Originally posted by Van N00b:

So a crossbow is only useful when defending a base?

crossbow is amazing just about everywhere. just dont unequip it after loading. It's only a 5% movement speed debuff, it's not the end of the world (and sniping while gliding/floating is fun).

If you need to run in combat, just run. putting away your weapon in combat will get you killed more often than not with that long slow walk animation to equip/unequip htings.