I agree with yer, mate!

silenced pistols work fine :|

Silenced pistols make much more noise than you think.....

But it's cooler to use a Bow.

videogame logic - Way better to look cool than be efficient :D

Well, I'm sure, when the game comes out this spring, it'll have some reason for having the bow, but consider, say the Ceph gain enhanced hearing, silenced weapons still make a degree of noise, Bow makes minuscule noise compared to silenced weapon, Bow = More stealthy, but regardless, a thumb for your valid point

have you ever fired a bow? Makes a pretty distinctive "twang"

slienced pistol bullets are still breaking the sound barrier so make a loud bang- much louder than a bow, they dont silence it they make it untracable, you can't follow where a bullets fired from as the reverberations are to widespread compared to the noise of a bullets firing system igniting, and also it takes barrel flash out of the equation so they can't see you.

if they broke the sound barrier there would be a sonic boom...

Have you ever fired a silenced weapon? Movies and games really overestimate how much it muffles the shot. All silencers do is make sure your ears don't blow apart with each shot.

eh, even if we were to say both are just as loud as one another, a gun is still more effective.

Yeah, true. But this is the future, maybe it's some advanced form of bow and arrow... But then one would assume they'd advance silencers to not make noise.. I'll shut up now. Bows suck.

Except in Skyrim..

I love bows, don't get me wrong... they're just a bit impractical xD Single shot, heavy ammo, cumbersome instrument... meh...

I have, but compound bows make far less a noise than an ordinary one, and I believe he has a compound bow, but as I said, the game will explain it all

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