Is most gear supposed to get ruined even after a clean headshot?

[infiltrator 275]

I bumped into a guy looting a corpse. He didn't see me, so instead of butchering him I thought I'd actually use some of his gear and proceeded to walk into melee range and headshot him with the revolver. Upon inspecting the remains I've realized that most of his gear was ruined.

 

Is this intended or a bug, I was under the impression that gear gets ruined if the containers holding it get damaged, but obviously it didn't work like that in this scenario.

[Jack Dant 158]

Obviously the bullet traveled along his spine, came out at the back, ricocheted around the backpack for a bit, then went back in throught his kidney and out his jacket pocket.

 

Completely realistic.

[wud 143]

 or his bp was empty after all, and he just stored the things in his mouth

Edited February 4, 2014 by dawud

[dayzintel 39]

or maybe most of the gear he was carrying was ruined in the first place? :)

[infiltrator 275]

or maybe most of the gear he was carrying was ruined in the first place? :)

 

That was my initial assumption, but upon considering the factors it was unlikely.

 

All I've heard was a couple of gunshots, inspecting the corpse that he was looting, I found no firearm. The guy I executed had a mosin. My assumption is he just shot this guy and hadn't got hurt in the process. Since I was in close proximity I would assume that if the guy had been hurt he would have first bandaged himself or checked for surroundings before going to loot, instead, when I arrived he was already crouched over his victim, no blood dripping or anything.

 

Second, I've concluded most gear gets ruined on death, but on injury it just moves down durabiity. I can say with certainty that I don't expect anyone to carry around 90% of ruined items, which was this guys inventory bar the mosin.

[Iemitsu 6]

I've shoot a guy before with m4 in the tummy, his pistol, his pistol parts, all mags(including the one inside his gun) was ruined. 

 

Luckily his mosin with pristine long range scope was intact, but was ruined after i got shot a couple weeks later. 

Edited February 4, 2014 by Iemitsu

[qrille 0]

i shoot one guy in the head only the ballistic helmet was ruined.

[DropBearChick 1217]

Yeas the dev team are working on hit boxes for clothing so not everything gets ruined but it will take time

[paulusrojo 25]

Usually if you get a clean headshot, the rest of the loot is in "normal" shape. Atleast in my experience.

For your situation, the stuff he had was probably already ruined. If he was looting someone else, maybe he just shot him, and thus ruined all his gear, but still looted it.

 

Clothes, backpacks and stuff can still be worn after its ruined. I feel it's better to run around with a ruined hunter backpack, and ruined camo clothes compared to pristine purple hello kitty backpack and a yellow "glow in the dark" raincoat :)

[flygamer1 176]

or maybe most of the gear he was carrying was ruined in the first place? :)

It's a bug

[Good Greef 29]

Smells like dupery gone wrong.

[darthbane67 92]

They will be changing how things get damaged by what how much and location blah blah blah. This is early alpha ladies this recent patch changed how zombies affect items it seems.

[gungza 29]

got shot in the leg and only my pants and stuff in pockets were ruined.  I got shot in the foot and only my shoes were ruined.  Are you sure you got a clean headshot?  Those magnums can be unwieldly bastards :-P

[jesquik 75]

Yeas the dev team are working on hit boxes for clothing so not everything gets ruined but it will take time

 

This. They are just starting to introduce this stuff, it will take a while. Good that you reported it, but this type of stuff should be on the bug site, not on the forums. Also make sure you search the bug site.