Crossbow

Wanted to be a caveman and were upset we didn't have any clubs? Never fear, we have you covered. While it won't take you back to the caveman days, this weapon is a decent throwback to medieval times for those of you that can't find the business end of a gun. Its primary (and, really, only) advantage over normal ranged weaponry is that you can mix and match multiple ammo types. You could get a sticky tip and a glow bolt to light up a dark ceiling, or a piercing tip and an explosive bolt to make something blow up in a man's gut. The possibilities are staggering, regardless of whether your intelligence is. Creds: 0 Ammo: Ammo: Practically infinite. You may choose up to 4 types of tips+bolts. You have to arrange these pre-mission. Tip Types: Sharp Sticky Barbed Syringe Blunt Suction Foam Magnetic Incendiary Bolt Types: Solid Acid-filled Flare Tranquilizer Explosive Cable Reel Teargas Oil Tracker Requirements: Your maximum amount of infantry weapons is limited by your strength. Two-handed Rolls: attacker's Maneuverability and Unconventional vs defender's Intuition and Speed

Additional Details

• Limited range; don't try to shoot too far except in absence of gravity
• Fairly accurate with a skilled hand
• Takes some time to reload
• Excellent for specialization
• No mixing and matching types with teammates

Tip types:

Sharp

• Good for piercing soft targets
• Good at causing damage
• Comes back out easily
• Sharp tip can potentially pierce light armor if user is sufficiently skilled

Sticky

• Goo tip will stick to almost any surface
• Specially formulated to work well in a vacuum
• Not sticky until the tip is punctured via impact
• Quickly solidifies, locking bolt to all but the smoothest surfaces
• Won't damage most surfaces

Barbed

• Punches a small hole, stops before it goes in all the way
• Springloaded barbs keep the bolt from falling back out
• Special alloys keep the bolt in place while under weights of up to half a ton

Syringe

• Injects the contents of the bolt (if any) upon impact
• Permits you to empty the bolt carefully if necessary (and if possible)
• Needle tip can be removed if desired
• Excels at penetrating spacesuits and human flesh
• Will do nothing against even light armor

Blunt

• Impacts without dealing much damage to the target structure
• Rebounds and will bounce away from target

Suction

• Works best in an atmosphere
• Deals absolutely no damage to target structures
• Works best against flat surfaces
• Will almost never let go unless you actually want it to

Foam

• Soft foam tip will keep from damaging target structures
• Instead of rebounding, will simply fall to the floor where it hits, or stay put
• Good for if you're having some fun with friends

Magnetic

• Will cling very tightly to ferromagnetic materials
• Difficult to get loose without some degree of force
• Magnet tips can be used with other devices

Incendiary

• Creates a series of large sparks on impact
• Can ignite most flammable materials
• Looks really cool
• Sounds even cooler

Bolt types:

Solid

• Solid bolt has the weight behind it required to punch through light armor (but still takes a sharp tip to manage)
• Can be used as scrap if necessary, or as metal for welding
• Optional wide-capped butt end keeps it from punching completely through a target, instead getting lodged partway

Acid-filled

• Filled with acid. What else needs be said?
• Acid capable of dissolving most metals, including gold and platinum
• Likes to eat fingers
• Glass body shatters on impact
• Keep these safe

Flare

• Flare can be primed prior to launch if desired
• If not primed, impact will start it going
• Bright enough to see across moderate distances
• Keeps burning for about a minute

Tranquilizer

• Sleepytime is good time
• Doesn't work instantly, but should work fairly quickly against the average-sized human; will take effect toward the end of the turn
• An overdose of tranq darts will not kill the target
• Will require multiple darts for larger targets
• Smaller targets may die instantly
• If shattered, sprays as disorienting gas instead

Explosive

• Bolt contains small liquid explosive charge; detonates on hard stop
• Deals a lot less damage than a grenade
• Doesn't work well with foam tips
• Can be difficult to get the whole bolt to explode inside of someone
• When it does explode inside of someone, results are instant and gloriously messy

Cable Reel

• Contains a fine nanowire cable that attaches to your crossbow with a grapple
• Can be unhooked from the crossbow after launched
• Doesn't necessarily need to be attached to the crossbow to be shot
• Will hold your weight and more; multiple shots increase this
• Will not pull you forwards; this is good: will also not shred you limb from limb or splatter you against your target

Teargas

• Only works well in atmosphere
• Clings and sticks; will burn for hours
• Completely disables anyone not wearing a spacesuit
• Target must not be wearing a spacesuit

Oil

• Bolt will shatter on impact
• Full of liquid with very low viscosity
• Highly flammable
• Will coat things

Tracker

• Tracking dart functional for up to 5 kilometers
• Encrypted transmission to escape detection
• Smaller size keeps it from being noticed for falling out
• Typically does not work well when the electronics are injected into someone

Ingame Example

Technical Details

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