is the weapons slightly off-aim??

[darknessviking]

ive played games for 20 years,ive played all of far cry 5, but this game, it feels like when you aim it always hit a bit to the side of the enemiles, like the sniper rifle, i can aim point blank at a enemiyes face, and it still misses

[Silver]

I feel the same.
Especially with Sniper weapons

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

The weapons have natural ballistics. That means if you aim directly at an enemies face you'll hit their chest because the bullet will drop from gravity.

[GM Pax]

Bullet drop is a thing. The further away thy are, the more it will drop.

Also, weapons have an Accuracy statistic for a reason. The lower it is, the further off your point-of-aim the bullet will fly.

Bullets also aren't instantaneous - they don't travel at lightspeed. So you will have to "lead" the target if it's moving - aim for where it WILL be when the bullet arrives, rather than at where they are right then.

Also also "hip fire" - shooting without first AIMING down the gun's sights - is always, always going to be hideously inaccurate.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Originally posted by Usmovers_02:

The weapons have natural ballistics. That means if you aim directly at an enemies face you'll hit their chest because the bullet will drop from gravity.

"Weapons have natural ballistics" That is all well and good but when it feels like throwing a tennis ball at a target just 50m away when shooting with a high powered rifle something is not right. Bullet drop is too high and projectiles too slow.
I was shooting at a elk 60 something meters away and when the shot went off it managed to do a 180 before the bullet reached it... There is a need for adjustment here. Game is still fun though

[WeedBluntBlazing]

this game has bullet drop, always since far cry 4, my instinct works better with bullet drop anyways

[PocketYoda]

Yeah it feels very much like that or the hit boxes are garbage.. Totally agree op.

I has nothing to do with bullet drop.. I have the sights on dead accurate and i still miss more than not even at short distances.. something with weapons is off.

[Bedlam_and_Chaos]

Originally posted by DanteYoda:

Yeah it feels very much like that or the hit boxes are garbage.. Totally agree op.

I has nothing to do with bullet drop.. I have the sights on dead accurate and i still miss more than not even at short distances.. something with weapons is off.

Finally I'm seeing people with the same problem. I NEVER had this problem with other far cry games (or any games for that matter).
I'm stealthed, with a sniper rifle, XXXXing 15 feet away, aimed perfectly at their head on a stopped target, missing over and over again. Reload game, miss, reload game, miss. WHAT??

Sorry, but no. This is not bullet drop. Bullets don't travel that slow and this is why there's a scope on a sniper rifle. Otherwise, what's the point of a scope or sniper rifle at all??? No matter what distance I am, I still miss.
Even the throwing knife is doing the same thing for me. Sometimes it 1-hits them, other times it misses 100%, when perfectly lined up.

Aiming is completely broken. I played all the far cry games. Stealth killing is was what I loved, and in New Dawn, it's totally broken.

[GM Pax]

Originally posted by Bedlam_and_Chaos:

I'm stealthed, with a sniper rifle, XXXXing 15 feet away, aimed perfectly at their head on a stopped target, [...]

AIMED, or just POINTED?

Sniper rifles become notoriously inaccurate when "hip-fired". ALWAYS HAVE.

Aiming is completely broken.

Aiming has never broken for me, the way you report it has for you. Not even once.

[twiggy]

yeahh first thing i noticed too was how bad the hitboxes are.

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Ciara:

yeahh first thing i noticed too was how bad the hitboxes are.

Like its still fun and worth playing but there is really something amiss with hitting targets.

Originally posted by GM Pax:

Originally posted by Bedlam_and_Chaos:

I'm stealthed, with a sniper rifle, XXXXing 15 feet away, aimed perfectly at their head on a stopped target, [...]

AIMED, or just POINTED?

Sniper rifles become notoriously inaccurate when "hip-fired". ALWAYS HAVE.

Aiming is completely broken.

Aiming has never broken for me, the way you report it has for you. Not even once.

Both for me but Aimed is worse, its similar to like latency problems in CoD style games you aim at something dead on with no movement and still miss...

Weird issue in a single player game.

[GM Pax]

Originally posted by DanteYoda:

Both for me but Aimed is worse, its similar to like latency problems in CoD style games you aim at something dead on with no movement and still miss...

I almost wonder if your system is bottlenecking on something. Probably not GPU, or you'd see framerate drops.

CPU or RAM, maybe?

Weird issue in a single player game.

It certainly is. Not happening for the serious majority of players, though, so it's not a root problem in the game in general. It's got to be either a hardware issue, or a hardware-software conflict of some sort.

[similarly]

I've been playing games since 1978 or 1979. I had a pong light-gun.

I haven't had any problems with weapon accuracy in FCND. I do feel the sniper rifle bullets are slower and have less range than in other games I play, but I also feel most games over-estimate how accurate those guns are.

I put it down to post-apocalyptic reload problems.

That said: I love the weapons in ND. I love the bullet travel and bullet drop. I've had no problems but my own slip-ups.

[Bedlam_and_Chaos]

To add on to my original comments, it's happening mostly against level 2 humans.
Been using the sniper rifle and bow without many problems on level 1 targets.
There's still a bug here. If it's a level 2 human, it should STILL take damage, just a bit less. The shot shouldn't miss completely.

Also, the flamethrower is a JOKE. You're lighting people ON FIRE, and animals, and they barely take damage and keep attacking you? WHAT?!

[GM Pax]

Originally posted by Bedlam_and_Chaos:

To add on to my original comments, it's happening mostly against level 2 humans.
Been using the sniper rifle and bow without many problems on level 1 targets.
There's still a bug here. If it's a level 2 human, it should STILL take damage, just a bit less. The shot shouldn't miss completely.

No, not "a bit" less, but STUPENDOUSLY less. The damage dealt by a too-low-Tier weapon can be almost impossible to even SEE.

I've taken a T3 weapon, and against an Elite foe,required eight or ten shots to even see that their health bar has been reduced at all.

So the odds are, you aren't missing. You're just not doing noticeable amounts of damage. WELCOME TO AN RPG-LITE SYSTEM; upgrade your weapons, already.

Also, the flamethrower is a JOKE. You're lighting people ON FIRE, and animals, and they barely take damage and keep attacking you? WHAT?!

Again, Tier I weapons versis Tier II and higher enemies.

Light up an equal-tier enemy, and the result is significantly better.

...

To be honest, I suspect that's what 90% of the "I miss at point blank range" stuff is. People still expect to see big chunks of health come off of the enemy, when using a lower-tier gun. The game simple doesn't work that way. If your gun is under-level compared to your target, expect to do barely-perceptible damage.

[Allivan]

Originally posted by Bedlam_and_Chaos:

To add on to my original comments, it's happening mostly against level 2 humans.
Been using the sniper rifle and bow without many problems on level 1 targets.
There's still a bug here. If it's a level 2 human, it should STILL take damage, just a bit less. The shot shouldn't miss completely.

Also, the flamethrower is a JOKE. You're lighting people ON FIRE, and animals, and they barely take damage and keep attacking you? WHAT?!

The Elite flamethrower (not the meme unicorn one) melts everything it touches.