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The real problem with this PC v Console discussion is what DICE have done to make gamepad players more competitive. Let's just call it what it is: software-based cheating for gamepad/console users. The handicap for gamepads against M&K players is a .8 FSM and bonuses to their TTK, DICE have built cheating into their game for console/gamepads. To be competitive with a PC, it feels like to me, you need to have AT LEAST a third of a second lead on a console player before his aimbot sees you.
- JOGAGATYA2 years agoSeasoned Ace@CH34TC0D3 Honestly it feels the same from the console side.
- 93v3jwj4v22r2 years agoNot applicable
I stopped playing the PC version completely and only do console now. It's useless to get a game going in EU with just PC, pretty much always empty or 3-4 people waiting. Crossplay with aim-bot/aim-assist just makes you rage quit eventually. If honestly I had started with the PC version instead of console I probably wouldn't be still playing at all. Used to love BF on PC but those days are long gone.
- 5StarRevives2 years agoRising Traveler
And that's valid. I think it's just something EA/DICE haven't figured out yet. The question of "How can you have crossplay servers with consoles and PCs with a mix of gamepads and M&Ks, and allow for competitive play?" really is tough. Personally, I think you nix the console/gamepad aim assist altogether because it's software-based cheating, and you allow console players to use M&K. If console players are allowed to use M&K and the player knowingly uses another input device that, on average, is technically slower (gamepad), then there should NOT be software that handicaps others because others (even if it is a significant portion of the population) choose to use an inferior input device.
- Alethes2 years agoSeasoned Ace@CH34TC0D3 in theory you're correct. I'm all for discarding aim assist (since BF3) and then all consoles are equally leveled re. gameplay. However, I'd never play any game with M&K as I either play standing up or sitting on the couch...