EA / RESPAWN - Servers and Aim assist on Consoles.

@E9ine_AC 
This might sound weird, but I'm for it, but also against it.

In my opinion aim assistance shouldn't work on people who don't have it enabled. So an aim assisted player aiming at a mouse user should have no effect. I also think controller users who choose to disable aim assist should get the same.

To your reply on aim assist and what I noticed on consoles.

It might be at different levels, but on my Xbox Series X it's crazy huge of an area around targets. I wasn't even trying to be funny when I stated everyone just hops around without a care in the world about aiming, that was very VERY true.

Console players are playing a very different game then what I played on PC. It's almost like Respawn designed it like this on purpose. I think they did it to make everyone feel good about themselves, so they spend more money on skins. If I get to the bottom of the server issues, I'll record some gameplay of what I mean.  I'm mostly just dealing with server and/ or networking issues.

Side topic, On reddit there were some developers taking questions about Apex Legends. The question was that Apex runs on 20 tick rate servers, I really hope they fix that first before anything.

@Cracjaw450 
I totally disagree with you on a few things. PC stands for personal computer, it doesn't automatically mean better than anything. I still play PC games today and the first thing you notice when playing online, no one computer is the same as the next, That's why it's called a "personal computer" after all. I might be biased in saying it, but I blame RGB...

All jokes aside, a computer tower (case ) has nothing to do with the amount of the parts inside. It's just a box to hold the parts. It's down to what the user and/ or company (pre built) puts in the computer.

The main components of a PC

Motherboard (where most hardware connects to)
CPU (Central Processing Unit, Does calculations)
RAM (Random Access Memory, Like a faster storage, but is volatile (storage doesn't stay after power loss)
Storage (Holds data, non-volatile keeps data after power loss)
GPU (Graphics Processing Unit Does calculations)

Just speaking directly about 2013 - 2017 consoles, then I would have to agree that most personal computers would have better hardware in 2021. Now if we were talking about the new consoles Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 5 respectfully, I say these consoles have the upper hand. I'm not saying they beat all personal computers, just the majority in video games currently.

Also on the term "MOD", It's kind of overused in today's world, with most not knowing what that means. Modified. Sure you can do this to the consoles, but the new ones your best of luck is changing a FAN and/ or adding RGB lights. The older consoles can have their internal HDDs changed (yes even Xbox) to something with better specs, but they won't utilize most of it. This is not to be confused with how you can modify a PC. A mod on PC could be a simple watercooler loop to an OC (overclock) of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) for overclocked speeds for the CPU and/ or RAM, it's really nothing the same as consoles.

Here is the best way to show you the heavy aim assist in Apex Legends I know of. In game - Settings - Controller. At the bottom is the advanced menu, go there. At the top it should say enabled it or something, turn it on. Once it's on go to the bottom of this advanced menu. You should see target compensation and melee compensation, turn the first one off (it should disable both).

Now in the shooting range. Aim at dummy bot like you normally would in the BR mode. Don't worry if it doesn't feel different. Now after some time, go back into your settings and turn target compensation back on. This time when you aim at the dummy, you should see the first effect of aim assist. It's mostly always called "Aim Slowdown". It's a slowdown effect around each target, and on consoles, it feels to me like a bigger range than PCs.

The second effect of aim assist is mostly called "Aim assist tracking". You need a moving target to get it to activate in Apex Legends, but oddly it doesn't always activate. I got it to track when I shot at someone then I took damage. the aim just started moving without my input, but needs to be close. You can use the bots to get it to work, just need to make the bots move around.

These 2 effects are in both Apex Legends consoles and PC, I'm just saying on consoles, they feel noticeably stronger.

@Cracjaw450

So I was basically saying a PCs tower (case) means nothing on how fast a computer is. Someone could have a big tower, but weak parts in it. Someone could also have a small tower, but have good parts in it. PC is just that, personal, each is different. Also, most PC gamers don't have that good of hardware. The top 5% might have it, but most don't.

Next gen consoles by the way are not at all slow. They are amazingly fast for their price. The CPU alone in both Xbox Series S|X PS5 can be compared to a Ryzen Gen 2 3700, that's close to $330 alone.

Short answer.

Don't judge computers by their size.
Don't say consoles are just automatically weak.

That's all I was trying to say.

Yeah, true some don't see the effect of aim assist, others do.

@Popa2caps ,

Part of the logic behind “aim assist” isn’t actually to assist aiming whatsoever. Joystick modules are a class of dynamic potentiometers, and they degrade fairly quickly. What most people call “aim assist” is better called reticule stickiness. Basically, it acts as a spot in which input magnitude is exponentially reduced. It does not automatically seek. What you see when tracking occurs is that the device is still inputting data as it has not zeroed, thus it continues to have an adjusted magnitude.

If this feature were to be removed, only controllers less than a few months old would perform consistently. 

Until the manufacturer of the fundamental circuit element produces a more robust version, this type of software adjustment will continue to exist.