Nishanka Boltshark X-80
 Unlocked through an assignment
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Requires Scout  21
Purchased for:
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| “ | An extremely versatile, modern crossbow designed for large game and built especially to fire a wide selection of bolts. Electric bolts, fire bolts, triple bolts, bolts that make enemies blow up, you name it! A fresh, deadly spin on a tried and tested classic. |
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The Nishanka Boltshark X-80 is an unlockable secondary weapon for the Scout. It is a modernized compact crossbow with a lightweight framework and an adjustable stock. In the center, a single bolt is loaded and drawn by an orange bowstring, which requires a reload after every shot. With certain modifications and overclocks, the Boltshark is capable of firing a wide range of bolt variants that each possesses a unique effect.
The Boltshark features a secondary ammo pool consisting of specialized bolts which can be swapped to by pressing the Reload button ("R" by default). These bolts are obtained exclusively in the first tier of the weapon's modifications and does not affect the primary ammo pool. Using a resupply pod will replenish both ammo pools separately.
The Boltshark also features the ability to retrieve ammo in a similar fashion as the Driller's Impact Axes, where most bolt variants that do not strike enemies can be returned to its respective ammo pool by pressing the Use button ("E" by default). Retrievable bolts will produce a small amount of light in order for players to locate them more easily and will completely despawn after a certain amount of time.
Modifications
There are five tiers of modifications and each tier has two to three upgrades. Only one modification can be equipped per tier.
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| Tier 1 |  Special Bolt: Pheromone Dart |
+Special Bolt: Pheromone +9 Special Ammo |
"A bolt filled with a mixture of pheromones which releases in contact with targets, making its allies turn against it and increases the chance of a fight breaking out." |
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 Special Bolt: Chemical Explosion |
+Special Bolt: Chemical Explosion +9 Special Ammo |
"A bolt filled with a volatile chemical that is injected into the target's bloodstream and causes a chemical reaction when they die, turning them into ticking time bombs." |
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 Special Bolt: Taser |
+Special Bolt: Taser +12 Special Ammo |
"A bolt fitted with small generators that electrify targets and are able to connect to other nearby Taser Bolts through an electric arc. The electric surge renders the bolts unretrievable after use." |
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| Tier 2 6
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 Broadhead Bolts |
+25 Damage +15 Radial Damage |
"More mass, greater impact and able to dig just a tad deeper into enemies, increasing the overall damage." |
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 Increased Quiver Capacity |
+7 Max Ammo | "It took a bit of rearranging, but you can now carry more bolts." |
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 Expanded Special Quiver |
+4 Special Ammo (Pheromone) +4 Special Ammo (Chemical Explosion) +5 Special Ammo (Taser) |
"It's a bit on the heavier side, but your total special bolt capacity is increased." |
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| Tier 3 10
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 Stabilizing Arm Brace |
-0.4 Reload Time | "R&D has fitted you with an arm brace that stabilizes your arm, which enables flawless motion allowing you to reload and switch ammo types faster, without risk of injuries." |
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 Reinforced String |
+50% Projectile Velocity | "A reinforced synthetic fiber string that increases the velocity of your bolts, making them travel faster and further." |
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| Tier 4 14
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 Battle Frenzy |
+Battle Frenzy | "Move faster for a short time after killing an enemy." |
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 Radio Transmitter Module |
+Radio Transmitter Module | "All Bolts and your crossbow are fitted with a small radio transmitter that allows calling back retrievable bolts from a distance by hovering your crosshair over them." |
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| Tier 5 18
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 Potent Special Bolts |
+2.5 Special Effect Duration (Pheromone) +3.5 Special Effect Duration (Chemical Explosion) +3 Special Effect Duration (Taser) |
"A more potent version of your special bolt that increases its duration." |
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Magnetic Shafts |
+Magnetic Shafts
+25% Kinetic Bolt Damage Vs Electrified Targets |
"Bolt shafts made of a magnetic material that is attracted by electricity, pulling them towards electrified enemies or enemies affected by an electric field. The magnetic pull causes them to deal more damage on impact." |
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 Banshee Module |
+33% Fear Chance | "Tiny devices are attached to your bolts that emit a fear inducing high pitched noise for a limited time. Can be reset and reused if picked up." |
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Overclocks
Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.
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Quick Fire
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"R&D improved the reload mechanism of the crossbow, making it pull back sooner for you to put a bolt in the chamber. They also reinforced the string free of charge, enabling the crossbow to fire bolts with little to no drop." |
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The Specialist
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"Extra potent special bolts and more of them. What more could you want?" |
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Cryo Bolt
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"A small module based on the Cryo Grenade tech has been strapped to your bolts, enabling them to cool and freeze enemies. Pin them to the ground or the face of enemies and turn any bugs in near proximity into popsicles. The intense cold takes a toll on the bolt, reducing overall damage and destroying it after use." |
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Fire Bolt
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"Bolts with highly advanced cannisters full of volatile chemicals, with the ability to radiate intense heat. Shoot it at your enemies or the ground to activate it. The high temperature comes at a cost though, reducing overall damage and rendering the bolt useless after impact." |
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Bodkin Points
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"The crossbow has been modified so it can fire a thinner bodkin point bolt with the ability to penetrate targets and ricochet to the nearest target. Its thin frame makes it do less damage and requires a slower reload process. This however does not affect special bolts." |
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Trifork Volley
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"With a few adjustments to the firing mechanism and the string you can load a volley of three bolts into the chamber. The bolts do a tad less damage, but are packed compactly enough for you to carry more of them. The modification and size of the rounds make reloading slower, and the bolts are ruined after firing them, making them unretrievable. This does not affect special bolts." |
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Stats Breakdown
The Boltshark deals Piercing rather than Kinetic damage, which Oppressors (50%) and Praetorians (30%) have some resistance to.
| Modifications | Pheromone Bolt | Chemical Explosion Bolt | Taser Bolt |
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| Base | 10s | 14s | 12s |
| Potent Special Bolts | 12.5s | 17.5s | 15s |
| The Specialist | 13s | 18.2s | 15.6s |
| PSB + TS | 16.3s | 22.8s | 19.5s |
Unique Modifications
Special Bolt: Pheromone Dart
Pheromone Bolts cause enemies struck by the bolt to become affected by its own unique version of the Pheromones status effect.
Projectile:
- Damage: 15 Piercing
- Area Damage: 10 Piercing
- Retrievable: True
Pheromones:
- Max total affected targets: 18
- Move Speed: 0.7x
Special Bolt: Chemical Explosion
Chemical Explosion Bolts cause a Poison DoT to affect any enemy they strike. Should the enemy die while affected by the Poison DoT, it will have a unique death effect that causes an explosion which can damage nearby creatures.
Projectile:
- Direct Damage: 15 Piercing
- Area Damage: 12 Piercing
- Retrievable: True
Poison DoT:
- Damage: 2 Poison
- Tick Rate: 0.2s
Death Explosion:
- Damage: 140 Poison
- Damage Radius: 4m
- Max Damage Radius: 2.5m
- Minimum Damage: 30%
- Fear Factor: 100%
- Armor Break: 300%
- Stun Chance: 100%
- Stun Duration: 1s
- Friendly Fire Modifier: 25%
Special Bolt: Taser
Taser Bolts are able to create a beam of electricity when placed within a certain distance of one another (shown as a blue sphere projected around the fired bolts). The electric beam will connect the Taser Bolts together, and if it passes through an enemy it will deal electricity damage over time for as long as the enemy is touching the beam. The Taser Bolts are also able to individually deal elecicity damage over time to enemies they are in close proximity with. The two DoT effects are separate from one another.
Projectile:
- Direct Damage: 15 Piercing
- Area Damage: 10 Piercing
- Retrievable: False
Proximity DoT:
- Damage: 2 Electric
- Tick Rate: 0.1-0.15s
- Move Speed: 0.5x
- Radius: 0.35m
- Stackable: True
Electric Beam:
- Connection Range: 5m
- Damage: 6 Electric
- Tick Rate: 0.2s
- Move Speed: 0.2x
- Stackable: True
- Stack Limit: 2
Electric Beam vs Players:
- Damage: 1 Electric
- Move Speed: 1x
The Proximity DoT will stack with itself should two or more arrows be touching the same enemy. This will cause the damage to add together for every arrow affecting an enemy, and the move speed modifiers will multiply together for each arrow touching the enemy.
The Electric Beam is able to stack with exactly one additional copy of itself for a total of 12 damage every 0.2 seconds. It is also able to stack unconditionally with the similar effects caused by the Engineer's Turret Arc overclock and the Electric Crystals of the Crystal Caverns.
Unique Overclocks
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Cryo Bolt |
Cryo Bolt causes the normal bolts to apply Cold damage both to the struck target and within the area around the bolt itself in exchange for reducing the normal bolts' damage output. Cold damage gets dealt via a couple of Status Effects, one of which gets applied only when Bolt hits a target directly.
Bolt begins to apply Status Effects when it gets stuck after a collision. In this state, it scans its surroundings within its Search Radius and applies an instance of Radiance DoT with the defined Tick rate to all hostile creatures that happen to be inside the area. The first tick happens at the 0.1s mark of Bolt's Uptime. If an affected creature leaves the area while Bolt is active, Bolt will take away one instance of Radiance DoT from that creature. Bolt keeps records of currently affected creatures. Upon Bolt's end of Uptime, Bolt does two operations. The first operation: Bolt attempts to take away one instance of Radiance DoT from the creature that it has affected the longest. It is not necessarily the first affected creature, since the creature may leave the area and then the second affected creature will take its place, and if the first creature re-enters the area, then it will be deemed the last affected creature. All other affected creatures keep Radiance DoT instances that then naturally expire according to the Radiance DoT's duration. Upon expiration, an instance of Radiance DoT additionally deactivates all active instances of the same Status Effect on the same target. If Bolt hits a creature directly, then it will instantly apply an instance of the Main DoT to it, and that creature will always be deemed the longest affected by the Bolt while it's active. Therefore, it won't apply an instance of Radiance DoT to that creature while the Bolt is active. Upon expiration, an instance of the Main DoT additionally deactivates all active instances of the same Status Effect on the same target. The second operation that Bolt does at the end of its uptime is apply a number of Radiance DoT instances, corresponding to the number of currently active Bolts that are directly stuck on the longest affected target, to that target. The acting Bolt at the end of its Uptime doesn't count itself when it executes that operation, and it doesn't need to be directly stuck on the target to apply that number of Radiance DoT instances to it. These two Bolt's end-of-uptime operations, at least, compensate for the loss of active Main DoT instances in the case when one Main DoT instance deactivates a whole stack of Main DoT's instances upon its own expiration. This way, Radiance DoT instances get added as sort of continuations of Main DoT instances upon Bolt's end-of-uptime. Several compensating Radiance DoT instances get popped as other Bolts do their end-of-uptime operations on the same target, including the Bolts that originally put the stack of Main DoT instances on the target. Radiance DoT instances that remain on the target after all Bolts' end-of-uptime operations get deactivated upon the expiration of the first compensating Radiance DoT instance, whose timer starts the moment Main DoT instances get collectively deactivated. As a result, three or more Main DoT instances' stacks get compensated with even more Radiance DoT instances since each bolt, upon its own end-of-uptime, removes just one Radiance DoT instance and then potentially adds multiple Radiance DoT instances. |
Cryo Bolt
Main DoT
Radiance DoT
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Fire Bolt |
Fire Bolt causes the normal bolts to apply Heat damage both to the struck target and within the area around the bolt itself in exchange for reducing the normal bolts' damage output. Heat damage gets dealt via a couple of Status Effects, one of which gets applied only when Bolt hits a target directly. The logic of applying these Status Effects is identical to that of Cryo Bolts, as is the behavior of these Status Effects.
Fire Bolt has a couple of special interactions. When it penetrates the Flammable Gas Cloud's hitbox (Praetorian's Death Cloud, Neurotoxin Grenade's Gas Cloud, etc.), it makes such a gas cloud combust instantly. And when it penetrates the hitbox of a Sludge Pump's puddle, it immediately sets the puddle on fire. That allows Player to ignite multiple Sludge Pump's puddles with one Fire Bolt by shooting slightly above them. |
Fire Bolt
Main DoT
Radiance DoT
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Mastery
Each modification that is purchased advances a mastery bar by one unit.
Mastery unlocks:
- Three modifications – First Stripe Weapon Paintjob
- Seven modifications – Deepcore Weapon Paintjob
- All (13) modifications – The Company Special Weapon Paintjob
Skins
Full gallery of skins can be seen at Weapon Skins.
Gallery
All of the Nishanka Boltshark X-80 Bolts. From left to right: Cryo, Fire, Default, Bodkin Point, Pheromone Dart, Taser, Chemical Explosion, and Trifork Volley.
Trivia
- The Nishanka Boltshark X-80's weapon prototype used the Flare Gun model.
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