at this point im convinced that i should just filter any post that contains the words "darker athmosphere"
Weaksauce animations that feel floaty and non threatening are "dark"? What a load of nonsense.
And on bows. No CRPG does bow combat right and no CRPG ever will. A party based video game will never come close to showing the effective range of an english longbow.
If you wanna go there, youd have to go full shadowrun where one of the players is essentialy not even on the battlemat.