bows in video games tend to have a really short range a bow is a projectile weapon it takes a pointy stick and it uses it to stab something that’s a long way off and the easiest way to model that is to have your projectiles travel in a dead straight line but enough people have seen depictions of archers launching volleys up into the air that they know that that looks wrough so these days a lot of media counters it by having the arrows drop noticeably as they travel through the air but because a