bolt sniper glitch

[Ghost Daze]

I have just done 2 tests out on 2 bolt snipers i am currently using, 'VBI sniper rifle blue' and 'VOT bolter purple'.
Why? cos i wasent taking no hp off the raiders i was doing headshots on, i was getting the yellow hit points but doing no damage to their hp bar and also wasent getting no xp on my wep bar.
If i did body shot, i got white hit points, this took hp off their hp bar and i got xp on my wep bar.

The headshots with my bolt snipers are not registering on the raiders hp bar or on my wep xp bar.

I did same test with ranger sniper and this works fine.

My friend was with me and did same test with his bolt sniper and headshots registered.

I have no idea how you are going to check this out or maybe you want me to do something for you to check it out.

~Ghost~

[Satanas Blanco]

I'm having the same issue. I tested my VBI rifles on 99ers and they were getting up to 3600 hit points per shot but the health meters did not drop even after shooting 10 times into same 99er (I have the DMG hit points option turned on so I can see where I get the most damage per shot)
My friend tried my rifles and it was a 1 shot kill for him. I then tried my ss-2 Ranger and 2 shots killed but the Max DMG is half of my VBI's.
I then tried a sniper rifle that I gave my friend a month ago that I used to always use with success but now with the same results as my current VBI's where the health meter stays the same even though I'm getting 3400 DMG per shot.
At first on one of my most recent VBI's I thought the gun just sucked so I spent a lot of scrip and Salvage Matrix currency to retrieve all my mods and then add to new VBI with the same results. What a waste of time and resources.

[PS589]

From what I experienced, it's a perk glitch, I can't remember what the name of the perk but it gives you extra critical hit damage against targets while crouched. When I unequipped it from my scout loadout my bolt action rifle started to function correctly.

[CMac001]

Do you have the gunslinger (deal more critical damage when firing from the hip) ego perk equipped? It has been reported by other players to cause the symptoms you described.

The gunslinger bug appears to affect the bolt action sniper rifles but not the semi-auto sniper rifles.

I had a bolt action sniper rifle that picked up a 'deal more critical damage when firing from the hip' perk when I reset the mastery points on it and the bolt action quit affecting targets when I scored critical hits. Regular hits were normal.

If you don't have the gunslinger perk equipped and you are seeing these symptoms, you may want to open a trouble ticket with support.

Good luck

[Satanas Blanco]

I don't recall if I have that perk on, but it makes sense to use since I also use SMGs on certain builds, but I will check once I get home from work.

Thanks - now let's hope this works...

[Ghost Daze]

Update---As from today 11th July, my bolts are working correctly, critical hits and wep xp is now registering.

Thank You Def Team

~Ghost~

[CMac001]

No joy for me. My one bolt action sniper rifle is still not affecting enemy with critical hits.

[Shadow Andreas]

Update---As from today 11th July, my bolts are working correctly, critical hits and wep xp is now registering.

Thank You Def Team

~Ghost~

Do you have the Gunslinger perk equipped? I know when I had it equipped my Bolt Action would not critical (I had the Gunslinger perk on because my secondary is a SMG). Once I removed the perk everything was fine.....are they working on a fix for this?

[dominad]

I have no gunslinger and I still have this issue. Every 3rd bullet does not do damage and the critical does not register

[dominad]

Can we please get some feedback on if this is been fixed??
It is near impossible to make good use of the nice snipers i have worked so hard for and has halved the time it should take for 5000 kills due to most critical dmg not registering. Everyone I know who has a bolt action sniper is having issues!!!