Bow Sneak Attack only 1x

[Ferinio]

Break from all the political discourse in this forum... My bow sneak attack should be 3x but about 80% of the time it's only 1x. Anyone else having this issue or know how to resolve it?

[Bill.N]

I find it to be a bug. It says 1x, but it is clearly doing more damage for me than a non-sneak attack, so I don't know. I think it's just an error with the prompt because my sneak attacks work as expected, otherwise.

[kdodds]

Others are saying 3x for a headshot, 1x anywhere else. From what little I've played, I don't agree as I've also gotten 1.5x and 2x, so I think it's probably variable dependent on your skills. I don't recall what original did.

[Angleann92]

I'm having the same problem

[Drunken Ghost]

Same Issue. Its not a visual bug, its not armor related, its not based on head shot/body shot, and it doesn't matter if they are facing you or have their back to you. I've tested all of these on the same enemy and the sneak multiplier changes between 1x and 3x. My best guess is the bug is related to 2 handed weapon sneak damage, as people have stated that is at 1x. The bow my be coded in a way that it is registered as both bow and 2 handed causing the sneak multiplier to bug out at times. Others believe the bug stems from the bow not being equipped on your character in the equipment menu when going through load screens. They believe when this happens to simply unequip and re-equip the bow to fix it but I still personally get the sporadic 1x and 3x multipliers even when doing this trick.

[getbetter]

Same, i thought maybe it was tied to enchanted weapons but that doesn't seem to be the case either.

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

I tested this.

The x1 seems to happen at random. It doesn't matter where the arrow lands. Visibility doesn't matter at all.

Also the x1 is actually x1, It's easy to prove, just shoot and reload a save to compare the x3 and the eventual x1, the damage is x1.

On top of that currently, hitting a paralyzed target due to the 75+ marksman effect caused the game to crash.



My advice is to wait for fixes before playing an archer. I tried and shelved the playthrough due to frustration.