Rapid-fire Crossbow from "Van Helsing" movie

[Umbran]

I thought the bow part was a separate function/component from the cannister.

One could have a gas-driven mechanism for loading and pulling the thing. I actually find that more plausible than the paintball version.

 

[Joshua Randall]

About as accurate as the N64 Perfect Dark's Reaper gun.

You mean the one that in the hands of the Skedar can kill you at one thousand yards with a headshot, but when you pick it up to use against them you can't hit the broad side of barn at ten feet?

(I liked the game a lot, but that weapon was just frustrating.)

 

[Ambrus]

You mean the one that in the hands of the Skedar can kill you at one thousand yards with a headshot, but when you pick it up to use against them you can't hit the broad side of barn at ten feet?

Non-proficiency penalty.

 

[The_Gneech]

One could have a gas-driven mechanism for loading and pulling the thing. I actually find that more plausible than the paintball version.

Yeah, I assumed the gas mechanism pushed the "hammer" back, rather than propelling the bolt.

The fact that the arms didn't "twang" is a fault of the SFX team, rather than the scriptwriter.

-The Gneech

PS: Van Helsing was an awesome dumbfun movie! Don't go bashing it! The 30-minute animated tie-in The London Assignment was surprisingly good too, in the same dumbfun vein.

 

[frankthedm]

You mean the one that in the hands of the Skedar can kill you at one thousand yards with a headshot, but when you pick it up to use against them you can't hit the broad side of barn at ten feet?

(I liked the game a lot, but that weapon was just frustrating.)

Crouching with the weapon helped a little bit. I loved that weapon in multiplayer. Since fists were considered a 'nuclear option' due to the blur inducement that lasted after death [though not outright forbidden like the N-bomb was in our player group], the reaper was one of my preferred melee weapons, right up there with rocket launcher and proxy mines.

Man, do i love proxy mines. Like little air fresheners of excruciating death. Sometimes I blew myself up, but causing the game to lag due to explosions was something I was proud of.

 

[Matt Black]

The thing to keep in mind is that it's technology based on Christian theology. The part that was left out in the movie's description of the item is that the 'gas' being used to propel the bolts is in fact the Holy Ghost. The clever friar had some high-faith Archbishops call down that aspect of the divine and then the engineers directed it into a pressurized canister which was then installed in the crossbow's stock. The pressure doesn't ever diminish because the power of the divine is infinite; infinite power = infinite pressure. Each bolt fired is therefore propelled through the air by the Holy Ghost itself at Godspeed. Quite clever really.

Edit: Oh, and the arms aren't there to propel the bolts, but rather to give the weapon the shape of a cross; the Holy Ghost can't be properly contained under pressure in anything other than a cross-shaped receptacle. That's why it's called a "cross-bow" in the first place.

OK, now THIS explanation I can accept. God did it. Enough for me.

 

[Tuzenbach]

The thing to keep in mind is that it's technology based on Christian theology. The part that was left out in the movie's description of the item is that the 'gas' being used to propel the bolts is in fact the Holy Ghost. The clever friar had some high-faith Archbishops call down that aspect of the divine and then the engineers directed it into a pressurized canister which was then installed in the crossbow's stock. The pressure doesn't ever diminish because the power of the divine is infinite; infinite power = infinite pressure. Each bolt fired is therefore propelled through the air by the Holy Ghost itself at Godspeed. Quite clever really.

Edit: Oh, and the arms aren't there to propel the bolts, but rather to give the weapon the shape of a cross; the Holy Ghost can't be properly contained under pressure in anything other than a cross-shaped receptacle. That's why it's called a "cross-bow" in the first place.

OK, did you just make this up? If so, your talents are being wasted on a mere messageboard......you should go into script-writing!

 

[Ambrus]

OK, did you just make this up? If so, your talents are being wasted on a mere messageboard......you should go into script-writing!

Well, thank you. And yes I did just make it up. I have to admit though that writing it made me crack-up laughing all the while. Mind if I quote you in my Sig?

Also, keep in mind that when hunting the undead, offending your enemies with the shape of your weapon can be just as efficient as impaling them with it. Which is fortunate, since although the Holy Ghost's ability to propel bolts is infallible, the effectiveness of the weapon is unfortunately dependant on the quite fallible aim of mortal sinners.