Sometimes I line it up, fire, and hit my mark. The baddie charges, and fights a bit, then dies. I look at the body, and see the arrow went right through the eye socket and through the back of the skull, yet he managed to fight on. Amazing. I guess that could happen in real like too, then. Because although the focus is on fantasy gameplay, Bethesda strives to make the combat as real as possible.

This isn't an FPS.

Locational damage would make the hitpoint system pointless.

Headshots don't always kill in one shot there, either.

People have survived being shot in the head in real life.

Also, this is more in line with the randomization of combat damage. I like they haven't changed that aspect of gameplay.

Hahaha, if headshots where 1 hit kill, I would have died at every bandit toll at the game their archers always headshot me

There is no locational damage, and arrow to the head does as much damage as an arrow to the knee. It is supposed to be an RPG, and those are all about numbers, not realism.

But it's a good thing they left Morrowind's combat system :hehe:

Yo even if you shoot someone in the head with a SMG they aren't one shot in a FPS, how will an arrow one shot things then?

Yawn. Play a game like mount and blade if you want that. Realism has not been a part of tes ever.

I see what you did there.

This absolutely can and probably would happen in real life. Especially considering the low velocity of an arrow compared to say... a military issue NATO round fired from an M16/M4, which can essentially make the back of your head explode. Numerous stories exist of cops being shot multiple times (even in the face) and continueing on to take down a criminal before finally dying. It's the affects adrenaline has on the body. You'd be surprised what one can live through (short term) thanks to the way our human bodies respond to extreme stress. Now change those bullets to an arrow, which probably did no damage beyond the stuff it actually hit (bullets have tendency to turn the flesh/bone/muscle it hits into their own projectiles and therefore causing more wide-spread damage) and you will find that it's perfectly reasonable that someone would continue to fight after taking an arrow to the eye. Five-ten minutes later though you should expect them to drop.

What is more my problem is retical.

I aim at this guy. He isn't moving. My retical is right on him and the arrow whizzes past him. I mean come on.

AMEN TO THAT. Swinging a sword through a mob of enemies and not hitting any of them = :banghead:

Headshots in real life don't kill some targets.

Cheers

This is actually one of the few gripes I have with the game. I made a request thread in the mod section and a modder sad this can be easily fixed and they will do it along with other combat mods.

I can't wait for the Creation Kit to come out.

I know. All of the points are valid. I actually prefer the fight to continue. I just thought it was funny to look at the body and see the arrow sticking out of the back of the head. I wasn't being serious about the comment.

Remember the noise?

*Whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff SPLURCH*

*Red stuff flies out*

*Whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff SPLURCH*

Mudcrab dies (1 minute later)

this is my first experience with Elder Scrolls RPG, and as a FPS gamer I still find myself lining up for the head shot every time before I realize that this isn't Battlefield 3. LOL.

It's just like fallout and oblivion I think headshots do more damage but probaly won't kill anyone except low level enemies in 1 hit, I shot 7 arrows into someone's head once before and I think only half of their health went down.

This is something I don't understand. They left the Morrowind system because people argued that swinging a weapon at someone directly in front of you and missing was unrealistic/took them out of the experience. How does lodging an arrow in someone's head without doing significantly more damage not fall into that exact same category?

If they're going with a hit-is-a-hit system, then make it a proper one. There's far more room for tactics and strategy if planning where my shots land matters.

I think some of this is the auto-aim if they've implemented. Sometimes I'll shoot at one enemy who's standing nearby another enemy. The auto-aim "corrects" my shot which then angles slightly towards the enemy I wasn't aiming at. This results in the arrow flying right between the one foot gap between the two enemies and hitting no one...

LOL arrow through the eye with enough force to exit through the back of your head and you think you can fight on? It would skewer your brain therefore destroying many functions vital to life.

Yeah well I'm not aiming for floorboards. I'm aiming for the dudes chest. I admit one time to be funny I aimed for the knee.

That's not true man! An arrow on the knee will make you char become a city guard!!! haven't you listening to the guards stories on the cities?!

would've been too easy if headshot'd kill on first hit.

The icemages could oneshot the player, seeing as an huuuuuge hunk of ice is piercing your body.
It would be nice if i shot some bandit in the knee and they fellover or something, of hitting them in the arm and they loose their weapon.

But i wouldn like headshots

Locational damage would be better but it requires more work from the developers. It's absence is much more simple to code and balance out. I guess it's just a matter of priorities. They've decided that TES fans wouldn't be so demanding about those features so they could simplify that part of the game and focus on other things.

I'm waiting for the mods to fix that.

Also, as others pointed out, saying that a shot to the head should kill you instantly wouldn't be very accurate either, although it would still be more accurate than the current system. An arrow lodged in a guys head should do tremendous amount of damage, killing the victim instantly more often than not.