It's blatantly obivous recently that there is an issue with the console aim assist especially now PS offers free Battlefield. I see so many new accounts just headshot headshot headshot constantly, they have insanely high HS% compared their overall performance and compared to what people normally would do with those weapons. This wasn't the case a few months back.It's like fighting bots that randomly have 100% accuracy and will kill in the fastest TTK possible, I don't even see insanely skilled players on PC do this kind of shenanigans. These aren't gun fights happening in Battlefield these are predetermined fights.On PC with a mouse if you are bad or make a slight mistake your aim suffers an insane amount, the difference between good, bad and a consistent players on PC is really big. On console especially in Battlefield I feel they are never insanely good (disadvantage controller gotta give them that) but they are never bad either, the game is doing all the shooting for them in Battlefield.Doesn't feel great when you see someone move like a bot just mow people down with ez. I think it's the tendancy of the aim assist to go for the head that seems to have changed, when before my understanding was that the one thing the aim assist doesn't do is go for the head. Especially in cqc fights the aim assist seems to find the most impossible headshots.

It is the crossplay netcode. At first I thought it was AA, but Console players have the same issues when they encounter PC players. What is happening is both sides are experiencing two different situations at the same time. When a Console player kills a PC player, it feels normal, but on the PC side, they are insta-killed and it feels like an aimbot.When a PC player kills a Console player, it feels normal, but on the Console side, they are insta-killed and it feels like an aimbot.The netcode, 45Hz tick rate servers, lag comp, etc are sooooo bad, none of us are playing the same game.

@Skill4Reel It is a failure. Unfortunately there's no way around it at this point. You ever turn off crossplay and find a match often? No you most likely didn't. It's almost impossible to find a match without crossplay on. A lot of people want crossplay gone but when they try to turn it off, they can't find a match so they turn it back on so they can play. They need to just remove crossplay between console and pc that way its fair across the board and people can actually have fun with that game. There's plenty of people playing now so we don't need crossplay

@doubleome I said it before and I say it again……. Crossplay with Console vs PC is not working. And as a console player and many like me would rather them just make it Console only Crossplay. Us Console players have had aim assist in all of our online shooters since I can remember, and I’ve played mostly all of them that have came out in the last 16 years.So there’s no way they are going to remove it while playing against PC players, in fact, they will make it a little stronger, because everyone knows that mouse and keyboard players have much more of an advantage, when it comes to movement, and fine aim along with the snappiness That Console players don’t have with analog sticks.They need to either reverse it back to the old ways when everybody was fine playing with other players, from their own platforms, Crossplay between Consoles only, or make matchmaking input based only.

You have no idea how janky it feels to aim at enemies on console. The input is bugged just like on PC. Its easier to counteract the bugged input on a mouse then it is on the controller. The aim assist could be reduced for controller, sure, but they need to fix the input first. Nerfing the aim assist without fixing the input would result it controller players putting the game down en masse.

@doubleome The aim assist is absolutely awful in this game. I find it funny how pc players complain about it despite it barely even working half the time. Honestly the worst aim assist I've had in an first person shooter. That's one thing the Call of Duty has up on Battlefield. At least their aim assist feels good and actually helps with aiming on console.

Please do something about the obviously broken console aim assist

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OldSkoolzFinest
3 years ago
@doubleome I said it before and I say it again……. Crossplay with Console vs PC is not working. And as a console player and many like me would rather them just make it Console only Crossplay. Us Console players have had aim assist in all of our online shooters since I can remember, and I’ve played mostly all of them that have came out in the last 16 years.
So there’s no way they are going to remove it while playing against PC players, in fact, they will make it a little stronger, because everyone knows that mouse and keyboard players have much more of an advantage, when it comes to movement, and fine aim along with the snappiness That Console players don’t have with analog sticks.
They need to either reverse it back to the old ways when everybody was fine playing with other players, from their own platforms, Crossplay between Consoles only, or make matchmaking input based only.
Lancing975
3 years ago
You have no idea how janky it feels to aim at enemies on console. The input is bugged just like on PC. Its easier to counteract the bugged input on a mouse then it is on the controller. The aim assist could be reduced for controller, sure, but they need to fix the input first. Nerfing the aim assist without fixing the input would result it controller players putting the game down en masse.
ZRuff46
3 years ago
@doubleome The aim assist is absolutely awful in this game. I find it funny how pc players complain about it despite it barely even working half the time. Honestly the worst aim assist I've had in an first person shooter. That's one thing the Call of Duty has up on Battlefield. At least their aim assist feels good and actually helps with aiming on console.
Skill4Reel
3 years ago
@ZRuff46 The aim assist in Call of Duty is overpowering and feels like it is yanking and pulling my aim all over the place. I don't want that either.

Every time that I see a topic like this it seems to me that there are people on both sides (console and PC) that do not respect the time put in for someone to become efficient playing shooters with their chosen input device.

Getting headshots with a controller in this game still requires the player to aim.

@OldSkoolzFinest
Don't let the constant back and forth bickering on these boards about this lead you to thinking that crossplay is a failure. If it were then we all would have turned it off a long time ago.
ZRuff46
3 years ago
@Skill4Reel Not my experience. Never had that happen once.
ZRuff46
3 years ago
@Skill4Reel It is a failure. Unfortunately there's no way around it at this point. You ever turn off crossplay and find a match often? No you most likely didn't. It's almost impossible to find a match without crossplay on. A lot of people want crossplay gone but when they try to turn it off, they can't find a match so they turn it back on so they can play. They need to just remove crossplay between console and pc that way its fair across the board and people can actually have fun with that game. There's plenty of people playing now so we don't need crossplay
BLADEWARRIOR447
3 years ago
@doubleome Have played this on a buddy's console and couldn't hit * so I can assure you it's really not that strong. A good player on console will be as good as a good player on pc but not necessarily better. It just comes down to what you're used to playing with. Funny how this "console aim assist" problem has only been a thing for the past couple of years. Before that it was always "PC is better! Mouse and keyboard is way more accurate!"
As someone who has primarily played console growing up and only switched to PC 4 or 5 years ago, I've been on both sides of this and can tell you that it's not as widespread an issue as you believe.
This topic is all over the COD forums too as well as any other shooter that is crossplatform.
OldSkoolzFinest
3 years ago
@ZRuff46 100% Agree
Adamonic
3 years ago
It is the crossplay netcode. At first I thought it was AA, but Console players have the same issues when they encounter PC players. What is happening is both sides are experiencing two different situations at the same time.

When a Console player kills a PC player, it feels normal, but on the PC side, they are insta-killed and it feels like an aimbot.

When a PC player kills a Console player, it feels normal, but on the Console side, they are insta-killed and it feels like an aimbot.
The netcode, 45Hz tick rate servers, lag comp, etc are sooooo bad, none of us are playing the same game.
VOLBANKER_PC
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I’m on console but I’m only using the first aim assist option - the one where your crosshair slows down when on an enemy.
Through testing I found I got the same result each round whether snap-to-enemy aim assist was on or off.
Then I thought I might as well just turn it off (Others may feel a need for it and that’s fine with me)
The slow down crosshair option is necessary for me, otherwise it’s too difficult for me to hit enemies that are at a distance.
- This just to say it’s not all of us console players that use full aim assist.