The Question of Aim Assist
Okay, I'm finally putting this here, because I am really, really at a loss.
How powerful is the console aim assist?
From my POV, it might as well be a legalised aimbot. Currently, I have to resort to crossplay to get filled matches frequently. Great. Except its not, because that means playing against console players, and ever since I've started playing against console players, a good 90% at the very least of my deaths are from console players. I'd wager over 70% of those deaths are headshots, and I'd wager still that the vast majority of those headshots are carried out in five shots or less from any weapon.
During matches I can quickly see what player is PC, and which is console when I get into a tooth and nail fight. When its a PC player, the bulk will start moving, start firing, and you dance around until someone gets a bit of luck in their shots. Generally, I come out well in these (unless they're very obviously using an aimbot to snap from player to player). The same situation against a console player, on the other hand, skews massively in their favour. It feels like a PC player who is using an aimbot. To the point of absurdity. I'm talking about console players eating an entire magazine, while facing a different direction, snapping to you, and beaning your head with one shot. This is with ARs, SMGs, LMGs, sniper rifles, pistols, you name it. I got the drop on a player earlier who panicked when I flushed them with a grenade, right into my sights. Opened up with an M5A3 on a short barrel. Full 30 rounds into them. Not only did they tank it with no body armour, they turned 90 degrees and bang, one shot to the dome from their M5A3. I flanked enemies on Exposure earlier and sighted on one looking at the stairwell. Lined up, shot, The absolute instant that bullet hit him, he snapped hard left 90 degrees and boom, head taken off at 30m. A rank 9, console player with an ironsights M5A3. An automatic, reactionary shot that instantly killed me, while he took less than ten HP from a lined shot because so few rounds managed to leave my gun before I was dead.
Speaking of the M5A3, they will also instantly dome you at ranges of 100m with close combat ammo. I see single digit rank players rapid firing sniper rifles and racking headshot after headshot after headshot on console, all while they're moving around without ever stopping. Shoot them, and there is no accuracy loss on their part as there would be for me. M5 rocket shots go off target if I take a hit while firing. It literally feels like fighting bots with their accuracy, and I'm frequently seeing these players racking dozens of kills in almost no time at all because they're able to throw a handful of rounds at each target and move on. No matter their rank, frequently below 50, topping servers with dozens of kills.
The other constant aspect is them firing at you and getting the kill whenever you pass cover. Every single time. This cannot simply be latency because for one thing, it almost never happens to enemy players when I shoot them. If they dart into cover and make it, they're safe. I, on the other hand, can disappear a good few metres behind cover and then die. Look up, and there's the little Xbox or PS logo.
Its honestly making the game infuriating to play (alongside general poor teamplay that seems to manifest in my team continually and result in loss after loss). If I could get consistently populated servers with crossplay turned off, I'd do it in a heartbeat, because its honestly ridiculous. This isn't one off events either, its day in, day out, match in, match out. The common denominator is almost always: console player.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
