How does aim assist work?
I'm extremely curious as to why it feels like I'm playing aimbots on consoles, while on my side, I can't even line up a shot before I've lost all my shields and health. I know people complain about the aim assist in this game, and I know all too well why, but it feels like I see no benefit from it when I'm a console player myself. I've even thought about turning it off since it literally doesn't seem to exist for me, except for those annoying times when I just randomly aim towards a downed player instead of his teammate that ends up killing me... I see it here and there, believe me, when my crosshair perfectly tracks someone while I'm in ads on a sniper or in certain moments where I can't seem to miss, but I still feel like I'm missing something crucial to aim assist though... Am I supposed to toggle something in the options or in game? Is it only in a certain situation where it'll kick in? Is it just always on and I just don't realize it and try to aim too hard and end up screwing my aim all up? How do I turn myself into a console aimbot and help my K/D???
- @jokool_aid Seeing as nobody’s even remotely helpful, let me explain.
It all starts when a man and woma... wait, wrong advice.
Aim assist works like gravitational pull. Your vision gets pulled to somewhere. WRONG! This is what salty PC ppl will claim. but there’s some truth in it...
Aim assist kind of works like the counterforce of gravitational pull. If you had astronomy in class you might know what I’m talking about... if not... think of it as 2 magnets attracting each other, but they’re just on the edge of their effective range to suddenly cling to one another. Remember that force that you feel as you hold them apart? Aim assist kind of works like that.
There’s a certain range where the magnetic pull gets activated where the target is one magnet and your cursor, reticle, crosshair, center vision, however you want to call it is the other. Once you get into that sweet spot you don’t get automatically pulled towards your target (thats aimbot), but it gets harder to look away from the target while making it easier to keep looking at him as your sensitivity basically gets lowered so that aiming is easier.
So you can still miss shots obv cause you still have to properly aim, but it’s made easier as a controller is nowhere near as effective as a mouse in tracking. This tho does pose some caveats and one is if there are multiple targets, that means multiple pulls... also if the target’s at a far distance, weaker pull so harder to control.
And that’s how babies are made
