

If TFP want to go semi-realism and make the crossbow slower. Change that reload speed.Įither that or seriously increase the damage. If you want to shoot and then run up and hit them, there"s no way you can use a crossbow.Ĭompound looks to be the best we have for now.ĭoesn"t do anymore damage other than what the bolts give and I"m fine with it. It"s too slow to use with the new system. That"s about all we need to know right there. REALLY SLOW! It"s absolutely worthless if you need a follow up shot or twenty. So normally walking Zs will still require a number of shots either way, which can be done faster with the bow.Ĭomparing bolts and arrows - they have the same base damage.ġ. I got some skill upgrades for sneak attacks and overall range damage, but i can only sneak one-shot the weakest zombies with the compound bow. The increase of damage for crossbow from compound bow doesn"t change much. Considering how fast you can shoot the bow compared to crossbow, you can dish out more damage and kill more Zs. So that leaves at least 2 arrows/bolts to the head. On higher levels you can one-shot kill most zombies when sneaking (sneak damage modifier), but when they are walking it"s pretty hard to do it (maybe the weakest could go like that). Link to commentShare on other sites More sharing options. until you invest some perk points.īows will always reload faster but crossbows do more damage. The crossbow is not a good weapon for a running gunfight. So yeah, since I just hit 30 and was making crossbows for the other guys I figured I"d give it a shot again. Is there any way to see the damage you do when you hit something?Įnter debug mode (console command dm). I for one am not touching that clunky thing until it"s the case, compound works just fine, I"d even rather use a regular bw with steel arrows before using the crossbow. The crossbow should, at the very least, have the same dps output as the compound bow (without any modification) considering it"s cost and drawbacks.

Link to commentShare on other sitesMore sharing options. If you made the same investment of points into Strength and headshot damage with melee weapons, you"d be one shooting most standard zombies. Iron bolts along with 20% damage increase from Perception and an added 75% to headshot damage still isn"t enough to kill even low HP pool zombies in a single hit. The damage also is pretty lackluster even with better bolts and skillpoints. So even though the bolt flies faster, it also drops faster, giving it equal range to the other bows. It has a much higher projectile velocity than the bows but it seems that the dropoff rate scales with the velocity. The crossbow is missing one of its best features which is the ability to use it at long range.
