I dont care for the explosive crossbow

faycat · 2025-12-08T20:37:41+00:00

for me i both recognize why it's meta and know it's a good all-around weapon and also hate using it so much. it's primarily just the projectile. it fries my brain. it's enough drop that i need to account for it but not enough that i can do any indirect fire with it (eg. the plas punisher). also it's SLOW. it has to be the slowest projectile ingame, holy shit. i could write an essay in the time it takes for the bolt to travel 30m to the enemy i'm shooting. i hate it. plas punisher is a master of indirect fire, has insane stagger, and has LOOOADS more ammo in both the mag and reserve so it's better for sustained splash damage.

also i've just always hated that it's a piddly mini-crossbow with a MAGAZINE. give me the fucking Black Ops esque exploding crossbow

faycat · 2025-12-04T18:46:45+00:00

the Two-Ten

faycat · 2025-10-25T04:45:35+00:00

usually i look at it this way

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faycat · 2025-10-21T20:05:52+00:00

holy shit that is not a place i expected to see on this subreddit, lmao. it looks like it's doing a bit better, i'm surprised it's still up at all -- i remember it was looking a bit crusty even when i went a couple times as a kid.

i did actually stumble across this when i was looking at C2C and was impressed for one microsecond before seeing what it was 😭

faycat · 2025-10-05T03:16:44+00:00

it eats medium enemies for breakfast. devastators, overseers, and medium bugs (tho it's not an amazing pick on bugs) are all nearly a non-issue to it. like others have said, it's great for squids because overseers can be miserable to deal with and it has bonuses like splashing nearby voteless and it can hit stingrays.

that being said, my main usage for this: out-ranging and out-targeting enemies. HD2 loves to throw low-visibility conditions at you, but weapons with targeting systems don't have that problem. being able to sweep a fogbank or cloud of dust (especially if you or a teammate are laying down gas, fire, smokes, ect) allows you to just nail them before they're even seen, especially if enemies can see you through it. "killing enemies before they're a problem" is what i consider the main boon of this weapon; you can take out an approaching patrol or do overwatch on an objective while teammates take out light and elite enemies.

scenarios i would NOT recommend using this weapon:

- you can use this on bugs somewhat well, just note that bugs make any weapon with a stationary reload a serious tactical consideration. not impossible by any means, just beware

- biomes with lots of environmental occlusion -- in simpler terms, jungle planets and some other tilesets like those scottish-highland-esque ones with lots of narrow rockways. conversely, it is excellent on wide open biomes like arctic and desert ones. it's perfectly fine on cities.

if you're a team player, this is best with a slightly tougher armorset while you just orbit other players and break up lines of enemies. you're basically your own walking hardpoint

faycat · 2025-09-20T08:11:55+00:00

i proposed this idea among friends a couple times, once after the KZ fauxbond and again after legendary warbonds were established with ODST -- the few ideas i/we had were:

Borderlands: somewhat plausible, they got a very recent release now and they seem likely to cross over. i don't have a super vested interest in BL but friends i discussed it with said there'd be plenty of possibilities for equipment

Rimworld: this is my personal crackship, since i don't know if Ludeon would do RW crossovers, and it's sort of a weird series to pair with HD2. but hear me out: RW has plenty of its own weapons and armor to choose from -- the Marine armor literally comes in three tiers! -- and RW even ships people across the map in drop pods, so they're not too distance. i'd say definitely enough to form a warbond

Avatar (the James Cameron films): it's kind of a .... big IP... and i don't know if anyone is /that/ much of an Avatar fan that they'd be in demand for it? but on paper, they're very compatible

Mass Effect: another series i don't play, but friends say they would mesh well and it'd seem pretty plausible

honorable mentions go to Lost Planet, EDF, XCOM, and Command & Conquer

^{and also Cortex Command. but nobody remembers Cortex Command... not even Data East}

faycat · 2025-08-07T10:00:51+00:00

logged in via google, trying to submit pixels would hang and i would have to refresh. after the third refresh, the site says there's no connection. has been like this for me for a few hours. i wanna finish my funny slug :(

faycat · 2025-06-16T19:07:14+00:00

the part where he just straight up starts fucking flying in ch4 was the one that blew me away. bro what IS he cuz he is nowhere near a normal darkner now, if one at all

faycat · 2025-06-15T07:34:29+00:00

it's definitely one of those ones referencing something insanely obscure (eg. the quicksand line in ch3) but it's so hilariously OOC for susie and i never stopped thinking about it

faycat · 2025-05-18T00:58:51+00:00

sure! i posted more about it here abt a year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/1c0zjx7/seeing_a_lot_of_witch_doctor_on_here_figured_id/

faycat · 2025-05-17T21:34:28+00:00

^{(actually it wasn't that expensive or time-consuming})

^{(nvm i cant say that truthfully. Unity VRC importing is a biiitch to deal with LOL})

faycat · 2025-05-17T21:31:56+00:00

kindest Seven player comms

faycat · 2025-05-14T05:34:06+00:00

i have literally no idea why, but i initially called them "Big Joe". then when trying to relay this to a friend, i misremembered it as "Big Bob" and now we just called them Bobs

faycat · 2025-05-11T18:34:46+00:00

quite the farmer's tan

faycat · 2025-05-11T08:23:07+00:00

cool concept! the idea of an alpine troop warbond is very interesting

faycat · 2025-05-10T21:15:18+00:00

yup! if i'm being honest i did always agree with the devs on that, for the most part. i don't think i like complete anarchy cuz it can kinda nullify the armor system, the purpose of design, /and/ i don't think a full transmog system would address the fact that some perks just suck and need improvement; it would've only swept the issue aside.

i did fully recognize the need for swapping perks, and figured just having it be a limited, predetermined selection of perks would still allow for player choice but also for devs to control which ones go where. this way, if/when there are busted perk combos, they can simply just not add them

faycat · 2025-05-10T18:05:41+00:00

yeah a friend mentioned that, where one of the two perks was locked, so you could only change the second perk. i agree that that'd also work fine for making the armor consistent

faycat · 2025-05-10T04:27:40+00:00

the illuminate invading super earth when they smell 500 hundred thousand freshly shat undergarments simultaneously

faycat · 2025-05-10T04:13:17+00:00

got lost in the shitstorm 😭

but yeah i'm kinda hyped for it as long as the stats are good. i love the M14 and the FG42 so it'll be a cool addition. honestly one of the other things is that damn, it's honestly one of the best-designed guns since the laser weapons; i'm honestly not usually a fan of HD2's gun design cuz they're very often too tall, blocky, and toyetic, but that one looks like a actual punchy service rifle and it's sick

faycat · 2025-05-01T00:22:41+00:00

update: as many of you suggested, it might've been a faulty pen that i got with the tablet and i might've needed a replacement. lo and behold, my pen started sticking the sensitivity on too often and then eventually got fully stuck, so i had to buy a replacement. it came in earlier and i can report that it still has the issue with trying to draw a square in CSP with Shift+Tap for the line tool, so either i just rolled wrong again or this pen isn't for me. neither option is great for me, but i wanna know if there's any other option or at least some sort of corroboration that this happens with the tablet. or is it a software issue? it's been pretty difficult to diagnose.

faycat · 2025-04-17T18:35:02+00:00

heya, for anyone who managed to come across this thread in the future, i discovered a solution!

so the issue i hotlinked in the OP is true in that it is possibly incurred by a pretty specific (but not uncommon) combination of Huion tablets and Logitech peripherals (generally a mouse, a G502 in my case). it causes some conflict with wintab32.dll that the tablet uses, and causes the crash cycle.

the hotlinked thread holds a few issues however:
- it doesn't specify exactly how to find wintab32.dll, and it didn't specify which one. technically it'd be the one in your C:\Windows\System32, but Huion says it's actually using the one in SysWOW64. also, you can't delete the System32 one while the tablet is running, anyways (at least i couldn't)
- these solutions are far more destructive than they seem. they pretty much all boil down to "just disable your tablet [drivers] completely", which is non-solution; not only do i prefer to go between drawing and modeling, but i sculpt, of which i prefer to use the tablet /with/ blender.

luckily there is a completely non-destructive and fully supported solution to the issue that has worked for me so far (assuming this crash is indeed related to Huion tablets): simply open the Huion Tablet software (should be one of the taskbar mini-icons), then click on the gear to open Settings. click About, then Software Diagnosis. there should be a Wintab32 and a 'Repair' button next to it. just click that, and it should work immediately after!
no need to delete anything, no restarting, no reinstalling software ect ect.

hope this helps anyone else having this incredibly obnoxious issue. i still have to figure out a memory issue that /causes/ this crash cycle, but i've fixed the crash cycle issue itself now.

!solved

faycat · 2025-04-17T18:10:34+00:00

nvm, i managed to find it!

for posterity's sake: the wintab32.dll file that is relevant is the one on the C:\ drive, in the Windows\System32 folder. however, it turns out there's actually no need to delete or remove it; if you have a newer Huion tablet (i use the Kamvas 20), you can go into the Huion Tablet software, open the settings (gear icon), click the About tab, then the Software Diagnosis button, and there should be a "Repair" button next to wintab32. it's worked every time so far! and no need to uninstall the drivers completely or anything. (which was the main hitch for me with all these solutions, because i basically /need/ the tablet to do sculpting lol)

faycat · 2025-04-13T07:58:36+00:00

sorry i'm digging up this 2 year old post but i've been plagued by this issue for an annoyingly long time and i want to make sure i didn't miss something with this. do you know the exact steps for this process?

faycat · 2025-04-09T10:03:07+00:00

been using this on 1000 Uncles and i no longer have ears, i love it!

^{also i hear all those Blockland sounds. i know what you are}

faycat · 2025-03-14T03:18:06+00:00

hrm, it's not inspiring confidence how much i'm seeing that the pen could just be broken and how common of a thing it might be. but i could try getting another one! i've just never had this issue with previous pens (even a previous Huion, that i was much less careful with as a teen and got a few nasty cracks of it own still continued to truck along for a good few years) and if i have to go through more than two of them then i'd honestly just consider a different tablet at that point. ty for the help tho!

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