No class is proficient with bows, though anyone can take the "Special Weapon Proficiency" feat to be as long as they otherwise meet the (easy) prerequisites. As they are ranged weapons that are not small arms, they cannot be used with Operative Trick Attack.
Only benefit is free action reload (move action to reload other guns).
Yep, they're worthless. To make matters worse Elves are no longer automatically proficient but for some reason Dwarves get proficiency with basic and advanced melee weapons and get automatic specialization with them too.
I think the reason is to make up for Dwarves being by far the slowest race in Starfinder.
Do bows no longer have compositing or are all bows now composite. If so, they might be worth a feat for melee soldiers who want to stack up damage in the early levels, then at later levels it gets used to launch grenades...
Nice to know that thousands of years of R&D have actively made the bow worse than it was in the hands of primitives.
It is a matter of priorities. Making bows non-archaic (and thus eliminating the -5 damage loss) is better for most people than modifying them to apply the user's Str bonus to damage.
And some old techniques do fall into disuse. Does anyone have any idea where I could get my hands on an atlatl?
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It is a matter of priorities. Making bows non-archaic (and thus eliminating the -5 damage loss) is better for most people than modifying them to apply the user's Str bonus to damage.
And some old techniques do fall into disuse. Does anyone have any idea where I could get my hands on an atlatl?
I had some in junior high school PE classes, and I also used one at a Boy Scout jamboree. I live in Florida, and there was an effort to teach us about the local timucuan tribes, including how to use the atlatl and using dugout canoes.