Advanced Crossbow Crafting + Ammo types

[moat]

Various Crossbow Bolts

(Hold the reload key to swap ammo types with a wheel-type selector)

Combine makeshift crossbow bolts with...

- healing syringes to make healing bolts.
- oil to make flaming bolts

Combat stim bolt

Recipe: 3 healing syringes + cup of coffee + enor heart + rootbear float: Stack of Combat Stim Bolts

Effect: Grants Accelerated Metabolism Buff
- Lasts 30s
- Makes you run 25% faster
- Gives 15% damage resist
- Grants 15% melee damage
- Reduces accuracy, accelerates reload
- Will revive teammates from DBNO state (grants 3s invulnerability)
- accelerated metabolism makes you regenerate health rapidly
- accelerated metabolism rapidly consumes your food/thirst to power the regeneration effect
- accelerated metabolism makes you have to visit the bathroom a lot sooner.
- scientist may say strange things while under the effect

Powered Makeshift Crossbow

Recipe: Makeshift Crossbow + Motorized Screwdriver + Gears
- Adds an internal battery "reservoir" that can be recharged (like flashlights and other tools)
- Hold Altfire to rapidly wind up the crossbow during a reload, drains battery.

Powered Mechanical Crossbow

Recipe: Reinforced Wood Plank + Metal Cable + Powered Makeshift Crossbow + Power Cell + Coil

- Greatly increases the battery efficiency and windup speed.
- Hold alt-fire to consume battery to apply a stunning electrical charge to normal arrows or heat up rebar ammo.
- Unlocks using rebar and rebar grenade ammo.

Rebar ammo

- Can be charged to red-hot like a certain weapon from a well-known game.
- Heated rebar projectiles will set targets on fire.
- May bounce off of robot armor.
- Lodges into biological entities
- Deals extra headshot damage
- Although its ammo is expensive and heavy, the rebar rods are retrievable.
- Still Stealthy!

Rebar mugnade ammo

- Crafted by combining rebar with a mugnade.
- Can't be heated.
- Can't be retrieved.
- EXPLODES.
- The launch is stealthy but obviously, the explosion will put enemies on alert.

[Countersync]

I mistook your 'rebar crossbow' as the limb, rather than a makeshift 'railgun'. We do have lightning throwers and a portable (burner based?) X-ray gun.

I can't think of any real life material that could store and release energy the right way to launch a railgun bolt though. If it's a crossbow that is. Some Antiverse material might work.

[moat]

Originally posted by Countersync:

I mistook your 'rebar crossbow' as the limb, rather than a makeshift 'railgun'. We do have lightning throwers and a portable (burner based?) X-ray gun.

I can't think of any real life material that could store and release energy the right way to launch a railgun bolt though. If it's a crossbow that is. Some Antiverse material might work.

Nah, it's just the crossbow from HL2. The projectile you load is literally a rusty piece of rebar that is placed on some metal contacts (they have a battery) that treats it like a heating element and heats it up really hot.

Could probably add some metal cable and the reinforced wood plank to the ingredient list.

But I don't expect the devs to have to make this crossbow capable of pinning ragdolls to walls (like, it's a FUN effect but not really a gameplay-altering one), but just having it deal a nice hefty chunk of damage that's reliant on weakpoint hits (plus an incendiary damage effect) in exchange for a slower reload time and projectile speed gives it a distinct place in the player's arsenal. Also it acts as a direct upgrade to the makeshift crossbow for people who want to keep using one in the later game.

[Crochwhisle purple]

holding R to use ammo wheel, but also for winding crossbow? wouldn`t it make more sense to use LMB to wind your shot up instead of r?

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

holding R to use ammo wheel, but also for winding crossbow? wouldn`t it make more sense to use LMB to wind your shot up instead of r?

No, because it's still reloading. Binding it to mouse just makes it really easy to accidentally fire the bolt you just put in.
Conflicting keybind is an issue though, there'd need to be a dedicated ammo type swap button.

[moat]

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

holding R to use ammo wheel, but also for winding crossbow? wouldn`t it make more sense to use LMB to wind your shot up instead of r?

How about RMB to wind crossbow, and holding R for the ammo wheel?

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by moat:

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

holding R to use ammo wheel, but also for winding crossbow? wouldn`t it make more sense to use LMB to wind your shot up instead of r?

How about RMB to wind crossbow, and holding R for the ammo wheel?

Then we're overriding the level 5 aiming perk of being able to zoom in with right click, unfortunately.

[moat]

Originally posted by Monokuma:

Originally posted by moat:

How about RMB to wind crossbow, and holding R for the ammo wheel?

Then we're overriding the level 5 aiming perk of being able to zoom in with right click, unfortunately.

just during your reload, though.

[Mercurio]

More,better crossbows to use would be a godsend. Currently the crossbow gets outclassed by literally *everything* once you get to a certain point in the game,so having upgrades for it would incentivise continued use,and effectiveness of the playstyle =P

[moat]

(added Combat Stim Bolt to suggested items)