IMHO, chest shots/deaths should reward the most. It's how professionals are trained to shoot in real life and it's the most logical place someone should aim at when trying to hit someone.

The fascination with head shots has lead to aim assists which has only lead to the idiocy of chaotic combat in my limited experience. It's one of the reasons why I just can't get into online FPS games.

One hit kills? God no. They need to get rid of the head shots all together.

Most FPS games today have some form of body armor being worn for at least one side. Some of the trauma plates allow people to sometimes survive a shot that would ordinarily kill them in real life. So I can see why chest shots do not kill in most games. Even when one faction does not wear body armor it sort of has to be implemented for balance. The important thing to remember is that these are games and unless you want one bullet wound to the thigh to incapacitate your character, you are probably barking up the wrong tree. I personally enjoy realism and simulations but I seriously doubt very many FPS players these days really want to go full sim or anywhere near sim. So where do you draw the line? Allow chest hits to critical areas to kill but not one to the femoral artery? Should you still be able to run and gun after being shot in the leg? Should a player be able to throw a grenade or knife with a wounded arm? Very few shooters today have very much in the way of realism and I seriously doubt that the current crop of gamers would stand for it. Look at how bad Operation Flashpoint:Dragon Rising was received even before all the bugs became evident. You can't have your cake and eat it too so it may be best to just leave well enough alone.

The worst is when someone is running at you to knife you, you'd dump a clip into their chest and they still kill you with the knife.

That's some freakishly strong body armor!

Exactly. I don't so much agree at more realistic hit boxes just for the sake of automatic weapons, but so that 1-shot weapons like most sniper rifles are as effective as they should be.

Also on that note, if I hit someone with a 50-calibur Barrett then they should drop in a crumpled heap. Regardless of whether or not the shot penetrates armor, it still delivers the same amount of kinetic energy over a relatively small area. Should definitely be enough to drop them.

It makes sense for balance though, otherwise it would be unbelievably overpowered. I've definitely gotten 1 shot kills with that gun that weren't headshots though, but I was running around with the red dot scope and using it close range, going for the same trophy/achievement you were.

They did that to balance the game. If you could one shot people on like 50% of their body, everyone would be camping.

Snipers are useless enough in objective based games. Do people not remember how shitty it was to find themselves on the barrel side of an AWP?