Sorry, but that crossbow the woman carries looks ridiculously large--this coming from someone who plays and enjoys the game.

I suppose it could be the perspective of the shot, but still...

Originally posted by Cerion

Sorry, but that crossbow the woman carries looks ridiculously large--this coming from someone who plays and enjoys the game.

I suppose it could be the perspective of the shot, but still...

Have you seen a real heavy crossbow?

They used to called it "Beast" ("Beste" in old French, "Besta" in other Latin countries beside France) because of it's size and the enormous force you would have to be able to use one as shown in the picture above even if it's a "modern" version of this crossbow. But I also have to agree with the first poster, the female character looks displaced with that weapon: too fragile to be even able to use one. Or maybe it's the angle? Whatever the reason and in my humble opinion, it's not important the size of what a crossbow should be. There's also smaller version albeit less powerfull and with obvisously  less reach to a target - see it as the gun a lady would carry hidden in her lingerie or purse.
Then again, I could only consider the above poster rhetoric question valid while being a bit picky if one would want to play a perfect medieval theme MMO with or without any fantasy in it, if here is one even (can only remember Mount & Blade tbh) and completely flawless.
Hell! Most game dev. team and gamers don't even know that there's a specific clockwise (not anticlockwise) stairway for a tower! Just as an example: I saw that in WAR not that I did care much when I was going up the stairs chasing an enemy... but if you play that game, pay attention to the anticlockwise stairway they implemented in-game in a Fortress (Keeps have the correct  clockwise stairway if I remember well).
If it was correctly build, the person assaulting a tower would have problems going up fighting with a weapon held in its right arm (as most people are right handed and back then were force to use the right hand if they were left handed that is - typical in heavy rooted christian Medieval times - the Right Hand of God opposite to The Left Hand Path).

So you see, if one would be picky about those kind of things... It's not the best shot I've seen from LotRO but I also won't be that picky about it. I've seen better shots taken from casual gamers here at MMORPG.com.

Cheers!