Kerillian’s talent Piercing Shot has always been bugged, if it hits a teammate, the refund has some chance to not work properly. The bug is very common and for years I asked people not to walk in front of me which means i’m asking them to not play the game.
I will link a mod which fixes this bug, and a clip of an example.
Upon a closer look, in the clip at around 7 seconds, i think you might´ve hit the shoulder/arm rather than the head. Possibly didnt hit the bot either though i cant swear on that.
no you can hear the headshot ping and ive tested this many many times, and experienced it on enemies which are sitting absolutely still like phased trolls,
yes this is why no one takes piercing shot because the hitboxes aren’t seperated enough to actually give you a headshot when you aim and hit their head. And 2, bots constantly just walk into your crosshairs for whatever reason ruining any chance you had at getting a refund. It’s a combination of awful programming on the devs part and awful hitbox detection also on the devs part. I would stay away from using piercing shot for now because the only ones that can make it useful are the players who use cheats.