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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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.
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