Bullet sponge enemies?!?!?! Mod/Setting????

[Rand Madom]

So I am coming back to this game after a few years. So let me get this straight...I now have to put 8 bullets into a person to kill them? 4 rounds into a wolf for it to still kill me??? And before yall start..I am not hitting fingers and toes and an arm. The wolf was 2 to the head area and 2 to the lungs/chest area from atop my horse. The person was a camp I ran up on and dropped the first one with a head shot..next guy gets up..I hit him 8 times...3 to the chest/lungs, 2 to the stomach, 2 to a leg, and one to an arm. Um...yeah..no. Thats not how guns and bullets work. Damn sure not back then. These arent slim aerodynamic modern rounds. These are GIANT BALLS OF LEAD!!!!! that were usually a form of what is called a bulldog round or a form of a hollow point. Most of the time they stuck in the person and caused even more damage. 98% of people would drop after 1 or 2 from just shock and pain. The 2% who wouldnt are all famous gun fighters and mountain men. Is there a mod or a setting I am missing or can get do fix this? This is way to much of what happens when people who have never used a gun to hunt or work make a game with guns. It aint like the movies.

[Man o' War]

Get better weapons or at least better ammo.

Headshots for anyone or any animal are pretty much insta kill unless you're using a varmint rifle to kill alligators etc.

The right weapons with the right ammo will do the trick every time.

[Rand Madom]

Originally posted by Man o' War:

Get better weapons or at least better ammo.

Headshots for anyone or any animal are pretty much insta kill unless you're using a varmint rifle to kill alligators etc.

The right weapons with the right ammo will do the trick every time.

Wrong. Clean my guns like Arthur had OCD. Springfield rifle with upgrades, good ammo for the NPC. Revolver, good ammo on the wolf. I also said the wolf took 2 to the head. If I had a varmint rifle for the wolf I would agree. As for the NPC...5 rounds from a .22 cal rat-shot to the chest/stomach is going to put 98% of people on their knees at best. A springfield rifle is a .45 cal. Once again...someone who doesnt know what a bullet does to a human or how calibers work. Once again...is there a setting or a MOD to help with this??

[jswarpaint]

yeah some missions its really hard to kill them - I love the ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE - with wolves once your on the ground ya gotta move directly back from them as you empty your revolvers into them .. two revolvers ...

If you encounter a mountain lion and your on foot your dead ...

usually with npc ya can use a rolling block with regular rifle ammo a headshot or 2 or 3 to the body which is pathetic because ya can usually kill anything with it with one shot .. if its an animal .. it at least wounds it to where it bleeds out ..

ya shoot a guy he goes down flat then like a zombie he gets back up and is engaging you again...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes there is mod that provides much more realistic ballistics, damages, even more random and realistic bleed-outs. However it goes both ways and will make shoot-outs where you don't have any cover harder for you as the player too.

But before you try a mod, please know that you basically need to use Express Ammo at all times. If you do not have access to this yet being it too early in-game, then use either Split Ammo (you make these at camp fire using regular ammo); or the High Velocity Ammo if available. Head shots on basically anything is insta-kill; however on humans who are wearing a hat, there is a chance the first shot just shoots the hat off.

If it's an Alligator or Wolf, sure you might kill it in one shot to head with Volcano Pistol w/ Split ammo even; however since this is the wrong weapon to use for them it will destroy the Pelt in the process.

If you have hard time getting head-shots, especially with Pistol or Repeater, try using Dead-Eye. Very early on in the game, Dead-Eye works as an auto-marker so you have to be more careful since it might mark wrong spot then you intended or mark many spots and just waste ammo. Try to brush across their face with the dot to mark their face/head, then fire.