Anyone else feels that headshot doesn't register consistently off-host?

Off host - also krogans are currently bugged and often shoot low and between the two over-the-shoulder views.

WTF does work properly off-host in this game?

When it first started out it had similar issues. You are just remembering the fixed issues.

In ME3 majority of weapon hits were resolved on client. In MEA seems that they are resolved on host. They also added some delay and bullet travel time and whatever other bs they came up with, not sure. I feel like I'm using kishok off host with 300 msec lag. And obviously cannot hit anything with it.

I wouldn't know. I've never made a headshot. I couldn't hit the broad side of the shed.

eewwww it's absolutely disgusting and filthy, it tastes and smells of vomit and urine and stale sweat and unwashed hobos

Improved but never fixed. As long as the connection is P2P, network delay will always be a problem.

not really, the problem here is the host has too much control over whatever happens

Nah, the way weapon balance is, it is garbage before you even start to shoot it.

basing the entire game off the host is also what allows them to use cheat engine so reliably, who new eaware would go ful lregressive and backpeddle a decade in anti cheat evolutions..

and yeah a bad host is funny, you kill stuff it registers on screen as zero health yet somehow its still shooting at you for up to a minute....

I played a match earlier where literally the entire team got wiped by the kid on his underpowered pc hosting the game, who then edited the teams scores downwards so he came first ....... pretty funny watching your score drop from 14k to 4k so some scrub can fell good about themselves.....

I went around counting the number of kill shots I made to heads versus the actual number of weak point kills the game recorded for a couple matches and found about 25% of the visible headshots were actually registering as weak point kills. I also had several instances where the enemies staggered from impact but took no weapon damage.

Of course, I live in a rural area and have garbage internet, and get high pings to almost everyone, so it's probably less consistently shitty for most people.