Crossbow worth it?

[Dreadnaught]

How's the crossbow? Is it super gimmicky or does it actually have uses?

EDIT: Yes, it absolutely is. If you think it's bad, try aiming? For a primary it is one of the best, imo. It's like a large AoE slugger. Most importantly, it's fun. Reload time is ~2 seconds, so nowhere near as bad as people in here claim. You can 1 shot an entire dropship worth of the AT-ST looking walkers from a frontal hit. It levels groups of berserkers and devastators with ease. Obviously much easier if you can actually aim and understand that it fires in an arc. Saying it's useless is just ignorant and those people should actually try it instead of just watching some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ youtuber's clickbait videos.

[Guardian_Angel]

It's great as a bug trash killer - anything up to a brood commander. With the huge (and, unlike eruptor, reliable) AoE range, you can consistently get 10+ bug kills with a single shot. Hunter swarms are obliterated immediately.
Beware of Bile Spewers, though, because crossbow is pathetically weak against any armour.

Against bots it's a meme gun.

[Syfar]

I use The Explosive Crossbow vs bugs now as my main and it works great for me. Anything smaller then a commander it works very well against. The Crossbow takes out hoards of smaller things very easily. 1 decent shot takes out a bug breach of hunters.

I have been taking heavy anti-explosive armor, as well as a personal shield backpack just in case. I have also been experimenting with taking along the anti-material sniper for things smaller then a Charger.

The Crossbow has you become the trash clear god. But it will leave you struggling with medium targets. So I'd say it is not an all-rounder, but instead it has it's place in a team.

[Slavbringer57]

As far as I can tell from when I tried it, it's just a weaker Eruptor, you gain handling and fire rate, but lose a lot of damage, (I think) the ability to close holes and reliable ranged combat. (Albeit Eruptor is hard capped to 100 meters)

[74X9]

Despite the fact that all rifles in the game suck, the crossbow is bad even against their background

[Snek!]

Imma be honest, it's the best adclear weapon in the game. It's got the AoE of an impact grenade and one-shots small bugs and bots in said AoE. Super good for clearing out groups. Erupter is just better though, but that's Erupter being busted and not the crossbow being bad. Easy top 5 IMO.

[Katitoff]

It can't even open containers despite being explosive.

I don't even know why it exists.

[Dreadnaught]

Yeah I'll probably get it. Don't care for "meta" anything and I want an alternative for when I want to change up from using the slugger, which is still ridiculously good imo.

[hotmatrixx]

Originally posted by BrokenDoop:

No, the grenade pistol is the best secondary in the game tho.

As someone who runs Engineer with Stun Nades, the Grenade Pistol has been an absolute godsend.

[ShadowKing]

might be okay on some levels and missions, depends on your team.
I onli got it because i wanted to complete warbond.

[Modda]

Crossbow was very underwhelming

[Dreadnaught]

Alright, to all the naysayers...after using it for a while against bots, I have to say it's actually incredible. If you can aim, you'll do amazing. One shots devastators and crowds.

[hotmatrixx]

Originally posted by Dreadnaught:

How's the crossbow? Is it super gimmicky or does it actually have uses?

its bad. its viable, but it's bad. Maybe I just need more time with it, but I didn't enjoy it enough to put the time in.

[GustavoM]

It's a slow firing weapon plus with a enormous reload time. Which means, if you miss a shot... you are (pretty much) dead.

[Vinyltavia]

Crossbow is a somehow jankier GL with a much bigger splash radius but doesn't close bug holes or fabricators.
It's kill radius is pretty nuts and for a primary can dispatch a charger half decently.
It main strength is just killing alot of trash quickly. You need 3 shots for stalkers to kill them so if you're running crossbow, run it with only bugs and bring a laser rover.
Since nobody else uses it rn, I'm rocking it diving like van helsing with some of these wild manuvers.

[Balthazar the Magnificent Dog]

The only good thing is that its silent.
When you shoot it, the enemy dont know where it came from.