Crusher
| Crusher | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Shotgun |
| Type | Power |
| Ammo | Shotgun Ammo |
| Headshot | +135% |
| Projectiles | 5 |
| Weight | 9.6 |
The Crusher is a classic combat shotgun, an old design that still sells well in Night City. It fires much faster than a pump shotgun and holds a large magazine. It can keep firing through a whole room before a reload. Each shell has fewer pellets than heavier shotguns, but the gun fires at a steady rate. The Crusher is a dependable close-range gun for a Body build that prefers many shots over one giant blast. It also takes a scope, which keeps it useful a few steps further out. The Crusher appears in weapon shops and on enemies through the middle of the game. It turns up from The Glen and Arroyo to the Aldecaldos camp in the Badlands.
Combat
The Crusher is a Power shotgun with a large magazine and a fast rate of fire. Shotguns are close-range weapons that can knock enemies off their feet. The Crusher can do that again and again in quick succession. It is strong when several enemies push in at once, because V can switch targets quickly between shots.
Each shell fires a smaller spread of pellets than a heavy shotgun such as the Carnage. Damage per shot is lower, but the fast fire rate makes up for it. Power rounds can also ricochet off walls.
The scope slot adds one more option. A short scope gives a little zoom and range for moments when an enemy stays back. The Crusher still works best at close range, but the scope helps it reach a few steps further.
How to Get Crusher Guide
- Buy the Crusher from a weapon vendor, such as the shops in The Glen, Arroyo or Rancho Coronado.
- Buy it from the Aldecaldos weapon vendor in the Badlands.
- With Phantom Liberty, buy it from Sophia Dupont at the EBM Petrochem Stadium or Leon Watson at Longshore Stacks in Dogtown.
- Loot it from enemies who carry one.
Crusher Map Location
The map shows the weapon shop in The Glen.
Crusher map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
7 scopes and 11 weapon mods are compatible with Crusher.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Add-Vantage | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| CQO Kanone MINI Mk.72 | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| Handyman | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range, more headshot crit chance at top tier |
| Hyakume | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| Kanetsugu | 
|
Adds zoom, effective range and crit chance |
| OS-1 GimletEye | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| Type 2067 | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range, lowers bullet spread |
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Better Half | 
|
Raises crit chance with the second half of the magazine |
| Condenser | 
|
Tighter pellet spread, less damage per pellet |
| Critochet | 
|
Raises crit chance with ricochets |
| Equalizer | 
|
More damage against Elite enemies |
| Firecracker | 
|
Shoots explosive rounds |
| Kneel! | 
|
Leg shots can dismember and kill instantly |
| Pax | 
|
Makes the weapon non-lethal, more damage outside combat |
| Pyro | 
|
Turns part of the damage into Thermal damage with a chance to Burn |
| Shuffler | 
|
Drawing the weapon refills part of the magazine |
| Swiss Cheese | 
|
More armor penetration, higher Stamina cost per bullet |
| Vivisector | 
|
More dismemberment, then more torso damage for a short time |
Crafting Spec
Weapon vendors sell the Crusher spec. The spec lets V craft Crusher in the crafting menu. Every spec in the game is listed on the Crafting Specs page.
The table shows what crafting Crusher costs at each tier.
| Tier | Components |
|---|---|
| Tier 3 | 30 Tier 3 components |
| Tier 4 | 30 Tier 4 components |
| Tier 5 | 30 Tier 5 components |
Upgrades
Standard weapons like the Crusher are improved by crafting or buying a higher tier. Its crafting spec is sold by weapon vendors. With enough crafting components, V can craft the shotgun at a higher quality.
Character Builds
Shotguns use the Body tree. Die! Die! Die! adds crit chance at low Stamina. It also adds fire rate and handling as Stamina drops, which helps a gun that fires this often. Like A Feather removes the shotgun movement penalty. Bullet Ballet reduces the spread while moving. Spontaneous Obliteration and Close-Quarters Carnage add a chance to Obliterate weakened enemies at close range. Rush Of Blood speeds up reloads after a dismemberment. Rip And Tear adds damage when shotgun blasts and quick melee hits are mixed.
For cyberware, Immovable Force and Shock Absorber reduce recoil, and Clutch Padding lowers the Stamina cost of shooting.
Its mod slots take shotgun and Power mods. Better Half adds crit chance for the second half of the magazine, which helps most with a large magazine. Vivisector raises dismemberment chance. Swiss Cheese adds armor penetration. Critochet adds crit chance to ricochets. Pyro turns part of the damage into Thermal damage with a chance to Burn.
Select a Build
Dashes close the gap so the shotgun can blast enemies at point-blank range. A quick melee hit after a shot boosts the next one through Rip and Tear. The shotgun and LMG perks grow stronger at low Stamina, so the build keeps shooting and dashing without a pause.
Attributes: Body 20, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 18.
The perks, cyberware and weapon mods for this build are listed below.
| Name | Image | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painkiller | 
|
Body 4 | Slow Health regeneration in combat |
| Dorph-Head | 
|
Body 4 | Brief full Mitigation after using a Health item |
| Speed Junkie | 
|
Body 4 | Faster Health regeneration while sprinting |
| Die! Die! Die! | 
|
Body 9 | Higher crit chance and fire rate at low Stamina |
| Bullet Ballet | 
|
Body 9 | Less bullet spread while moving |
| Like A Feather | 
|
Body 9 | No speed penalty with Shotguns and machine guns |
| Don't Stop Me Now | 
|
Body 9 | Mitigation at low Stamina |
| Adrenaline Rush | 
|
Body 15 | More Health and the Adrenaline Rush mode |
| Juggernaut | 
|
Body 15 | More speed and damage during Adrenaline Rush |
| Unstoppable Force | 
|
Body 15 | Immunity to knockdown and other status effects during Adrenaline Rush |
| Calm Mind | 
|
Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Spontaneous Obliteration | 
|
Body 15 | Chance to instantly kill enemies at low Health |
| Close-Quarters Carnage | 
|
Body 15 | Higher Obliterate chance at close range |
| Skullcracker | 
|
Body 15 | Quick melee hits harder at low Stamina |
| Dread | 
|
Body 15 | Ranged attacks strip enemy armor |
| Rush Of Blood | 
|
Body 15 | Faster reload after a dismemberment |
| Bloodlust | 
|
Body 15 | Dismemberments refill Adrenaline |
| Rip And Tear | 
|
Body 20 | Shotgun shots and quick melee attacks boost each other |
| Onslaught | 
|
Body 20 | Light Machine Gun kills refill ammo |
| Pain To Gain | 
|
Body 20 | Kills recharge Health items during Adrenaline Rush |
| Dash | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Air Dash | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Tailwind | 
|
Reflexes 20 | Stamina back from Air Dashes and double jumps |
| Health Freak | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | One more Health item charge and faster recharge |
| All Things Cyber | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| License To Chrome | 
|
Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Ambidextrous | 
|
Technical Ability 15 | A second Hands cyberware slot |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| ThreatEvac | 
|
Circulatory System | Faster movement at low Health |
| Mechatronic Core | 
|
Frontal Cortex | More damage against drones, robots and mechs |
| Self-ICE | 
|
Frontal Cortex | Blocks an enemy quickhack |
| Microgenerator | 
|
Hands | Reloading an empty gun charges an electroshock shot |
| Painducer | 
|
Integumentary System | Turns part of damage taken into damage over time |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
|
Legs | Double jump |
| NeoFiber | 
|
Nervous System | More Mitigation Chance and Strength |
| Militech Apogee Sandevistan | Operating System | Slows time by 85% with crit bonuses | |
| Epimorphic Skeleton | 
|
Skeleton | More max Health |
| Spring Joints | 
|
Skeleton | Stronger Mitigation |
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Kneel! | 
|
Leg shots can dismember and kill instantly |
| Firecracker | 
|
Explosive rounds |
Lore
The Crusher's in-game line calls it a firearm staple of long standing. Its popularity shows on the street. Police officers, gangers and Aldecaldos traders all carry or sell it, and it turns up in caches across the city and the Badlands.
Notes
- Amstaff is the Iconic variant of the Crusher.
Weapon Categories
All Shotguns
Every shotgun is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Shotguns
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabai | 
|
+85% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Amstaff | 
|
+150% | 25% | |
| Ba Xing Chong | 
|
Northside | ||
| Bloody Maria | 
|
+85% | 25% | Little China |
| Dezerter | 
|
+85% | 75% | Dogtown |
| Guts | 
|
+85% | 75% | Corpo Plaza |
| Mox | 
|
+85% | 25% | Kabuki |
| Order | 
|
+50% | 100% | Dogtown |
| Pozhar x-MOD2 | 
|
+85% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Sovereign | 
|
+85% | 75% | Japantown |
| The Headsman | 
|
25% | North Oak |
Standard Shotguns
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnage | 
|
+85% | 50% | Downtown |
| Crusher | 
|
+135% | ||
| DB-2 Satara | 
|
+85% | 50% | |
| DB-2 Testera | 
|
+85% | 50% | |
| DB-4 Igla | 
|
+85% | 25% | Northside |
| DB-4 Palica | 
|
+35% | ||
| L-69 Zhuo | 
|
+35% | 25% | |
| M2038 Tactician | 
|
+85% | 25% | |
| VST-37 Pozhar | 
|
+85% | 25% |