Deep Rock Galactic | Crossbow Overclocks First Impressions

This better just be footage, how would u have gotten all that this fast

This may sound dumb but the rival router droning is scary

Hoping to score some overclocks for the crossbow and coilgun today, wish me luck cause i got 6 coming with the set 3 and 3 blanks

damm they really did just look at the crossbow enchantments from block game huh :/

Great content dude I love this game and love watching your gameplay

I liked the crossbow, but... I don't think it will make me trade Jukovs for it. My style of playing scout is a fast cqc and crossbow doesn't work really great for that.

Specialist with pheromone has been my favourite OC build thus far. Tagging opressor or bulk and watching whole swarm ganking them is both fun and gives you breathing room.

I find crossbow very lacking in regards to the zhukov cryo minelets or zhukov embedded detonators.
The cryo minelets are way better than those frost arrows. The freeze is too slow on the bolt and small AOE.
Also the chemical explosion bolts are too long to set up (too long death animation). Even though the damage is decent for swarms.
DRG really needs to buff this weapon and make it less niche and make it overall a good weapon.

The good thing about the crossbow being absolute abyssmal (except Pheromone Bolts) is that no one wants to play scout, so i can do it basicly 100% of the time.
The first 1min 20 sec show how using this weapon really turns out. Bad damage output even with good aim, getting overrun and taking damage non stop trying to survive. In a team setting you become a burden.

Fire bolts +Pheromon bolts in big targets (like praetorian or Bulk).you shoot pheromon in big fat target.Enemy swarm start surround big boy.almost befor enemy stack around Big boy => shoot fire bolt in ground near Big boy. All around Big boy start die.yes its little complicated to realize, but its realy good AoE damage. Finnaly scout have some thing realy good to kill swarms. same idea can be used with Frost bolts. best combo for this it is
Super Blowtrougth round mod on M1000 (cuz all enemy stacked and you can easy hit all 3 targets to save your ammo)
Agressive venting OC or impact deflection OC on Drak -25 . not need explain why. Its just good bouce ,you add more heat or cause thermal shock.
Bullets of mercy OC(we burn them and its works), or Electrifying reload OC on GK2 (its slow enemy,save ammo and help to take even more heat from Fire arrow. also Pheromon bolts win time to us to this OC work realy well and enemy do not attack us,while they slowly die from heat +electricity).
Only ONE problem with Pheromon bolts. for some reason ppl start FOCUS FIRE exacly YOUR targer no matter what. prepare teamates about you strategy and Pheromon bolts.Other option : do not stay close to your team and do your dirty Fire hell far away.

Also Electrifying reload GK2 realy good with Triple bolt OC+magnetick.
Gk2 realy good sustain damage when crossbow realy good single target. and realy easy to apply electric debuff for crossbow.Also add here Frost grenade.

Its probably best what i found to this moment. Crossbow have some realy good options and niche uses.

I only ever find myself using the special bolts and not the regular ones. It just seems too weak.

I really dislike hitting r to change ammo types as a lot of times i press r thinking I'm reloading and then shoot the wrong kind of bolt

I personally like to run an explosive bolt + pheromone grenade combo. It's great against swarms, just toss the nade into a cluster of grunts, shoot a bolt into one, then shoot that same grunt with your primary and it takes out a ton at once.

Absolutely love the customisation of the crossbow. Allows for some nice build variety for scout.

I use the unstable bounce overclock + heavy bolts (damage) + electricity + magnetic bolts, my GK2 also deals electricity on reload, and of course the slow grenades (which is electricity); and this weapon is one of the best and most versatile of all available.
The electricity can be used to stun most enemies, including bulks and dreadnaughts. It's amazing for crowd control as well.
And the bouncing bolts just kill everything.
Only issue, if the number of bolts is low, and you'll empty your quiver quickly.

Pheromone is neat, but only in solo play. In multiplayer, your collegues will always kill the pheromoned grunt too quickly.

The crossbow is alot of fun, but it is very weak compared to Zhukov and DB. The crossbows single target damage is not very good even with the three shot overclock. But the special ammo has some good potential against crowds, but that is just not scouts job in a team. It's also extremely slow which is what i initially feared when they announced it.

I'll still use it now and then, but if im playing coop on haz5 the cbow just doesnt do it for me at all. It needs a buff

I feel that the other special bolts could do with a buff, Chemical Bolts should have a much larger AoE, Taser Bolts could do with a much longer effect duration and comes with way more special bolts, since to get the full slowdown effect, you require at least two bolts, the arc should have a larger effect radius and a longer one too. Although bodkin points are fun, I feel that literally every other weapon in the game can kill 3 grunts with ease, I feel that with what other overclocks the crossbow has, the sacrifice of picking bodkin points just isn't worth it, but that's just my opinion, if it worked on special bolts and allowed you to effect multiple enemies at once, that would be so awesome. I would love to see some buffs for the other special bolts and overclocks in general :D

cryobolts and gk2 bullet of mercy is a gem for me.

Crossbow is similar to drillers wave cooker in that the weapon works well but truly shines when paired with other's. I actually think that's true with all the new weapon's but it's harder to see without another player. Here's something fun to see. Use a pharamon bolt or grenade on an enemy and when they pile up shot a babkin bolt (the one that bounces) into the crowd. Hint on what happens the bolt can deal area damage

The crossbow strikes me as a perfect example of a weapon with no identity. It's a single shot single target burst damage weapon. Naturally you'd think it's good for killing big enemies... but it isn't since Praetorians and Oppressors heavily resist its unique damage type (why?). It struggles with crowds of trash by design and doesn't have the ammo to be used that way even if it didn't.
So it must be good for dealing with the mid tier threats like acid spitters and trijaws, right? First off this thing has an arcing projectile so it's already at a disadvantage trying to hit things from longer ranges, and secondly, Scout is the only class in the game that doesn't even have a primary weapon option that has a hard time against those enemies.
The only thing this weapon actually has going for it is Pheromone bolts and it's horrible balance for only one way to build a weapon to be good. The whole damn weapon needs more ammo to begin with but the explosive & taser bolts especially need their supply bumped up so they can compete. And while they're buffing the crossbow they should make the Microwave able to do things without its thermal shock T5 mod because nothing else you can do with it feels like anything more than a meme.

It may just be that I haven't found a groove with them, but I'm honestly not liking any of the new secondaries. I'm hoping some more time with them I can come to like them, Microwave and shard defractor maybe will come around, but crossbow and coil having a hard time

The unlimited ammo trick is the reason i use crossbow over special powder DB. Haven't got bodkin yet tho

The crossbow is the most lackluster and underwhelming weapon to drop in the game to date. It's completely useless in my opinion. They could have been more creative with the scouts. No where near as useful as ice minlets..

They could've just gave Scout an elemental weapon like an arc firing laser. A tesla coil gun that dominates with crowds and has extremely high stun and electro damage at mid range. Theres so much that could've been done other than this low ammo slow firing ass crossbow. Any way.. Rock and Stone.

Tried it yesterday switched from my snipe to drak, and idk I don’t feel this crossbow at all, I’d rather play ml1000 hipster and Zhukov’s 🤪

Love your videos, very informative. Thanks man

I've really been liking cryo bolts, fantastic for rezzing teammates or pairing with ifgs for a massive 30%+300% damage bonus for your team! One bolt works on grunts, two for pretorians.

Drak with pcf in t4 combined with trifork with magnetic shafts shred things even at medium+ ranges, its a very nice synergy

I just unlocked the Crossbow and was able to get the "Specialist" overclock from a Machine Event all in the same assignment playthrough. I tried them both out with the Pheromone Bolts mod equipped and I gotta tell you: the new loadout I got for my Scout is... unique. It's not necessarily gamebreaking, it's just unique. Being able to use the Pheromone effect much more often is actually a lot of fun; especially when you can get two Pretorians to vomit on each other (which actually looks pretty funny).

I always wanted a crossbow but the dual smg still beat CB over crowd and even single target...crossbow feel abit lacking.

Honestly I don’t think it would be too much of a problem to either make the auto-retrieval mod have a wider area of activation. So you don’t have to perfectly pinpoint find it. Or just make them return to you based on overall proximity. Maybe 5m? Because a) seeing them can be difficult and b) lining up your crosshair on them perfectly in a haz4/5 while bugs are upon you can feel impossible.

I don’t have much experience with Haz 5 beyond deep dives, but…
In my experience so far, both cryo and fire bolts have excellent use cases.

Fire bolts ignite enemies surprisingly quickly once you get a good blaze going. Just one bolt can be placed in a tight choke point to set the small stuff going through it ablaze, which will then facilitate the big stuff being set on fire as well. It’s very useful for crowd-clearing, and if you have something big, with a lot of enemies around it courtesy of proper kiting or the use of pheromone bolts and canisters, you can turn the entire room into a self-perpetuating wildfire.

Cryo bolts are not nearly as viral as fire bolts, but… they work amazingly as a wave clear tool in chokes still, and they take fewer bolts to affect big things like pretorians. (2 bolts to freeze, compared to 3 bolts to set ablaze without enemies nearby.)

Neither bolt is good for dealing with bots, and I don’t recommend trying it, because you just end up wasting ammo. Just use electricity to hold the buggers in place, like normal.

As for Bodkin Points… I have yet to find a case where the wave clear was better than just… firing a cryo/fire bolt into the ground between me and the bugs and letting them freeze or burn themselves on the one bolt. For efficiency’s sake, it’s just the best option for crowd clearing on the boltshark.

I do not like how slowly the element effect takes to actually take effect.

Scout needs a crowd control/area damage gun

Wasn't the crossbow advertised as having Acid Bolts?

When wave cooker?

Wow quick shot looks amazing compared to how tediously slow it is without OCs

So is this taser bolt decent without making it arc with 2 shots?

I think the crossbow is awesome, although I was a little underwhelmed with the taser bolts, as it's so time consuming to set up a trap that it's usually easier to just kill enemies with a different weapon or the standard bolts. Maybe once I get my hands on some of the overclocks it'll help out making those more useful.

Gotta say i was skeptical when the teaser for this one dropped, but i'm pleasently surprised that this is probably the new secondary i like the most

People need to understand just how great the crossbow actually is on Haz 5 with the right build. I can totally understand why it would suck on less than haz 4.

Im having a surprising amount of fun with fire bolts paired with pheromone bolts literally just step 1 search for a tanky target.
Step 2 shoot both a pheromone and fire bolt on target
Step 3 profit.

It’s funny how every other class gets some cools energy based weapon and scout just jets a crossbow

Frost bolts are good and fun to use :)

12123 Specalist
Between 21 pheromone bolts, and 20 bolts with Banshee Module (which effects Opprrssors and Bulk Detenators), it is a lot of crowd control. I think people underestimate Banshee bolts, as they give you an unlimited ranged aoe fear, great for keeping big bads away.

utterly underwhelming weapon. i cant imagine this being more usefull than any other thing in the game.

I unlocked all OC's before using the crossbow for the first time. I selected everything that sounded like it fits my playstyle best and honestly -- it sucks so bad, it's not even funny. I played two missions with the first build, then with a couple more with other builds but later switched back to the shotgun, I'm just so used to special powder at this point. Other players seem to be much more happy with it. And that's cool, have fun.

The frost bolts are good against stronger enemies like bulk detonators and oppressors but otherwise I just feel it's pretty useless considering how ammo efficient cryo minelets for the zhukovs

I've only found Specialist and the Ice Bolts so far, and I LOVE the Ice Bolts. Especially great at dealing with Nanocite Breeders. 3 bolts, dead. I also hardly ever retrieve bolts, either because I don't miss or if I do they're in a place that it's to hard to retrieve, so it's hardly a downside.

Love these videos! good to have personal input along with descriptions! If there's any criticism to give, i'd say timestamps could be very useful!

my opinion on the bow is that its a nice breath of fresh air. i like the fact that the weapon is a one shot kill to regular grunts and then just two with slashers and guards and dont ask me how many it takes to kill bulks XD. i usually run explosive bolt and IFG. i use the IFG to slow down the group then with the explosive bolt i hit a grunt and just run around in circles till it explodes. but reading the comments now Eman has a * way * better set up then me XD anyways i love your vids man and keep up the great work ^w^

my final score with the bow is a 8/10 i would recommend