Hey so, loving the game.
But my biggest gripe so far is how much it takes to take down enemies and the fauna running around!
The .50cal is a particular disappointment as it takes too many shots to take down vehicles and animals even with this, the bow seems to be stronger... what even is going on with the guns UBISOFT?
I played FC4 recently and the guns seem way more powerful.
I don’t find them too weak or too strong. The don’t seem to be bullet sponges like you find in Fallout. I mean with the .50 cal sniper I was killing everything with one well-placed shot. Some weapons were out of balance a bit considering rates of fire but I never felt like it took way more than necessary.
I have literally head shot the bears and cows in the game with the .50cal 3 times and they don't die. Vehicles in FC4 would go down easier with the .50cal but in this one they take a lot more hits before exploding.
I just feel that they take too many hits sometimes, I get that some are wearing body armour but then there's the ones who clearly aren't xD
It does seem odd. It often takes a pair of 3-round bursts from the vector to the center of mass to kill any small animal or human. One 50-cal shot or one bow shot. Although a pistol shot to the head at close range will also do it. But bears, wolverines and skinks seem ridiculously hard to take down. I have an easier time downing a helicopter than a grizzly or wolverine.
The bad guys with armour require two 50 cal shots to the head to take down. The vector is a waste of time on these guys. Which is also a bit silly.
But on the other hand, the amount of damage your own character can take is a bit ridiculous. It seems that the bad guys get tougher as you progress and your own health improves so it’s not necessarily that the weapons are weak so much as the health levels are insanely high.
For some reason the M60 is hitting as hard as the M50 SHOULD be and the 60 is actually too weak. Some NPCs are elites and meant to take hits while animals do NOT go down to sniper/bow hits in the head for some reason. even if it's a body they shouldn't be able to run that fast away.