More natural textures with neutral colors, perfect for a character who lives off of the land.

The bows were designed a real-life craftsman, so they are made to reflect fully-functional weapons.

Brand new realistic models for many of the bows in Skyrim.

This mod is purely cosmetic, so it doesn’t change any aspect of how the bows function in-game. Real Bows would be a great mod for someone who prefers their bows to be practical and realistic, as opposed to fancy and over-the-top.

Speed of bolts improved from vanilla 5400 to 10800Ī close-up look at one of many redesigned bows in this mod.

Speed of arrows improved from vanilla 3600 to 9000.

Modified arrows with no gravity so they shoot perfectly straight to your target.

This mod makes your arrows go right where you’d expect them to- and much faster than before! Some players enjoy mastering the learning curve that comes with Skyrim’s strange archery system, but for others, it turns them away from bows. Switch up the aiming system to mix up your gameplay.

Alternative versions: Even More Damage and Scaling and Scaling-Only available on the downloads page.

Critical attacks will scale with Armsman, Barbarian, and Overdraw perks as well as One-Handed, Two-Handed & Archery levels.

Critical hits will now deal about 2x as much damage as a standard attack would and scale with enchantments and potions.

Have you ever landed a critical hit on an enemy and wondered why it was so underwhelming? This mod will definitely fix that! It also helps your critical damage scale better with perks and skills. Land devastating critical shots on your enemies. Critical Hits Make Sense - More Damage and Scaling

Sniper focuses on much more powerful shots, with speed being sacrificed for quicker kills.

Ranger focuses on increasing the speed of your shots, and your shots become more powerful over time.

Choose between two distinct playstyles: the Ranger and the Sniper.

Even if you’re not big on creating a story for your characters, this mod has unique gameplay changes. This can be great from a roleplaying perspective if you want each character you play to truly feel unique from the others.

This is a mod that changes up the Archery perk tree in ways that allow you to form a more distinct playstyle for your character. Overhaul your perk tree to add different styles to archery.

These mods will make things a little less annoying, and add all kinds of cool features. Some of the more well-known mods (like Archery Gameplay Overhaul) change many things about how bows work. Once you start killing enemies with an arrow to the skull before they’ve even seen you coming, it’s hard to go back! However, archery in the vanilla game can be pretty frustrating. These mods will make your next archer playthrough feel brand new.Īrchery in Skyrim tends to be a favorite playstyle among players.

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