It's a good weapon especially once the skill is leveled up. The loading is less of an issue once you hit 30's and if you have the patience to get it even higher than the loading is super quick. Also nice the bolts are so easy to make, Bone and carapace are both easy to get, and black metal depending if you have an overabundance of BM from killing fulings if you had a Plains base.

My main issue with it more i use it is just the games crappy system of aim, where the crosshair isn't actually where the bolt is going, you need to adjust higher/lower depending on terrain and angle. They really need to make a true "aim" camera for ranged weapons. The other issue but this is endemic to all weapons is how slow it takes to level up, the crossbow hits less often than other weapons, since damage is not calculated into XP, it's one of the slowest weapons to level in the game, if not the. They need to change the XP system to account for how much damage is dealt.