Headshots

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Not having specific location damage is one of the primary ways (though not the only one) they balance Keyboard/Mouse and Controllers playing together. K/M has a huge advantage with location targeting. By having just a single general hitbox it allows controllers to stand up against K/M much better. So this would not go over well at all.

Sea of Thieves is not a competitive shooter, no matter how much a small percentage of the community want it to be. It will never be like Call of Duty, CS:GO, Valorant, or any other such game. It has no skill-based matchmaking.

Yes, there are some highly skilled players who are great to watch in tournaments (NAL, SoC, etc.) but, for the most part, that’s not representative of the core playerbase.

This is a family-friendly, casual, open world, social, sandbox adventure game primarily.

@wavestalker Unreal Tournament was SO MUCH FUN. Cheers to a fellow player

Bad idea, would make sword useless and the guns too strong if it takes only one bullet and would probably stir even more frustration when getting hit regged on headshot if it were to come into the game.

Also keep in mind everyone has a different pirate of various sizes and shapes which make headshot hit box really difficult to add.

If you wanna one shot someone just keg them, blunderbuss or just fire a cannonball into their face!

@butterfinger750 pretty sure the size of the pirate has no relevance in sea of thieves. The hit box per character is identical fat or thin.

@pabio-escobar it’s all the same but it would be hard to tell which part is the head, body or just some air

@ghostpaw

Yep. Knocking on 40 myself. Quite a lot of mature gamers in this community. I know a lot of folks in their late 30s and even into their 40s and 50s playing the game. Something about the game just appeals to those of us a bit older who have long passed our prime in terms of being competitive but still have the experience to play tactically.

Maybe just increased damage but nerf the eye of reach not to much so a hs does 70 and body 50

@greatfailure82 said in Headshots:

@butterfinger750 said in Headshots:

Bad idea, would make sword useless and the guns too strong if it takes only one bullet and would probably stir even more frustration when getting hit regged on headshot if it were to come into the game.

Also keep in mind everyone has a different pirate of various sizes and shapes which make headshot hit box really difficult to add.

If you wanna one shot someone just keg them, blunderbuss or just fire a cannonball into their face!

im not disagreeing with you that its a bad idea, i just wanted to point out the fact everyone has a different pirate means nothing, fat pirates have the same hitbox as a skinny pirate so using that as a reason why for anything is wrong

Actually it is a good reason. We all have the same hitbox - small pirates and tall pirates ... the hitbox of the head would be above the hitbox of the body. So you would need to aim above the head of a dwarf-sized pirate and aim for the chest (or thereabouts) of Long John Silver.
So, before they introduce headshots, they're going to need to adjust the size of hitboxes and how that affects general (cross-)play.

@greatfailure82 said in Headshots:

@lem0n-curry there are no dwarf pirates in the game, i agree if there were dwarf pirates in the game this would be an issue however seeing as all pirates are the same height your creating issues where there quite simply isn't any

Really ? I'll admit my examples where over the top so to speak, but I thought there where some height differences in pirates.

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