Crossbow troubles

[DeadBeat]

I'm having difficulty getting headshots with the crossbow. I understand there's droop in the shot but I can't seem to hit anything in the head.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2556217771

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2556218363

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2556219162

[Supernoob]

I'm having the same problems... well, and more... and either I don't understand the mechanics, or the game has some very strange physics. Although, there aren't many similar complaints that I found online, so maybe it's me...

I found one post on reddit, that explains my problems very well and as the poster I also played the Sniper Elite games... so...
I don't know what the deal with this thing is. I can't hit anything with it. I've played pretty much all the Sniper Elite games on hardest difficulty. So bullet drop and aiming isn't a foreign concept to me. But with this thing I can be ten feet away aimed at their head and it just drops off. Another time an enemy is a little farther away so I try aiming a bit higher, and it soars over their head.

It is as he said... I have a zombie standing literally 3m (9 ft.) in front of me, aim at the head and hit his neck. In another situation a zombie stands 10m (11 yd.) away from me, I aim a little higher (1st line) and the bolt flies right over their head. It's as if the crosshair is too high and also as if the bolt rises for the first few meters and only then drops. It makes me crazy! :D

I play on hard and of course I deactivated all "auto-aim" features (it's a shame, that those are switched on by default), as I'm playing with keyboard and mouse.

[MILKElikeCAT]

Normally, there will be two lines below. The first one is 10m and the second one is 20m.
Getting too close can cause problems.
10M
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2745234948
20M
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2745235113

[DeadBeat]

Originally posted by MILKElikeCAT:

Normally, there will be two lines below. The first one is 10m and the second one is 20m.
Getting too close can cause problems.
10M
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2745234948
20M
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2745235113

That makes no sense because being closer should result in no appreciable droop in the crossbow bolt. if on the other hand your aiming at a target much further away then it stands to reason why there would be droop because then gravity will affect the bolt but point blank should be dead center in the reticle.

[DeadBeat]

Originally posted by Supernoob:

I'm having the same problems... well, and more... and either I don't understand the mechanics, or the game has some very strange physics. Although, there aren't many similar complaints that I found online, so maybe it's me...

I found one post on reddit, that explains my problems very well and as the poster I also played the Sniper Elite games... so...
I don't know what the deal with this thing is. I can't hit anything with it. I've played pretty much all the Sniper Elite games on hardest difficulty. So bullet drop and aiming isn't a foreign concept to me. But with this thing I can be ten feet away aimed at their head and it just drops off. Another time an enemy is a little farther away so I try aiming a bit higher, and it soars over their head.

It is as he said... I have a zombie standing literally 3m (9 ft.) in front of me, aim at the head and hit his neck. In another situation a zombie stands 10m (11 yd.) away from me, I aim a little higher (1st line) and the bold flies right over their head. It's as if the crosshair is too high and also as if the bolt rises for the first few meters and only then drops. It makes me crazy! :D

I play on hard and of course I deactivated all "auto-aim" features (it's a shame, that those are switched on by default), as I'm playing with keyboard and mouse.

Ya I don't know it never worked reliably for me to get headshots on a consistent basis which in turn kinda screwed up my ability to stealth.

[MILKElikeCAT]

I played hard 2 and attacked a zombie at 20m, although it hit the head, but there is a high chance of not dying, so it is useless to me except for special arrows above 20m.
The above two pictures are just for you to remember the position, since you want to take a weapon with a parabola, it takes some time to get used to the attack position of the weapon at different distances.

There are three positions in the close-up test, the middle, the first line, the position in your screen, I don't use it often, so I'm not interested in understanding it.

[Supernoob]

Thank you MILKElikeCAT, but I have actually given up on using the crossbow and use the silenced pistol now. The crossbow behavior is simply not comprehensible for me and makes me want to eat my keyboard. :D

As I said before, I normally know how to use weapons with bullet drop in games and I have played many dozens with similar mechanics, but I've never had something so unpredictable like the crossbow in Days Gone.

[DeadBeat]

Originally posted by Supernoob:

Thank you MILKElikeCAT, but I have actually given up on using the crossbow and use the silenced pistol now. The crossbow behavior is simply not comprehensible for me and makes me want to eat my keyboard. :D

As I said before, I normally know how to use weapons with bullet drop in games and I have played many dozens with similar mechanics, but I've never had something so unpredictable like the crossbow in Days Gone.

I got it to work somewhat by aiming it up and to the left or right of the target's head but I can't do it consistently so I'm in your boat on this matter.

[Supernoob]

Now that you mention it, I had one situation, where I was surprisingly spotted by a freak and shot my crossbow in a panic like really 50 cm left to his head, when he was just a few steps away and thought in the moment of shooting, "what a bad shot!"... and boom... headshot! I was like "What?!" :D

And I really deactivated all aiming helpers in the game... because mouse & keyboard...

[DeadBeat]

Originally posted by Supernoob:

Now that you mention it, I had one situation, where I was surprisingly spotted by a freak and shot my crossbow in a panic like really 50 cm left to his head, when he was just a few steps away and thought in the moment of shooting, "what a bad shot!"... and boom... headshot! I was like "What?!" :D

And I really deactivated all aiming helpers in the game... because mouse & keyboard...

I'm the same I play with mouse and keyboard and have no aim assist active. If you look at my third pic you'll see I'm in the middle of a reload animation however where the reticle is positioned is where I was aiming to hit the middle of the six so the aiming is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with that weapon for me at any rate. If I'm trying to snipe something from half way across the map I fully expect there to be an increase in the difficulty to achieve headshots but not something that is up close.

[A Pebble]

I noticed that the crosshairs in this game don't actually indicate where your bullets are going to go when I played this awhile back. Where the projectile goes is determined by where the barrel of the gun (or crossbow) is facing. So for example, an enemy is in your face smacking you, you can aim WAY to the right or left of the enemy and still hit them because the enemy would still be in the way of the gun barrel.

So going back to your pictures, ignoring the crosshair you can see that the crossbow is pointing at the bottom of the sign and the bolt went where it is supposed too. I will admit, the crossbow is extremely wonky as I remember when I last played this so I doubt it's intentional for the weapon to always hit so much lower than where you are "aiming".

[jokerace45]

If you are using a controller then you probably have some sort of weird dead zone acting up in the game.