Arrow Range

Tips for Arrow Range

In Arrow Range the draw decides most shots. A full draw sends the arrow where the sight ring points, while letting go early drops it short, and that matters most at fifty metres. The catch is that a full draw held too long starts to shake, so pull all the way back, settle the ring and release while the bow is still steady rather than waiting for a perfect moment.

Check the wind sock before every end, because the wind changes each time. At eighteen metres a stiff breeze only costs a ring or two, but at fifty you need to aim off into the wind or the arrow leaves the straw altogether. Target Round is the place to start: it covers all three distances, keeps your best score, and a better round is what opens the yew longbow and the horn recurve. Remember that an arrow touching a line takes the higher ring, so a shot on the edge of the gold still counts.

How to play Arrow Range

Arrow Range puts you at the shooting line of a midsummer fair, holding the bow as if through your own eyes. Each shot has three steps. First you draw: press and pull back on a phone or tablet, or hold Space on a keyboard, and the further you pull, the fuller the draw. Then you aim by moving your hand, or with the arrow keys, until the sight ring sits where you want the arrow to go. Finally you release by lifting your finger or letting go of Space.

A full draw sends the arrow where the ring points, while a partial draw drops it short. Held too long, the bow starts to shake. A wind sock beside the range shows the wind, which changes every end and pushes the arrow further off the longer the distance.

The face scores ten in the middle down to one at the edge, with an X for the very centre. Target Round is six ends of three arrows over 18, 30 and 50 metres, out of 180. The other rounds are Moving Targets, with swinging apples, rolling logs and a cart of straw bosses; Balloon Pop, sixty seconds where hitting the same colour twice running doubles the score; Knockout against three computer archers; and Pass and Play for two to four. P pauses and M mutes.

About Arrow Range

Arrow Range is an archery game, and target archery is the sport it follows: arrows shot in ends from set distances at a face of rings scored from the centre outwards. Kiloo's game keeps that structure, down to X counts and the rule that an arrow on a line takes the better ring, and sets it at a fair with striped marquees, bunting, apple trees, a castle on the hill and a line of villagers who cheer a gold and groan at a miss.

What sets it apart is the bow rack. Besides the steady hunting bow there is a fast yew longbow and a horn recurve with a pin sight that reads the wind, and both open up as your Target Round score climbs, so getting better changes what you shoot with. The rounds suit different moods, from a careful scored round to a minute of popping balloons, and Pass and Play turns it into a contest for a family on one device. Arrow Range is made by Kiloo and fits a phone held upright as well as a wide screen.

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