Different body parts

[Davmcnee]

I may be being retardedly dumb here, or just a newbie, but when i am standing toe to toe with someone, does targetting different body parts do different damage?

It may just be coincidence but i have noticed several times that i seem to do a lot more damage with head shots with my sword. Is this intentional? I know that hitting people in the back does more damage, but does it actually register different body parts.

IE: If someone is wearing a chain shirt but nothing on thier legs, will hitting them in the legs negate any damage reduction from the armour?

Cheers

[courtlandre]

back and front. THat's it.

[shansiro]

i was thinking on beta that headshot or aiming at different parts of the body would have different dmg but i was somehow disappointed too :(

back and front only sucks a bit but i can live with it for now

[Kalezian]

just means for now, rush into someone's back spamming mouse 1 and you may win....

[MoerTa]

"Headshots" were taken out during alpha phase of the testing due to lag, there was a too big strain on the servers to calculate which part of the body was hit, it's now back/frontal damage only, which is a much simpler calculation.

And tbh, there's not real point in having different damage for different parts of the body hitting some ones head is just as easy as hitting the torso, which means that everybody would just be aiming of the head instead.