow is that it slowly regenerates ammo over time. The arrows would look like Sinew or sharp, malformed bone and when it struck an enemy, it does very, very light Toxin damage over time. 

[flamedance58]

The Fan Zone frequents are much more creative and would probably be able to give you more/better ideas. 

 

But my idea of an infested bow is that it slowly regenerates ammo over time. The arrows would look like Sinew or sharp, malformed bone and when it struck an enemy, it does very, very light Toxin damage over time. 

 

Why light toxin? You just got shot with a bone or infested material and it's stuck several inches into your body? Wouldn't it be more like YEOWCH OMG I'M MELTING!

[(PSN)theelix]

Why light toxin? You just got shot with a bone or infested material and it's stuck several inches into your body? Wouldn't it be more like YEOWCH OMG I'M MELTING!

Light Toxin for balancing unless they make it main Toxin damage, in which case the bow probably wouldn't have much use except as a complete replacement of the Cernos to kill Corpus. 

Because no one likes the Cernos. 

[MechaTails]

Some kind of muscle powered poison dart bow? Sounds cool lol

[Cypress85]

So it's like the torid's projectiles, but faster and with direct damage. Interesting.