Battlefield 6 Aim Assist
It feels like Battlefield has become primarily a Console game first, and a PC game second. Frankly, the amount of assist players get is insulting to PC players. I was going to try to start this discu...
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Latest update (17th Sep.) on aim-assist implementation for BF6.
Interesting. Sounds good, but I have a hard time trusting Dice at this point.
Was there rotational assist in the beta?
This is a step in the right direction. Controller players still get a big advantage with reduced recoil and spread. In theory, I think giving controller players a little bit of rotational assist, with delays in direction changes, would be preferable to recoil and spread reduction.
Dice needs to be a lot more clearer on what assist are being implemented and what are their actual values.
I'm still skeptical of them doing stuff regarding crossplay as well. Every day that I play 2042, it feels like something is being manipulated with the netcode and console players. I consistently have 30ms of ping, no packet loss, playing on a high refresh rate monitor, and just watch people eat damage for a full two seconds to then kill me instantly at their leisure. The desync is unreal in 2042, and it's going to be present in BF6. They haven't talked about that one for a reason.
There's something fundamentally unstable in the development (and then deployment) of a.a. within DICE. The fracas pretty much began with BFV's 'Pacific Storm' shortly after the TTK debacle, when DICE turned on a.a. unbeknownst to anyone, denying it, and later testing confirming that they had indeed done so. Partwelsh was in the firing line, unfortunately, as the go-to man between DICE and the players. Flak became so heavy that DICE abandoned Reddit support.
I suspect there's a huge market pressure to make a.a. work. (alongside crossplay) — console players tend to be a more casual crowd: and that's where the market is. I do see an inescapable tendency for FPS games to go in the CoD direction: EA is shareholder-driven and not to cater for purists and tryhards and 'gitguders'. That's what we're up against. Obviously neither EA nor DICE will acknowledge that this is the direction they're taking.
Yup, the console market is just a lot easier to please. Like you said, it's a way more casual player base.
Crossplay is a red flag at this point. It means the developer doesn't have faith in their product, and don't think it will succeed on PC alone.
Crossplay, and subsequently aim assist has pretty much ruined shooters for the PC community. And they really wonder why there's a cheating epidemic?! However, I'll admit what Dice told us on how they tuned the assist for BF6 sounds nice, but from my recollection, something still felt off during the beta. They still get a huge reduction with recoil and spread, so they kinda forgot to mention all that in their nice little post. Can't seem to bring themselves to be completely transparent. Then there's the other issue of desync being a huge problem that doesn't seem to get nearly enough attention, or more so that players have gotten fatigued making thread after thread while Dice doesn't even acknowledge it.
It sounds like Battle Royale mode by Ripple Effect will have more powerful aim assist compared to the Classic multiplayer modes made by DICE.
On the other hand, Ripple Effect has also worked internally on something called "Battlefield Triangle" where aim assist is interconnected in all scenarios possible for controller players: infantry versus infantry, infantry versus vehicles, and vehicles versus vehicles.
"They have their own set of unique parameters, settings and tunings when it comes to aim assist. So, we have a holistic controller experience, and the first feedback we received was, 'I don't feel the need to switch to another input anymore. I feel like the controller as a whole, with everything that Battlefield offers: vehicle gameplay, infantry gameplay, whether I'm fighting vehicles or I'm in a vehicle myself, I don't have to switch inputs. And that was a great thing to hear.
They just can't help themselves if that's true.
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