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 4 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 0.5 travel time and is "near-hitscan".
 * Charged attack conserves ammo.

Disadvantages:
 * Semi-auto function has low accuracy, 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)
 * Normal attacks provide much less damage per shot than charged attacks.
 * Physics Impact damage does not ignore the armor of Grineer Commanders, Seekers, and Rollers.
 * Charge attacks have slight travel time.
 * Not silent, and is instead a reduced awareness weapon (unlike the Paris).
 * Non-charged attacks drain ammo quickly.

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 using "Burst-Fire" make sure to trace your targets movement from the left, as the bolts actually travel from left to right durring this action.
 * Using Barrel Diffusion and Lethal Torrent for a total multishot chance of 180% leads to each bolt possibly shooting three times, up to twelve bolts total in rare cases. 25x12 = 300 potential damage per burst if all multishots proc, and all land on target. Comparitively, 100x3 = 300 with a charge shot using the same mods in the right circumstances. Between these two methods, a burst build may be just as lethal as a charge build, all other mods aside.
 * 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.

Bugs

 * Sometimes will count the amount of ammo used equivalent to the multishot mod value. (needs confirmation)