Hey folks @Winterstone @Axxi @ThiagoUriel- thanks for asking! They are coming along and will hopefully be up on the Marketplace in the next few months here. It’s good to know that folks are eager for their arrival- it motivates us to get going on cranking out this pack! Cheers!
locking forwards to it.
Huzzah! We’re submitting our first Crossbow pack today! So excited to preview the Arbalest Crossbow, the first crossbow of the bunch. We decided to start rolling these out individually first so that they hit the market faster, and then after 3 or 4 are out, we’ll package them up with added value like we did for the FPS Starter Kits. Let us know which one you’d like to see after the Arbalest comes out and we’ll see what we can do!
Oh man, just pack them at once. I’m eager to purchase this. i`ve been looking on market place for a medieval range weapons pack for months.
Awesome, we’ll be releasing the crossbows as individual packs as they are a lot of work. We will be starting with an Arbalest(+goats foot lever), light european and European Crossbows, including bolt, arms and animations.
The bows will be released as a set of 3 I imagine, a home made bow, long bow and likely one more.
Please focus on the bows 1st please.
Hey @OverRated_AU, thanks for the feedback. We already submitted this crossbow, but we hear ya and will work on getting the bows ready soon!
Happy Friday folks! Here’s a closer look at the wood detail on this beaut…the Arbalest Crossbow is one of our favorites mostly because of the goat’s foot lever, which we will show off more in the next couple of days. It’s going to be hitting the Marketplace any day now!
Can we see a video of the animations?
Hey @Phantom530 we have a video with the animations, but don’t publish it until the pack is released 
However, I’m happy to share a link to the weapon on Sketchfab so you can get a closer look:
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It’s finally here folks! This WEDNESDAY (3/1) the Animated Arbalest Crossbow hits the Marketplace with medieval gusto. Featuring a goat’s foot lever and a free set of bare animated arms, this pack is what you’ve been waiting for and will cure those winter blues. Here’s a closer look at the front of the Crossbow and the handy goat’s foot lever:
Any minute now, the Arbalest Crossbow pack will be on sale on the Marketplace. But in the meantime, here’s a look at the next crossbow that we’ve submitted, the European Crossbow:
http://ironbellystudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/European-Crossbow_Screenshot_03.jpg
Check out the animations and goat’s foot lever reload mechanics in the video demo of the Arbalest Crossbow, **for sale on the Marketplace **for all your feudal needs 
It looks nice, but I think your animation is really unrealistic. You can’t just hold such a crossbow in one hand and tension it with the other hand. Theres a reason why that model has the metallic thing on the front:
http://www.benjaminrose.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/crossbow-goats-foot.jpg
There might have been some crossbows that you could tension while holding them in one hand, but the one you modeled is definitely not one of those. For that model you have to use a foot.
It mite be unrealistic but i still perfer it, having a animation like that would get frustrating in a game plus its a FP mesh there are no feet lmao.
please work on some long bows to.
I dunno much about realism… but dayum it looks nice!
You’ll be happy to know that we have animations of the foot in the stirrup coming for the other crossbows. That being said, you don’t know the specific draw strength of this crossbow, it could be a 300lbs bow in which case simply bracing the crossbow against your body would be enough to load it back with a goats foot lever, so it’s hardly fair to say that the animation is reallly unrealistic. I’ve spent 6 months watching videos and speaking at length in 1 on 1 sessions with experts and I’m happy with what we have here as a compromise between 100% accuracy and something that would work well for a broad variety of games that would make use of a crossbow like this. I hardly think that most first person shooters using crossbows would want a 10 second reload animation, but like I mentioned we are going to be implementing the animations for them soon.
That is a damned good point… Hard to put a foot into the stirrup when we aren’t providing feet with our weapon packs
Ill wait for the complete pack for all bows, PS i have sent you a Quote please reply to this one lol.
Roger that- found your quote and will get you over some estimates for animations Cheers!