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Holobiont

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2 lances of wounded. Still trying to find a second cockpit mod. Pretty funny how frustrated I was getting actually. Started talking to the computer and asking it things like 'yeah why wouldn't you headshot? I mean the head is right there'. One mission I dropped in, moved forward once with nothing on sensors, and got headshot. Another mission I got headshot twice in one turn. Oh well, 2 of them get out of medbay in 2 days :)
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Scratch that, 3 more headshots in the next mission, 2 in one turn, 1 in the next. We're back up to getting shot in the head twice per drop since the first screenshot. I posted because I thought it was funny but now I'm starting to wonder if something is actually broken here.
 
Yeah it hasn't calmed down at all. Most of the time I finish missions with all 4 mechs armor intact in all locations so it's not like they're getting infinite shots at me either. You sound pretty confident though, I take it you don't work in software. Or maybe you have some data I don't know about?
 
Holobiont said:
Or maybe you have some data I don't know about?
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I do! Over a thousand hours playing the game and having read multiple headshot related threads through the years (example1, example 2, example 3, example 4.)

I suppose you could re-verify your files, but it doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would be corrupted. Although I should have asked this earlier - are you running any mods?
 
So you see multiple threads where people are commenting that they're being shot in the head more than 1% of the time and that's data that they're not? Do I need to dig through them to find the data? All I see at a glance is a bunch of comments on how the code is supposed to work, which is obviously not how code always works. I think I'm actually just having an unlucky streak, but I do find that it makes people sound like they don't really know what they're talking about when they assert things baselessly. No mods btw.

Edit: Which is not to say they actually don't! They just sound that way, more of a communication thing than anything else.
 
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I do think it's just a coincidence that I get headshot by every second shot right as I'm posting about headshot probabilities but I guess I'm not as certain as I was when I posted the thread, it's been a little too consistent over this many drops.
 
If you'd like to check the code to confirm, feel free to look in \BATTLETECH\BattleTech_Data\StreamingAssets\data\constants\CombatGameConstants.json starting at line 452 with "HitTables"
 
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