User blog comment:Deus Gladiorum/What should be in the next Skyrim update?/@comment-4057437-20120711073637/@comment-2060279-20120714081649

Now I'm actually concerned because apparently you've had real incidents of arrows going clean through an animal with no effect. The velocity of the ebony bow is an estimate. But it travels (what I can somewhat measure is) 70 in games yards in around 3/5th of a second, so it's traveling somewhere around 350fps, more or less. And I may not know much about hunting, but I do play airsoft, and I can say this.

Arrows weigh around, what, 20-30 grams? Well the airsoft bb's I use weigh 0.2 grams. The gun I have shoots bb's at 340fps. I can engage a person to little more than 60 yards before the bb has to be lobbed to hit someone. Yet people I've shot from 70 yds away with an airsoft gun still react. They're not hurt, or in pain, but they still react, and they are aware they've been hit. So judging by the fact that arrows at 70yds in Skyrim do not cause anyone to react at all, you're essentially saying that a bb has more kinetic energy that an arrow, something that is not only delivers more energy just because of its tip, but is also 100x - 150x more massive, and is not as adversely affected by air resistance.

Do you see why I'm calling BS on that? I just want arrows to not act like they're useless as soon as they hit that 65m mark. They're still traveling at great speeds. And I never said I wanted some infinite range OP weapon. I just want something that follows the established rules of physics. And one last thing, seriously how is an arrow clipping through a target without the target reacting in the slightest a normal thing to you? Because either my entire concept of physics and the world around me is a lie, or you experience super-natural phenomena on a day to day basis.

If it's the latter, get that checked out.