Crossplay on PC
Im sick of dying to controller players laserbeaming you from where the fk they are. Its extremely frustrating in Battle Royale especially. I jumped behind a guy, shot him like 15 bullets no miss with...
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It’s not the console or controller players. Aim assist doesn’t lock on, it’s inconsistent as hell and usually does more harm than good. It’ll yank your aim off or stick to the wrong target, especially when someone crosses your sightline. Most controller players are fighting it or tuning it way down because it messes with your aim more than it helps.
I play on both PC with M&K and console with controller, and PC definitely has the upper hand. Most M&K players are cracked with laser precision, instant flicks, smooth recoil, and no slowdown. Controllers have their own problems like stick drift, input delay, limited range of motion, and inconsistent sensitivity. PC doesn’t have to really deal with any of that. And let’s be real, plenty of PC players use controllers too when it benefits them, so blaming controllers, consoles, or crossplay every time you get outgunned is just lazy IMO.
I’ve had those fights where it looks like I emptied a full mag into someone, nothing hit, and I’m dead two seconds later. That’s just Battlefield being Battlefield. Hit-reg, desync, recoil bugs, random TTK swings, it happens to everyone.
So there's no reason to not let PC turn off cross-play right? Also, that's a bunch of bull. Aim assist does lock on it's so clear and obvious. You also have less recoil and less bloom. Controller players pretty much have an easier time all around. It's simply not fair and needs to be fixed.
I’ve already said in previous posts that PC should have the same options as everyone else. If console players can turn off cross-play, PC should too. That’s fair, and I agree with that part. There’s probably some weird technical excuse they’ll never bother explaining for why PC doesn’t have it yet, but it’s still stupid that PC players don’t get the same options as consoles.
But saying aim assist “locks on” just isn’t true. It doesn’t track or snap to players like an aimbot. It basically creates a small slowdown bubble around targets to make fine aiming easier with a stick, but it’s inconsistent and often works against you. Sometimes it helps, other times it drags your crosshair off when enemies cross paths or stack up.
Recoil or bloom isn’t magically easier on controller. That’s down to weapon tuning and netcode, not some input-based advantage. Neither side has it easy with how the game plays right now. Controllers might have a small edge in close-range tracking because of aim assist, but that’s about it. M&K still wins when it comes to precision, reaction time, and overall control. Every time this topic comes up, it just turns into the same argument when the real problem isn’t inputs, it’s Battlefield being inconsistent across systems.
Cross-play would make way more sense if players had options to separate input types and platforms, controllers vs controllers, M&K vs M&K, Xbox vs PlayStation, etc. Just give players the choice. Let everyone play against who they want.
Sure it's true, because that's exactly what aim assist does. If it was working against people nobody on pc would use controller. Recoil and bloom are both reduced on controller, that's a fact, therefore making it "easier" on controller. Even at longer ranges Controller is simply better because of everything it has. You're acting like it's how it used to be back on the 360.... newsflash, it's not. Even Shroud has said modern aim assist and controllers are completely broken. Precision and rection time mean nothing when some kid on a controller can just look somewhat your way and just fire. and no, it has worse controller because we deal with more recoil and more bloom. We literally have to be way better then controller to even have fair fight. Cross-play must be able to be turned off on PC or they are going to lose a lot of players.
Sure it's true, because that's exactly what aim assist does. If it was working against people nobody on pc would use controller. Recoil and bloom are both reduced on controller, that's a fact, therefore making it "easier" on controller. Even at longer ranges Controller is simply better because of everything it has. You're acting like it's how it used to be back on the 360.... newsflash, it's not. Even Shroud has said modern aim assist and controllers are completely broken. Precision and rection time mean nothing when some kid on a controller can just look somewhat your way and just fire. and no, it has worse controller because we deal with more recoil and more bloom. We literally have to be way better then controller to even have fair fight. Cross-play must be able to be turned off on PC or they are going to lose a lot of players.
Have you actually tried using a controller, or are you just guessing based on what you think it does or what your streamers tell you?
“That’s exactly what aim assist does.”
No, it really doesn’t. Aim assist is a slowdown bubble around targets. It doesn’t track or lock. When two players cross paths, it often drags your crosshair off the wrong one, which is why controller players constantly complain about it being inconsistent. DICE has even said they’re reverting the current aim assist tuning.
“If it was working against people nobody on PC would use controller.”
Platform data says otherwise. Steam’s own telemetry shows that roughly 10–15% of all PC gaming sessions are played with a controller, and that percentage keeps climbing every year. Plenty of PC players use controllers, even in shooters like Battlefield, which undercuts the “nobody would use it” argument.
“Even at longer ranges controller is simply better.”
Not exactly. The slowdown bubble from aim assist mostly helps at close and slight mid range, but it can still mess with your aim even at longer distances when multiple players are close together or moving across each other. It tends to stick or drag between targets instead of holding steady at what you want to aim at, which often makes long-range tracking harder, not easier. That’s why M&K players usually perform better with snipers, DMRs, and tap-fire rifles where precision matters most.
“Even Shroud said modern aim assist and controllers are broken.”
He also said aim assist needs to exist because thumb sticks will never match a mouse for precision. Taking half of what he said out of context doesn’t make your point stronger.
So no, controller players don’t have some secret built in advantage. They just have a mechanic that makes sticks playable.
And yeah, PC should have a proper cross-play toggle like consoles, no question. Just give everyone the choice so we can stop hearing the same aim-assist whining every week. It’s getting old. And the constant excuses are even worse, every loss isn’t some controller conspiracy. Sometimes you just suck. Blaming aim assist all the time won’t change that.🤷♂️
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