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As Battlefield 2042<\/strong> players continue to grapple with the game’s multitude of design problems and technical issues, one in particular has been driving everyone crazy. That being the game’s tendency to just ignore bullets fired, making it seem like you can’t hit anything.<\/p>\n

Netcode and lag are part of the problem, of course, but another major contributor is the game’s excessive random bullet deviation<\/a>, which makes it so bullets don’t always land where the reticle suggests they should.<\/p>\n

But there appears to be another layer to this lack of accuracy, and it has to do with Specialist hitboxes. <\/p>\n

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As Battlefield 2042 players continue to grapple with the game’s multitude of design problems and technical issues, one in particular has been driving everyone crazy. That being the game’s tendency to just ignore bullets fired, making it seem like you can’t hit anything. Netcode and lag are part of the problem, of course, but another major contributor is the game’s excessive random bullet deviation, which makes it so bullets don’t always land where the reticle suggests they should. But there appears to be another layer to this lack of accuracy, and it has to do with Specialist hitboxes. 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