Effective weapon range?

[Quinn]

So I've been playing around with a variety of guns offline against bots trying to learn bullet spray patterns/damage/etc.

I noticed with the P250 headshots would sometimes one hit kill whilst other times the bot would still be living. So I'm a little confused is there some kind of effective range for weapons in CSGO?

If so could someone link me an article where I can find each weapons effective range? I tried a google search but didn't find anything.

[TrashCat™]

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[Vermilicious]

Aim at the nose.

[Blu]

Sometimes the hit didn't register. Servers are normally 64 ticks, which are quite buggy. Headshot with a P250 will guarantee a 1 hit kill, with or without helmet.

[flouride stare]

Actually, in longer ranges, damage starts dropping off for certain guns (SMGs, pistols, etc.)
This doesn't happen for rifles, I think.
So, it could be that your at a range which you can't 1-shot people.

[Eno]

Pistols and SMGs lose their effectiveness pretty fast when the distance increases. Rifles, not as much.

[Stnmn]

Originally posted by Blu™:

Sometimes the hit didn't register. Servers are normally 64 ticks, which are quite buggy. Headshot with a P250 will guarantee a 1 hit kill, with or without helmet.

That's not true. P250 is two shots to the head to kill at anything further than point blank.

[Blu]

Hmm, my bad. I seldomly use P250, except in the early matches. Found this. http://kili.united-forum.de/cs/csgo_guntests.html

[apple]

There's damage fall off for every gun in the game which means a P250 won't do single headshot versus helmet wearing enemies if you're far enough.