Crossbower

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Crossbower
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Token Cost	200
Placement Cost	400
Information
Type	Offensive Support (Path 2)
Damage Type	Multi-Target X-3: Burn Electricity Poison X-4: Burn Electricity Splash
Placement Limit	25
Initial Statistics
Cooldown	2.5
Damage	2
Range	28
DPS	0.8
Flying Detection	3-X+
Defense Piercing	40%

Description

The Crossbower is the cheapest tower to buy, costing 200. It has medium range, a low cost and low damage. Its arrows are capable of piercing and/or homing at multiple enemies. Path 1 allows its arrows to home in enemies that are close while having flying detection and Path 2 applies effects and debuffs to enemies.

Path	Defense Piercing
X-4	90%
0-0	40%
4-X	60%

Appearance

The Crossbower wears an orange hoodie. It has dark blue legs with shoes, wears an orange visor, and has a quiver on its back. It wields a crossbow.

Lore

"The luxuries of UEC control aren't available to many regions of the planet—in fact, most are too remote. Individuals who reside in these locations have to strap up and make do with what they have. This Crossbower is one such example, a militiaman - not a clone and especially not a member of the UEC. Guns are expensive, ammo is expensive, and repairing jams is especially expensive - considering the collapse of the global supply chain, it's only fair that these folk take on the use of effectively a stronger bow, both for food, game, and war. These Crossbowers get by, but they surely aren't the powerhouses of troops that the UEC own and utilize."

Upgrades

• Path 1
• Path 2

Path 1 ( 4,640)

Top Path

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Goggles Increased range Changes   Range increased from 28 to 31 (+3)

$80

Refurbished Handle Increased damage Changes   Damage increased from 2 to 5 (+3) (2 DPS)

$310

Homing Arrows Arrows at incredible speeds home in at close enemies. Can attack flying enemies indirectly Changes   Arrows can home in at close enemies. Grants 40% defense piercing. (+40%) Damage increased from 5 to 8 (+3) (3.2 DPS) Pierce increased from 2 to 5 (+3) Grants flying detection

$1,100

Winter Hunter Increased firerate and high-range piercing pulse arrows Changes   Damage Increased from 8 to 17 (+9) (8.5 DPS) Firerate decreased from 2.5 to 2 (-0.5) Pierce increased from 5 to 10 (+5) Grants 60% defense piercing. (+20%) Homing range increased significantly

$2,750

Path 2 ( 3,030)

Poison Tipped Enemies hit by the arrows have a poison effect Changes   Arrows will poison enemies. Poison Deals 1 damage every 1 second for 2 seconds (2 total damage)

$130

Stronger Poison Poison effect is stronger Changes   Improves poison Poison Increased poison damage from 1 to 2 (+1) (4 total damage)

$200

Arbalist Arrows can now randomly inflict flames or electricity Changes   Damage increased from 2 to 3 (+1) (1.2 DPS) Now can randomly inflict poison, fire or electricity onto enemies. Poison Increased damage from 2 to 3 (+1) Increased poison duration from 1 to 2 (+1) Tick time decreased from 1 to 0.5 (-0.5) Now deals 12 damage total Burn Deals 3 damage every 0.5 seconds for 2 seconds. (12 total damage) Electricity Slows down enemies for about half a second.

$550

Power Poacher Depending on the enemy, different status effects will be inflicted Changes   Damage increased from 3 to 7 (+4) (2.8 DPS) Range increased from 28 to 32 (+4) Pierce increased from 2 to 6 (+4) Grants 50% defense piercing. Depending on the conditions, different effects will be inflicted. Burn Damage increased from 3 to 8 (+5), fire is now blue (used when enemy isn't affected by Burn). Electricity Slows down enemies for about a second (used when enemy is affected by Burn). Explosion Deals up to 30 damage in a small radius (used when there are more than three enemies near the target).

$1,750

Stats Table

• Path 1
• Path 2

Level	Total Price	Damage	Firerate	Range	DPS	DPS Cost Efficiency
0-0	400	2	2.5	28	0.8	500
1-0	480	2	2.5	31	0.8	600
2-0	790	5	2.5	31	2	395
2-2	1,120	5	2.5	31	2	560
3-2	2,220	8	2.5	31	3.2	693.75
4-2	4,970	17	2.2	31	8.5	~584.71

Level	Total Price	Damage	Firerate	Range	DPS	DPS Cost Efficiency
0-0	400	2	2.5	28	0.8	500
0-1	530	2	2.5	28	0.8	662.5
0-2	730	2	2.5	28	0.8	912.5
2-2	1,120	5	2.5	31	2	560
2-3	1,670	6	2.5	31	2.4	737.5
2-4	3,420	10	2.5	35	4	942.5

Comparison

4-2 Crossbower (4,970) 17 Damage 2.2 Firerate 31 Range Multi-target 60% Defense Piercing

2-4 Crossbower ( 3,420) 10 Damage 2.5 Firerate 35 Range Multi-target 90% Defense Piercing

Skins

To see all upgrades of each skin, see the gallery page.

Name	Red	Blue	Green	Hunter
Cost	3	3	3	6
Obtainment	Colored Crate Daily Store	Colored Crate Daily Store	Colored Crate Daily Store	Daily Store

Tactics

• Crossbower serves as a cheap crowd control tower for beginners, easily replacing the Slinger in terms of viability due to its homing arrows and status effects.
• Path 1 focuses on crowd control with its homing arrows, while Path 2 focuses on applying stuns and debuffs for enemies.
  • Path 1 Crossbower is extremely effective at clearing hordes of weak enemies thanks to its homing arrows, as well as having flying detection.
    • 3-X Crossbower is one of the best options for early game defense due to its homing arrows easily being able to hit multiple enemies, with an effective range that could even be larger than a 3-2 Demolitionist.
    • As the arrows simply home to the closest enemy, Crossbower placement is not an issue.
    • While Path 1 Crossbower does not gain any defense piercing, multiple 3-X Crossbowers can prove to be a strong defense even against heavy targets such as the Gargantuan, and all other weak enemies that follow.
    • A single Path 1 Crossbower with X-2 is sufficient to apply the effect as the poison damage does not stack.
  • Path 2 Crossbower helps at applying multiple debuffs to the enemies to support towers, such as stuns and poison.
    • Do note that poison and flame damage does not stack on an enemy that is already being affected by it, so only place up to 3 Crossbowers with Path 2 upgrades to ensure near-full uptime with status effects, as placing more than that will not increase your damage output.
    • As its arrows fire in a straight line, it is recommended to place Crossbower on a straight path and set its targeting to either "First" or "Last", depending on the enemy direction, to take advantage of its pierce.
  • Generally, it is recommended to spam Path 1 Crossbowers due its high damage and crowd control capabilities, while having a few Path 2 Crossbowers to support them.

Trivia

• There was a much earlier version of Crossbower during development back in 2020. It was shown in one of the images sent by one of the admins in the Discord server, Jack91.
• The Crossbower uses the SFX from the half-life 2 crossbow when firing.
• The unreleased Elvin Crossbower skin was originally meant to release as a code for Tower Blitz reaching 100M visits in 2023, however this had been forgotten by the developers.
  • In the Eternal Update, Hunter Crossbower was added and served as a replacement for the Elvin Crossbower skin, as the developers could not get the latter to work,

Update History

(15/3/21) Crossbower released to the public. Path 2 buffed. (17/3/21) X-3 stun nerfed. X-4 damage increased. (25/4/21) X-4 now leaves a puddle which damages enemies. Path 2 buffed. (17/9/21) 2-X damage increased from 4 to 5, cost increased from ( 300 to 310) (+1 damage, +10). 3-x damage increased from 5 to 8, cost increased from ( 800 to 1,000) (+3 damage, +200). 4-X damage increased from 9 to 14, cost decreased from ( 4,000 to 3,900) (+5 damage, -100). X-3 cost decreased from ( 750 to 715) (-35). X-4 cost decreased from ( 2,200 to 2,100) (-100). (28/9/21) Placement cost decreased ( 425 > 400) (-25). (13/11/21) 4-X cost decreased 3,900 to 3,800, damage increased from 14 to 15 (-100, +1 damage). Damaging puddle removed. X-3 cost decreased from 715 to 650 (-65). X-4 cost decreased from 2,100 to 2,000, now gives 50% defense piercing (-100). (12/2/22) Token Cost decreased from 250 to 200 (-50). (26/12/22) 3-X cost increased from 1,000 to 1,100 (+100). 4-X cost decreased from 3,800 to 2,750 (-1,050). 4-X damage increased from 15 to 17 (+2). X-4 explosion damage increased from 16 to 36 (+20). (30/3/25) Added lore description. Added Hunter skin in the daily shop. Added Green skin in the Color Crate and the daily shop. Added flying detection to 3-X. Renamed X-4 Upgrade name to "Arbalist" Fixed X-4 fire arrows to deal damage over time. Explosion damage nerfed from 36 to 30 (-6).

Gallery

The screenshot showing the old Crossbower from 2020 gameplay.

Crossbower's 100 Million Visits Code Skin