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Subject: Is the DMR 4 shot?
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Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but whenever I play a playlist in matchmaking with the TU changes, I swear sometimes I kill people with 4 shots of the DMR. I'd shoot them 3 times, and the 4th shot to the head will kill them instead of taking down their shields. Yet sometimes the 4th shot will only take down their shields, followed by a 5th shot which will kill them.
Can anyone clear this up for me, or am I nuts? Thank you in advance.

  • 01.15.2012 5:15 PM PDT

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It's a 5 shot kill if they have full shields.

Anything less (possibly splash damage from a grenade or a stray bullet) and they die on the fourth shot.

  • 01.15.2012 5:16 PM PDT
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I'm listeni- Oh wait I don't give a -blam!- what you have to say.

No it's a 5 shot on full shields. If your opponent has been weakened by a nade or their shields have not recharged fully you can kill them in less than 5 with the bleedthrough effect.

  • 01.15.2012 5:17 PM PDT

-Teraz Twoka kolej "Life is like a double-edged sword, you are one [side] of them"


sh­eithings, lolol
also, fu­srodahsucks

Posted by: Frasier Crane
No it's a 5 shot on full shields. If your opponent has been weakened by a nade or their shields have not recharged fully you can kill them in less than 5 with the bleedthrough effect.

You worded it better than myself.

*edit* Also I get the weird feeling of "my magnum kills before it should" when playing CE:A Reach multiplayer.

[Edited on 01.15.2012 5:24 PM PST]

  • 01.15.2012 5:18 PM PDT
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Ok it makes more sense now thank you

  • 01.15.2012 5:32 PM PDT
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If you don't have full health then it will be a four shot also.

  • 01.15.2012 5:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: DragonSilths
Bleedthrough.


this ^ may be the cause of the early deaths.

also you may have taken damage from a stray bullet/grenade leaving you with less health/shield than you thought you had. The DMR however is not a 4 shot kill. No precision weapon is

  • 01.15.2012 6:46 PM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.

You need full shields to be five shotted. Anything less and you will be four shotted.

Which is beyond retarded, IMO.

  • 01.15.2012 6:47 PM PDT