Crossbow

For information about the weapon from Heretic, see Ethereal Crossbow.

The Crossbow is a weapon in Strife. The Crossbow uses two different types of bolts. One type is an Electric bolt that does improved damage to mechanical targets like Sentinels and Stalkers. However, the base damage is weak against mid to high tier enemies such as Crusaders and Inquisitors. The second bolt type is the Poison bolt. It is useless against machines, however fatal to human or humanoid targets, such as Peasants, Acolytes, and all variations of them as they will be instantly killed and in a stealthy way. You can use this to also pick off people like Harris or Governor Mourel to avoid sounding off the alarms they set on death.

Picking up a Crossbow gives you 8 electric bolts.

You can get this weapon from going into the Sanctuary or accepting the quest from Rowan or Harris.