PC Input Methods and Leaving Apex
I am a pc player and I believe Input methods for online play should be mandatory. About 35% to 45% of players in my games on PC are controllers and I can not play the game anymore just getting 1 clipped by them at close to medium ranges. Aim assist is a good thing on console. I believe console players should have aim assist. If players want to use a controller on PC they should be matched vs players who are willing to match vs them. Apex legends is perhaps the shooting game with the MOST RECOIL I have ever played. On PC your crosshair can be on someone and you will miss a few stray shots. The times you drop early or have no attachments on your gun display the recoil gap between the two input methods.
The mouse does have a significant advantage over controller by design but controllers were not designed for shooters. Around the play station 1 era it was realized you could add analog sticks to a controller and sell shooting games that were becoming very popular. Again controllers weren't meant for shooters. A majority of players in the fighting game community do not use keyboards in semi competitive to competitive matches. Keyboards are not given an advantage to compete with fighting sticks or controllers in fighting games. The controller should not be expected to compete with the mouse and giving it aim assist to do so only ruins the experience of the players opposing it.
Everyone acknowledges the higher skill ceiling of the M/K but that also comes with an lower skill floor. Controllers with aim assist have a very HIGH skill floor but limited skill ceiling. The bad and average mouse players are worse then the bad or average controller player. The lack of ability to snipe, flick, armor swap, tap strafe by a controller present a disadvantage but giving out aim assist which decisively wins gunfights is not a healthy or ideal fix.
The input methods must be separated and players must have the option to play vs what they want. Console players would be outraged to play vs M/K with no choice but PC players are not afforded the same fair option.
I will be quitting apex legends due to having no way of not playing against input methods I prefer not to. I can not play the game anymore getting lasered and being insta downed by aim assist.
Yes this is another PC player crying about aim assist post. Yes I should just get better. Yes I am bad if I lose to controller. Yes mouse and keyboard is better then controller.
