Aim Assist/Console Players

You are the one coping... Low skill if you can't beat a controller? Sure bud... It is obvious you do not want to lose the advantage you have. You are down playing its strength to hide the fact it is too strong and you are deflecting because you know you are wrong in what you are saying. If you are not willing to play with M&K and refuse to disable AA, you are the low skill player. Sorry, not sorry.

Replying to everyone here, but mainly addressed to EA/DICE's Devs.

Turn off the welfare aim and make controller players have to work for kills like the rest of us! I can't play this game when 70-80% of my deaths are to controllers! I will continue to report ALL controller players that kill me as cheaters until AA is reduced or removed entirely! It is unfair in it's current state.

EA Devs: Look at my player record. How many times I have died to controllers vs M&K and it is disproportionate to controllers. Look how my KD has been on a downward slide since Season 1 started, even though I am unlocking better attachments and putting in the same or even less game time. Look at how many matches I have quit because I keep dying to controllers! Look at my win rate in games where controller users out number M&K. That should give you an idea that AA is TOO STRONG! You said this game would be fair in regard to AA, it isn't!

I have heard all these excuses before M&K aim better, the AA isn't a snap, M&K lead the leader boards, blah, blah blah! No one cares what excuse you are giving! You know you are arguing for keeping an ADVANTAGE! As I said, if M&K was such a superior aim method, then USE IT, even on your consoles! You have the ability to! YOU WON'T BECAUSE AA IS AN ADVANTAGE! There is no point in breaking up PC and Console crossplay if PCs can use controllers and have AA too. I have a controller, I don't like using it and I don't want the game to welfare me kills because I use a controller. It isn't going to actually reflect my skill, because maybe, just maybe, someday they stop having AA. Then what!? No more skill and you have to find a new way to cheat. Don't be a loser, turn off AA and play, you will do better. Plug in a M&K and do even better. If you don't then you know you were not good  to begin with and AA welfared you kills.

A lot of you have been playing years with controllers. You know you can play without it, but you won't and you will kick and scream the moment it gets nerfed, because we both know, what it really is... Developer sanctioned Aim Bot! And you all complain PC has the most cheaters... LOL!

NOTE: Go ahead devs... query how many controller users DO NOT use any AA and see how many it is... bet they ALL use it, even if reduced, they will still use it, because they are addicted to the KD and we all know it!

on PC you can actually turn crossplay off, there is a way, I've had it off for 3 weeks now, research it. Hint: ottr

Take a read, I thought this was interesting.

Why BF6 Aim Assist Feels So Strong

EA/DICE typically try to “equalize” controller vs. MKB players. But if the aim-assist tuning is too generous (and early builds often are), it can feel like:

Bullet magnetism: shots connecting even when the reticle isn’t perfectly on you

Near-tracking: AA sticking to targets through sudden movements

Close-range dominance: controller players winning duels they shouldn’t

“Laser beam” feeling from across the map even with weapons that should bloom or lose accuracy

Veteran FPS players can absolutely tell when kills feel “unnatural” — not from cheats, but from over-tuned aim assist.

You’re not imagining it.

🖥️ Why PC Players Are More Sensitive to It

On PC:

You’re used to raw, mechanical aim

You notice micro-aim errors that AA is correcting for controller players

BF gunfights depend on recoil control + tracking, both of which AA can flatten

So when you get deleted instantly from an angle or distance where mouse vs mouse fights normally take time, your brain goes,
“Yeah, something’s off.”

And it probably is—just not intentional cheating.

Crossplay Is the Real Issue

The frustration usually comes from one fact:

You can’t avoid controller AA if crossplay is forced or default.

Most people aren't mad at controller players — they’re mad at a system that blends two completely different input methods and then tries to fix the imbalance with artificial aim help.

✔️ What You Can Do Right Now

Steps depend on your platform and BF6's settings, but typically you can:

Disable crossplay (if the game allows; many previous BF titles did)

Filter for PC-only servers (if the server browser exists)

Adjust matchmaking to region-only to avoid mixed lobbies

Keep an eye on patch notes — aim assist almost always gets tuned after launch backlash

BF2042, for example, had multiple patches that adjusted AA strength because players said it was too sticky.

So if the community is already complaining, DICE will usually tweak it.

👀 You’re Not Alone

That “I’d rather fight a cheater than insane aim assist” sentiment?
Believe it or not, it's extremely common in cross-play shooters right now (CoD, Apex, Fortnite, Battlefield, etc.).

Because:

A cheater gets banned eventually

Aim assist is legal, permanent, and built into the game

And it changes the entire skill dynamic of gunfights

I personally have not felt console aim assist is broken. I have fought plenty of controller users and haven't had any problems killing them. 

The aim assist is terrible.    Console players have to turn it way down or to 0.     If you slate shooting at a person and someone else is even close it pulls to the person you were not shooting at,  

I'm not lying, lol, I cannot see any perceivable aim assist with a controller on PC, oh and I'm not your friend and you might want to think twice about calling people liars.

I don't even understand what you are trying to say with that comment. lol

thelongestyodel wrote:

I say controller is by far NOT the best input

That's from someone's random opinion. I can agree that my statement is not 100% correct though, it does depend on the situation.

thelongestyodel wrote:

from having both, using both, and being over the age of 35. It's a mess on PS5 and I spend 20 minutes a day messing with it to feel AS GOOD as M&K.

"Tell me your bad with controller without telling me your bad with controller"

As I said before, the aim assist in this game is very good in some situations, but it can be very frustrating in others. It really shines in 1v1 gunfights where your opponent is trying to shoot you back. 

It is a good thing for both m&k and controller players that they address this and is looking at a way to balance both aim assist and (removing) the reduced recoil, as they said they will. Looking forward to see how it feels after the balance update. 

So it seems like they are nerfing aim assist soon but I will say it does suck in some aspects so idk why pc players are complaining.

 Its screwed me over pretty often for longer ranges. Ill be aiming at a target and a different enemy will run by them and COMPLETELY pull my reticle towards the new target runner (not the one I was aiming at).

It constantly feels like im fighting my weapon like a ghost is shifting it around while im trying to shoot and stay steady on one target.

With the new update there should be a way to limit aim assist at long range but heighten it at shorter ranges. Right now you just adjust it for all ranges and I left it it kind of low so it stops screwing me but now I keep overshooting closer ranges because the reticle doesnt "stick" to the target as much. Or maybe some kind of update for the aim assist to stay onto your first target unless you take the reticle off them.

Console player here. Aim assist drives me insane and I turned it off day one. I aim without it.