At my age, you're lucky to fire in a straight line 🙂, but I have a question. It seems I'm good at asking questions that no-one knows the answers to; I've posted a few of them and no-one has replied, so either I'm asking difficult questions, or I'm the only person sees the question.Today when playing on Valparaiso (PC), I was using the soflam binos. I appreciate they are highly visible to the enemy, but what I don't really understand is this. The tank I was targetting was 450 yards away on a capture point. The driver fired one shot from the main barrel, and it was so accurate it went into my shirt pocket. The driver was a new player, rank 11, I think.This seems to happen a lot, where people get the range absolutely perfect first time. Yesterday, a rank 9 on Arica Harbour was using a sniper rifle out of the Russian base, and hit me and killed me one shot, as I ran between the buildings behind A1. It was something daft like 680 yards when I spotted him (upon being revived). I could barely see him when I switched to a 10 times scope on my rifle. I fully appreciate I'm old and decrepit, but even in my heyday I rarely got the range perfect first time. And it seems when I shoot someone at distance, even with a sniper rifle, it'll only kill with a headshot. Is this the benefit of a console's aim assist? Clearly I'm doing something wrong. I've never had this issue on a BF title before, but as I said already, it seems to happen a lot in BF2042.

@W4RD0G71 I’m also on PC and feel like I get lasered by consoles regularly. I firmly believe it’s aim assist JP helping with that first shot. That’s why I play mostly in portal with crossplay off. Suddenly I become a decent player. It’s amazing how different it plays.

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ATFGunr
Legend
2 years ago
@W4RD0G71 I’m also on PC and feel like I get lasered by consoles regularly. I firmly believe it’s aim assist JP helping with that first shot. That’s why I play mostly in portal with crossplay off. Suddenly I become a decent player. It’s amazing how different it plays.
W4RD0G71
2 years ago
@ATFGunr Thanks; I'm glad it's not just me, and a time to stop playing. I've never seen so many people getting it perfect; i was convinced it was either aim assist or a cheat. The latter didn't sit right with scores not reflecting something underhand. That said a lot of these players could realistically be at a third of my age, with lightning reflexes and a keen eye; I have neither now 🙂
ATFGunr
Legend
2 years ago
@W4RD0G71I hear ya brother, as a gamer in his 50s I don’t have the twitch ability anymore. I’m not sure I ever had it lol, always just put in the hard work to gain experience and hopefully be better. There are third party peripherals for consoles now that allow macros, zero recoil etc. PC of course have hacks on the market. Add in the bad net coding of 2042 which makes identifying possible cheaters almost impossible and it can be tough for older players. The coding is so bad for cross play on multiplayer that I just avoid it. I get why consoles need some help, a mouse is going to be mechanically better. What I don’t get is that the manufacturers of consoles could make a better controller and choose not to. I believe the console players who say that aim assist isn’t that powerful in 2042, however the lower recoil they get alone is a powerful improvement over m&k, and the potential for sticky aim making that first shot combined is why as a pc player I do think it needs adjusting. It’s supposed to be about creating parity, not a competitive edge.
80uwjx4m1chc
New Ace
2 years ago
@W4RD0G71 Well, I'm 60. And I want to bring back BFBC2. I loved that game and spent the most time playing it, especially with the Vietnam add on pack, and all the extra maps we used to get, along with things such as server browser and a chat system that actually worked.
I have had every BF game since then and started on the PS2. BF3 was okay, BF4 was better, BF1 just looked pretty and BF5 was okay as well despite things that other people were not happy about.
I just really hope that the Next BF Game is better than this one, it's completely bizarre what they are doing with it and I have no genuine understanding of what they are trying to go for, but it feels as though each "Patch" seems to take it backwards rather than improve things. The constant gun nerfing and vehicle buffing is driving me nuts
I would much rather they forgot about some of the fancy things they implemented and start getting back to the basics of a good game with things such as good net code, plenty of maps to remove the boredom factor and keep it fresh, and also pop the levolution back in again and remove these weird tornado things, at least with levolution it changed the look and feel of the map in real time as you went through the game.
Oh, and bring back proper weapon progression and vehicle attachments rather than all these silly skins.
Where are the designated Snow maps, Water maps etc etc
The next Attachment unlock I want now is the SMG "Auto Deploy Zimmer Frame" attachment
Adamonic
2 years ago
@W4RD0G71 I was hit by an M5 while moving in a LATV from over 300m away by like a Level 17. Then sniped from 550m on Orbital. Both console players. Not saying it can't be done, but man. It is ALT-F4 time after that.
Prof3ss0r_M1k3
2 years ago
@Adamonic wrote:
@W4RD0G71I was hit by an M5 while moving in a LATV from over 300m away by like a Level 17. Then sniped from 550m on Orbital. Both console players. Not saying it can't be done, but man. It is ALT-F4 time after that.
m5 rocket or m5 rifle? pretty sure aim assist doesn't work on rocket launchers. AI will laser you with a rocket at long range though. AI are dumb but they never skip weapons training. they are scary accurate
also, i don't think aim assist works that far
TwentyValve
2 years ago
@ATFGunr so you think aim assist not even locks on, but negates bullet drop also?
we are playing 2 very different versions of this game.
ATFGunr
Legend
2 years ago
@TwentyValve If that’s your take away from my comment, more power to ya man. You understand what you choose to understand I guess. You keep being you.
TwentyValve
2 years ago
@ATFGunr my reply was to your first reply not your second.
I 100% agree the netcode is garbage, and Dice should be ashamed of releasing it.
but to the topic of aim assist, it is very broken on console. it will either laser someone, or prevent being on target, and everything in between. is as inconsistent as the netcode, almost like the two are related somehow.
Padding_Ur_Stat
2 years ago
I fully appreciate I'm old and decrepit,
Im so old, I fart dust