Headshot Damage or Strngified Damage? Which one is better?

[Bocchi-chan]

Headshot Damage or Strngified Damage? Which one is better?

[Waryth]

Stringified Damage.

Headshot Damage is usually reserved for snipers (semi auto) where they snipe long range undetected despite the glare they could still do a peek shot to prevent that.

People move fast in this game to do a proper headshot. Don't forget, you can double jump, side step, glide and all those fast movements doesn't guarantee you a headshot whenever you use shotguns, SMG and Assault Rifles.

[Afangun]

I already answered this but I will answer again

I prefer headshot dmg because if you try to shoot in the head during a gun fight you will have more chances to win. Also, don’t forget when you spray, some of your bullets can hit the enemy in the head, even considering the fact that you were not aiming at the head

strigfield dmg only works when people are in paper mode
headshot for people with good aim and strighfield for people with bad aim

[Afangun]

but always choose stringfield for shotguns (bai mo and eika) and snipers (kanami and kokona)

[Nepnep]

Stringified for snipers, shotgun and Audrey(Snipers don't need them because headshots are an instant kill anyway)
Headshot for... muskets or w/e you call those single shot rifles who benefit a lot from the extra "ambush" damage

Autos can get either doesn't matter.

(Headshot is generally better in a straight 1v1 shootout but I more often encounter "string battles" where people try to NOT die in a 2v1 so that they can be rescued, try to be sneaky on teammate by wall climbing, etc.)

[Afangun]

Originally posted by Nepnep:

Stringified for snipers and shotgun
Headshot for... muskets or w/e you call those single shot rifles.

Autos can get either doesn't matter.

(Headshot is generally better in a straight 1v1 shootout but I more often encounter "string battles" where people try to NOT die in a 2v1 so that they can be rescued, try to be sneaky on teammate by wall climbing, etc.)

single shoot is snipers
and auto sniper rifle is dmr

i prefer headshot for ar, smg, dmr and stringfiel for shotguns and snipers (shotguns and snipers dont have headshot upgrades anyway xd)

[⚡ Zio Kenzaki ⚡]

There are many skilled players on stringified maneuvers. since you gonna have hard time aiming because of the small hitboxes, I don't think, it worth to invest. your opponent have acess to stringified dmg reduction or moviment speed upgrade, so that extra strngified damage becomes obsolete later on.
Also, even if you don't finish your enemy, your teammates will.
(I killed many players with tiny health on stringified, using, Ignis or emberplit. stinger also works if you want to spray.)

[⚡ Zio Kenzaki ⚡]

I personally always go for HS in any FPS. I like quick and clean.
on SMGs, such as Yvette's or Flavia's. I choose firerate upgrade. I finish em off so quick that my opponent don't have have time to stringified. (literally, they ain't know what hit 'em.)
oh, and shotguns too. cuz.. SG feels bit weak in this game compare to snipers.

[Waryth]

I'll be reinforcing my points from my first post. It'd be unfair to edit it as it wouldn't make sense and adding it will just drown the previous comments below so I'll just make a new post here.

If you play FPS games, you'd normally think headshot damage is the "ideal" upgrade without a single doubt. In this game, it's more on damage numbers. Some games apply instant headshot kill but that doesn't apply here.

Here's an example for Michelle's basic stats as an Assault Rifle agent:

Michelle's damage

Training > B key (by default)

Body Part	10m	30m	50m
Head	37	32	30
Torso	25	21	20
Legs	17	14	14

Stringified Damage: 64

basically a headshot is already a crit in this context doubling the amount of the lowest base raw damage of 17.

It takes a 5 total headshot to kill a player with Heavy Armor upgrade. (215 HP total). The farther you aim, the less damage you deal. It's original lowest damage value at 10m dealing 17 damage is just 14 now at 50m which makes it 6 headshots total instead of the usual 5.

Whenever you try to headshot someone, they are always in the move or stringified/gliding or jumping. Spraying and praying your 30 rounds of ammunition as a way to justify "more chances to hit the enemy to the head" also exposes you to the same. The longer you fire 30 rounds mag dump at someone, the higher the chance you'll get return fire from someone else on their team. In ideal scenario, you don't do full mag dump of 30 rounds on one person especially when its a team based game where someone will assist their teammates that's under attacked.

Whenever you fight someone close to 1-3 meters, they always go stringified when there's no cover around. For every close quarter combat, it's ALWAYS a STRINGIFIED battle at this point on.

Headshot Damage Upgrade:

10m	30m	50m
37 > 44	32 > 37	30 > 35
+7	+5	+5

You're only adding a small value of 5-7 extra damage with the upgrade.

The usual 5 headshots at medium range ends up becoming 4 headshots for an enemy with Heavy Armor. It takes 6 if shot at farther range down to 5.

Stringified Damage Upgrade:

Stringified Damage: 64 > 76
+12 extra damage

Comparing +5-7 EXTRA damage to FLAT +12 EXTRA Damage PER bullet (in ALL RANGES of penetration value) during stringified and yes, the stringified damage applies to headshot during stringified making it more beneficial as an overall upgrade.

To those who say, they'll get Stringified Damage Reduction, that also applies to you in equal setting in contesting objectives where everyone goes stringified if NOT, jumping. If a person is side jumping or double jumping, you can't aim for the head easily either.

In an actual team combat scenario, there's Celestia, Kokona, Fragrans doing healing or armor regen so a +5-7 is a small damage improvement compared to the other. You want the best? that's the answer math wise in theory crafting. Snipers/Semi-Auto/Single Shot weapons are exempted from this rule.

[Luxaeterna]

My opinion is Headshot all of them except Eika, Baimo, and Audrey.

Audrey = Suppressing fire with LMG

Baimo/Eika = Shotgun will hit due to spread

[Aimee]

Originally posted by Nepnep:

Stringified for snipers, shotgun and Audrey(Snipers don't need them because headshots are an instant kill anyway)

Snipers dont have the Headshot damage upgrade though, or any damage upgrade for that matter. Its a choice between stringified damage or getting a higher zoom scope.

If you trust in your aim a little bit, you should always try to go for headshot damage. Getting more headshots than the enemy will turn a fight in your favor, while not getting headshots means you have to either shoot at enemies that dont shoot back, or hope they dont hit headshots on you.
If you plan to shoot targets that are stringified a lot, or duel with players who stringify between reloads, then stringified damage can be useful. This is especialy true on Audrey, since players often try to stay alive in her suppressive fire. But even here, if enemies dont strigify then you can down them a lot quicker with headshots as Audrey.

By default i would choose Stringified damage on snipers, audrey, and shotguns as well. With the exeption of Bai Mo headshot build, if you have the aim.
Everything els benefits from headshots too much, even if you use hipfire and never ADS.

[Waryth]

Originally posted by Aimee:

Originally posted by Nepnep:

Stringified for snipers, shotgun and Audrey(Snipers don't need them because headshots are an instant kill anyway)

Snipers dont have the Headshot damage upgrade though, or any damage upgrade for that matter. Its a choice between stringified damage or getting a higher zoom scope.

This is false.

Reichii is a sniper and his Critical Hit upgrades are as follows:

Critical Hit

+Headshot Damage

+Stringified Damage

https://strinova.org/wiki/Reiichi

Official Introduction

Reiichi is a cold sniper with special forces training. Owing to Meredith's deep trust in him, he is often deployed on the most dangerous solo missions. Reiichi possesses a tactical light screen device that can be deployed to block the enemy's field of view.

He may doesn't have a charged aiming damage mechanics due to using a semi-automatic weapon in replaced of passive ADS scanner but any rifle with a scope is a sniper.

In fact, he can Switch Scope Magnification just like Kanami and Kokona.

He even has 4.0X Max Scope Zoom just like Kanami and Kokona from Handling Upgrades.

Handling

Switch Scope

+Recoil Handling

[glenn3e]

For me, depending on character, I'll get Headshot damage for the first round only. This is because every little bit of burst helps when everyone hasn't got armor upgrades yet. Second round onwards, depending on a win or loss, I'll refund the headshot upgrade and go for other upgrades and eventually get String damage upgrade.