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(2020) Major Bug: Vats - No Damage After Initial Attack

This thread was added on April 14, 2020, with posts from Valseek.

Original Post

I've noticed there is currently a major bug with the new update. After the first trigger pull in vats weapons stop dealing damage all together until you exit VATS (In some cases its refused to re-enter VATS for me).

This means if don't completely kill the enemy in the first burst of fire you have to exit VATS, if you cant kill it in a single clip you have to exit VATS, if you are using a singe shot weapon you have to exit VATS every single shot. This will make any sort of VATS based build completely unplayable.

I've tested this with legendary and non-legendary weapons, Pistols, Rifles, and Shotguns are all affected for sure. I haven't had a chance to test this with melee.

/u/Ladydevann and /u/Valseek Please pass this along ASAP. I'm guessing it was an attempt to ninja-nerf the unlimited AP builds as those no longer seem to work, but it has completely broken VATS, at least for ranged weapons.

Here is a clip showing my first shot doing damage followed by other shots registering hits and damage but not actually dealing any. Then a second full mag dump dealing damage, followed by the mag after the reload doing no damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwh-KWbN9A&feature=youtu.be

Edit: The bug seems very hit and miss like the old Legendary Damage Bug, after logging in and out several times it is working normally again for the moment.

Hi all, thanks for the report. We saw a similar report on our own forums and have made a tweak on the back end that should help mitigate this issue.

If you log out and back in are you still consistently having issues with VATS hits not dealing damage?