Targeting Body Parts Question

Post » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:11 pm

Does aiming at certain parts of the enemy's body make any difference for how much damage you dish out?
I understand that as you level up with a certain weapon you can increase your chance of attaining Critical Hits, but if i aim and shoot a Dragon's tail or a person's arm, will it compute less damage than aiming and hitting their chest or head?
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Post » Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:09 pm

There's no locational damage in Skyrim. A headshot does as much damage as hitting their pinky toe.

The idea of including locational damage (either similar to Fallout or another system entirely) is a serious point of contention on these forums.
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Post » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:56 pm

I think adding locational damage would be awesome. The down side would be that I could never again play a warrior because of how fun it would be to snipe people's legs out with a bow and watch them crawl around.
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Post » Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:27 am

There's no locational damage in Skyrim. A headshot does as much damage as hitting their pinky toe.

The idea of including locational damage (either similar to Fallout or another system entirely) is a serious point of contention on these forums.
Thank You. That is what i highly suspected but i just wanted to be clear on that matter. I always felt better about myself when i aimed at head and center mass areas, but i found i had almost TOO MUCH luck with hitting their hands and forearms! It would be really cool if they came out with locational damage. Maybe it's alot of work to add that too an already-super complex game.
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Post » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:43 pm

Maybe it's alot of work to add that too an already-super complex game.
Yes, there's the work factor. And there's also the factor that not everybody is interested in it to begin with.
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