There's no traits that grant bonus damage but no chance to critically hit, is there? I vaguely remember one for melee attacks, but I don't remember if that was from Fallout 1 / 2 or just a reduced critical damage bonus instead of outright disabling critical hits.Īnyway, seems like a weird bug.
I also figured maybe you were sneak attacking the enemies equipped weapon which maybe (dunno, never checked) can't be sneak attack critical'd, but enemies don't have their weapons visible when sleeping so probably not.Īre you sure the game just isn't swallowing your notification with another one, like crippling an enemy or something? I've never encountered a bug where you simply can't land sneak criticals on stuff, so long as you are the next damage from most sources should trigger the critical hit. There's a bug where even when completely hidden from sight, NPCs still notice you aiming a weapon at them or firing a weapon near them 'cosmetically' and call you out on it even though it claims you are - this doesn't lead to hostile NPCs detecting and starting combat though.but maybe it's related to that, too?
The only thing I can think of is somehow when you fire the pistol you're becoming just before the bullet hits, but that sounds bizarre and unlikely.
