The Crossbow - Cost Cutting

Oddly enough there's a couple weapons that do this. I can't remember which ones off the top of my head but there's a few.

I'm a zerker so I only buy a chainsaw that never needs ammo and a bullpup to wipe crawler blobs and sirens that costs around 100 or so pounds to fully restock ammo (cheaper than 9mm!).

White Cultist, very good point. I was going to yell about the same thing but lucky me... You have done the complainment already. =)

Btw, 15

and a bullpup to wipe crawler blobs and sirens that costs around 100 or so pounds to fully restock ammo (cheaper than 9mm!).

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That's because it sucks and requires a billion bullets to kill a crawler. Dual handcannons for me.

Yes, I also find it odd that the crossbow essentially costs

The xbow cost has to be a bug, really. It's absurd. I could see Tripwire slightly raising the cost of the weapon itself (tho I'm not sure its overall effectiveness in battle really warrants such an increase, especially when the lever-action rifle is so inexpensive), but there's no doubt that the ammo needs to come down in price a lot.

I noticed the same, reload price much higher than new.
i hope it gets fixed soon. For now i do the same, i sell the crossbow and re-buy it.

The crossbow cuts through 4 enemies at once and has good headshot damage which kind of justifies the extremely high cost of bolts. A good Sharpshooter can kill an FP with a few well placed bolts (several threads on here and the Steam forums have chewed out the exact numbers so I won't bother).

Also, most bolts can be recovered from the ground within about 10 seconds of firing the crossbow. So not only can you replenish some of your spent ammo, but you can pull of multiple headshots and do insane damage to FPs and the Patriarch from a safe distance putting yourself in no danger. Those few attributes make the crossbow worth the cost per bolt imo.

The fact that it's cheaper to rebuy full than replenish ammo is weird but I think the Hunting Shotgun and LAW are both like that as well? Lvl 5 support can buy a fully loaded hunting shotgun for 299... costs more than that to fill it completely I think.

Yeah, Tripwire needs to fix that.

Sure expierenced players may think they're very 'smart' to know that selling a weapon and rebuying it is cheaper than refilling ammo, but it is just a nuisance and doesn't make a lot of sense.

It is a similar case to when you could change perks however times you wanted and could get free money by switching perks back and forth and buying/selling weapons.

It's just a technical detail.These things happen for new games all the time, that's why patches are there

Imo money isn't and issue.