Cant target enemies in Dead eye any longer

[Latheboy1]

I can no longer manually target enemies when in Dead eye. I am at max level and it was all working fine, but no longer does. I have changed the key binding, gone back to default and even reinstalled the game. Dead eye is now useless to me :-(
Any ideas folks?

[Gustuv Wynd]

I had that happen...I started a new game and it was gone. Then loaded a save from the old story and it was working.

[IDwLoD]

in singleplayer?
don't the dead eye mechanics change as you progress?
first it's auto targetting (to plant a X on the targets),
later on you have to Tag it yourself with a button while in dead eye.

take a look at your controls what the tag button is,
i don't know the default cause i change my keybinds aswell.

good luck.

[Latheboy1]

Yes single player sorry I should have said. I am fully levelled with dead eye and I was using the manual targeting no problems, then it stopped it working. Just tried similar to what Gustav said, where I have now loaded a slightly older save and it worked as expected. Went back to newest save and it does not. Very weird. I did no progress at all between the saves other than cooking and sleeping in my tent so will just carry on with the older one.
It will remain a mystery as to what happened, hopefully it does not happen again.

Thanks guys

[Latheboy1]

Darn it, has stopped working again. This is stupid, grrrrr

[JuiceWSA]

Are you looking thru the scope?
It doesn't work with open sights - like on sidearm and shotgun?

[JACKSin]

It doesn't work with single shot weapons. You only get as many shots as are in the mag/tube. That's the only thing I can think of, that he's trying to use a rolling block or a springfield.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Patriot:

It doesn't work with single shot weapons...

I just checked - it does work with open sights. The Springfield will mark a single target in open sights. In Scoped view Deadeye just stays on as you shoot.

[JACKSin]

I should have said deadeye will only let you mark one target with a single shot weapon. My lazy verbiage.

[JuiceWSA]

I can't recall if Deadeye marking ever worked in scoped view, but I guess it had to at some point, yes? I didn't check, but Springfield Deadeye probably cuts off after one shot - I put my Springfield back in the locker, so no more testing right now.

I can confirm, no Deadeye marking with any weapon in scoped view, but for non-single shot weapons Deadeye will remain active as you free-aim and shoot - I guess until you run out of clip ammo - which with the Springfield would be 1.

[JACKSin]

I was just talking about the marking. If scoped weapons only use the slow-time effect then it probably goes until your deadeye runs out.

Tested it myself with a rolling block. You can just keep going with a singleshot and a scope.

[JuiceWSA]

Then I guess it's the same for the Springfield, but with the Springfield in Open Sights, you can mark and shoot 1 target at a time. <---which is a really efficient way to use Deadeye <---if you don't have an abundance of it.

[Latheboy1]

Hi again, I should clear a few things up to avoid confusion. I am zooming in, with different weapons so that is repeaters, shotgun, single shot & bow and arrow, all of which used to work with Dead Eye targeting(automatic and now manual targeting as I am fully levelled). Nothing works any more and I am not doing anything different. As I mentioned a save from a few hours before works perfect, but once you've played for a while, dead eye targeting stops working. I can go into Dead eye mode and see body hot spots to target as per usual, you just cant target anything. Quite bizarre.

[JuiceWSA]

Have you verified the game files recently?
Maybe you have a crappy save file?
Got another one reasonably close?