Harpoon Gun

[🔸Divinity🔸]

Will the Harpoon Gun be better than a crossbow with 250 damage for tranquilizer arrows?
Or will I need to find a BP of this gun with good damage and then it will be better than a crossbow?
And where i can find that BP anyone have an idea ?

[Gravetech(Kane)]

most likely it will work exactly like the long neck but underwater, Longer reload time (harder hitting) and with arrows that would mean more Torpor, as far as where to find the bp unless they updated all the supply drops (they tend to not) it will probbly be ither a Deepsea lootcrate or dropped by a Sea Alpha

[🂡WC_Zane🂡]

It is definitely better than a crossbow underwater. Not only does it do more damge, but the projectile travels much farther. The Traq Harpoon Dart actually does slightly more torpor than the tranq dart in the longneck also.

[🔸Divinity🔸]

thanks for comment but but will the harpoon gun have a rarity option like other weapons ?

[Gravetech(Kane)]

Originally posted by Жабка:

thanks for comment but but will the harpoon gun have a rarity option like other weapons ?

im almost 90% sure it will there are few items that do not and thats the darts them selfs mostly

[🔸Divinity🔸]

If you compare a white crossbow with a white gun, then the gun will be better
But if you have asc crossbow with 250% damage .....

[RaptorNatho]

can you use it on land?

[Gravetech(Kane)]

Originally posted by Жабка:

If you compare a white crossbow with a white gun, then the gun will be better
But if you have asc crossbow with 250% damage .....

it will still outrange it though, so even with it being more damage, it would mean you are less likely to be in chomp chomp range.

[HighD]

Ascendant Harpoon BP maybe?

[🔸Divinity🔸]

craft one it is soo useless
crossbow with 250% damage better than this harpoon

[🔸Divinity🔸]

just test it on 145 lvl mosa i waste 50 tranq harpoons and then i need to use 60 arrows to knok him down

[🔸Divinity🔸]

usualy i use 100-120 arrows ......
so if there no rarity of harpoons it useles =(

[🔸Divinity🔸]

and dont forget about cost of ammo for harpoons

[lammaer]

Im really looking forward to the harpoon gun... nowdays I spend lots of time in the water, an extra firepower is more than welcomed :)

[🔸Divinity🔸]

and the gun 95% broken when fire 50 harpoons=(

[Yunei]

Answer to the OP question:
Your 250% crossbow is better in every way.

The training dummy is your friend. I was also curious about the comparison between a crossbow and harpoon gun and wasn't finding much in the way of actual data, just a lot of opinions and assumptions. So I built a range and did some testing so I could see where the actual math is.

TLDR:
All other variables aside, the harpoon gun does a lot more dmg to underwater targets, per shot than the crossbow, but it's junk for anything other than using nets above water. If you have a decent crossbow (such as yours at 250%) you're better off using that.

Data:
Both weapons were tested at baseline primitive quality (100%). Private server with no dmg tweaks that would favor one weapon over another. The numbers may vary from "official", but the side-by-side comparison is still valid. Distance from target did not seem to affect dmg output for either weapon.

Crossbow -
95 dmg center mass vs above water and underwater training dummy. Projectile drop unaffected by shooting above, below, into, or out off water.
1140 dmg over 30s
DPS = 38
RoF = aprx. 0.4
Durability = 100, -1 per shot

Harpoon Launcher -
80 dmg center mass vs above water training dummy, 185 dmg vs underwater training dummy. Projectile drop is very little while projectile is below water, and very severe while it's above water. This applies when shooting into or out of water as well.
720 dmg over 30s (above water)
1665 dmg over 30s (below water)
DPS = 24 (above water)
DPS = 55.5 (below water)
RoF = aprx. 0.33
Durability = 100, -1.5 per shot

Conclusion:
Feel free to do your own testing to verify, but the math I saw tells us these things:
1) If the target is underwater (even just a little) it takes much more damage from the harpoon launcher than if it isn't, regardless of whether the launcher was fired from underwater or not.
2) Harpoons launchers are good for nets and are in fact stronger than a crossbow underwater, however...
3) The harpoon launcher takes more damage from firing than the crossbow, and you'll only get 67 shots out of it before it breaks whereas the crossbow will get you 100.
4) If you get a crossbow at about 146% it will do basically the same DPS as a 100% harpoon launcher underwater, which means any percentage higher than that will give the crossbow a higher DPS than the harpoon launcher even underwater where the launcher is normally better. At that point the launcher is useless unless you like to shoot nets.