Shooting ground when prone, lets find a workaround!

[korpisoturi (DayZ) 127]

First of all I want to say that yes, I used the search first.

 

Okay, I bet everyone here knows this bug. You are lying on the ground, you see another player and deside to shoot him. Bullet bugs and hits the ground in front of you. Other guy hears the shot and sees you. You are dead.

 

What causes this and how can we work around this?

 

Does the bipod cause this somehow?

Does this has to do with elevation/steep ground? I don't think this bug has happened to me when I have been on flatland.

Does the vegetation and grass cause this?

Bullet doesn't actually leave from the barrel? Maybe because sometimes if you shoot near a tree, bullets hit that instead of going where they are suppose to.

 

 

When you are aiming though scope your rifle is actually hitting ground - Thanks to the comments this appears to be the reason. As St. Jimmy said:

"Your gun can go through the ground because there isn't much gun collision so the bullet hits the ground or object. The bullet leaves from the middle of the barrel so it can hit the ground even before the pipe ends. You aim too low or collide your middle of the gun too much."

 

 

What is your experience with this bug? Do you have a way to work around this bug? Share it to the world and receive BEANS.

Edited January 24, 2014 by korpisoturi

[tsandrey 379]

It's the ground collision. In 3rd person it will look like your weapon is in the ground, while in 1st person your gun will look like it's above the ground. It's an old arma problem....

[St. Jimmy 1631]

It's not a bug really. Your gun can go through the ground because there isn't much gun collision so the bullet hits the ground or object. The bullet leaves from the middle of the barrel so it can hit the ground even before the pipe ends. You aim too low or collide your middle of the gun too much.

[fitzee 248]

Hi.

 

Easy fix:

 

Always aim your shots. If you have time to go prone, you have time to aim. Imagine a real world combatant that hip shoots while prone lmao.

 

They really should remove that silly aiming dot, it's even on the so-called hardcore servers. Is this why there were so many people saying they couldn't hit people 20 meters away :huh:

 

Regards.