The Question of Aim Assist

An update of interest to this topic: I turned off crossplay for the first time in a while tonight, as a test. Not as many players, and more bots, but I died much less than I would in a comparative match with console players. Aside from a few questionable players (namely being able to instantly locate you without any scanning or spotting evident), I didn't get beaned in the head anywhere near as frequently, and the frequency was waaay down in close quarters, white knuckle fights. It felt considerably more balanced. 

Performance felt somewhat better today, but I'm still encountering issues, especially the later in the night I play. Questionable players zooming ahead of everyone else by dozens of kills to hardly any deaths, frequently standing in open areas picking off everyone in sight. One of these was an alleged 'competitive' player, according to the one defending him. Extra curious when the one defending was on the other team and they both ended up being miles ahead of anyone else with virtually no deaths. Further curiosity in both of their Battlefield tracker pages being set to private. Much like another 'competitive' player I saw recently, they seemed to know exact positions of players that weren't visible or making themselves known. Its never a case of them taking a cursory search and spotting something. They know someone is there before they actually see them without any gadgets or abilities. I'm convinced this is how they outpace vehicle players fighting tense combat around contested flags with lots of players, and how they die so little.

After that it was literally Xbox central, and just constant headshots. Died to one PC player in that match. Everything else was an XBox player. Including one who ate up full hi power magazines like they were sweets and blew your head off with one shot. Another did the same thing. Get close to a console player, and you more or less can't win, considering the latter player killed me from full health whilst they were at 6hp and still being shot. 

Also have players tossing C5 about twice the distance I can, now that they've reduced the throw range. Another aspect is vault weapons being uber powerful in enemy hands and middling in mine. A-91 took over a full mag on nearly every player. Capped by one in five shots. Guy with an XM8 mows down everyone and goes 97-16. I shoot the same guy twice in a row after being revived (and they blew my head off instantly with the M16, go figure), and he still won't go down, and proceeds to blow my head off instantly with the otherwise useless M16 again. Sometimes I really wish I knew what server I'm being connected to that seems to make my experience differ vastly compared to Youtubers living in the UK, who seem to have zero latency effects regardless of the server they're on, and never any hit registration issues. 

Anyway. Patch is good, map is good, but the same problems remain to taint the gameplay, especially regarding terrible teamplay that resulted in 12 straight match losses for the exact same reasons (enemy team obliterates any vehicle with a vengeance and literally dozens of players going for it; my team won't do anything).