Archery Game Overhaul SE

Added many features and changes to the bow game. Includes charming new animations with nocked arrows, bleeds, persistent arrows and arrows.

[Skyrim LE version]

Animation

New animation for 1st and 3rd person with arrows

Replaces walk, run, sprint, equip, inelastic, shoot, draw actions

Removes the huge shock from arrows when your bow is drawn

Bow draw time reduced by half (1.63s -> 0.83s)

Fix bowstring bug with Quick Shot perk

Optional animation for belt fastening quiver

Arrow Sting has been added to the slam attack, launching arrows into the target

The animation has been fine-tuned since this video. The leg twitch in this video has also been fixed

Enchanted Arrows enabled/disabled in MCM

Enchant your arrows with spells or rare rings. Any arrow (including modded and DLC) can be charmed in 4 basic types: Fire, Ice (Frost), Magic and Shock. The damage you will do depends on your enchantment skills and can be set in the MCM. The enchantment will display FX on your quiver when your bow is sheathed, and it will display FX on the arrows when your bow is out. The "Enchanted Arrow" spell sheet can be found in any destruction spell vendor (e.g. Farengar @Dragonsreach, Faralda @The Winterhold, etc.). If you wish, you can distribute themes via script to avoid mode conflicts and remove them from the game.

4 rings can be found on specific enemies: Dragon Priests (Ring of the Dragon - 100% chance), Wispmothers (Ring of Wispmother - 100% chance), Mages (Ring of Aetherius - 10% chance, Ring of Wamasu - 10% chance). The ring will automatically charge your arrows by draining your magic. If your magic is too low, the arrow won't charge; at least until you fire again or re-equip the ring.

Bleed and persistent arrows enabled/disabled in MCM

All arrows now cause bleed, dealing damage over time that lasts 30 seconds. Bleeding does not cause death, and it stops dealing damage when the target reaches 10% health. Bleed damage scales with the target's level, so you'll see consistent damage as you advance through the game. Arrows (and projectile spells) will remain in the target indefinitely and can be removed from themselves and NPCs using a new ability called "Remove Projectile". With this ability, you can collect some of the arrows you've shot. If you wish, you can set a hotkey in MCM to quickly control this content, saving you the trouble of browsing menus.

Enable/disable bow camera and crosshair in MCM

Normally, you have two options for your third-person camera: idle and combat. This mod introduces a third camera position for bows only. When you draw and aim your bow, you'll see the camera pan to the third position (as shown in the strap-fastened arrow video). When using a bow, not only does the camera change position, but the third-person crosshair also moves into place. Using this system, you can set the camera anywhere you like and still have an accurate crosshair. Both the camera and crosshair have specific settings for stealth, non-sneaking and transition speed in MCM.

If you want to use these two features along with the following mods, please follow these instructions:

iHud - Disable "Force crosshair hiding" in MCM (does not interfere with iHud hiding the crosshair, this setting just disables the crosshair from ever resetting)

Customizable Camera - Disable "Adaptive Sneak" in MCM (this will just make switching stealth look smoother, you can turn it on if you like)

Arm fatigue enable/disable in MCM

Drawing with your bow really does take its toll. This mod adds a bit of vibration to the camera and controller when your bow is drawn. After a while, your arms will start to move faster. Eventually, the shaking will become so intense that your stamina will begin to run out. The total draw time corresponds to your archery skill; you can view it in the MCM in the Statistics tab.

Miscellaneous improvements

There are also a number of minor changes that improve gameplay for archers and other archers:

Disable auto-ai …