http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Tea...reg_Bug/690296

A bug that was introduced a few patches ago into TF2.

Basically in some games the headshot registration will be fine. In others, you'll have a lot of shots that should count as headshots be bodyshots which will result in you getting killed. Just to give you an idea, a uncharged headshot in TF2 does 150 damage, and an uncharged bodyshot does 50 damage. Good snipers often favour being more mobile by constantly moving and remaining out of scope except when doing a kill. This is generally how I play so I'm dependent on headshots. So you can imagine how crippling this can be for me when someone who was supposed to take 150 damage is now running after me with only 50 damage.

It's been happening for a while but I haven't really spoke out (besides whining about it over vent or voicechat, but nobody understanding what I was talking about) about it because 1. I never could find a good enough clip to demonstrate this, most of my no-reg shots were twitch aim which could of been misses, its hard to see, however I know they are headshots. 2. It happens so sparatically, on some games its fine, on some its not. 3. Nobody else really complained about it.

In this video it was pre-match. A medic starts attacking me. I give him a quick headshot (the game knows I shot him in the head because blood appears on his head). However, no "critical hit" sound or words come up, and in the death picture you can clearly see he's got about 50 damage on him, so you can rule out him being buffed. All pings were about under 50 in this game so there's no reason for this.

Just to give you an idea of how serious this can be, if this was a real match that medic that should of died now has 50% of his uber charged up, is able to heal his teammates, and use that uber to push in and kill my team. This happens in several other situations too, especially when sniper dueling, I headshot the other sniper, he only takes 50 damage and then he bodyshots me and kills me because he charged up his shot and came around the corner slowly while I did not. This happens also to soliders who are after me, scouts, spies, basically any class, and the times that the headshots should of counted but don't are the times that I die since I most of the time put myself into the danger to kill somebody but since 50 damage is basically nothing on a lot of classes they can proceed to bumrush me, and at that point the SMG and Machete are absolutely useless and won't kill even a fly.

This is sometimes a strech, but sometimes I feel like it's as bad as the spies backstab registration. Some games are really that bad where I'm literally bodyshotting heavies that are spun up.

I have tried everything. I've messed around with some of my network configuration and screwed with some of the tick rate and whatever settings in console. But really, if thats what I have to do to get headshots working, theres a glitch in the game. Valve really needs to fix this.

EDIT: Just as an extension of the video, you'll notice that in the background that same medic just got killed and then respawned. So he was at full health, unbuffed. I know theres lag problems but the game KNOWS I shot him first since it registered as a bodyshot, however since it wasn't a headshot he killed me a second later.