@@4FSGaming I know right? Make a cloud on impact, or simply allowing the hand crossbow to swap to it as a secondary. My friend even suggested making it tipped bolts instead of impact. It would be less effective against immolators, but at the very least you could retrieve the bolts. Also, every kill with the handbow feels amazing. I can't get enough of it.
@@4FSGaming Yeah but in this video it's a bit underrated, because if someone gets shot by a rifle and is hiding to heal up you can stop the healing process with that poison bolt. Also you can block entrances with the poison cloud a bit. But for sure it needs a buff at least when you hit the chest. I would like the idea that a poison bee is in the ampoule so with the first impact it deals like 40 damage and you are poisoned an the bee deals damage (like a hive bee) in your body until you pluck it out with holding F for some 2 seconds.
@@4FSGaming Oh I thought it had the lasting effect the last time I played it but maybe I am wrong because it's a long time ago. But would be really nice to have that with the "you can't heal while poisoned - mechanic"
honestly i'm ashamed in you. you didn't mention the top tier explosive crossbow strategy of raining down mortars from outside the compound. yeah, it never works for me, BUT IT COULD ONE DAY.
Well it's something I like to do and never saw anybody do before, to spend 1-2 ammo super far to confuse people. I will laugh if someday it register a hit, even if it's a grunt hehe.
@@4FSGaming You totally can. Or at least, you could! During pre-release my friend and I sat at our spawn and began bombarding the closest clue to our spawn. Got hunter kills
The morter strategy is effective in 2 situations. 1- it is great at causing confusion, as getting shelled by this thing is almost non existent in most games. 2- if you can guess the spread and range when mortaring, say on the other side of a fence or a barn. I haven't killed anyone with it yet but have hit someone and caused several barrel explosions.
This video has aged pretty well despite all the updates to the game last year. Poison bolts being a swappable ammo has pretty much escalated them from meme to something I bring ever time I use the Hand Crossbow. They are simply the single best way to kill immolators and armored, offer excellent area denial for windows and tight corridors, and, most importantly, give you an easy way to dispatch crows. All of that's not mention shooting downed enemies to ensure they can't get be revived without instantly dying again (assuming they didn't bring an antidote shot, of course). By themself, I would never bring poison bolts. As swappable ammo? The amount of tactical advantages it brings is huge.
the best crossbow strat is when you're in a trio and, you and one of your teammates have the explosive bolt while the other one scouts for enemies and send you coordinates for artillery fire.
Yeah seems weird that the poison crossbow is just trash, if it had an aoe or a lingering cloud than maybe it could useful. Also with it taking up a medium slot it's just unreasonable to be that bad. I'm just unsure how they can change it. I feel making it 1 shot to body is a bit op since range doesn't matter on the weapon besides headshots, so I feel making it have some lingering cloud or a mini hive effect is about all that it could be useful for. So make it a tool of area denial and able to flush players out by shooting mini hives into buildings?
Also if someone has an antidote shot it completely invalidates the weapon in a PvP situation. This is the only weapon that someone can be totally immune to. I mean as cool as it is to be able to use a poisonous bolt, poison is probably the least effective status condition in the game despite being the 2nd most annoying if you're affected. It's a sad weapon and needs some love.
What if. We give it a lingering aoe efect. And make it retriable by alloving us to get back the broken glass arrow (maybe give it a tip where we see the liquid dripping) and with weapon mode(x) we can swap betwen aoe or broken bolt. That way when you hit somebody we can add poison/bleed efect to the arrow and they need to remove the arrow to stop the poison efect. (I mean the poison cloud is stationary but who get shot are damage overtime until it removed)
@@csabawars I honestly don't have a issue with them being unretrievable, they just need to have more of an impact as it's strictly worse than the regular bolt does less damage can't 1 shot has a ingame consumable that means it actively does nothing. Plus poison in of it self does virtually nothing, like yeah the person can't heal for like 1 minute or if you hit them with a regular bolt they could be dead. At the very least maimed and bleeding which if you keep on them they will just die from unlike poison. So they don't currently have alternating ammo other than the lemat so it might not be a hard add for what you want I just don't think it's necessary. If they made it more for area control, similar to the poison bomb grenade.
Love ur videos as always, super informative without being too long. Even with 700H+ I still learn little things here and there :) Poison crossbow being the worst weapon ever, like its hard to be more useless than precision nagant lol, I really dunno why Crytek doesn't notice it when everybody knows it's crap. It shouldn't be hard to buff it in an interesting way such as the bee inside the glass and/or a smoke cloud like the poison gas grenade but that wouldn't last as long since u carry more ammo. Now damage-wise it's a joke, and for area denial it's also 0% useful and as if it wasn't bad already, it's a medium slot lol.
Good on you man for providing that discount link for those who havent yet bought the game. Last game I played I got killed by a crossbow, funny enough. Your content keeps getting better and better, keep it up.
Shotbolt+uppercut is an extremely strong loadout if you're experienced with the shotbolt,why? the uppercut give you the range that the shotbolt lack while the shotbolt can rival against shotgun as long as you hit your shot due to your shot having better kill consistency than shotgun
Hi 4FS, love your videos! They're really helpful and full of useful information! Keep up the great work! Just a quick one, I've only recently got into Hunt myself and I'm loving it! I've recently started using the crossbow and I'm falling in love with it (which is how I found this video) and I was going to suggest possibly making an updated crossbow video due to the ammo and variant changes in 1.5? Just an idea, love your stuff and looking forward to more! Thanks! :D
“Maybe one day you will be able to change crossbow ammo on the fly” if only he knew about the monstrosity that is shot bolt and explosive bolt combined on the same bow.
I came here to find additional ways to use the poison crossbow, finding only the same negatives pointed out. I would like to point out some positives that I have found, playing with a 50 some prestige in random Q. Poison Xbow 1 shots Immo's as stated Also 1 shots armored If you directly hit a crow or duck the whole flock will die instantly and silently That is what I have found so far, but other than that, its basically a pve xbow. I have had some good runs with poison xbow and quartermaster running a Vetterlli (for awesome versatility in damage, range, ammo count, and ROF for a bolt) and a derringer (which is basically a 4-shot Bornheim for $30 bucks)
The first kill I did with any version of a crossbow was with a Poison Handcrossbow which I took off a recently deceased. It was within my first three days of playing and I didn‘t achieve a Xbow kill afterwards for nearly 3 months I think. But that one kill was really memorable xD
you forgot one key fact, the shotbolt upon contact of a fence/wooden wall, will shoot through the wooden wall/fence but the shell is the only thing that shoots through, not the bolt, so if there is someone hiding behind the wooden cover, you shoot where they stand, one shot wallbang.
As I discovered recently, the shotbolt is also like the nitro as it can kill multiple hunters in a single shot. I've double tapped some unfortunate teams who've aligned themselves nicely for the buckshot to hit hunters behind the initial target.
One note about the Crossbow Shotbolt: Even though it is not silent, the noise that is made originates from the point of impact from the bolt, NOT from the location it was shot from. So, people will hear the shot, but if they are trying to spot your location, the noise made by the Shotbolt will not give them any help and may even be able to confuse them of your location, making it even more OP.
A point about compact crossbow melee: it deals more damage than pistol whipping, so I'd argue that "poor melee" is an exaggeration. It has more damage and higher speed than any small weapon, and is much more stamina efficient than a large weapon. Crucially, you can kill a grunt with two head punches (small weapons take 3, other mediums are less stamina efficient and slower), costing you less than half as much stamina as you'd've used with a long weapon. It's mostly a moot point since knives are mandatory, but if I have a compact crossbow on me, I whip it out over a rifle for killing immolators.
I love the explosive crossbow. It is weird and I never run it solo, but it’s utility is there, it really slams campers, is someone is hiding in a building if you tag them with it usually they panic and go to heal and that gives you your chance to breach into the building
The hand crossbow poison is actually extremely useful. best way to remove crows quietly, Also the Crossbow Shotbolt has penetration. shoot a wooden wall someone is hiding behind and the pellet will detonate and the shells will hit what is on the other side.
Note: It is possible to not one shot hunters with the Crossbow Shotbolt if the hit is too off-center/too on the edge of a hunter's hitbox.. This is because a hit that is very off-center may cause a significant amount of pellets to fly past the hunter, resulting in not enough landing and the hunter surviving.
You forgot one serious advantage of the shotbolt. It has some major wallbang potential, as it fires the shotgun blast through wooden walls on point of impact/direction.
I found that with the smaller crossbow the aim is different, the shot doesn’t go through the middle of the 3 prongs but instead it’s in the middle of the 2 side prongs. I played it all day yesterday and aiming through the middle of the triangle (the empty space between the 3 prongs)from 10 yards the bolt doesn’t land there but instead it lands in the center of the 2 side prongs.
Poison crossbow could get either 140-ish dmg on all ranges on entire body (no limb penalty) or get a separate poison effect that disables sprint or just simply last 3 times longer than the poison that monsters cause. I think we will get something like the latter since they have "different levels of poison status" on the roadmap.
Great video! Thanks for the information. I still have trouble seeing why the shortbolt is better than the regular crossbow-- if regular crossbow can one shot but is also silent with bolt retrievability, and even sometimes on free hunters.
@@4FSGaming it's because you go from hoisting your crossbow like normal to hip fire. You even aimed for a little without looking through the sights and then fired. Am i just confusing it up or? Also i swear I've seen other youtubers do it.
Hey noob question: how can I practice understanding distance? The difference between 40m and say 100m is obvious but I honestly don't fully understand 1m ingame. Thanks
Malek Hakim Go in training mode, find a target (something that won’t chase you), count out steps walking at full speed away from the target. The number of steps should roughly equate to meters.
It's not really about the exact distance. You need to know that the maps are 1 km x 1 km so divide it into 10 parts for 100 meter pieces. In the most compounds you have sightlines from 5 meters until 70 meters so a Vetterli with medium ammo deals still good damage at any range and is close to the mosin damage output. And it's nice to know that a mosin can instant headshot at 250 meters because my mate got killed some days ago from 208 meters away :D
The poison crossbow is okay. I use it with poison bombs an antidote if your trying to get the hive bomb fast. I use both on buthcer an assassin to get higher point to get the hive bomb.
1. Remove the antidote shot (it's honestly OP, and in an uninteresting way, because it simply removes an entire mechanic from the game). 2. Give the poison crossbow a small poison & glass explosion, that deals about 40 to 70 damage and causes both poison and bleed. This would make it a powerful gun against people behind cover, because they are now damaged, bleeding, can't heal, and can't see well. This would make it much easier to rush them down.
There's something i've always wanted to know about the shotbolt that you didn't address in the video. If i hit the bolt in the ground short of the enemy player, it's like firing with a shotgun at him, right? But is the shot aimed towards his feet or do they go up? Would this be in any way a valuable strategy?
With the shotbolt, a miss is a miss. It doesn't have an area of effect where it explodes; the shell only fires straight (with a cone spread, because shotgun) in the direction the bolt is facing.
There's no sure-fire way to know. but you can get an idea of distances when you're downed because it displays the distance from your body to your partner. Keep switching between your screen and your partner's screen to see what certain distances look like. I wish there was a 100m grid on the map or something to make it easier but there isn't, sadly :(
That's a silly question because most people won't be able to differentiate 30 or 50 meters in real life, when I was in the army and shot targets at 50 meters I was shocked at how close they were to me considering 50 is an intimidating number, like Josh said, death cams, the firing tool in the weapons shop is also a good indication.
i know i know old video, but you forgot to mention that you can wall bang with the shotgun crossbow, there are a lot of people which got surprised by that
Poison Hand Crossbow silently one shots Grunts, Immolators, Armoreds, Horses, Crows, and Ducks. It will also cause all nearby meatheads to aggro the player you tag with it.
In my opinion the work you gotta put in together with a basically mandatory perk, both of these things only benefitting the crossbows, makes it less worth than a rifle that gives wider coverage and the time put into one can translate to other weapons better.
Modern day crossbow poison is pretty decent not because of the poison itself but more the fact that you can have 2 ammo types other words I can have poison for area denial because of the new poison gas that comes out and then use the normal bolts for the obvious reason of damage and bleed
I used the poison crossbow yesterday against the assasin and was like "huh that damage is quite neat". Then i stuck him with a sticky with did 80% of his health and was like yeah there is no reason for that crossbow to exist
I’m on Xbox and Im just getting my butt kicked. Have a terrible time aiming and i tend to jerk my aim in cqb. Any tips for who’s a novice and broke (rank 75 no prestige)
@@schleybailey first off its a fps so worse mouse is just the best way to play shooters, its faster and more accurate once you get accustomed to it. Now to your point at getting better, when you are poor don't worry about running cheap builds. Bring a medkit a vert or sparks then a nagant officer, or caldwell. The jerking thing is just a tick from being nervous or startled, honestly the more you play the easier it gets. You will get better with the weapons the more time you devote to them. Also being on consule I would greatly recommend practicing swapping to knife and stabbing to the head. The control set up of consule makes fighting at extreme close quarters even harder than on PC and you would be surprised how effective a good old knife to the face can be. Lastly surprise is your best friend, and worst enemy, make sure to always be on the move and hard to track if you trigger birds move quickly away. If some else trigger birds don't sprint to that location use it as a way to track where your enemies are and where they might be going. The better you are a locating people the better your chance for kills and survival.
Mouse and Keyboard if you can afford it. Carry a melee weapon Avoid CQB like the plague or Start tweaking the controls. Decent way to make money is just using white shirts, getting clues and extracting. Grab any and ALL free hunters, even if you have no intent of using them if they have even one item you use or want to use. You literally can't lose money as a whiteshirt. Also learn to ambush players in or around boss compounds, and always aim to drop a player in the opening moment of an ambush to better the odds. If dealing with someone who is hiding while their teammate is downed, burn the body to put them on a timer and get a good line of sight on it.
Anyone here from Australia that plays on ps4? It’s so hard to get anyone in Oceania lobbies. I end up playing on us west but the lag makes it almost unplayable. I love this game but it’s so frustrating! We need more aus players
At night, i was constantly getting hit by a player hiding very well, chopping off 1/3 hp each hit. I managed to find him and blast him off with a gun. If i hadn't found him, i would have either died or lost all my freaking med kits.
the hand crossbow poison can be really effective in group play and especially during nighttime... i've killed miltiple squads solo with hand crossbow poison... no, it can't oneshot to the chest... but using it to take the sneaky shot to just poison people can make people panic...
Poison crossbow is a good tool for assassin and butcher as well as dealing with AI dogs, and fire boys. I'll take the poison over hand crossbow any match.
I have to say, even ignoring the new update you underestimated the poison handbow. It’s still trash at PVP, but its effects allow to nearly silently bulldoze through immolators and armored while tearing the butcher and the assassin apart just as quietly. Did i forget that it lets you silence crows and ducks WAY better than a lantern?
also you did show gameplay, but i think the fact that the shotbolt can penatrate surfaces as if a shotgun was shot pointblack into the wall deservs some more attention. this is a wall bang machine. and i have 1 and 2 taped people in a sniper tower by just lobing bolts at the walls THERE IS NO WHERE TO RUN! MWHANAHAHAH and shooting htoguh scelings. nothing is as scary as that, often the shotgun loses alot of bower in the few m between the sealing or spreads to far, but the shotbolt. oh no its like the step on a mine. god what a satisfying feeling
10:40 Disagree. I've killed a lot of people by shooting them in the shins with the shotbolt. I guess I can't know how injured they were but MOST of my one-tap shotbolt kills are to the shins. I had one time where my team was held up by the crank door leading into the basement lair in Healing Waters church. Every team was converging on the boss at the same time so we were playing it safe and holding that hallway. I was watching the south stairs with my shotbolt, which was an EXCELLENT position since I would see the feet of approaching hunters before they would see me. I took out an entire trio by myself as they tried to sneak down there one at a time (they weren't very smart), all three kills were shin shots. I guess if they were dumb enough to all die the exact same way, they were probably dumb enough to not be fully healed either.
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You can tell he's played with the crossbows a lot. I agree with basically everything here. The poison crossbow needs a buff really badly.
There are so many things they could do to make it interesting, it is a really cool weapon in concept only.
@@4FSGaming I know right? Make a cloud on impact, or simply allowing the hand crossbow to swap to it as a secondary. My friend even suggested making it tipped bolts instead of impact. It would be less effective against immolators, but at the very least you could retrieve the bolts. Also, every kill with the handbow feels amazing. I can't get enough of it.
@@4FSGaming Yeah but in this video it's a bit underrated, because if someone gets shot by a rifle and is hiding to heal up you can stop the healing process with that poison bolt. Also you can block entrances with the poison cloud a bit. But for sure it needs a buff at least when you hit the chest. I would like the idea that a poison bee is in the ampoule so with the first impact it deals like 40 damage and you are poisoned an the bee deals damage (like a hive bee) in your body until you pluck it out with holding F for some 2 seconds.
@@Tri-Technology There is no poison cloud, if you don't hit it leaves no residual effect
@@4FSGaming Oh I thought it had the lasting effect the last time I played it but maybe I am wrong because it's a long time ago. But would be really nice to have that with the "you can't heal while poisoned - mechanic"
honestly i'm ashamed in you. you didn't mention the top tier explosive crossbow strategy of raining down mortars from outside the compound. yeah, it never works for me, BUT IT COULD ONE DAY.
I do wonder if you spawn with a team of three and and start lobbing shots over towards the next spawn, eventually you'll get lucky right?
Well it's something I like to do and never saw anybody do before, to spend 1-2 ammo super far to confuse people. I will laugh if someday it register a hit, even if it's a grunt hehe.
@@4FSGaming You totally can. Or at least, you could! During pre-release my friend and I sat at our spawn and began bombarding the closest clue to our spawn. Got hunter kills
The morter strategy is effective in 2 situations.
1- it is great at causing confusion, as getting shelled by this thing is almost non existent in most games.
2- if you can guess the spread and range when mortaring, say on the other side of a fence or a barn. I haven't killed anyone with it yet but have hit someone and caused several barrel explosions.
Reminds me of when I used to play COD. At the start of every match I would huck a Tomahawk at the enemies spawn and occasionally get a Kill
The shotbolt is also the only crossbow that can wallbang, though it is only as effective as a shotgun when it comes to penetration.
I thought I shot through a dog cage the other day but wasn't sure, this enforces the idea, thanks
You are really amazing with all of your hunt video’s. They have really helped me improve my game. 10/10.
Glad you like them!
You forgot to include that youre gonna feel like Darryl Dixon throughout the entire game
I kinda fiting because the game is like the walking dead
One thing to note with the crossbow: point blank limb shots won’t instakill but will cause hit hunters to bleed out extremely quickly (2-3 seconds)
This video has aged pretty well despite all the updates to the game last year. Poison bolts being a swappable ammo has pretty much escalated them from meme to something I bring ever time I use the Hand Crossbow. They are simply the single best way to kill immolators and armored, offer excellent area denial for windows and tight corridors, and, most importantly, give you an easy way to dispatch crows. All of that's not mention shooting downed enemies to ensure they can't get be revived without instantly dying again (assuming they didn't bring an antidote shot, of course).
By themself, I would never bring poison bolts. As swappable ammo? The amount of tactical advantages it brings is huge.
the best crossbow strat is when you're in a trio and, you and one of your teammates have the explosive bolt while the other one scouts for enemies and send you coordinates for artillery fire.
That would be terrifying if we ever get fragbows
@@schoenperkins8210 technically the shotbolt acts like a fragbolt but yea.
Yeah seems weird that the poison crossbow is just trash, if it had an aoe or a lingering cloud than maybe it could useful. Also with it taking up a medium slot it's just unreasonable to be that bad. I'm just unsure how they can change it. I feel making it 1 shot to body is a bit op since range doesn't matter on the weapon besides headshots, so I feel making it have some lingering cloud or a mini hive effect is about all that it could be useful for. So make it a tool of area denial and able to flush players out by shooting mini hives into buildings?
Alternatively, make it's ammo retrievable.
@@jamesb3497 No that doesn't make sense because the glass of the bolt breaks.
Also if someone has an antidote shot it completely invalidates the weapon in a PvP situation. This is the only weapon that someone can be totally immune to. I mean as cool as it is to be able to use a poisonous bolt, poison is probably the least effective status condition in the game despite being the 2nd most annoying if you're affected. It's a sad weapon and needs some love.
What if. We give it a lingering aoe efect. And make it retriable by alloving us to get back the broken glass arrow (maybe give it a tip where we see the liquid dripping) and with weapon mode(x) we can swap betwen aoe or broken bolt. That way when you hit somebody we can add poison/bleed efect to the arrow and they need to remove the arrow to stop the poison efect. (I mean the poison cloud is stationary but who get shot are damage overtime until it removed)
@@csabawars I honestly don't have a issue with them being unretrievable, they just need to have more of an impact as it's strictly worse than the regular bolt does less damage can't 1 shot has a ingame consumable that means it actively does nothing. Plus poison in of it self does virtually nothing, like yeah the person can't heal for like 1 minute or if you hit them with a regular bolt they could be dead. At the very least maimed and bleeding which if you keep on them they will just die from unlike poison. So they don't currently have alternating ammo other than the lemat so it might not be a hard add for what you want I just don't think it's necessary. If they made it more for area control, similar to the poison bomb grenade.
You forget the psychological effect of the explosive crossbow, it scares the shit out of people.
Facts
Been loving the crossy and this is the video I needed bro. Thanks for this!
No problem!!
I finally got back into Hunt since before Launch and was just starting to use crossbows and wondering about each one. Perfect timing on this video 👍
Glad I could help!
You are legend, man! thanks a lot for the guide!
Glad it helped!
I'd love to see an update to this after the many changes to ammo and crossbow.
How serendipitous. Great breakdown. :)
Love ur videos as always, super informative without being too long. Even with 700H+ I still learn little things here and there :)
Poison crossbow being the worst weapon ever, like its hard to be more useless than precision nagant lol, I really dunno why Crytek doesn't notice it when everybody knows it's crap. It shouldn't be hard to buff it in an interesting way such as the bee inside the glass and/or a smoke cloud like the poison gas grenade but that wouldn't last as long since u carry more ammo.
Now damage-wise it's a joke, and for area denial it's also 0% useful and as if it wasn't bad already, it's a medium slot lol.
Good on you man for providing that discount link for those who havent yet bought the game.
Last game I played I got killed by a crossbow, funny enough. Your content keeps getting better and better, keep it up.
Shotbolt+uppercut is an extremely strong loadout if you're experienced with the shotbolt,why? the uppercut give you the range that the shotbolt lack while the shotbolt can rival against shotgun as long as you hit your shot due to your shot having better kill consistency than shotgun
i really like dolch/bornheim with any of the crossbows, great followup at mid ranges. explosive weakening often allows for 1 or 2 shots quickly.
Love pairing the fearsome hand crossbow with a mosin.
Just getting into the game. Great info here. Thanks
Hi 4FS, love your videos! They're really helpful and full of useful information! Keep up the great work!
Just a quick one, I've only recently got into Hunt myself and I'm loving it! I've recently started using the crossbow and I'm falling in love with it (which is how I found this video) and I was going to suggest possibly making an updated crossbow video due to the ammo and variant changes in 1.5? Just an idea, love your stuff and looking forward to more! Thanks! :D
Found a shotbolt on a hunter once upon a time then proceeded to dominate the entire server. Now i am a proud crossbow main
i've been looking for some solid crossbow info, thanks dude
Glad I could help
Everything said in this video I 100% agreed with. As some one that loves using the crossbow a lot.
“Maybe one day you will be able to change crossbow ammo on the fly” if only he knew about the monstrosity that is shot bolt and explosive bolt combined on the same bow.
I came here to find additional ways to use the poison crossbow, finding only the same negatives pointed out.
I would like to point out some positives that I have found, playing with a 50 some prestige in random Q.
Poison Xbow 1 shots Immo's as stated
Also 1 shots armored
If you directly hit a crow or duck the whole flock will die instantly and silently
That is what I have found so far, but other than that, its basically a pve xbow. I have had some good runs with poison xbow and quartermaster running a Vetterlli (for awesome versatility in damage, range, ammo count, and ROF for a bolt) and a derringer (which is basically a 4-shot Bornheim for $30 bucks)
Info not mentioned in video : you CAN wall bang with shotbolt as it explodes from impact point and pellets go through from there, like a shotgun
The first kill I did with any version of a crossbow was with a Poison Handcrossbow which I took off a recently deceased. It was within my first three days of playing and I didn‘t achieve a Xbow kill afterwards for nearly 3 months I think. But that one kill was really memorable xD
you forgot one key fact, the shotbolt upon contact of a fence/wooden wall, will shoot through the wooden wall/fence but the shell is the only thing that shoots through, not the bolt, so if there is someone hiding behind the wooden cover, you shoot where they stand, one shot wallbang.
As I discovered recently, the shotbolt is also like the nitro as it can kill multiple hunters in a single shot. I've double tapped some unfortunate teams who've aligned themselves nicely for the buckshot to hit hunters behind the initial target.
One note about the Crossbow Shotbolt: Even though it is not silent, the noise that is made originates from the point of impact from the bolt, NOT from the location it was shot from. So, people will hear the shot, but if they are trying to spot your location, the noise made by the Shotbolt will not give them any help and may even be able to confuse them of your location, making it even more OP.
A point about compact crossbow melee: it deals more damage than pistol whipping, so I'd argue that "poor melee" is an exaggeration. It has more damage and higher speed than any small weapon, and is much more stamina efficient than a large weapon. Crucially, you can kill a grunt with two head punches (small weapons take 3, other mediums are less stamina efficient and slower), costing you less than half as much stamina as you'd've used with a long weapon.
It's mostly a moot point since knives are mandatory, but if I have a compact crossbow on me, I whip it out over a rifle for killing immolators.
I love the explosive crossbow. It is weird and I never run it solo, but it’s utility is there, it really slams campers, is someone is hiding in a building if you tag them with it usually they panic and go to heal and that gives you your chance to breach into the building
I always seem to do really well with the hand crossbow :)
It's severely underrated
watching all these vids and LOVING them. Where do weapons like the Springfield lie in your reviews? Did not see in all 3 rifles reviews. Thanks!
Springfield and Martini Henry are recent additions to the game, which is why they did not appear in the Rifle video.
4FS Gaming awesome thanks!
I have an idea for the bolt seer trait, but couldn't you use it to mark other hunters and then kill shot then with a Sparks
The hand crossbow poison is actually extremely useful. best way to remove crows quietly, Also the Crossbow Shotbolt has penetration. shoot a wooden wall someone is hiding behind and the pellet will detonate and the shells will hit what is on the other side.
The recent rework to the hand crossbow certainly elevates it, especially as you can now carry normal ammo as well.
You mentioned that explo crossbow works as a diversion, but so does the shot bolt. Sounds a lot like a Romero. I’ve used it that way multiple times.
I rarely play Hunt anymore but your videos are amazing
Note: It is possible to not one shot hunters with the Crossbow Shotbolt if the hit is too off-center/too on the edge of a hunter's hitbox.. This is because a hit that is very off-center may cause a significant amount of pellets to fly past the hunter, resulting in not enough landing and the hunter surviving.
You forgot one serious advantage of the shotbolt. It has some major wallbang potential, as it fires the shotgun blast through wooden walls on point of impact/direction.
He was literally doing that at the end of the video
I found that with the smaller crossbow the aim is different, the shot doesn’t go through the middle of the 3 prongs but instead it’s in the middle of the 2 side prongs.
I played it all day yesterday and aiming through the middle of the triangle (the empty space between the 3 prongs)from 10 yards the bolt doesn’t land there but instead it lands in the center of the 2 side prongs.
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Poison crossbow could get either 140-ish dmg on all ranges on entire body (no limb penalty) or get a separate poison effect that disables sprint or just simply last 3 times longer than the poison that monsters cause. I think we will get something like the latter since they have "different levels of poison status" on the roadmap.
You can also oneshot immolators with the normal crossbow when close enough (to the head and he will explode after dying)
People hate on the poison handcrossbow but that thing is a god of PvE
silently one-shots immolators and does good dmg to butcher/assassin
I feel like they should buff bolt seer to allow you to pick up your bolts through dark sight.
Great video! I love playing with the crossbow and I'm glad I now know the specifics! P.s. youu forgot to mention you can wallbang with the shotbolt
Great video! Thanks for the information. I still have trouble seeing why the shortbolt is better than the regular crossbow-- if regular crossbow can one shot but is also silent with bolt retrievability, and even sometimes on free hunters.
shotbolt can wallbang and has no damage drop off so it can one shot kill at any distance.
Why does it look like you sometimes aim but not through your sights? Aiming but not aiming down sights?
For example
8:02 - 8:04
That's just normal hip fire for crossbows.
@@4FSGaming it's because you go from hoisting your crossbow like normal to hip fire. You even aimed for a little without looking through the sights and then fired. Am i just confusing it up or? Also i swear I've seen other youtubers do it.
Hey noob question: how can I practice understanding distance? The difference between 40m and say 100m is obvious but I honestly don't fully understand 1m ingame. Thanks
Malek Hakim Go in training mode, find a target (something that won’t chase you), count out steps walking at full speed away from the target. The number of steps should roughly equate to meters.
@@jere8445 thanks for the tip
It's not really about the exact distance. You need to know that the maps are 1 km x 1 km so divide it into 10 parts for 100 meter pieces. In the most compounds you have sightlines from 5 meters until 70 meters so a Vetterli with medium ammo deals still good damage at any range and is close to the mosin damage output. And it's nice to know that a mosin can instant headshot at 250 meters because my mate got killed some days ago from 208 meters away :D
@@Tri-Technology ok im appreciating the input
My cousin and I use poison crossbow with combat ax, it is hilarious!
That's absolutely hilarious, didn't realize how useless the poison one was
Love the shotbolt. The sweet sweet wall bangs.
Why would the poison bolt one shot immolators? I don't understand.
Can you do an updated version I think they changed the crossbow right?
Love these videos. very good work. keep em coming.
Thanks, will do!
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The poison crossbow is okay. I use it with poison bombs an antidote if your trying to get the hive bomb fast. I use both on buthcer an assassin to get higher point to get the hive bomb.
1. Remove the antidote shot (it's honestly OP, and in an uninteresting way, because it simply removes an entire mechanic from the game).
2. Give the poison crossbow a small poison & glass explosion, that deals about 40 to 70 damage and causes both poison and bleed.
This would make it a powerful gun against people behind cover, because they are now damaged, bleeding, can't heal, and can't see well. This would make it much easier to rush them down.
Alternatively, in stead of removing the antidote shot, make it a more expensive healing shot that works while poisoned, and also removes the poison.
There's something i've always wanted to know about the shotbolt that you didn't address in the video. If i hit the bolt in the ground short of the enemy player, it's like firing with a shotgun at him, right? But is the shot aimed towards his feet or do they go up? Would this be in any way a valuable strategy?
With the shotbolt, a miss is a miss. It doesn't have an area of effect where it explodes; the shell only fires straight (with a cone spread, because shotgun) in the direction the bolt is facing.
i wonder how this video would be updated for the current version?
do the damage numbers still apply?
What is a meter in Hunt ? How can I know if the target distance is 20 m or 50 m ?
There's no sure-fire way to know. but you can get an idea of distances when you're downed because it displays the distance from your body to your partner. Keep switching between your screen and your partner's screen to see what certain distances look like. I wish there was a 100m grid on the map or something to make it easier but there isn't, sadly :(
@@w.jebediah map is 1 km x 1 km
@@Tri-Technology I know that, it's still hard to figure out distances from that alone
That's a silly question because most people won't be able to differentiate 30 or 50 meters in real life, when I was in the army and shot targets at 50 meters I was shocked at how close they were to me considering 50 is an intimidating number, like Josh said, death cams, the firing tool in the weapons shop is also a good indication.
is it possible to hit two players that are standing behind each other with a single shotbolt?
i know i know old video, but you forgot to mention that you can wall bang with the shotgun crossbow, there are a lot of people which got surprised by that
The poison crossbow should be a mini but have the same stats
Poison Hand Crossbow silently one shots Grunts, Immolators, Armoreds, Horses, Crows, and Ducks. It will also cause all nearby meatheads to aggro the player you tag with it.
love the crosbow, but something i have never figured out and just missed in this vid. at what range is teh crossbow inaudible? did you say 14 or 40?
Around 40 meters, you can test it yourself in 3D view if you want to hear what it sounds like at different ranges.
In my opinion the work you gotta put in together with a basically mandatory perk, both of these things only benefitting the crossbows, makes it less worth than a rifle that gives wider coverage and the time put into one can translate to other weapons better.
Modern day crossbow poison is pretty decent not because of the poison itself but more the fact that you can have 2 ammo types other words I can have poison for area denial because of the new poison gas that comes out and then use the normal bolts for the obvious reason of damage and bleed
Does the poison crossbow not do bonus poison damage to hunters? I was hopeful the antidote nerf would make it a real weapon
I used the poison crossbow yesterday against the assasin and was like "huh that damage is quite neat". Then i stuck him with a sticky with did 80% of his health and was like yeah there is no reason for that crossbow to exist
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I’m on Xbox and Im just getting my butt kicked. Have a terrible time aiming and i tend to jerk my aim in cqb. Any tips for who’s a novice and broke (rank 75 no prestige)
Hook up a keyboard and mouse? Im on pc and dont use controller so no idea how the console game handles.
@@schleybailey first off its a fps so worse mouse is just the best way to play shooters, its faster and more accurate once you get accustomed to it. Now to your point at getting better, when you are poor don't worry about running cheap builds. Bring a medkit a vert or sparks then a nagant officer, or caldwell. The jerking thing is just a tick from being nervous or startled, honestly the more you play the easier it gets. You will get better with the weapons the more time you devote to them. Also being on consule I would greatly recommend practicing swapping to knife and stabbing to the head. The control set up of consule makes fighting at extreme close quarters even harder than on PC and you would be surprised how effective a good old knife to the face can be. Lastly surprise is your best friend, and worst enemy, make sure to always be on the move and hard to track if you trigger birds move quickly away. If some else trigger birds don't sprint to that location use it as a way to track where your enemies are and where they might be going. The better you are a locating people the better your chance for kills and survival.
Favorite budget build is romero pax. Reliable and gets wins. Also quickplay hunters.
@@schleybailey same. Good short range power and the pax gives good medium range capability.
Mouse and Keyboard if you can afford it.
Carry a melee weapon
Avoid CQB like the plague
or
Start tweaking the controls.
Decent way to make money is just using white shirts, getting clues and extracting.
Grab any and ALL free hunters, even if you have no intent of using them if they have even one item you use or want to use.
You literally can't lose money as a whiteshirt.
Also learn to ambush players in or around boss compounds, and always aim to drop a player in the opening moment of an ambush to better the odds.
If dealing with someone who is hiding while their teammate is downed, burn the body to put them on a timer and get a good line of sight on it.
Poison hand crossbow is actually really good at killing bosses quickly and silently and can 3 shot meatheads
Anyone here from Australia that plays on ps4? It’s so hard to get anyone in Oceania lobbies. I end up playing on us west but the lag makes it almost unplayable. I love this game but it’s so frustrating! We need more aus players
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uhhh, what about BOMB LANCE? It has some sort of crossbow contraption attached to that GIANT CLEAVER ON A STICK.
At night, i was constantly getting hit by a player hiding very well, chopping off 1/3 hp each hit.
I managed to find him and blast him off with a gun.
If i hadn't found him, i would have either died or lost all my freaking med kits.
You forgot to mention that the shotbolt is the only crossbow variant than can penetrate wood.
This is true, some of the clips at the end show some great shots up through the floor.
the hand crossbow poison can be really effective in group play and especially during nighttime... i've killed miltiple squads solo with hand crossbow poison... no, it can't oneshot to the chest... but using it to take the sneaky shot to just poison people can make people panic...
Or, they could already be dead if you had been using the regular hand crossbow.
@@MechMK1 you usually only shoot it at people who have been hit by something Else... Or if there is a meathead very close...
11:41 bruh even leg shots kills from what I see using this thing
Now we can change bolts
hand cross bow poison isnt for killing things, its for fire guys and birds
weird quirk a friend found is that the poison crossbow can silently kill birds
Is this still true!?
Poison crossbow is a good tool for assassin and butcher as well as dealing with AI dogs, and fire boys. I'll take the poison over hand crossbow any match.
It is useful against immolators, but the basic knife is better for dogs, and world melee items like the axe are far, far better against bosses.
I have to say, even ignoring the new update you underestimated the poison handbow. It’s still trash at PVP, but its effects allow to nearly silently bulldoze through immolators and armored while tearing the butcher and the assassin apart just as quietly. Did i forget that it lets you silence crows and ducks WAY better than a lantern?
Poison crossbow is actually VERY useful, instant kills fire and armor mobs and works well killin the sas or butcher
Seems like a meager benefit for a medium slot weapon, dusters are just as good against the immolator and an axe is far better for butcher/assassin
Where is the link?
You didn't mention at all that poison crossbow kills birds and ducks as well.
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also you did show gameplay, but i think the fact that the shotbolt can penatrate surfaces as if a shotgun was shot pointblack into the wall deservs some more attention. this is a wall bang machine. and i have 1 and 2 taped people in a sniper tower by just lobing bolts at the walls THERE IS NO WHERE TO RUN! MWHANAHAHAH and shooting htoguh scelings. nothing is as scary as that, often the shotgun loses alot of bower in the few m between the sealing or spreads to far, but the shotbolt. oh no its like the step on a mine. god what a satisfying feeling
is this video about meming with crossbow?
A free hunter with a crossbow is a insta-win, trust me :D
I love to play with *2* Poison Crossbows.
10:40
Disagree. I've killed a lot of people by shooting them in the shins with the shotbolt. I guess I can't know how injured they were but MOST of my one-tap shotbolt kills are to the shins.
I had one time where my team was held up by the crank door leading into the basement lair in Healing Waters church. Every team was converging on the boss at the same time so we were playing it safe and holding that hallway. I was watching the south stairs with my shotbolt, which was an EXCELLENT position since I would see the feet of approaching hunters before they would see me. I took out an entire trio by myself as they tried to sneak down there one at a time (they weren't very smart), all three kills were shin shots. I guess if they were dumb enough to all die the exact same way, they were probably dumb enough to not be fully healed either.
At least poison x-bow is a safe and quick(er) way to kill butcher and assassin, even thou its not really worth it.
It's still slower than an axe unfortunately
It's a shame that you can't just equip different ammo types for crossbows
lol didnt even know there was a poison crossbow