Poll: Boom, Headshot.
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Headshots are fine, but I just find it annoying when you get chirped for using bodyshots in TF2. Still killed you dead 6 times in a row, I gotta have some skill.
Yes, I love headshots. However, I do like striking against the convention sometimes, so I also loved how Dead Space mixed it up a little bit, by making enemies more dangerous after shooting them in the aforementioned location. Proved to be a bit of a surprise when I found that out!
Headshots are unbelievably useful when you have to conserve ammo. Thus, I use them all the time.
I like them, but don't use them too often in TF2, as I use the sleeper.
Honestly, it's great. I got a 74 - 3 death time, and that was in an open area with pretty much no cover or usefull team mates.
Honestly, it's great. I got a 74 - 3 death time, and that was in an open area with pretty much no cover or usefull team mates.
Yes you can, CS:S uses projectile physics, all it needs is for one of those projectiles to meet head and have a penetration value greater than the helmet the victim may or may not have bought. As Doug discovered to his cost...ShakerSilver said:
CS/S handles shotguns pretty well in that they have a decent range and accuracy but poor armour penetration. I hate with a passion games that have effective to 10 feet shotguns, it just sucks.
I like headshots, they add an element of skill sorely missing from a lot of shooters. It also adds an incentive to think about your shots, you can end a battle before the enemy an even react.
NOOOOOOOOOOO! I just lost the game.ShakerSilver said:
OP: I always go for head-shots in games with low damage, or if an enemy is standing still.
Eh, they're fine. They serve their purpose and it gives you a nice feeling. Especially in Killzone 2 when you get a nice little chirp when you do it. Always makes me feel happy 
Yeah, shotguns actually have a pretty decent effective range. They're just gimped in games for balance.
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ShakerSilver said:
Yeah, shotguns actually have a pretty decent effective range. They're just gimped in games for balance.
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EvilMaggot said:Battlefield Bad Company 2, Sniper, headshots are fun ^^ also the bullet drops in the game, so you have to aim over the head of your victim, soo... its hard sometimes when its across the map
Yea i like how that game takes distance into account. Its even better when you get a head shot while your target is running, at like 400 meters, makes me feel smug.
It depends entirely upon the game. Games like Quake 3, thanks to incredible speed at which players would move, ensured that simply hitting the opponent was a feat. Headshots would simply result in certain weapons being far more powerful than intended. The railgun, for example, already delivered a solid 100 damage in a shot - enough to potentially kill a player instantly if they were without armor or any health boosts. Given that it was one of the easiest weapons to use at moderate or longer range already, such a change would result in the railgun being far more powerful while it's middle to close range counterpart (the rocket launcher) would be saddled with the inherent difficulty of applying a slow moving round to a target who's relative motion could be in excess of 40 MPH at ranges of less than 10 feet.
In today's modern slow paced shooters (by slow paced I mean that they restrict player motion to roughly what a human in peak physical condition could achieve), and the regular inclusion of hitscan weapons (weapons who's projectiles arrive in in the same frame in which they were fired) means that headshots do not unreasonably favor one weapon over another.
In today's modern slow paced shooters (by slow paced I mean that they restrict player motion to roughly what a human in peak physical condition could achieve), and the regular inclusion of hitscan weapons (weapons who's projectiles arrive in in the same frame in which they were fired) means that headshots do not unreasonably favor one weapon over another.
If I can make a headshot then I will, they usually/always do more damage anyway so why waste my ammo?
I use headshots like anyone else playing and FPS I suppose, but I do agree that sometimes they're a little too powerfull. Especially when autoaim sticks the crosshairs to someones face the moment they appear on screen, tho this is a rare case. It's usually fine, and if you know how, props to you.
This times one hundred. (which still isn't enough to put it in the lead)
Words cannot describe my rage for them (I love the paradox in this statement), both for when they get me and for turning almost the entire FPS genre into "click on the other guy's head before he clicks on yours". I miss the days when FPS games actually had a variety of weapons with different skillsets needed to use them. I guess there's always TF2. Although snipers in that game drive me crazy as well. (It's like they aren't even playing the game. They just sit in the back and click on heads, ruining everyone else's fun in the process.)
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