Ballistica

"The Ballistica crossbow features a unique dual firing mechanism, choose between a four bolt volley or a deadly accurate charged shot."

- In-Game Description

The  is a secondary weapon that acts much like the Paris, but it instead shoots four arrows in quick succession with a tap of the trigger, or a single arrow if charged. It was added in Update 10.4.0.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Deals Physics Impact damage which ignores the armor of most enemies.
 * Charged shots give it the second highest single-shot damage of any secondary weapon (with Bronco series weapons having the highest).
 * Good charge critical chance.
 * No projectile arc when firing burst or charged.
 * Burst shot has a very fast (near-hitscan) travel time.
 * Charged attack conserves ammo.
 * Staggers some enemies on every hit.
 * Has one  polarity slot.
 * Uses Pistol ammo as opposed to Sniper ammo.

Disadvantages:
 * Semi-auto function has low accuracy and spreads horizontally.
 * Must be charged for higher accuracy shots, which lowers DPS.
 * Requires medium amounts of rare resources in order to craft (3 Neurodes, 4 Gallium and 1,200 Rubedo)
 * Physics Impact damage does not ignore the armor of Grineer Commanders, Seekers, and Rollers.
 * Charged attacks have slight travel time.
 * Not silent, and is instead a reduced awareness weapon (unlike the Paris).
 * Unlike the other clip based charge weapons (Lanka and Orgis), there is a period between charge shots in which if you click too soon after a charge shot, the Ballistica will neither charge nor fire. This lowers the actual DPS of a charge build. Roughly .5-.8 seconds after firing a charge shot. Increasing the fire rate decreases this delay however.
 * Below average reload speed.

Acquisition
The Ballistica can be purchased for 240 and the blueprint for  40,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * If burst-firing make sure to trace your targets movement from the left, as the bolts actually travel from left to right during this action.
 * Use the Suppress mod to render the Ballistica silent.

Trivia

 * Name is likely based off of the medieval siege weapon, the Ballista, due to both being related to crossbows and the similarity in the names.
 * It may also be a pun on ballistic, and as a propelled projectile the Ballistica may be considered a ballistic weapon.
 * Upon reload, the magazine will be dropped onto the ground and can be seen for a short time before disappearing.
 * This gun has a non-static model as the strings glow and the arms cock back as a shot is charged. Additionally the arms fold in when the Ballistica is holstered and open up when it is selected, with a unique sound effect.

Bugs

 * In the game, it is stated that normal attacks deal 10 damage and have no critical chance, however, these stats are not correct. It has been verified through testing.