This is the time to HTFU. Yes, this release brought drastic changes for us.

What happened to sticks? They got aim assist, making them a lot more competitive at no other change.

What happened to the mouse? Complete overhaul of input sensitivity, and getting rid of the ADS sensitivity toggle.

It's a major change, that requires us to basically get used to the mouse controls anew, while stick users got a huge upgrade. The low ADS sensitivity was awkward, but many of us got used to it and became very effective with it. Now it's gone, and all we can lean on is our personal accuracy. It is true that we have to reduce sensitivity to stay in the game, it still doesn't make us turn slower than sticks, it just requires us to work our arms harder...

I'd be lying if I'd say that I'm not struggling to maintain my performance with 1.4, but realistically I couldn't expect it. The mouse isn't an "I win" button anymore, and at the same time I have to get used to the new sensitivities... it's rough going.

But I also already notice that things are getting better. Mouse input is better and more precise than it ever was, and we have more control over sensitivity than we ever had. We just lost the ADS toggle for now, which is fine. I'm slowly finding which sensitivity works for me now (it's much harder, because it has to be slow enough to support accurate tracking, rather than rely on the ADS toggle) and I have to focus hard not to screw things up.

I have to play more carefully now, because frankly, I was getting used to just being able to dance my way out of any sticky situation... since most people just wouldn't hit me, while they dropped like flies to my gun all the same. At times it felt like stealing lollipops from children, and I never understood fellow mouse users who denied having a distinct advantage. Don't tell me about leaderboards, as if leaderboards had anything to say about skill in this game... I've never seen any actual evidence (in form of video footage) of stick users being able to compete equally with mouse users.

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm slowly moving towards my old accuracy again, and it's easy to tell that at the limit of physical ability, the mouse is still going to smoke stick users with ease. Aim assist doesn't matter, because unlike a true aimbot, it's not instant. A highly skilled mouse user requires mere milliseconds to target you, and then will keep the crosshair locked on you. Yes it's hard, but the point is, it's possible and if you can't hack it, you have nobody to blame but yourself. If you want the easy street with a lower skill ceiling, all you need is to pick up your DS3.

Let stick users have the conversation about aim assist among themselves, but us mouse users should stay out of it and avoid looking like whiney crybabies. The one thing we should ask for IMO, is that the game actually run at the advertised target frame rate, so we can consistently make the most of our individual skill.

That is all, thank you.