This is still a problem. Hit a sniper once and he retreats behind a hill just enough that I can no longer see or engage them. My bullets hit the hill. They can shoot through it and engage me.

You can blame poor rendering for that. Terrain is physically different from what it actually looks like, and the farther away you are the more this disparity grows. At sniping range, it's already vastly different, rendering your vision useless.

Hmm rendering mybe an issue but why can he shoot me while I am hitting the hill/obstacle? It is not only the visibility it is also the ability to shoot back.

You can blame poor rendering for that. Terrain is physically different from what it actually looks like, and the farther away you are the more this disparity grows. At sniping range, it's already vastly different, rendering your vision useless.

Hmm rendering maybe an issue but why can he shoot me while I am hitting the hill/obstacle? It is not only the visibility it is also the ability to shoot back.

The terrain is probably partially invisible at your distance.

It has nothing to do with bad hit detection or bad terrain; its to do with the game engine itself, that badly renders an inconsistency between the 1st person and 3rd person views. It's a d*ck move used by a lot of people across the FPS world and that d*ick move is called GÇ£Head GlitchingGÇ¥

Rather than me rambling on and trying to explain it to you and getting you all confused, heres a video explaining what it really is and how it works.

Hmm rendering maybe an issue but why can he shoot me while I am hitting the hill/obstacle? It is not only the visibility it is also the ability to shoot back.

Because he is using the top of the hill side and going up just enough to get a shot off, meanwhile your seeing him through the hill. The only bug is that your seeing him through the hill, and no they are not shooting through the hill. When im sniping I see people through about every obstacle in the map. This is a known rendering issue. SoonTM they will fix it, and it will make snipers harder to find.

Excuse my confusion but if you can shoot at me with clear line of sight how can it happen that I dont have the same line of sight towards you?

I kow there is the rendering issue showing the whole sniper in the hills although he is mostly covered, but If I aim to the head with my sniper rifle I should be able to hit you in the same way as you could hit me.

And I am not only talking about the hills far away this can also happen with most obstacles in a closer distance. In this cases I can barely see his a mercs head but can't hit him even though I should but he can hit me with ease...

It has nothing to do with bad hit detection or bad terrain; its to do with the game engine itself, that badly renders an inconsistency between the 1st person and 3rd person views. It's a d*ck move used by a lot of people across the FPS world and that d*ick move is called GÇ£Head GlitchingGÇ¥

Rather than me rambling on and trying to explain it to you and getting you all confused, heres a video explaining what it really is and how it works.

Counter Strike implemented a very useful camera change to counter people from doing this. What they did was to change where the camera in 1st person was to the players neck area making head glitching impossible to do and this is what CCP needs to do in dust to sort out this problem.