Content creation is happening in the form of R5 which is a version of apex. It’s actually a ton of fun. They crunched numbers and found .15 to be the balance between aim assist and mouse and keyboard inputs. Listen to professional apex player Naughty and Enoch discuss the topic.
A recent game called The Finals released a very clever aim assistance balance in the game. The developers have no rotational aim assistance in The Finals which means that players still need to react to the enemy player even with aim assistance active.
The Finals is probably the first game that’s tried to balance the inputs. You’re completely right though, developers and games with aim assistance can never be considered to have competitive integrity. Competitive integrity comes from an even playing field on all levels and in all ways. Big hopes for The Finals and big props to the devs there as well.
Apex Legends has virtually no chance of ever changing their PR as a lackluster comp game to the professional community at large. Very big miss by EA and Respawn. They should have listened to the professionals that play their game.
"Aim assist makes it so controller players don’t even have to predict where to shoot because it automatically tracks players" hahaha sorry that made me laugh, if only it's as easy as you make out. Funny how the vast majority of casual players on PC who try controller revert back to M&K as they can't do anything on controller. You make it sound like it's OP and easy on controller, it's the opposite.
That doesn't mean they know what'sbest for the rest of the 99.9999% of players.
They aonly know how AA affects 'their lobbies'.
The best of the best players can take advatage of AA that no 'real' casual player can.
AA doesn't aim for you, you still need to have thumbs.
But...if you're thumbs are top lobby, then AA becomes a borderline exploit.
So the devs need to find a balance.
Make AA comfortable enough so that a casual player can enjoy the game, but punish people (trying to) exploiting it.
Everybody with a controller gets the same amount of aim assist. On all levels of play aim assist is one clipping enemies. Pros have better position and situational awareness. Again, the aim assistance is literally a software that all controllers have and use at all levels.
The casual players probably get more out of it than the professionals in terms of one clipping enemies.
Largely, low skill players don’t use hard cover, run out into the open and get absolutely fried by players with aim assistance.
But again professional players know how to take space and force enemies into positions without hard cover. And once that happens, aim assistance takes over and one clips professional enemies.
Aim assistance is software. It is over tuned and honestly it’s players who think it’s balanced that make the game worse for everybody.
There are only 18 professional MnK players left in the game. The rest have swapped to controller. We’re approaching a 100% controller meta because of how over tuned aim assistance is.
Apex is about to go down and the most unbalanced game in history. EA and Respawn have no communication with their community. They are literally the most disconnected developers in the industry.
We need to all start realizing/agreeing to, is that no matter what discussions are going on, this is simply an Unfair Problem in the game that needs to go away, that's all there is to it.
Playing this game right now as a MnK player, is not fun!
Aim Assist needs to be removed from this game on PC.
