Bows and Guns being visible

[Seha]

Lazy team!

[Kimble]

Oh wow, I honestly really wasn't expecting a response to this. lol Good to know at least. Figured it would be pretty hard to do.

[StingRay104]

ps2 limitations

[Cymmina]

What about an emote of some sort, would that at least be possible? Like a /hurray that works for ranged?

[Kojo]

I'd say Bows could be done like the Mithra NPC (Forgot her name), Guns could be down the right side of the back or the right leg, but Crossbows.. They'd have to redo crossbows to fold like in FFXII. It'd be cool, but meh. In the Ranged dept. I'm more curious as to why NIN doesn't get Throwing WSs.

[Kimble]

Been stated several times. Due to the way the game is coded, it wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a boomerang, shurikan, bow, xbow etc. Meaning if they added it, even anyone that has a bow, gun, etc would be able to use the throwing WS as well.

[Kojo]

Been stated several times. Due to the way the game is coded, it wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a boomerang, shurikan, bow, xbow etc. Meaning if they added it, even anyone that has a bow, gun, etc would be able to use the throwing WS as well.

I don't completely understand how the coding works that way, but I'll take that as an answer. lol

[Kari]

We spoke to the development team about displaying bows and guns when they are equipped. They looked into the possibility of doing this, but since there are a lot of tasks both system wise as well as animation wise, unfortunately they came to the conclusion that it would be too difficult.

This can't be toooo difficult.
I'm sure this is almost irrelevant, but monsters tend to carry around their bows/guns. :<
I would think this would work, if bows/guns only showed if you were main job RNG or COR.
Maybe have a command to swap what is displayed, /shrug.

Been stated several times. Due to the way the game is coded, it wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a boomerang, shurikan, bow, xbow etc. Meaning if they added it, even anyone that has a bow, gun, etc would be able to use the throwing WS as well.

I doubt that's the reason for throwing WSs.
If the game couldn't tell the difference, then we'd be able to use Archery skills with Xbow, Marksmanship with Bow, and both with Throwing.
I could be wrong, but the way things work seem to point out that the game does know what type of weapon we have, whether it can be thrown, whether it consumes ammo, what ammo it's allowed to be paired with, etc.

I recall an interview with SE brought up the point that throwing weapons don't have a common ground for making WSs. Making a WS that works with Boomerangs, Explosives, Chakram, Darts, Shuriken, etc while still making sense, is quite difficult.
Leaving the other option to be to make Throwing WSs for each category...which is a lot of work/resources, and would probably hit PS2 limitations anyway.

[Ashiee]

It would probably be difficult in the way where if someone were to wear a two handed weapon at the same time as a bow, then it would look rather strange having one sit on top of the other, and they would have to deal with that problem. I guess they could have it so you can toggle which one is displayed, or it would only be displayed if the user is using a single handed weapon...but honestly I would rather them develop new content then try to deal with the little itty bitty details and tweaking they would need to get this right... just for looks D:

plus PS2 limitations!

[Jackastheripper]

You still blink when you change ranged equipment, I assume it wouldn't be that hard but what do i know....