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green dragon posted...

Wait, you can aim? Do I go for head shots?

Cuz I swear I put like 7 bullets into a zombies chest before he dropped

I don't mean that you can aim with a crosshair or anything like that. I just mean that you need to have your character lined up properly in the direction of the zombie. You would be surprised at how many people can't do that.

Taking 7 bullets to kill a zombie is perfectly normal.

Headshots do happen, but they're random. Chris has a slightly higher chance at getting a random headshot than Jill. Headshots are instant kills, and also prevent the zombie from becoming a crimson head.

The only real "aiming" that you can do is to hold up on the d-pad to make Chris/Jill point their gun in an upward fashion. If you do that with the shotgun and wait until the zombie is within lunging distance of you, then you have a much higher chance of getting a headshot. I don't know the exact percentage, but it is really high. In the original PS1 game, it was a 100% chance of a headshot doing that, but they lowered the percentage in the remake.

Magnum bullets will also instant headshot zombies without holding the d-pad up. It's like a 90% chance in the remake, and a 100% chance in the original. Using magnum bullets on regular zombies is very wasteful though because those bullets are scarce. Save the magnum for the bosses.