I agree. I don't know why DICE thought that changing the aim mechanics more than a year after release is a good idea. It just makes makes zero sense. After i've been playing this game for many hours everyday since release and have built the muscle memory to implicitly know how close to target I need to have my cross hairs before aiming and how does the aim speed change, now I have to start relearning all that stuff again?! * THAT! I've already sold my copy last night and went and bought another game that will keep me entertained. If am going to spend time learning new mechanics, then might as well get a new game.
I have 58+ days worth of playtime with controller on PC, and this is the last straw without doubt. I'm handicapped and controller is the only way I can play, there is no longer any enjoyment at all playing with controller on PC, in fact my feelings are ineffable about how much this aim assist change disgusts me. This is precisely why I must leave this game and the awesome community I've been deeply entrenched in since BETA. Controller vs M/K is strictly a one sided fight and I can't use M/K, so there's no reason to play, frankly.
Yeah, I've got 350+ hours on BF1 (Xbox) and changing the auto-aim in this way has really impacted my enjoyment. I love playing aggressive Scout with infantry rifles, but I just suck at this now, whereas the game made me feel like a badass before and this style was so satisfying. Sadly, this is no longer the case. Really disappointed.
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I completely agree with the others on how the changes to the snap to target aim assist have messed up a lot of playstyles and guns on PS4. I know it was made to be more subtle, but in many games I find the Snap to target aim assist does not even work when you want it to, and when it does work it completley messes my aiming. For example I ambush several enemies at once and aim to kill a certain target within a congested area. however my aim with 'snap and stick' to a different player instead and ruin my ambush on them; which ends up getting me killed most of the time. I do not find this subtle at all...
This has also completely ruined the horseback play with the Rifle, as now it is extremely difficult to aim your gun as you will practically get no assistance from the aim assist and snap to target at all unless you are extremely close to the target; and even then the aim assist has difficulty tracking the enemy...
The Horse already sticks out like a sore thumb on the map and pretty much everyone will be shooting at you at first sight; so these changes really have had a huge negative impact on riders who combat enemies using the Rifle from horseback on PS4.
This is a massive disappointment to me as this was my favourite way to play Battlefield 1, which has now been completely nerfed to the point where using the Rifle on Horseback is redundant and is not enjoyable in the slightest.
If anything, I would have thought that the aiming assist would have been tweaked on PS4 as in the past (and even now after the changes) trying to shoot someone with a machine gun in the passenger seat of a tank has a really awkward slow down when near the target, which makes it very difficult for me to not overshoot my cursor on the target, or very slowly bring my reticle to the target in which point he has probably run into cover... It is not subtle at all and is really distracting.
I am really loving the new DLC content, but unfortunately the changes to the Snap to target aim assist has completely killed my enjoyment for the game. I really do hope that the Snap to target and aim assist reverts back to it's previous state, or at least very similar to it because as of now, these changes feel awkward and is not fun to play with at all.
These subtleties do not feel subtle at all on PS4, it is actually a very glaring change for me which has turned me off from enjoying the game as much as I used to and is even making me not play Battlefield 1 as much.
