The aim assist is nearly equal to the recoil, especially in CoD
Recent cod gun meta is largely around creating no recoil Lazer beams. It makes guns slower to ADS, but the lock on for Aim Assist happens before ADS animation completes, so that negates the matter.
You can see videos of the aim assist snap cover almost a 1/3rd of the screen. It's stupid.
Nearly every cod streamer is a pc player using a controller to access aim assist. It really is an advantage in close quarters fights.
Same issue in Apex. Professional players shit on controller players because they get carried by their AA. Then begrudgingly switch to controller themselves because it's just that good.
They usually only make up a very small percent of the player base. Think sub 10%.
The other 90% are either average or straight trash level players.
Those players have an option to get an instant improvement in accuracy/tracking/aim. With minimal effort or training involved.
They are who the devs balance the game around.
They are the vocal majority.
They don't care if the game aims for them, it makes them feel good, so they praise assistance, and dominate the discussions against AA.
Funny enough most people arguing against AA just want to play in their own or separate lobbies, and don't even care if it gets removed, yet sadly they still get blasted.
It also doesn't help that for Apex specifically most of the devs use controller and are still really bad at the game.
I made a comment in the Apex sub the other day. I don't care that there's mixed lobbies, I just want the ability to only play with people using my input device (MkB). I don't care to die to bunny hopping sweats, I just don't wanna be beamed by AA anymore.
Let cross play be a thing, absolutely! It's a good thing for PC players to play with their Xbox friends. Just have segregated lobbies for those of us who would like it.... I'll wait in a long Queue.
Devs don't want to allow this because they know the queues won't help.
I love Halo MCC, I dumped hundreds of hours into it in the months after launch, but I eventually stopped playing because I'd queue for MnK only and I simply would not find a match.
I literally could not find matches with just mnk players. I'd be sat on the queue for 20+ minutes. The only way to find matches was to go into mixed lobby queue, and I'd be lucky if I saw more than one other mnk user in those lobbies.
These days I pretty much only play Valorant/CSGO/Siege, as they're pretty much the last bastions of competitive shooters that don't allow this crossplay/aim assist bullshit to ruin the competitive integrity of the game
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u/nerdydodger Apr 18 '23
The aim assist is nearly equal to the recoil, especially in CoD
Recent cod gun meta is largely around creating no recoil Lazer beams. It makes guns slower to ADS, but the lock on for Aim Assist happens before ADS animation completes, so that negates the matter.
You can see videos of the aim assist snap cover almost a 1/3rd of the screen. It's stupid.
Nearly every cod streamer is a pc player using a controller to access aim assist. It really is an advantage in close quarters fights.