I mean, it does appear like a lucky play. Sometimes that just happens. I truly don't see any "aim jerking" caused by aim assist. I believe you're referring to bullet magnetism, but it does not appear to be different from console.
If you slow it down, you can clearly see the aim reticle isn't on the bot, then you see the moment of fire by the flash of the gun, then magically it instantly jerks up and to the right for a headshot.
Another obvious case is just fly a helicopter against controller players... they never shoot the helicopter itself; they always magically shoot your player character OUT of the helicopter. That's how laughably accurate it is; It's actually quite hilarious. Just happened to me last game four times in a row. I honestly cannot believe people don't notice these things more.
I think you're upset with the bullet magnetism included in the game, and that's not just for controllers, that's for all players. I think that you've witnessed someone playing well. Since you haven't viewed their controller while they are playing - I think it's a large leap to assume that the gun "aimed itself" to a headshot. Also, that weapon has an up and to the right recoil pattern. I think this player got a lucky hipfire headshot and you're just finding reasons to claim "cheating" or "aim assist", when this just happened to be a one in a million shot, in combination with bullet magnetism.
that weapon has an up and to the right recoil pattern
It's a bolt action, it has no recoil pattern to learn since recoil is reset after every shot. The first shot from any weapon, when ADS is going to be 100% accurate where it is aimed. If it were automatic, burst, or dmr with a fast rof I would understand but to predict recoil from a hipfire and bolt action is like trying to predict when Jesus is coming back. There is a chance that the player got lucky with the extreme weapon bloom for sniper rifles but why not just switch to sidearm instead?
What we saw here is absolutely a cheat guiding the bullet to the target's head that's within the fov the player has set for the cheat. I am willing to bet that the fov circle for said cheat is wide open and circles the max vertical pixel limits of their screen.
bullet magnetism
There is no bullet magnetism. I play pc and I will absolutely miss by a "C yoU Next Tuesday" hair often. Then, sometimes, I will get a headshot when I clearly missed them on my screen. It's called desync and latency and it does really awful things like gaslight players.
Controller aim assist isn't this crazy helpful but it shouldn't exist in this game when we are putting consoles and pc's in the same match. What you probably don't see and understand is the player may have seen the other player on the other side of the tracks/hill and where they were aiming. So, they knew how to engage them before the other player even knew they were there.
