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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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).
@Moab23 what's you ping? this franchise, for as long as I can remember, has catered to higher ping players. if you have a low ping, you are at a disadvantage. and what you usually describe is lag (and probably some cheating), not AA. the hours you are playing are probably a low player count timeframe, so you get matched with players having higher ping.
@TwentyValve I can play anywhere from noon until night. My ping is 28-40 on average, and whenever I've had a high ping, I die even more quickly because nothing can be hit. I used to watch players with 12 ping dominating matches. I watched players with 300 ping dominating matches. Makes no difference. Now that crossplay is permanently enabled, it makes even less difference. Single rank console players are all landing headshots, performing 180 spins, clearly locating you through obstructions, tanking damage and killing instantly. I have console players outranging rifle shots with SMGs. I have players eating a full railgun magazine when a bot can only take three rounds to kill. Same old, same old. Enemy player takes an age to die, but kills me the way you'd kill a bot.
- @Moab23 It definitely feels like some people know how to exploit hit reg using a VPN or something. 2042 uses dedicated servers, so it shouldn’t matter, but I still have a feeling there’s a way. My ping is exactly the same as yours. I’d definitely love to see others connections in game. People with high ping, using WiFi, and packet loss should be the ones having a bad time.
If I miss a single shot or don’t take someone somewhat off guard, it’s incredibly hard to win fights. I’m pretty convinced it’s a combination of aim assist and the net code. I get completely lasered even behind cover, head glitching, and being very twitchy.@RaginSam When I play against bots, I can blitz each one in a few rounds. Kill maybe four with the railgun mag. In a player match, you're lucky to get one. But you've got players mowing people down with any weapon they choose and its like watching them playing against bots. Damage and hit registration should not be any different for them, yet somehow in every match they compensate for 32-64 varying players with all those variables of movement and latency, and they do the same thing every single time. Inch perfect accuracy. Headshots with holo sights that outrange powered scopes. Its like when you watch Jackfrags (who I understand has actually been banned from games for using cheats) capping people left right and centre like its nothing, and its like watching someone playing bots. Even when I play against bots, and I can rack up like 160 kills, I may also die up to 13 times because the bots get a shot in. Yet somehow these players, against actual players, get sometimes a fraction of that death amount. Something seriously does not add up with them.
