3 years ago
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...
Considering the terrible matches by far are always the ones with the console players, yeah, its the console players and their aim assist. The only good game I had recently with crossplay on was a late one when hardly any of the players in the match were console players. I just finished a set of matches with crossplay on because I couldn't get a game otherwise, and again we're seeing perfect headshots through smoke, losing close quarter fighters, and snipers landing shots that clearly missed by a mile.
I got sniped out of an Su-57 after banking around and coming in at about 30 degrees down on Renewal, heading toward C1 from beyond the wall. At least 300m up, over 700m away. The moment I came out of that turn and levelled out, I'm suddenly hit in the head by a console sniper who is standing off to the side of my line in. Not in front. Off to the side. So they line up a shot, lead me while on afterburner as I'm travelling downwards at an angle, fire that shot with enough lead, and land a perfect headshot on me in literally one second, because that's how long after I levelled out did that shot hit me.
A 700m headshot on a high speed moving target that you are not aligned with, which is changing altitude at the same time, at a distance where normal infantry in even the 10x power scope are tiny.
In the last match I set a player on fire, pursued them, looked at the one bit of cover available they were behind, and shot them in the head and torso. I knew where they had gone, so I could find them through the flames. They did not see me at all, yet I'm instantly killed at, you guessed it, about 15hp left on them. Console player. Perfect instant kill with poor visuals. Same match, console player instantly nails me in the head through a dense smoke cloud. This isn't people rattling off rounds in the hope of hitting something, this is people firing perfect shots at targets they cannot see and instantly capping their heads. Again, I can literally dump 30 Avancys rounds into their head and torso and they'll tank it and survive before killing at exactly 15-12hp. Are you going to tell me there isn't something amiss by these players constantly taking damage down to this level and then suddenly nothing will register, and they instantly kill me?