I shot at a couple of dudes today, just now up north with the M24 at roughly 550m and i knew i shot 2 of them twice, once to knock them out and once to finish them off. M24 within 800m delivers 8200blood damage me thinks, so WHY THE FUCK DID THEY NOT DIE! Please...anyone explain because this is bullshit, until explained!

Cheers.

All i'll say is I've had random shots from the DMR / M24 that hit people in the head and still not even see a knockout, indeed I've hit people twice with it and they don't die. Like Sam from the cartel he said he had less than a 1000 blood after I clearly hit him twice the other weekend. Either that or they were hacking which is less likely, to find out if it's the later you will need to contact me in teamspeak right after it happens or with exact time stamps so I can check BE logs....

I had a headshot on someone the other day and even fired a second shot as he fell in to his shoulder. He only ended up knocked out on the ground then Shortboy finished him off.
I've also hit someone <400m with an M24 in the chest and they weren't even bleeding after the impact and went on their merry way.
Pretty sure its just DayZ/Arma2 being DayZ/Arma2. You can call bullshit but eh, its a game and games have bugs.

From my experience I always have to hit someone 3 times with M24 mags so

Ya i got a hit with an mk17 sniper at roughly 350m and broke his legs and only did a couple thousand blood damage. I believe it is drastically reduced over range. I know that the m24/dmr/m14 are supposed to do 8000 blood damage and I remember people being killed in 2 shots even from very far distances not too long ago. Maybe it was an ArmA update that implemented the reduced damage over range, not sure.

Yeah, guess i will have to deal with it then haha. Was pretty good game tbh, wish i had it recorded because i sneaked up to them and looted one of their cars because i had no ammo for M24, found dmr mag and ran back to sniping point then waited to take most of them out. God it would have been cool if i did!

https://dev-heaven.net/issues/11479

This was posted as a bug that sounds the same as what your talking about, though people underneat comment thats it a "quirk" of the Arma 2 ballistics system...