Community AdminI'm on ps4 I've had to turn aim assist off because I found it made hitting targets harder if anything. I also never use aim acceleration.
My problems with aim assist:
All the aim assist does in this game is heavily reduce aim sensitivity whenever an enemy pops up in the centre of the screen. The sudden change in sensitivity just feels off. One slight wrong movement on the right stick and boom my aim is now completely off. It slingshots my aim away because it goes from mega slow (from the high aim assist) to going instantly back to my normal fast aim sensitivity. It throws me off. This also happens a lot when they start sprinting away. I'll have the enemy centred on my screen, the turtle sensitivity from high aim assist kicks in, but then they start sprinting and bunnyhopping. Slingshotting my aims all over the place. When they start sprinting high aim assist makes it way harder to keep enemies in centred.
GW and GW2 didn't have this issue because no one was sprinting around at Mach 12 speeds. In those games, if you managed to land shots they would at least chunk decent dmg. Primary fire in BFN was made weaker across the board (not including Scientist's primary fire) and everyone became more agile and hard to hit. Landing shots on hard targets feels almost futile. Sometimes I feel that for some characters (like SnapDragon and 80's), abilities are easier to hit and are more reliable than primary fire when it comes to dmg output.
@EA_David I think it’s extremely important to make something very clear - the console controls are lacking even with Aim Assist completely off.
After really focusing on aim/trying to pinpoint the issue, it’s like the characters are too prone to bumping into something/walking over uneven surfaces and their crosshairs are too sensitive to this type of input. The crosshairs deviate standing still in the same manner (when certain circumstances prevail)... but walking and shooting, especially strafing/when you bump into ANYTHING, it’s all a miss compared to the GW games.
To replicate this issue, use a large character (Torchwood GW2, Oak BfN) and shoot at enemies as you travers doorways, corners, hallways, dirt hills/other steps, etc.
This is all with Aim Assist off. .....
EDIT: replication clarification: you’ll notice when using Torchwood vs Oak that Oak’s crosshairs genuinely feel looser/harder to keep on a target than Torchwood’s (or any character in previous GW’s, for that matter)...
I switched on Aim Assist for a couple of games of Turf Takeover and experienced the perfect example of how Aim Assist is problematic.
I was on the Zombie team playing Space Cadet and defending on Weirding Woods; Aim Assist was set to "Light"
I encountered a Cactus at mid-to-long range and we both had the benefit of cover. The Cactus was behind cover and set down a Potato Mine before she started returning fire.
I saw the animation indicating that the Cactus placed the mine, but I could not see the mine itself because the cover blocked line of sight but the Cactus was bobbing in and out of cover trying to do a charge sniper shot and my intention was to use the aim function and shoot her as she came out from cover.
In this instance "Aim Assist" continuously dragged my aiming reticule down to the Potato Mine (which was not even visible to me) so my shots kept getting redirected into the cover every single time I tried to aim at the Cactus.
After a couple of seconds of cat and mouse the Cactus evidently assumed I was a terrible shot and stood out in the open to charge up her sniper shot and giving me a clear shot at her, but because the Potato Mine was physically between us "Aim Assist" decided that I simply must be trying to shoot the mine even though I had no line of sight to it and my reticle continuously bounced away from the cactus and back to the mine every time I corrected.
Needless to say I got Spike Shotted and vanquished which allowed me to immediately turned Aim Assist back off after I respawned.
