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4ccbf460f7b926b
6 years ago

Aim Assist is unfair on PC

Aim assist provides:

- Extremely powerful tracking

- Reduced/removed recoil

- Tracking through smoke

- In some instances of using it, tracking through walls.

What I experienced in short testing with a friend:
- Aim Snap, used with a shotgun I was almost unable to miss

- Strong Tracking, with ability to easily get headshots due to not having to spend time tracking, only adjusting inside the tracking.

- Able to aim down sights through smoke and track enemies, and fire blindly landing a good majority of my shots.

- Sniper aim assist, I had trouble with this, but I did experience tracking, I just wasn't used to a controller. 

There's no argument to be made that Aim Assist isn't a powerful unfair advantage on PC in its current state.

The only argument is how to balance it properly, such as:
-Severly reducing aim assist effectiveness

-Restricting Aim assist to specific aim assisted matchmaking groups (Maybe consoles and PC controllers can be matched together)

-Remove aim assist entirely (If it doesn't exist, its completely fair across the board)

This last bit is not to advocate for, or promote cheating, this is to show how easy this is to manipulate and gain an unfair advantage.

You can emulate your keyboard/mouse as a controller, and receive aim assist while using a mouse. I have tested this, and the results are basically a low/medium powered aimbot, built right into the game, straight from Respawn themselves. 

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  • S_Dustt's avatar
    S_Dustt
    6 years ago
    @4ccbf460f7b926b1 I don't know if this is all accurate but I have questioned it before because when ever you watch a youtuber who plays on controller vs mouse and keyboard the recoil just seems non existent on controller, like who's beaming people at long range with an r-99.
  • Sir_Named's avatar
    Sir_Named
    6 years ago
    @4ccbf460f7b926b1 I’m not exactly sure how it works on PC, but it definitely shouldn’t track through smoke, track through walls, and snapping to targets. I don’t know how you tested it, but I’m fairly sure those things shouldn’t happen.
    Note: I have heard of the tracking through smoke, but it shouldn’t be tracking during the main part of the smoke. For some reason, when the smoke starts to dissipate, the aim assist will come back.

    If you got this info from a video, check the date. Apparently the aim assist on PC from like S1 or S0 was crazy.
  • 4ccbf460f7b926b's avatar
    4ccbf460f7b926b
    6 years ago

    @Sir_NamedMy testing wasn't scientific by any means, but I tried this two different ways.
    I had my keyboard/mouse emulated as a controller, and just used a controller.
    Keyboard/mouse emulated as a controller, to also get aim assist, was way too powerful. I was extremely bad at the new controls, as my mouse was emulating analog stick movement, creating a very foreign aiming feel. Yet I still managed to snap and land almost every shotgun blast, and the grand majority of my r-99,r-301 shots (A very high number of these were easily placed as headshots) I do not condone cheating, or exploits such as what I listed. I did this solely to determine if this was possible, and to compare aim assist on something I was familiar with.

    I'm admittedly terrible with a controller, but I was still able to easily snap to target with shotguns, and blast entire clips of r-99 into people, with seemingly no recoil or need to track as people moved. I only needed to move my aim 'inside the tracking' to decide where I wanted to shoot someone.

    This didn't make me a god, because as I stated, I'm terrible with controllers. What it did do though, was make my aim amazing before I could even figure out all the controller buttons.

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