Anybody else having this problem -> Vital Organ hits not registering on large game.

[Chon the Monk]

Moose, Elk, and Red deer so far are not registering vital organ hits. I shot half a dozen red deer with .270 in the vitals - at least 2 heart shots - part of the game mission blood but with no kills registered. I got so frustrated with this gun i tried the old reliable muzzleloader and had the same problem after the shot but thinking i brought .454 pistol as a back up and shot a red deer 3 more times as it was running away. I ended up tracking it a mile before i found it. It somehow ran straight up a 80-90 degree 100 meter shear cliff face turned around and jump off to it's death. When i found it only 1 hit was registered even though there was blood after i shot it with the muzzleloader and .454 the 3 times. Hit showed one hit with the .454 in back leg.

I shot a female elk with .300 magnum in the vitals and it ran away. 3 times i shot it as it ran away with minor blood loss each time. I tracked it 500 meters with only 1 shot showing as a spine hit.

I just shot 2 moose with bow at less than 20 meters perfect broadside vital organ hits. The first was a female. I shot her 2 more times with the bow as she ran around in circles and ended up tracking her till the blood disappeared as she kept running so never found her. After relocating to another area i shot a bull moose at 20 meters perfect broadside shot in the vitals with the bow but only minor blood loss. I ran after him and shot him 3 more times with .300 magnum but he kept going. I didn't want him to get away so i kept running after him. I finally caught up with him in heavy brush so i pulled out the .454 pistol and shot him 3 more times. Every time i shot him with the different weapons he would drop with only minor blood loss showing on the ground. When i finally found him dead the display showed that i hit him 2 times with the .454 but only the spine shot showed in the display. Total tracking distance was over 936 meters.

[DopaTrain]

I've noticed sometimes shots dont register.

[Chon the Monk]

Small game die properly but not large game. I had one red deer die still standing on it's feet when i found it. Very creepy since i was hunting at night.

[Yuccasu]

Sounds weird, did you validate your game files?

[Leadmagnet]

Depending on the range, hollowpoint ammo probably won't reach vitals. I'd go only with polymer tip for rifles and hard cast for the pistols. Those are going to give the best penetration to reach vitals. No idea on the bow problem, unless it is the particular bow you are using. The compound bow shouldn't have any problems at 20 meters. Heck, almost all of my kills with the compound bow fall in the 20-25 meter range.

[Chon the Monk]

I did a clean install of windows 10 and clean install of the game. I validated the files. I only use polymer tip bullets and hard cast bullets. 70 pound compound bow. This is only 1 of many problems. This is just a new one i haven't had before. 333 hrs in game play. The shot's are just not showing on the animals vitals. There is no way a spine shot animal will go 500 or 900 meters before dying.

[Leadmagnet]

Originally posted by Chon the Monk:

I did a clean install of windows 10 and clean install of the game. I validated the files. I only use polymer tip bullets and hard cast bullets. 70 pound compound bow. This is only 1 of many problems. This is just a new one i haven't had before. 333 hrs in game play. The shot's are just not showing on the animals vitals. There is no way a spine shot animal will go 500 or 900 meters before dying.

Well that answered a lot of questions. Guess I need to see if I can get the Hawk Edge ( I started over) and see what happens. It definitely won't be the ammo for rifle/pistol. The 70# draw weight compound bow, especially with both tiers of pumping iron, has no problems with a double lung at 20 meters. Heck, if the x-ray view is believed, I've had shots that were a complete pass through at that range.

Spine shots got changes quite awhile back. You now have to hit the spinal chord for an instant drop and not just the spinal column. I still can't see an animal running that far though and don't think any of mine have.

[Ripz]

yes. sometimes i notice hitboxes lag behind the actual animation, or the shot hit is kinda delayed (cant tell which). kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ for a game where the whole point is to take accurate shots. sometimes they dont hit the animal at all. ive also had shots show hitting the air on the harvest screen instead of where i actually hit it (and it will still count it as a proper hit, thankfully). and once i lost a harvest check for hitting more than twice, even though i did only hit it twice and it showed only 2 hits on the same screen. this ♥♥♥♥ doesnt happen too often and i wouldnt really care, but im dreading the day this happens on what wouldve been a diamond.

tbh an easy bandaid solution would be to just allow us to not harvest and instead respawn the animal back into the world to try hunting again. i know you can avoid harvesting in the first place and it'll respawn, but unless you already checked for a vital organ hit, once you open that harvest screen its too late. as it is, if you hit a potential diamond or rare skin, ALWAYS check for a vital organ hit blood splat before harvesting. if it wasnt a vital, reload game and try again.

[Chon the Monk]

Ok. I can't complete some of the missions though because the weapons i need to use won't kill the game. I'll have to try head shots at lower ratings for the kill. Hopefully the next update will fix the problem.

I heard The Way of the Hunter has a 40 hrs game play bug that effects sound. I wonder if this is similar.

[ATOMIC]

It sounds to me like where you are aiming isn't where the game thinks you are aiming. Have you tested at the shooting range?