Remove aim assist on consoles
I understand why target compensation is needed on pc. It helps against m&k. After messing around in the firing range today with target compensation off I began wondering why it's needed on consoles i...
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@Blasian311 I think you came to the wrong conclusion on why aim assist is needed. It can't exist on consoles to compensate against M/K since that isn't even allowed there and I doubt it exists to give weaker players a chance against stronger players. I'm guessing aim assist is there to compensate for the controller's natural flaws in a shooter. Precision aiming with thumb sticks is unreasonable.
My experience has been that snapping onto targets without aim assist is tougher but not that much. Staying on target is difficult and grows towards impossible the further your target is away from you. After you consider the way that players/characters move in this game it would be impossible for console players to move and shoot accurately. The end result would be more camping and sniping rather than any meaningful skillful fight.
- @heme725 I said it's needed on pc. I don't think it's needed on console
- @heme725 that's ok because everyone would suffer the same flaws. Everyone would have to adapt and get good.
I'll accept it if they gave aim assist a disadvantage versus not having it on. Like for example your reticle slows down much more when coming across a target making it harder to track. The only players you would kill with it are noobs and bots. Eventually to progress yourself as a player and in ranks it's recommended that you turn it off
The auto aim is not that huge of an advantage. I‘m a ps4 player but I‘m playing Apex with some friends on PC sometimes and of course with controller since I‘m better with it than I am with m&k.
First of all, the aim assist isn‘t nearly that every noob just instantly lasers you without any problems. Secondly, the m&k users have a huge advantage in movement like strafing left/right. I can tell you that it is wayyy harder to challenge a pc player in close fight due to the movement. And when you do you most likely have to shoot with hipfire because of his crazy left/right/duck *. And in that case there is no auto aim at all!
I was playing Battlefield for years with auto aim turned off while 99% of the players had it turned on. I had no problem killing all these guys since auto aim won‘t give them game-sense nor is it anywhere like a aim-bot. I always felt that it even annoyed me since i wasn‘t in full controll of my crosshair, for example when i was shooting a guy and another guy would run across the line of fire, the crosshair would be affected. I was way better without it, but it took a while and a lot of commitment. But not everyone has the time and nerves to do that.
Therefore I wouldn‘t care if they would take it out, but I can tell you that you don‘t have an advantage over m&k players. If anything, the m&k guys still have a huge advantage. Especially in a fast moving game like Apex...
If you wanna play without aim assist, go on and do it.
@Blasian311 I'm actually not supporting aim assist on PC at all. M/K should be used on PC so controllers shouldn't be prioritized there. Rip out aim assist on PC or keep it since I really don't care.
Aim assist is necessary on consoles to make use of the controller. Rip it out and even Gold players will be able to avoid Predators with ease. I could be wrong though since the last time I played without it was as an above average player on Call of Duty.
Two targets running close to each other would drag my sights slightly off target and cause me to miss so I turned it off out of irritation. End result? Landing my first shot felt weird but was more consistent since I was doing all the work but maintaining shots with a full auto gun was difficult. Recoil and player movement made it so I had to make continuous small adjustments to my aim which was impossible to do with imprecise thumbsticks. Apex has more mobility than Call of duty so I'd imagine any decent player can dance around bullets without aim assist. Most of us dodge shots fairly well now so I can't imagine how hard it would be to hit Wraith/Bangalore/Lifeline with no aim assist on consoles.
Then again aim assist could be weaker on apex so maybe I'm overstating its need? There's no Team deathmatch here for me to test out the experience in combat.
- @heme725 I buddy of mine plays with aim assist off now. This dude has played since day one and got to diamond last season. He recently turned aim assist off as he claims it helps his minor adjustments. Now he has games where he gets 5+ kills or games where he gets 1 kill. The only way to see the clear advantage of aim assist is to play with it off in the firing range for a couple of minutes and then turn it back on.
