I play The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel Unlimited a lot and in the forums there has been a (ridiculous) demand of enabling locational damage for bows.
As this is not possible, because in that MMO the character always auto-aims at the chest, I asked myself:
In which games of The Elder Scrolls series were Headshots possible?
I've spent my whole youth in Morrowind, walked through Cyrodiil and have slain dragons across Skyrim. Though I was never used to a bow – sure, I tested them to see how physics are working and how they implemented it, but I mostly sticked to a "Mage blade" character.
And now I'm curious: Have there been games in the series that used locational damage? Like less damage on the toes, but more on the head.
Best Answer
This has never been possible (vanilla). However, there are quite a few mods which achieve this, in Skyrim and Oblivion.
Interesting fact : Fallout 3 and New Vegas are using nearly the same engine as Oblivion, and they do localize damage.