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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@SleepyWeasel68 I feel ya, it’s not fun to be accused of something you’re not doing. I don’t know what aim assist does, I do know that since the last patch I die to consoles more than I used to. We also see way worse desync and lag issues. So is aim assist basically an aimbot? Or is that console player have a higher ping than me so his bullets hit me as a packet rather than as they actually fired. My point is we don’t know. I have a feeling that if they fixed the darn game we’d see that aim assist isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Hell just having aim assist when mouse input is broken is not fair to anyone either. Players are way too fast to point the fingers at each other and not at Dice, where the issue lies.
- @RayD_O1 Thanks. In short form I’m saying that blaming each other distracts from the source of the problems, Dice. Maybe servers can’t handle crossplay. Maybe trying to get a game that can recognize inputs from three entirely different systems didn’t work. Maybe some consoles are using third party peripherals or maybe some PC players are hacking. The reality is we don’t know, so shouldn’t be hammering each other. The concept itself is applicable to a wider arena than just gaming, but it’s in gaming too.
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@RayD_O1Thanks. In short form I’m saying that blaming each other distracts from the source of the problems, Dice. Maybe servers can’t handle crossplay. Maybe trying to get a game that can recognize inputs from three entirely different systems didn’t work. Maybe some consoles are using third party peripherals or maybe some PC players are hacking. The reality is we don’t know, so shouldn’t be hammering each other. The concept itself is applicable to a wider arena than just gaming, but it’s in gaming too.Totally agree there are far too many accusations flying around in posts recently.
As you rightly say it could be any one of the issues you mention, or a combination, but you are right we just don't know so all this daily attacking each other needs to stop.
I've played all matches since yesterday with crossplay turned off. Improvement of gameplay for me is measured in miles. I'm frequently back in the top three for kills, and can often get three to four enemies in 30 rounds. The only match that has come close to feeling like one against console players, was the opening of my last game. The bots suddenly went superpowered, taking a ton of damage, dishing a ton out in a second, and perfect aim. That felt exactly like playing against the consolers in crossplay. That instantaneous death.
Now if just more PC players would turn off crossplay, matches would be more frequented. On the other hand I wish DICE would drop the starting limit for matches. Technically it should only take one player to start a match as the rest are filled with bots like solo.
