# What is the "best" crossbow?

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**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-is-the-best-crossbow/18515 "2019-01-23T18:56:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-is-the-best-crossbow/18515/2 "2019-01-23T19:24:37Z")

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There’s a lot of info in this thread here.

> [@Bows, Crossbows and Their Balance](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bows-crossbows-and-their-balance/17067):
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> In the interests of balance and furthering the game, I’ve decided to put together a little thread/poll here about bows and crossbows, specifically looking at their balance. To be clear, I’m the one responsible for most of the recent changes to bows and crossbows, and I fully intend to continue tweaking and expanding them until the heat death of the universe (Or I just get bored of Cataclysm), so useful discussion and voting here will likely have an (eventual) impact on the game itself. A pretty…

I’ll rehash my opinion that the best “Crossbow” is actually the pneumatic bolt driver. Same ammo as any other but carries eight rounds instead of one. Less range and damage than the compound crossbow but not enough to really matter, fits in a survivor harness.

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