The faster a player is moving, the fewer shots that you fire will register. The hitbox definitely is not in sync with the player model.

Here's a slow-mo clip of this occurring with a strafing scout player. This occurs with all suits in pretty much every gunfight but not always to this extent. I could randomly choose any gunfight from my recordings to play back in slow-mo and there would be about a 20% chance that the hit detection would look as bad as this and a 90% chance that at least 1 of my shots doesn't register.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXFUVOlNrmw

In some cases this can happen with players who are holding completely still. Here's a pretty severe example of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mE5CA-ynkrM#t=290s (go to 4:50 if it doesn't automatically start you there)

As you can see, neither me nor my teammate could hit this guy while he was hacking the objective.

Indeed it seems to be worse when facing scouts, i had the same experience with a shotgun user. Nice to see a video of this issue.

Please fix this CCP, I've been running ambush as a sniper a lot recently and I've noticed that in some games I'm lucky if 50% of my shots actually deal damage when the blue shield flashes. This is becoming almost unplayable!

I am certain they will drop everything in the entire world and get right on this. Let's stop all the wars and turn the World's economy on its head because your enjoyment is dropping.

Oh right, this very problem has been around since long before Chromosome and it is still not solved. One might even think that it isn't an easy solution even though the Devs are more than a little aware of it. It is a problem but the biggest one is the constant droning of the non-believers insisting that something be done Today, just for Them.

It is being done. It is not an easy task. We will see the fix when they announce it and Not Before then.

Otherwise, this is how it is. Adjust your actions and for the Sake Of All Mankind please keep QQ about it, which now requires Videos! Without yet more evidence of something that has been around for many months and many releases it might just go away and we wouldn't want that.

The world obviously doesn't have enough QQ to fill all the oceans yet. This Forum is going to fix that by the Name Of The Great Kitten In The Box.

Of course, the fact that the Sniping issue is made worse because a Significant portion of the QQ Snipers can't seem to realize that just because you get a Chevron doesn't mean you actually have a valid shot. I have sat and watched their bullets hit the ground that I am sitting Behind and wished I could hear their QQ splashing into the Kiddy Pool they are surely sitting in.

Wait until Bullet Drop and Bullet Travel Time are added. Their QQ will flood the planet, Frak simply filling the oceans.

Most people who know what they're talking about agree that hit detection is almost certainly handled server side.

The blue shield flash is a client-side "this is where your shot will go" marker so you can see immediately. But after that indicator, Your position and the angle you're aiming at is sent to the game server and if your shot doesn't line up with the position the server has for your target, then you didn't hit.

I don't know if this has been confirmed, but I'm certain it hasn't been officially denied by the devs, and it's been cited as a probably cause of this issue in many such places.

If your target is laggy and you're not, then the server will keep you consistently updated on their actual location, so your accurately-aimed shots will hit the target consistently. If you're laggy, regardless of how laggy or otherwise your target is, you're going to be seeing where the server tells you they are a bit late. Usually, even when you're lagging, the delay is fairly consistent within a match, so if you can figure out roughly how laggy you are, you can adjust your aim to account for it, by aiming a little ahead of a moving target (basically meaning you have to lead your shots to account for network travel time instead of in-game projectile travel time).