Crossbows are useless

[Roody]

Low damage, Slow Reload and less ammo carried than a long bow. Long bow does everything it can do but faster, further and stronger. Even against heavily armored people, the crossbow does pitiful damage. Thing really needs a buff in some aspect, otherwise, one of the more useless weapons in the game.

[Sticks]

I counter snipe archers with headshots using the crossbow all the time, its lack of a draw period lets you instantly hit them where they have to draw a shot before they can shoot back.

[Karnage]

Crossbows are best used behind fortifications in a defensive manner. They aren't something you should be running around with in battle like bows.

[BCGaius]

I've found the crossbow a lot more usable than the longbow, especially since it's cheaper. I can equip Huntsman, some armor, and a better sidearm, and I find the crossbow just generally more useful to boot. With the longbow, your options are extremely limited.

[heisenberg]

The crossbow is my favourite ranged weapon.It deals more damage than the longbow, costs less points and it has no sway and it shoots very fast bolts that have almost no drop.It is a very good anti archer weapon and deals respectable damage against armored enemies (38 on body armor/ 50 on headshots)

[kaj]

Crossbows reload really fast aswell.

[GRIMGOR]

I found Crossbow to be OP on Taiga map when playing as red. As you can just camp the bridges and their a tone of cover to reload.

[Violent-Semen-Inferno]

no?

[NeuroticSlav]

Projectile is way too slow.
Even with predicting enemy movement its more of luck based since slight twitch means you miss because damn bolt takes its time to get there.

[Garudazeno]

Longbows arent stronger than crossbows

[UnDeadDemon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Roody:

Low damage, Slow Reload and less ammo carried than a long bow. Long bow does everything it can do but faster, further and stronger. Even against heavily armored people, the crossbow does pitiful damage. Thing really needs a buff in some aspect, otherwise, one of the more useless weapons in the game.

I do agree it should do more against heavy armor. I was shooting at my practice target beside my garage & missed the crossbow bolt went through both metal walls of my garage.

It would of kept going but got stuck on the fins on the arrow. Idk how good the medieval crossbows were though.

[Benton]

I guess it's me but i've got a better aim with long bow than crossbow which is strange considering crossbow projectiles time travel is shorter and straigh forward, i don't get it.

[Ceruli]

Diposting pertama kali oleh UnDeadDemon:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Roody:

Low damage, Slow Reload and less ammo carried than a long bow. Long bow does everything it can do but faster, further and stronger. Even against heavily armored people, the crossbow does pitiful damage. Thing really needs a buff in some aspect, otherwise, one of the more useless weapons in the game.

I do agree it should do more against heavy armor. I was shooting at my practice target beside my garage & missed the crossbow bolt went through both metal walls of my garage.

It would of kept going but got stuck on the fins on the arrow. Idk how good the medieval crossbows were though.

Weaker then the modern ones (unless you have a reproduction of a medieval one), but they'd still be quite powerful.

Check out skallagrim on YouTube? He covers it there i believe, he does reviews and cutting tests too. One of the few YouTubers i both enjoy watching but also recommend to others.

[LonelyCookie]

Crossbows are also great for 1v1 or organied team battles (2v2 etc.), their very fast projectile speed and lack of draw is great for early damage

[Sir Diesalot]

I've had a lot of success with crossbows. They are by far the best anti-archer weapon in the game and they are also really good for countering horses. Being able to hold down your aim is really nice. On top of that they cost a lot less slots than a longbow but do more damage than a recurve bow. I like to carry a crossbow along with a rapier to soften up enemies before I stab them to death.

[dat_potatoe]

Crossbow sucks as a main archery weapon. It's hard to hit long-range targets with it and the insanely slow reload speed only makes it even more unlikely you'll actually manage to kill someone before they regenerate HP or just flee to cover.

It's decent I guess as a "I'm going to randomly pull this surprise pre-loaded gun out of my ass and finish off someone who still has half HP from medium range" weapon. But then you have to ask if that's really worth sacrificing seven points of armor/weapons for, especially when throwing axes are only slightly less effective.