Yeah, my game is totally broken. I have 98 crossbow skill and if I press the button to fire, my character thinks about it for like 8 seconds and then finally shoots. Reloading takes about a million years. The game is basically unplayable.
ok, he fixed it.
Here's the issue. The hotfix and the patch are two different things.
He downloaded the whole 0.234 patch and tried to play, and it didn't work. Then I pointed him to the hotfix, entitled cRPG_update.zip, in the Announcements topic, and after getting that his crossbow worked fine.
We both kind of wish that it was plainly laid out exactly what needed to be done to get to the latest version somewhere other than a forum thread that you have to hunt down (for instance, the "Latest version download" topic actually refers to the previous version, 0.233)