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...
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@S3SSioN_SoL They won’t respond honestly if at all!
@emerson1975 wrote:
@S3SSioN_SoLThey won’t respond honestly if at all!
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I - a controller user - have already responded to this topic multiple times (see comments #2, 6 and 11). Unless you are implying that I'm being dishonest.
I've always played BF on PC since BF1942, I never really played much BF5 due primarily to Patrick Soderlund's comments.
BF1 was ok but just not my cup of tea so I was still mainly playing BF4 until BF2042, so this is my first real foray into the cross-platform experience and so far, it hasn't been a great experience and it doesn't appear to be working out very well.
Neither side of the PC vs. console debate is happy with the current situation it seems.
From a PC players perspective any sort of "aim-assist" is definitely not welcome in any FPS and console players seem to be of the mind that mouse and keyboard (as broken as the mouse input is right now) gives you some sort of god-like powers, I have not yet experienced these powers myself yet but yeah ok whatever.
Might be time to just call it quits on this whole cross-play experiment.
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@Ironhead841 wrote:I've always played BF on PC since BF1942, I never really played much BF5 due primarily to Patrick Soderlund's comments.
BF1 was ok but just not my cup of tea so I was still mainly playing BF4 until BF2042, so this is my first real foray into the cross-platform experience and so far, it hasn't been a great experience and it doesn't appear to be working out very well.
Neither side of the PC vs. console debate is happy with the current situation it seems.
From a PC players perspective any sort of "aim-assist" is definitely not welcome in any FPS and console players seem to be of the mind that mouse and keyboard (as broken as the mouse input is right now) gives you some sort of god-like powers, I have not yet experienced these powers myself yet but yeah ok whatever.
Might be time to just call it quits on this whole cross-play experiment.
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You may well be right mate, nobody seems happy with where we are at currently with cross-play.
My worry is, is there a large enough player base to fill servers without turning cross-play on.
- @Ironhead841 Late last night I tested Cross-Play off, and all modes of Conquest, Breakthrough, Rush...100% of all variants, had less than 2 players when I tried to play so I had to back out. And I'm playing CST zone on an Xbox series X, yet can't play Cross-Play off within 24 hours after Season 2 launches???
Played another round where multiple times I was getting beaned by console players running SWS rifles indoors. Blast them with an AM40 at 30m, they turn, sight, boom, in a fraction of a second. Whilst being shot. Additional cases of players taking damage down to between 10-5hp, suddenly taking no further damage, and instantly capping me.
- @AngrySquid270 Dude the aim assist even works through smoke lol come on stop this silliness
@emerson1975 wrote:
@AngrySquid270Dude the aim assist even works through smoke lol come on stop this sillinessDo you have any sort of video? I haven’t noticed this myself.
Are you certain it isn’t due to someone making an educated guess where you might be in the smoke? Are you certain that you were 100% obscured by the smoke from their view?
In my experience Aim Assist shuts down even when a player is partly obscured by smoke. In situations where I see smoke pop on an enemy body you can anticipate the revive and start spraying in the area of the body. In those cases I recall having to ‘feel around’ for hit markers. It’s not like it locks onto the players through the smoke.
If PC player kills you while in smoke do you assume they were hacking? Have you never killed anyone through smoke?
- @AngrySquid270 its works only through underbarrel-smokeslauchers normal smokegranades and smokelaucher are fine.
Am on pc there the assist is certainly weakened, do not even have the snap option only the slowdown.
But unfortunately i can't solo test how the assist reacts to counterfire in a smoke.
But it would be interesting if someone tests it on PS or Xbox.
