Poll: CoD aim assist WARNING: RANT

[Dogstile]

If you're frequently getting into firefights with too many people, you're doing something wrong, that's one.

The game doesn't actually autosnap to the target if your reticle is nowhere near him, that's too. Being a seasoned console CoD player, I've never had ANY problems with the aim assist in singleplayer or multiplayer. If something, it makes it too easy.

While the aim snapping isn't something to ***** about, the aim assist is. I've lost count of the amount of times i've been trying to shoot another sniper, pulled the trigger, and i've missed because a guy ran across my view and dragged the camera with him.

 

[Griphphin]

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The aim assist would do more work for you than the acog would. For the sake of argument, you could just take off the acog and engage at mid range, you still get farther aim assist than the smg does, but it's not as far, so the window for comparison would be smaller. I'd try to find a better example that really isolates just the aim assist as a factor, but it's been a long time since MW2 and many of the iron sights escape me. Red dot on both I suppose.
I get that you don't like aim assist, but if a game has aim assist, having an option to turn it off would make you much worse than your competition past close range. You can say the aim assist would make you worse, but it wouldn't. I really wouldn't be opposed to an option to turn it off, it would make those who want the option happier and make my enemy easier to kill, so win win.

 

[Drummie666]

The aim assist would do more work for you than the acog would. For the sake of argument, you could just take off the acog and engage at mid range, you still get farther aim assist than the smg does, but it's not as far, so the window for comparison would be smaller. I'd try to find a better example that really isolates just the aim assist as a factor, but it's been a long time since MW2 and many of the iron sights escape me. Red dot on both I suppose.
I get that you don't like aim assist, but if a game has aim assist, having an option to turn it off would make you much worse than your competition past close range. You can say the aim assist would make you worse, but it wouldn't. I really wouldn't be opposed to an option to turn it off, it would make those who want the option happier and make my enemy easier to kill, so win win.

Urgh... Okay. In the Medal of Honor multiplayer, which had an option to turn aim assist on and off, I was fairly reliably in the top spot, or the top 3. I had it turned off. When I tried turning it on after hearing people on the EA forums saying basically what you are, I suddenly dropped to the bottom 3 every match. Trust me. I'm a hell of a lot better without aim assist.

 

[FightThePower]

Personally I like Aim Assist because I only started playing FPSs on consoles a couple months ago and frankly, aiming with a stick instead of a mouse is horrible.

Also, Black Ops has an option to turn Aim Assist off in Multiplayer.

 

[Griphphin]

Urgh... Okay. In the Medal of Honor multiplayer, which had an option to turn aim assist on and off, I was fairly reliably in the top spot, or the top 3. I had it turned off. When I tried turning it on after hearing people on the EA forums saying basically what you are, I suddenly dropped to the bottom 3 every match. Trust me. I'm a hell of a lot better without aim assist.

Can't speak for MoH, or your situation, as it's not something that can be proved either way, so I'm not going to argue one way or the other. Anything I could have said was said in my last post, that I'm of the belief that in general, if aim assist is hurting you consistently, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Meh, just accept the fact that COD takes little "skill" to play anyway. Aiming isn't even that much of a skill, after a few days of playing (for someone who has never played before) it's all down to reactions, which is quite underwhelming.

I kinda just accepted that it's more of just a fun game to play, not really anything beyond that though.

I do agree though, aim assist is bullshit, and one of the reasons I don't play FPS's, that and I'm seriously fucking bored of shooting guns.