I Understand Why Valorant Became So Successful, No Aim Assist.

It's night & day playing with mouse & keyboard in any title that doesn't support aim assist for controller users, just wow. Overwatch, PUBG (console, PC), Tom Clancy's Siege (no aim assist while playing real players), Valorant and so on.

I honestly think most of the mouse & keyboard players gave up on Apex Legends because of the aim assist. Getting beamed in your back gets old quickly. Something needs to change in Apex Legends. It's a fun title, but without always running software helping controllers aim.

Aim assist is why Apex Legends will never be a true competitive title.

If anyone on mouse & keyboard is getting frustrated with Apex Legends, play a game without aim assist, it's very relaxing. People miss shots, you miss shots, all one happy game, well unless someone has an RNG gaming GPU fan.

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EA_Darko
3 years ago
Going to go ahead and close off this thread.

If you wish to discuss what other games are doing then you can do so on those games' dedicated forum boards.

At this point, this thread is going around in circles.

Darko

24 Replies

Anonymous
3 years ago
@hayhor

I'm not sure you fully understand my post. My post is about directly playing with a mouse & keyboard in different titles that don't offer aim assist.

1) PUBG doesn't have aim assist on consoles and/ or PC, meaning there isn't aim assist on consoles. It's relevant because it doesn't offer aim assistance.
2) Overwatch doesn't offer aim assist to controller users while in PC lobbies.
3) Tom Clancy's Siege doesn't offer aim assist while against player versus player (only in terrorist hunt).

So if someone started playing with mouse & keyboard in Apex Legends, but then moved to one of the titles above, they would feel quite relaxed.

Also it sounds like you want to 1v1 me in Apex Legends @hayhor . I'll use any input device you want me to, my man. This isn't a joke, I'll do it if you want, even if you have 60% aim assist.
Anonymous
3 years ago
@Cheese9Man
@Cheese9Man wrote:
Can you name teams in the ALGS that quit just because of aim assist?
1) No, I can't and/ or haven't heard of anyone that has quit ALGS because of aim assist. It's my opinion that once someone is already established into the ALGS, why leave something that's profitable. They make money, why give that up? I do however believe that some mouse & keyboard players left Apex Legends directly because of aim assist.

@Cheese9Man wrote:
If aim assist is that strong why isn’t every player in the league use a controller? Of course you’ll have to use everything into your advantage to win that huge prize pool money.

2) In league I'm guessing you mean ALGS, If so, Well some are already proficient with mouse & keyboard, the issue with aim assist in my mind is the people learning the device for the first time while getting aim assisted by controllers. Again, I don't think the two devices shouldn't be competing against one another while one has aim assist.

Also, those numbers are truly impressive for Valorant. For a non-aim assist and/ or cross-play title to hold those numbers is wild. I say that as Riot games only caters to the mouse & keyboard community currently. Could you imagine if they released it for consoles, just wow.
heme725
3 years ago
@Popa2caps I've always maintained that Aim Assist is necessary due to the inaccuracy of joysticks (or whatever they're called now). Nothing to do with what M/KB is capable of and both devices should be separated.
Let's not lie here both sides will call BS when the other side can perform a feat that they can't while believing their advantages are fair. Even if things were perfectly balance players won't agree so my stance is always separate lobbies.
@Popa2caps Also movement based shooters should make it harder to perform without AA so that point was a little weird.
EA_Darko
Community Manager
3 years ago
Going to go ahead and close off this thread.

If you wish to discuss what other games are doing then you can do so on those games' dedicated forum boards.

At this point, this thread is going around in circles.

Darko