Infused Uranium Crossbow

Infused Uranium Crossbow is a craftable assault rifle in Wasteland 3: Cult of the Holy Detonation.

Description[]

Blessed by holy radiation, each projectile from this crossbow hits with the power of a fission reaction.

Characteristics[]

This weapon, like with all other crossbow type "Assault Rifles" such as its lesser Uranium Crossbow cousin and the Meat Maker is quite notorious for its synergy with Draw!, allowing the Infused Uranium Crossbow to spam out attacks at 2 AP while simultaneously dealing damage that competes with many snipers in the game. Adding the Advanced Materials Mag on this weapon would take this synergy to a new extreme, halving the AP cost to reload (and fire) to a mere 1 AP, allowing the player to fire as many shots as they have AP in conjunction with the Draw! perk. However, if not using the Draw! perk, every shot requiring a reload would make the total AP cost to make multiple attacks more expensive, making this magazine useless on this weapon compared to a larger mag extender without Draw!. This low base AP requirement (as well as its potential for 1 AP attacks with Draw! and the Advanced Materials mag) makes the weapon able to conquer most combat encounters singlehandedly due to the sheer volume of fire and its high damage (to the point of quite frankly being overkill for most enemies). It goes without saying however that opting to simply extend the magazine with a magazine mod or playing to what would otherwise be a weakness using the Draw! perk are both valid options for modifying this powerful weapon, especially given that the former option doesn't require a 13 point skill investment into an otherwise unrelated weapon class (Small Arms) for Draw!

Damage can be increased by using damage type conversion mods, making this weapon to benefit from various bonuses, as well as +99 Armor penetration, which negates target's armor completely.

Physical damage maximization example

+8 Damage from Titanium-Cobalt Barrel
+8 Damage from Toxic Linkage or Crippling Linkage or Razor Linkage
+33% Ranged damage from Sadomasochist quirk at the cost of +33% Received damage
+35% Ranged damage from Awareness at level 10
+25% Ranged damage from Threat Intelligence helmet modification at the cost of -6 Armor

Applying all bonuses (+16 Damage +93% Ranged damage) leads to the following result:

382 - 461 damage in weapon stats.
The damage dealt to targets will depend on the armor they are wearing and the armor penetration rate on your character.

Fire damage maximization example

+8 Damage from Titanium-Cobalt Barrel
-10% Ranged damage from Incendiary Linkage damage conversion penalty
+35% Ranged damage from Awareness attribute at level 10
+25% Ranged damage from Threat Intelligence helmet modification at the cost of -6 Armor
+15% Fire damage from Disciple Of The Metal background
+25% Fire damage from Pyromaniac quirk at the risk of inflicting Burning on self
+25% Fire damage from Heating Element perk
+30% Fire damage from Weird Science skill at level 10
+30% Fire damage from Elite pyro exo armor set

Applying all bonuses (+8 Damage +50% Ranged damage +125% Fire damage) leads to the following result:

641 - 779 damage in weapon stats.

In fact damage will vary depending on a target:

833 - 1012 damage against organic targets (+30% Damage).
448 - 545 damage against mechanic targets (-30% Damage).

Cold damage maximization example

+8 Damage from Titanium-Cobalt Barrel
-10% Ranged damage from Cryocell Linkage damage conversion penalty
+33% Ranged damage from Sadomasochist quirk at the cost of +33% Received damage
+35% Ranged damage from Awareness attribute at level 10
+25% Ranged damage from Threat Intelligence helmet modification at the cost of -6 Armor
+30% Cold damage from Weird Science skill at level 10
+30% Cold damage from Elite cryo exo armor set

Applying all bonuses (+8 Damage +83% Ranged damage +60% Cold damage) leads to the following result:

556 - 676 damage in weapon stats.

In fact damage will vary depending on a target:

722 - 878 damage against organic targets (+30% Damage).
389 - 473 damage against mechanic targets (-30% Damage).

Energy damage maximization example

+8 Damage from Titanium-Cobalt Barrel
-10% Ranged damage from Plasma Linkage damage conversion penalty
+33% Ranged damage from Sadomasochist quirk at the cost of +33% Received damage
+35% Ranged damage from Awareness attribute at level 10
+25% Ranged damage from Threat Intelligence helmet modification at the cost of -6 Armor
+30% Energy damage from Weird Science skill at level 10
+30% Energy damage from Elite energy exo armor set
+5% Energy damage from Electric Emmett creepy doll

Applying all bonuses (+8 Damage +83% Ranged damage +65% Energy damage) leads to the following result:

573 - 697 damage in weapon stats.

In fact damage will vary depending on a target:

744 - 906 damage against mechanic targets (+30% Damage).
401 - 487 damage against organic targets (-30% Damage).

Explosive damage maximization example

+8 Damage from Titanium-Cobalt Barrel
-10% Ranged damage from HE Fuse Linkage damage conversion penalty
+35% Ranged damage from Awareness attribute at level 10
+25% Ranged damage from Threat Intelligence helmet modification at the cost of -6 Armor
+15% Explosive damage from Explodomaniac background
+25% Explosive damage from Pyromaniac quirk at the risk of inflicting Burning on self
+50% Explosive damage from Explosives skill at level 10
+5% Explosive damage from Radical Rachel creepy doll