Heavy Crossbow

Heavy Crossbow
Inventory FBI Files THIS IS A GAGE CHIVALRY PACK ITEM! Bolts can be picked back up Regular ammo pickups are disabled for this weapon. THIS IS A GAGE CHIVALRY PACK ITEM! Bolts can be picked back up Regular ammo pickups are disabled for this weapon.
Gameplay
Unlock Level	38
Inventory Slot	Primary
Weapon Type	Special
Firing Mode(s)	Single shot
Cost	$871,000
Statistics
Magazine	1
Total Ammo	35
Rate of Fire	21
Damage	2,000
Accuracy	96
Stability	96
Concealment	28
Threat	10
Extra Weapon Statistics Grenade Pickup Rate Min Max Sting Grenade 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 Frag Grenade 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 X1-a Tactical ZAPper 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 Incendiary Round 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 Viper Grenade Round 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 0 Walk-in Closet: 0 Fully Loaded Aced: 0 Damage Per Mag Total Damage total 2,000 70,000 Damage/second 689.66 823.53 Projectile speed 35m/s Bullet Spread Standing Crouching Sights 1 xx Sights + moving 2 xx Hipfire 2.45 2.45 Hipfire + moving 2.45 2.45 Recoil Min Max Recoil vertical -0.2 0.4 Recoil horizontal -1.0 1.0
Other
Internal name	arblast
Achievement(s)
v·d·e Mod stats

Description
The heavy crossbow traded speed and weight to provide extra range and power. As noted by Richard I's chronicler at the Battle of Arsuf "...the heavy croffbow entered the field, and yay did verily fuck fhit up."

The Heavy Crossbow is a special weapon for PAYDAY 2, introduced in Update #77 as part of the Gage Chivalry Pack DLC.

Overview

One of the highest damaging weapons in the game, the Heavy Crossbow is great for eliminating specials or delivering high-damage stuns and splash damage with Explosive Bolts. The extremely low rate of fire as a result of the lengthy reload and low total ammo require the player to make every shot count. A reliable secondary is essential for hectic encounters while using this weapon, as it lacks the ability to deal with close-range foes in a quick manner.

Summary

Pros

• Very high base damage
• Highly concealable
• Large ammo pool

Cons

• Single shot, worsened by its slow reload
• Lack of crowd control without Explosive Bolts
• Steep projectile arc requires careful calculation to land hits beyond close range
• Explosive Bolts cannot be recovered outside of ammo bags or indirectly from a teammate using the Gambler perk deck

Tips

• Its high concealment makes it easy to build for critical hits.
• The weapon's raw damage allows it to kill any special unit other than the Cloaker and Bulldozer in a single bodyshot, without any damage boosts.
  • However, its slow rate of fire and slow reload make it struggle at dealing with multiple enemies. It can be reserved as a "special killer" to quickly kill a single enemy, most notably special units, while a capable secondary like the Mark 10 can defend the user at close range.
• Surefire Ace allows the projectiles to pierce Maximum Force Responder body armor, always killing them in one hit. Alternatively, poison projectiles infect Maximum Force Responders through their body armor, and a single poison projectile is enough to kill one from full health, albeit over time.

Available modifications

• Ammunition
• Boost

Explosive Bolt	Gage Chivalry Pack v·d·e
	Total Ammo	-	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-600
	Accuracy	-	Stability	-
	Concealment	-	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Infinite Granted
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template N/A Internal name wpn_fps_bow_arblast_m_explosive

Poison Bolt	Gage Chivalry Pack v·d·e
	Total Ammo	-10	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-1700
	Accuracy	-	Stability	-
	Concealment	-	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Infinite Granted	Special Effect(s): 100% chance to poison target
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template N/A Internal name wpn_fps_bow_arblast_m_poison

Concealment	Base game v·d·e
	Total Ammo	-	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-
	Accuracy	-	Stability	-
	Concealment	+1	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Card Drop & Side Job / 6
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template Every weapon ingame Internal name wpn_fps_upg_bonus_concealment_p1

Stability	Base game v·d·e
	Total Ammo	-	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-
	Accuracy	-	Stability	+4
	Concealment	-	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Card Drop & Side Job / 6
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template Every weapon ingame Internal name wpn_fps_upg_bonus_recoil_p1

Accuracy	Base game v·d·e
	Total Ammo	-	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-
	Accuracy	+4	Stability	-
	Concealment	-	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Card Drop & Side Job / 6
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template Every weapon ingame Internal name wpn_fps_upg_bonus_spread_p1

Team Boost	Base game v·d·e
	Total Ammo	-	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-
	Accuracy	-	Stability	-
	Concealment	-	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Card Drop & Side Job / 6	Special Effect(s): +3% Experience & money reward for you and your crew.
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template Every weapon ingame Internal name wpn_fps_upg_bonus_team_exp_money_p3

Total Ammo	Base game v·d·e
	Total Ammo	+2	Magazine	-
	Reload	-	Damage	-
	Accuracy	-	Stability	-
	Concealment	-	Threat	-
Cost: $9,000 Card Drop & Side Job / 6
More Info. Note(s) N/A Compatible weapons Edit template OVE9000 • Platypus 70 • MA-17 Flamethrower • Rattlesnake • Lebensauger .308 • Desertfox • Contractor .308 • R93 • Repeater 1874 • Grom • Nagant • Thanatos .50 cal • Vulcan Minigun • Flamethrower Mk.1 • Plainsrider Bow • Light Crossbow • English Longbow • Heavy Crossbow • Pistol Crossbow • Hailstorm Mk 5 • Cash Blaster Internal name wpn_fps_upg_bonus_total_ammo_p1

Skins

• Epic

Immortal Python
Achievement Milestone Reward

Achievements

Heisters of the Round Table Complete any heist on the OVERKILL difficulty or above with 4 players using only Gage Chivalry Pack masks, primary weapons, melee weapons and Ballistic Vests or heavier armors. Unlocks the "Agatha Knight Veteran" mask, "Blooded" material and "Agatha" pattern.

Trivia

• The basis for this weapon is a 12th century arbalest or, as indicated in its game file index, an arblast, a derivative of a crossbow but with some important practical differences. Due to the similarities in basic design and concept, an arbalest could loosely be considered a heavy crossbow, though heavy crossbows aren't always necessarily arbalests.
  • The Heavy Crossbow reload time is much faster than an authentic arbalest. Real arbalests took an average of 30 to 50 seconds to reload because of their higher string tension. The pulley itself was designed to accommodate this high tension, and required a great deal of physical strength to wind back fully. Given the slender build of several heisters, it is unlikely they would be able to wield such a weapon in reality.
• The Heavy Crossbow has 28 concealment, despite being a very bulky weapon.
  • Apart from balance reasons, this is likely due to the fact that robbing a bank armed with a crossbow is, as one might expect, quite strange compared to using basically any firearm of similar size. Even if the crossbow is larger than most weapons of similar concealment, guards would likely be somewhat reluctant to believe that they are, in fact, seeing a person in a clown mask attempt to commit a robbery with a (concealed) several-hundred-year-old crossbow.
• The description "fuck fhit up" and "croffbow" refers to the archaic form of the letter "s". In the past, the written form of the letter "s" resembled the letter "f".
• The Heavy Crossbow used to have a base damage of 4000.
  • This was nerfed in Update 119.1 to the present 2000 likely because on the former One Down difficulty especially, having such ludicrous damage made it very easy to one-shot Bulldozers with critical hits.

Gallery

In-game preview of the Heavy Crossbow.

• Primary
• Secondary
• Melee
• Throwables & Equipment