Bolt

Bolts are the ammunition used by the Crossbow in BioShock and Burial at Sea - Episode 2.

BioShock

Main article: BioShock

Steel-Tip Bolt Damage: High piercing damage. Effectiveness: Effective against all targets. Price: $30 (base price) $23 (hacked price) Availability: Can be bought and found in abundance.

Incendiary Bolt Damage: High fire damage; ignites target on impact. Can be used to melt ice and ignite oil, in the same fashion as Incinerate! Effectiveness: Effective against all targets. Damage Bonus: Increased damage from Research Bonuses and Human Inferno. Price: $80 (base price) $60 (hacked Circus of Values) $40 (hacked El Ammo Bandito) Availability: Can be bought and found in limited quantities.

Trap Bolts Damage: High piercing damage; high electric damage. Bolts will not break on impact, and no head shot bonus is applied. After impact, the Trap Bolt fires a claw-like attachment trailing an electrical tripwire which embeds itself any surface across from it. This wire does high electric damage to enemies who come in contact with it. Effectiveness: Effective against all targets. Price: 1 Alcohol, 3 Glue, 2 Battery (U-Invent) Availability: Can be found and manufactured in limited quantities.

Burial at Sea - Episode 2

Main article: Burial at Sea - Episode 2

The Bolts return in the second episode of the downloadable content for BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea, only with new effects.

Tranquilizer Bolt Damage: Will cause target to fall asleep. Effectiveness: Effective against Splicers, Ryan Security, Soldiers, Vox Populi, Beasts and Citizens. It takes two shots to cause the same effect to the Frosty- and Houdini Splicers. Price: $15 Availability: Can be bought and found in abundance.

Noisemaker Bolt Damage: Will cause a loud noise, that will draw any nearby enemies to it. Effectiveness: Effective against Splicers, Frosty Splicers, Big Daddies, Ryan Security, Soldiers, Vox Populi, Beasts and Citizens. Price: N/A Availability: Can be awarded for lockpicking, if the player hits the blue pin.

Gas Bolt Damage: Will cause a gas cloud, that will knock everyone near it unconscious. Effectiveness: Effective against Splicers, Frosty Splicers, Ryan Security (those not wearing gas masks), Soldiers, Vox Populi, Beasts and Citizens. Price: N/A Availability: Found in limited quantities.

Behind the Scenes

• Game files of BioShock mention an unused type of ammunition called Disease Bolt.
• In BioShock, all 3 bolt types leave tracers on their path, which are green (Steel-Tip), yellow (Incendiary) and white (Trap) respectively.
• The Crossbow has been replaced by the Spear Gun in BioShock 2 and so uses Spears instead of Bolts.
• The Noisemaker Bolts are similar to the Noisemaker Arrows from the game series Thief, which inspired the 1998 Mode of Burial at Sea - Episode 2. The only difference is that bolts only produce sound on impact and cannot be recovered after use.
• Noisemaker Bolts have their own ammo box model like other types of bolts, but it was left unused since they can only be obtained when picking a lock in the released version of Burial at Sea - Episode 2.
• The gas from Gas Bolts will shatter any breakable glass it comes into contact with.
• Elizabeth is not affected by a triggered Gas Bolt, even though she does not wear a gas mask.

Ammunition variants for the Crossbow in Burial at Sea.

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Unused ammo box for Noisemaker Bolts.