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How to win at head-to-head archery game Bowmasters

Don't take an arrow to the... leg

How to win at head-to-head archery game Bowmasters
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Want to wound, main, and seriously injure others with sharp weapons? Well, okay. This is Bowmasters, and here's how to play it properly.

Take your first shot. Fire your bow in the general direction of your opponent. If they're standing 30-40 metres away, fire at 15-20 degrees while at 100 percent power. Most importantly, remember the angle of your shot!

If your shot goes over your opponent's head, drop the angle a little. If it doesn't even make it all the way, increase the angle. Remember the new angle, and fire!

If you hit - hooray! Keep firing until your opponent is dead (maybe increasing the angle a little to change from a body shot to a headshot). If you miss, just keep tweaking the angle of attack until you score.

Hitting your opponent, or getting hit, will send the character back a bit. You may need to increase your angle by a degree to compensate.

With some weapons, like the tomahawk, it's better to under fire than over fire because the weapon can bounce off the ground and up into your opponent. Soaring over their head does nothing.

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Learn your character. Each weapon works slightly differently and some have special powers that are activated with a tap. Make sure you know who you're taking into battle.

Something in the way? You're going to have to fire up into the air to get over it. Reduce your power, increase your angle, and then repeat the steps above.

Mark Brown
Mark Brown
Mark Brown spent several years slaving away at the Steel Media furnace, finally serving as editor at large of Pocket Gamer before moving on to doing some sort of youtube thing.