Just for fun I googled war zone hit reg and fortnite hit reg. Tons of people complaining. Seems as though this is an issue with many open world shooters and if the teams behind two of the world’s largest franchises can’t fix the issues 100% it seems unlikely that rare will be able to make it just go away some day.

@mferr11 This 100%. Also, it's very Rare I see a post about hitreg that ISN'T taken in an arena match..

@mferr11 said in Is Hit Registration an actual Problem or Not?:

I think it's an issue, just not as large of one as the community makes it out to be. People on here act like 9/10 shots don't connect.

Exactly! It's more like 1 in 5. 😅

I think it's an issue, just not as large of one as the community makes it out to be. People on here act like 9/10 shots don't connect.

Yes its actually a problem have you actually played the combat in this game

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@triheadedmonkey sorry but weed is legal in a ton of states. My bad.

And maybe sometime soon in germany...so less than an hour away from me 🤗

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Yeah, states. We do not all live in the US, and it is illegal in most countries. So, yes, it is illegal.
(Rare is situated the the UK, not the US)

@triheadedmonkey sorry but weed is legal in a ton of states. My bad.

Lol sorry mod I was trying to make light of the crews that think the devs are magicians that can just “fix” things. Not sure why I was censored though.

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It’s a huge issue but I frankly believe if there was a fix it would have been fixed already, learn to live with it or find another game. Life is not fair, neither is this game. Cry about it or find another game.

It does crop up from time to time my land-lubbing friend, I was defending me ship not too long ago and shot some scallywag square in the chest with me blunderbuss and he didnt fall, this happened twice! granted with me new hook, my aim isnt exactly the best but they were both climbing the ladder! I've since switched to my crab-leg-pistol so I can at least deal a reliable amount on damage on these sailors before they kill me

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You get the point.

It's an issue for pvp lol.

I never notice it.

(I solo sloop and avoid pvp as much possible btw)

its so bad the games combat is simply broken, no other term suffices. Pretty bad for a PvP focussed game to have it this bad.

I threw together a video some months back before I quit to show friends how bad it is, might as well throw it here too.

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Is one of the worst problems on SoT, makes gunfights pure RNG. It makes you feel that your skill improvement is nothing because you just need to be lucky when you shoot and pray to not make a hitreg or you are done if the enemie doesn´t hitreg you xD

It is definitely an issue, i have a slower pc and my friend has auch faster pc and we occasionally tdm. Both of us get hit reg problems all of the time

@d3adst1ck sagte in Is Hit Registration an actual Problem or Not?:

The problem is that players rely on the visual feedback of the hitmarkers and feel cheated when what they see doesn't match up with what is happening.

Ok...then let's get rid of the markers...less complaints 😁😎

@schwammlgott said in Is Hit Registration an actual Problem or Not?:

In my experience it is...as I said, there were moments, I was aiming good and could have bet I hit, but didn't get a marker...but still he died...
And as I said...I'm probably the only one, who thinks this...

Hit markers are client side. They appear based on whether your client detects a hit or not. They are 100% reliable based on what you are seeing.

Actual hit registration is done server side. It is calculated by determining if a weapon fired from position X,Y,Z hits anything along a damage path (for guns this is a line and for swords it's probably an arc/area). This is the only one that really matters, because it is how damage is applied to your target. The problem is that these two things are frequently out of sync due to lag, server performance issues or bugs. This is why you get hit markers and no damage, or kill players without hitmarkers. There are two separate things calculating hits completely independently of each other and are based on slightly different world states.

The problem is that players rely on the visual feedback of the hitmarkers and feel cheated when what they see doesn't match up with what is happening. Some games fix this by having server side hit markers - which means that you shoot, server calculates hit and then sends message back to your client to display hitmarker. This is more accurate in determining whether you hit something or not, but the hitmarker can appear delayed on your side and it's another back and forth message that needs to be sent and received.

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@schwammlgott said in Is Hit Registration an actual Problem or Not?:

@coffeelight5545 I might be the only one with that opinion: just get rid of the unreliable hitmarker!

I think that because, there were a lot of times I shot a guy and thought to myself: "I must have missed, because I aimed a bit too far to the right/left side"...at the same time I got a hitmarker, but the guy didn't heal himself
On the other side I had a lot of times, I was sure I hit him, but didn't get a marker...meanwhile he started to heal himself and/or the second shot killed him...
So I still think the biggest problem isn't really hitreg itself, it's more the hitmarker beeing unreliable

The hit marker isn’t unreliable. If you miss a shot shot, sometimes it does damage. This is a backtrack and isn’t supposed to happen. Other times as you might be more familiar with, when you hit someone and you get the hit marker, no damage is dealt. These are the two problems with hit reg. The cutlass also often backtracks enemies dealing damage from a lung for example when you were behind the attacker.

In my experience it is...as I said, there were moments, I was aiming good and could have bet I hit, but didn't get a marker...but still he died...
And as I said...I'm probably the only one, who thinks this...

@coffeelight5545 said in Is Hit Registration an actual Problem or Not?:

The player community doesn’t know the answer. They are just commenting on their personal experiences

We do know why. Rare has commented on this several times as well as have it on every set patch notes in the known issues section.

@schwammlgott said in Is Hit Registration an actual Problem or Not?:

@coffeelight5545 I might be the only one with that opinion: just get rid of the unreliable hitmarker!

I think that because, there were a lot of times I shot a guy and thought to myself: "I must have missed, because I aimed a bit too far to the right/left side"...at the same time I got a hitmarker, but the guy didn't heal himself
On the other side I had a lot of times, I was sure I hit him, but didn't get a marker...meanwhile he started to heal himself and/or the second shot killed him...
So I still think the biggest problem isn't really hitreg itself, it's more the hitmarker beeing unreliable

The hit marker isn’t unreliable. If you miss a shot shot, sometimes it does damage. This is a backtrack and isn’t supposed to happen. Other times as you might be more familiar with, when you hit someone and you get the hit marker, no damage is dealt. These are the two problems with hit reg. The cutlass also often backtracks enemies dealing damage from a lung for example when you were behind the attacker.