COULND'T AGREE MORE. IT'S JUST BECAUSE EA STAFF NEVER READ THESE FORUM
Aim is far from the only important metric in the game - it just happens to be the one we're talking about.
"why not just give everyone 1.0 aim assist? That would actually make it 'fair,'"
Careful saying this one out loud. Because it's partly true. It's not the game I would want to play, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't either. But if hypothetically they gave everyone an aimbot tomorrow, the game will still produce winners and losers, and the winners will still be the people who are more skilled. The only thing that changes is the skill set being tested.
"give everyone 1.0 aim assist... honestly, that's pretty close to how aim assist is designed anyway."
Please tell me you're exaggerating to make a point.
"Also, I've been talking about ranked and the competitive scene this entire time, but you suddenly started bringing up pubs. Are you high or something?"
It's a pet peeve of mine that anyone anywhere at any time bothers to make a distinction between the two. Make of that what you will. And I brought it up because it's the best visibility on the trash sbmm in this game. And again, ranked is no different, it just has less visibility. You have to actually play it to understand fully how the pre-game lobby rank spread is lying to you.
You’re the one lacking consistency here. You keep sugarcoating it by calling it a 'difference in skills,' but removing aim as a competitive factor is basically eliminating a core part of the game.
You were the one who brought up cheaters in the first place, so why are you acting like I’m the bad guy here? Then tell me, what is aim assist even for?
First of all, this is a discussion about the game's direction, yet you randomly brought up the playerbase—I don't even know what point you're trying to make. You talk about Ranked and pubs as if they're the exact same thing, but you don't speak for the devs, and almost nobody in the community agrees with you on that.
Since you're the one who dragged the playerbase into this, it only makes sense to align with what the majority actually thinks. I'll say it again: you have zero consistency. Honestly, you're just crying like a kid.
I'm clearly not communicating at my best here. I keep talking in capital letter abstractions and you, rightly, want to talk about the detail of aim assist. And that's as it should be.
In answer to your question "what is aim assist even for?" I would like to put a few questions to you:
These are not intended in any way to be "gotcha" questions. I'm not trying to prove anything one way or the other. I'm trying to understand how your proposal might affect different players of differing skills in different modes.
