Because the head hitbox is still hovering where you first shot it, before it catches up with the animation and starts swaying.ī) fire one at the head, wait for head to lower AND start swaying, fire second at head As others have said, when using the xbow you should be able to spam fire after your first bolt and kill the sc even though it seems like you'd miss. This meant most players had a ritual of waiting for the look and then firing at his elbow to get the headshot.Īlthough this bug is fixed there is still an issue where the hitbox doesn't start moving at the same time the head lowers on dedicated servers. That's why when that bug was still around, the hitbox would still move as if it were playing the correct stunned head-swinging animation. It was a bug that it was happening when he got shot, probably something to do with calling that animation because he stopped moving, although he was stunned instead of stuck or idling, so it was incorrect. 'Idle?' you ask? Yes, you don't see it often but if a sc ever gets stuck on map geometry he will play this animation of looking around, which was the only time it was ever meant to be played in the first place. When TWI said they fixed sc's hitboxes it meant they stopped that animation from playing when you shoot him as that animation is for when the sc is IDLE. The animation where he looks from side-to-side will NEVER happen.

If you want to be safe, - just wait a bit after scrake lowered his head and then hitbox should be in sync with it. Hitbox can also lower immidiately on dedicated servers (along with the head), - I did have some issues with it when assumed that hitbox remained in upper position.

The trigger seems to be scrake getting hit by certain types of damage, - for example this always happens after scrake is hit by bloat bile. So if you're shooting fast, you should make next 1 or 2 shots in the same location.īut sometimes, when I play solo, scrake's head AND hitbox lower immidiately. On a dedicated servers SC lowers his head immidiately, but it still takes time for hitbox to move down (as in solo).

In a solo game a bit of time passes before SC lowers his head after you stun him. It seems that they don't always behave the same way in real games compared to how they do in a testmap conditions.

Killing floor 2 scrake footage