Surviving Headshots without a Helmet!? | Escape from Tarkov Science or Sus

Is this on mobile

Too bad the devs are all being sent to die in Ukraine and the game is becoming infested with cheaters with no consequences.

That is so unbelievably dumb about headshots i hope they fix it, that was one of the reason i quit playing tarkov

Bro how do you have a 4k keyboard cam but we can’t see shit on your screen because your gamma is so low

Veritas I have a question. Why does 5.45 have more recoil than 5.56? I'm not an experienced gun guy but I assumed bigger caliber means more recoil.

They should add more time to the regular reload to make more of a use case for emergency reload

when ur shooting prone to the concrete wall (not the labs wall) what map are you on? I cant recognize it

I'm really curious if wearing a lvl 1 helmet would change the results. Wasn't there something about over pen no doing listed damage on people not wearing armor?

Sus or science:
Can a open faceshield block a bullet.

Claim: "Helmets increases your heads hitbox"

honestly, it should start to reload in the first click and then transition to fast mag drop if you click it again in the next 0.3 seconds
would probably be too hard so on

For the reloads. I found the best way to get the fastest reloads, without worrying about double clicks and the like, was to make emergency reload an R press, and a retention reload is Ctrl + R press. My Ctrl functions are on release, so it doesn't cause me to duck accidentally because Tarkov seems to be smart about recognizing I'm using a function and not asking it to duck. This also means in an emergency I don't even have to think, just mash R and get a new mag in. Just makes more sense to make a retention reload a conscious action, instead of the emergency one, if I drop a mag I don't mean to, so what, just pick it up haha.

As for the HHS, I think it might have something to do with how the recoil behavior changes based on certain flags set. It already appears that recoil on the AK series is worse without a sight, it appears to use the stockless behavior even with stocks, but still applies their recoil reduction. Even just the rear clip-on night sight sets the flag and seems to make it use the correct behavior. So you might actually be dealing with a variant of that behavior, like for some reason the HHS is unsetting the stocked flag, maybe even just on the AKs? That would explain the recoil appearing the same around the hand, where the gun pivots without a stock, but more at the muzzle. This also explains why it seemed to be different gun to gun.

Don't be too discouraged if you can't find an answer, Tarkov has layers of jank that might not even be close enough together for you to realize they're factors haha.

Im really curious to know if shooting someone's armor at an angle reduces the pen chance / increases ricochet chance

For reloading, it's always R=emergency reload, Mouse 3 + R=normal reload, Mouse 4 + R=mag select. All of these are on press btw.

My reasoning for this is that if I REALLY need to reload just that .3 seconds faster, than I'm going to do a fast reload, otherwise I have the time to press one of the thumb buttons on my mouse then R. I never use the magazine select so that's why it is where it is.

i have a ton of footage of people being shot in the bare face and living,

The thumbnail guy looks like Eroktic

thank you for the hard work!

well.....only one solution BSG. Time to make us zero our weapons :D

The game is an alpha testing.
Wake up. Grind is necessary to keep people testingover and overand fantasy bullet sponginess is necessary to mask the servers and coding shortcomings... Games do use RPG elements to mask a game broken elements...

I know of one more way you can survive a headshot. The other day I put two bullets into the skull of a man and he didn't die.
The end screen was weird : hit count 2, and no absorbed by armor line so 0.
Damage to body (for 2 rounds at point blank) : Only 7

Turns out, my shot had barely clipped the edge of a wooden crate he was hiding behind, and therefore did virtually no damage.

the 1x is a simple answer since scopes all have different FOV at 1x just go look at LPVOs reviews or specifications and since its an optic and not a red dot or holo you eye reset at the end of the scope.

Wow, a 5.45 high velocity ARMOR PIERCING round meant to kill up to and beyond 300m does not kill in a headshot in Tarkov? So much for realism. I'm pretty sure in RL that bullet would go through someone's head at that distance and more. What the hell are they doing?

Sure, this video is a bit older, but I have seen a lot of scavs this wipe eats a round to their heads and just walk it off. this has been for both small and large cal rounds.

any bullet should 1 shot in the head if you don't have a helmet, thats just bad mechanics honestly.

git gud

wow igolnik not 1 shotting past 100 is actually shocking

4000 hours in tarkov and i had no idea you could choose which mag you use.

that headshot thing is so stupid. if your bullet pens or hits flesh on the head, it should be an instant kill, unless it's something like buckshot at a long range.

Finally my point is proven, Funny or not this is more common then people think, 100 meters is like nothing in tarkov, And suprisingly it happened to me that so many times people just get headshotted without a helmet and just live, And then my friend tells me I suck, Good that replays are a thing these days, And your videos too.

the reload thing is game changing in those close fights.

There is a General Sam video where a beanie caused a ricochet... It is a few years old now, so maybe that has been patched out.

Tarkov was fun... Now it's just an annoying game I don't want to play.

whats that labs sign in the back round and how can i get it looks sick!

iv seen hats deflect m61. might be worth testing. when its happened to my friend he would have 1 damage loss from the head as a result

This game has some spaghetti code for those reload functions to behave the way they do.

I saw a video from china before claiming that doing the middle finger will reduce bullet pen to the body/head. U should give that a test too

what about how pathetic the cheaters are in tarkov ?

The biggest issue is just that the netcode is fucking awful I have multiple recordings of me blowing people away with slugs and 5.56 and seeing blood spouts and their characters yelp and then 3-5 seconds later i fall over dead and hits will be nill or only a few.

It's not rare for me that scavs survive headshots from distances <25 meters.

for example i shot a scav in the head with 7mm point blank and he wasnt hurt.
i can link the proof tho.

and many other times where they just survived it

Actually, your explanation of "the game has to wait to know what you want to do" is not 100% correct. Upon pressing a single key, the game can initiate the "normal reload" action, and upon receiving the second tap, switch to the emergency reload action.

Essentially, think of it like playing rock-paper-scissors: You only need to have decided when the hands are down, not on the way down.

I don't know how in the lord name but I survived a shot from a 762x39 shot with no armour recently from maybe about 30 meters. Scariest moment of my life.

real life physics tell us that up to 100m, it doesn't matter what your gun is zeroed to.

I have to say I knew height over bore was a thing so I was never that upset that a headshot with a high optic wouldn't work up close unless you aim a little high but... blowing out your esophagus, three of your vertebrae, and your carotid artery is just as lethal as a headshot no questions asked.

I was playing as a SCAV the other day. Another random player SCAV decided to pot shot me, and hit me a full headshot that blacked out my head. I didn't die. When I put everything back together, I had 405 health. I returned that shot, and did exactly 35 damage. He died.

Game is shockingly random appearing at times.

I do have one instance of an ushanka deflecting an snb round. I don't have a video unfortunately, so feel free to disbelieve me, but I was looting the green swamp crate on shoreline and I heard an svd crack off, and got the think sound you get when your helmet catches a round plus some head damage and concussion. I booked it to path to lighthouse and on the post raid screen I saw 7.62x54r SNB.

Obviously my list of explanations is never 100% exhaustive, but I forgot to mention that desync / server connection issues can also contribute to scavs/players not dying if connection issues interfere with hit registration.