Crowbar

It allows the player to deal more damage to healthy enemies.

Effective Health formula
Players may consider this item as a direct reduction on enemies health diminishing it to 93.4%

To calculate the effective health of an enemy for every crowbar after the first use the following formula: 100 - { [ 0.50 + ( 0.30 x n°crowbars_after_the_first ) ] x [ 20 / ( 1 + 0.5 + ( 0.30 x n°crowbars_after_the_first ) ] }

In case the player isn't using an ability that deals heavy amounts of damage, the Crowbar will have less and less impact on the damage output.

Character Synergies

 * The Sniper makes excellent use of the Crowbar, as it pairs well with to deal severe damage to newly spawned monsters and bosses.


 * The Bandit can also make good use of the Crowbar with, dealing heavy damage to targets.


 * The Commando's ability, is similarly effective to Sniper's Steady Aim
 * With the Commando's high rate of fire, you can create a cooldown-loop if you combine the Crowbar with the Ol' Lopper and the Wicked Ring. Crowbar allows you to damage an enemy to low health, and the Lopper gives the guaranteed crit stat when they are low. Simply spam along with . With the Wicked Ring stacked your cooldowns are very short. Harvester's Scythe and Predatory Instincts are also useful in this combination.

Item Synergies
The Crowbar item works wonders to almost all items that proc on-hit, since the damage calculated by the Crowbar is the base calculation of other items.

List of items that are amplified by Crowbar:
 * Brilliant Behemoth
 * Rusty Knife
 * AtG Missile Mk. 1
 * Fire Shield
 * Mortar Tube
 * Lens-Maker's Glasses
 * Sticky Bomb

And there could be more that haven't been verified yet.

List of items that needs verification that could be amplified by Crowbar:
 * Golden Gun

Trivia
The Crowbar item is a reference to the Half Life series created by Valve, in which the main character "Gordon Freeman" uses a Crowbar very similar to the one in Risk of Rain as his melee weapon. The text "Until the 3rd version arrives" is a dig at the long production time of the half life series and Valve's seeming dislike of the number 3, going as far as making Half Life 1, 2 and Half Life 2 episodes 1 and 2. Because of this, Half Life 3 has become a well known point of humor on the internet joking about how it will never come out.