I'm not sure if it's become an issue or not for crytek yet, but the gauss rifle is pretty glitchy. I've seen a few posts now basically involving the gauss rifle often missing quite badly even while crouched, not moving, firing at a clearly vulnerable target. The miss will occur on a few shots back to back and mean time you get killed by the person you are firing at. On your screen the shots seem to pass directly through your target but not harm is done. Watching the the kill cam, the shots aren't even close to the person, sometimes even a whole body width away.

Anybody care to shed some light on this glitchy gauss rifle?

Don't get me wrong, I love this thing, when it does hit, it's pretty clear cuz you see a huge splat of blood and nothing can survive 2 hits to chest (1 hit to head). I find this wonderfully awesome gauss rifle partially sad only because the projectile is so off sometimes when it should be spot on happens so often.

find the reasen why it is failing so much use the defence mode and ur aim will better hit

firing while cloaked = big fail

this guy is right, the gauss rifle will have it's moments where it is really off target, it annoys the hell out of me. I would be crouched uncloaked, sometimes in armor and aim the red dot on the scope right over a targets face and shoot... but most of the time i will see my bullet hit way off target, as if the bullet isn't shooting in a straight line :/ then there will be times where the bullet hits as expected... i just wish it would be like that all the time.

The gauss rifle couldn't hit a barn if you were inside it and threw the rifle at it. I hear ya, I was so looking forward to getting it when I reached level 39 then fail. I can't even count the number of times I put the cross hairs right in the middle of a guys chest and ripped off 3 or 4 shots and none of them registered. I went back to the other sniper gun it gets you more kills. I hope crytek fixes this soon.

The gauss rifle couldn't hit a barn if you were inside it and threw the rifle at it. I hear ya, I was so looking forward to getting it when I reached level 39 then fail. I can't even count the number of times I put the cross hairs right in the middle of a guys chest and ripped off 3 or 4 shots and none of them registered. I went back to the other sniper gun it gets you more kills. I hope crytek fixes this soon.


yeah went back to the dsg-1, too.
the gauss has not enough damage to one shot and is inaccurate as hell. like i said a 100 times before they should change that and decrease the fire rate. i mean come on, first the silencer and then this. evenn in 2023 nobody can tell me they found a way to absorb the heat from the gauss canon. i know its a game but some thing are kind silly