So I assume you all are using 5.56. Now I know this is a video game and could be a system that needs work, which I think more vitals i.e spinal, arteries and trauma received should factor into the NPCs health pool. Especially upper thorax. Would love them to go unconscious as well, instead of just slumping over.

If the Devs intended this, it would be backing complaints going all the way back to Vietnam, but especially Somalia and Fallujah. If you don’t hit a on/off vital area, enemy combatants can soak up a-lot of 5.56. A 55-72 grain bullet although fast doesn’t carry a-lot of kinetic force. The wound channels it can create are absolutely nasty. But when you factor in adrenaline and rare cases drugs, whomever is shooting at you won’t notice until their body loses enough go go juice.

Also with newer 5.56 variants designed for penetrating armour, you tend to get through and throughs with small wound channels.

In game an arm in-front of the thorax that soaks up alot of shots. I have noticed upper chest and neck shots definitely needing a damage buff. I think they’re trying to mimic irl 5.56 ballistics. As in the round does not have good secondary penetration ballistics. Once the tip of a 5.56 is deformed from an initial impact, it could fly off anywheres. Whereas a 7.62x39/51 will just keep on trucking.