#Cursed Bow

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sour valve
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A cursed sword but as a bow. I feel like it would be a fun match to the cursed sword.

eternal mica
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no

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cursed sword is supposed to be a gimmick weapon

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it's very tangential to typical dead cells gameplay

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one of them is enough

sour valve
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Ok

winter estuary
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I want one

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And a cursed hammer for survival

bleak echo
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part of the risk that goes into the cursed sword playstyle is it being a melee weapon, and one with a (small, but present) wind-up to it.

nerves of steel, multiple nocks bow, marksman's bow, heavy crossbow all have very high projectile damage but some kind of counterbalancing aspect to them to make them not ridiculously overpowered - and yet they are still very strong weapons. any kind of cursed bow that did comparable or better damage, at comparable range, would need some other kind of stats-based or moveset based limitation, and it's hard to think of what would be fair for it.

As Nerves of Steel demonstrates, even having low ammo isn't necessarily a problem if you can either just keep killing enemies with it, or get the arrows back.

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so, yeah, I agree that cursed sword is enough for that kind of realm of gameplay. You can take a +300%/+300% bow or take curses if you want any kind of similar run with a bow.

winter estuary
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I feel like dying in one hit is a reasonable tradeoff for a cursed bow

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Yeah it's technically safer than the sword but it probably wouldn't have quite as high of damage

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And also different color scaling and all that

sour valve
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It's true. cursed sword is mele, and the bow is well a bow. It would be to overpowered because there is smaller chance of getting hit

eternal mica
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no tbh

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but like

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why even have this

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we don't have a spite bow

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or a balanced bow

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or a nutcracker bow

winter estuary
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Well

eternal mica
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it's a gimmick specific to cursed sword

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and furthermore, a specific gimmick

sour valve
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The cursed sword is special

winter estuary
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You could argue ice or repeater crossbow for "nutcracker" bow

eternal mica
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it doesn't really make sense to bloat the game's weapon roster with copies of it

bleak echo
sour valve
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Not like other weapons

eternal mica
winter estuary
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True but idk, I think just only brutality having that challenge run ability is a bit lame outside of colorless items

bleak echo
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I think I prefer the idea of a bow where you "have to do X with it, or it hurts you" and that "it hurts you" can kill you if you're cursed

  • the shot must contact an enemy (or get blocked), or you take damage
  • it homes in on enemies, but if it can't find an enemy it homes in on you and tries to hit you
  • a slow piercing boomerang that does a lot of damage but can hit you on the rebound

those would need fleshed out in separate suggestions though

winter estuary
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That's not really what people want when they asked for more cursed weapons

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They want a cursed sword copy

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The one thing I'm against is a cursed shield though, I'd rather have a green melee for that

tender kettle
sour valve
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If there where to be cursed items than you should only be able get 1 at a time

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More than one would be to good, because curses don't stack

winter estuary
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Eh

tender kettle
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They'd each scale with only one color, so it probably wouldn't matter.

winter estuary
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Outside of colorless

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Which

sour valve
winter estuary
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Frankly should be rewarding

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Colorless tends to feel like not much of a reward most of the time tbh

tender kettle
winter estuary
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Ehhh

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I'd rather just have the melee

sour valve