How do you win gunfights now?

@YaBoyMirageIf you find out, let me know. Playing in prime time Eastern Time is a complete nightmare.  My experience is EXACTLY the same as yours.  My enemies know where I am all the time, are perfectly coordinated, have godlike movement, & never miss shots.  Meanwhile, I consider myself average and my teammates are usually worse than me.  How does that even happen?

I consider myself about average, but that doesn't translate to winning every other fight during those times. It translates into getting absolutely destroyed immediately 80% of the time.

Welcome to the realm of aim assist, strike packs and any other assortment you can think of.

My son was big in to this game, pred level. He has now switched to controller and says its absolutely ridiculous 

how much easier it is to kill guys. His exact words were..."you barely have to try, it does it for you" as he laughs away.

Pro's have been saying the same thing. That's why so many have switched. Their own words " its just so OP its crazy"

I'm MnK and am probably on a scale of 1-10 , about a 7. Im not a pushover and generally you'll have to work to kill me,

BUT, Im feeling the same as YaBoy these days. Its ridiculous how easily you get beamed with full purple. You go look at the

Death Recap, say for instance the match I just played while writing this. Silver Lobby, controller player killed me, he has 6350 kills

and so I spectate his squad, they are all on controller....oh and yeah, they won the match. Literally every single shot hits on recap.  It is a freakin joke.

I truly think they are trying to get rid of MnK all together.

No one will listen. They just don't care .  Plain and simple.

Back when you were playing when everything felt fine and you were having fun.... the aim assist for controller was still 0.6. 

So my guess would be the over abundance of hacks/mods/scripts and illegal hardware that the majority of are not able to detect. Welcome to the new world of multiplayer online gaming. 

You can thank some specific generations for that. 

Bring back the PvE gaming world....this one is dead. 

I started in S10 (or maybe the last few days of S9, can't remeber). I didn't know * and while I am still quite bad I've gone from a K/D of 0.29 to 0.75 now.
I'd say people are better now in general. And yes, while some people def. cheat. Some are also quite good. Be it MnK or Controller.

Positioning, map knowledge, small tricks because they know the legends, movement etc. It adds up.

I do agree that I can feel the aim assist kick in at times, but not always. It is however way easier to do long fights with MnK. + You have tap strafing and loot-moving.

TL:DR: There is aim assist, but other things play in as well...

I started playing in season 7/8 and didn’t get up to a 1 kd until season 13. I can actually perfectly explain this situation and it has nothing to do with aim assist. The only reason I was able to maintain a 1kd was becase I was at the top of my bucket as it’s referred to in the blog post about mm. Say I was a 3, I was being grouped with 1s and 2s, but now with the new matchmaking, I am a 3.2 being paired much more accurately with 2.9s and 3.5s. This has nothing to do with aim assist, and everything to do with the new matchmaking, it’s just more fair now. You’re facing players with more even skill. It can be jarring to some players that were at the top of their grouping now being matched with more of their skill level, but this is only a matchmaking thing, not aim assist.

@BigMacAttack8u As I was saying, this has been going on since season 11. So it's not the new matchmaking.

@DrWizardo Only talking about aim here. The players I get frustrated at are the one's who have nothing going for them except very good aim. 

Destiny took me here to find this topic,  I thought I was the only one feeling like this. I've been playing from day 1 and from time to time after few seasons there is always that one season where every single game  it feels like you are playing aginst bots set to Nightmare level. It feels like guns are working differently in the practise range than they are in the game. Like some one is micro-scrambling my mouse.