Hitting Prone people is buggy

[Perditor]

Now I have been playing FPS since Duke Nukem so I am not a newb moaning because I can't hit anything.

I have been playing BF2 pretty much since it came out and really enjoying it, but... I am starting to get a bit frustrated with this particular issue,

On quite a few occasions I have been on top of buildings and unloaded a full clip square into the back of a prove person below and they live. I am talking smack square in the back of a stationary prone dude!

Is this some sort of dice roll here (oh they are prone so throw the dice and if you don't get a six you missed or only do 10% damage, whats the deal here)

I can live with the rockets occasionally passing through APC's if you shoot them from behind, but this is crazy.

They have some balancing issues here that need to be corrected so it can reach its full potential.

Anyone else found that the prone dudes can be weirdly bullet resistant from above???

[toXicRabbit]

hell. i'll need to learn to shoot with my back facing the enemy than :P

[SFC.BloodHound]

maybe it's because we you are prone and the other person is prone you are shooting at their head and it kills them faster.

[Thelron]

And maybe that has nothing to do with the OPs comment.

Are you sure that most of the rounds actually hit your target? If so, try to recreate it, write it up, and pray that someone who can fix it not only looks at it (HAH!) but cares enough to fix it (ha-HAH!) in the next patch. AFIK nothing can survive even a half a magazine's worth of hits from any particular gun even if you're just hitting them in the foot.

There are a lot of 'I registered a boatload of hits and the guy just sat there and 2-shotted me' problems though, this might just be one of the known hitbox/packetloss problems rather than a new phenomenon.

[BRUTALITEEEEEEEEE]

Just lob a grenade at them

Well....welcome to the world of BF2 and it's weapons.

[imported_Toxic]

I have similar problems when trying to get knife kills on prone people. Alot of times, I just switch to single shot mode, and pop them in the head. Works alot better.

[imported_Soda]

You switch to single shot in knife mode? Wow, I never knew there was one.

[Roderick]

My only problem with prone is when I am prone and shooting at someone in single fire mode with my L85 and all of a sudden, the opponenet goes prone and there is a short moment of invincibility where I cannot hit him and then I wind up dying to the return fire.

There is something wrong with the hit detection at the point of when someone is in the process of going prone.

It is as if the hit field totally moves to the bottom even though the player is at level dropping to the floor to go prone.