We are not making decisions on aim assist yet. But we are discussing your feedback.

Except NooB weapons don't get aim assist. Splash weapons and Sniper Rifles don't get Aim Assist, in case you didn't know.

Thank you.

I refer you to the Kotaku articles regarding community feedback.

WoundedBum said, "I'd be interested to know how much interaction he feels a developer should have with the community during game development - obviously there needs to be communication between the two, but is it possible to have too much? Should the developers have a clear vision of what should and shouldn't be done in their game and tweak it accordingly, or should they be completely open to the communities wants and needs? It's interesting because with movies, the community has next to no input on what will be done, but with gaming it's a long development period and things can be more easily changed and affected."

Yes, it is absolutely possible to have too much community input in game development. Probably the scariest thing that can happen is that a developer will cater to the ultra-hardcore, super vocal community members. The problem is that these players usually do not represent the average player, and request things that don't appeal to most people.

For instance, we received a lot of useful feedback from the Hybrid beta. However, some things were just completely out of scope or were not what the game is about. There was someone petitioning for vehicles in the game, but that doesn't fit with Hybrid's design.

Also, during development, people don't necessarily know what they want until they see it. Henry Ford said it best: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Ultimately community input is very important, but like anything, moderation is best. We do this for a living, so trust us to make the best game possible!

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Take this opportunity to further level the playing field, implement tiercide.

I would imagine tiercide will complement this new aim-assist very well, because:

Tiercide promotes ROLES which have strengths and also WEAKNESSES. This means players who play to their strengths are guaranteed improved performance, whilst not doing so leads to burning ISK for no good reason.

Since killing the enemy has always been a main objective even in Skirmish, aim assist alienates many because the style of killing has changed. Killing an enemy now comes down to position and, I daresay, teamwork and communication rather than bunny hopping and strafing.

Tiercide further pushes for this kind of play, since dropsuits are equalised. You NEED to think before making your move, or you risk dying for nothing.

Because splash weapons don't need Aim assist, you have noticed that Mass Drovers are less common right? They didn't even nerf the stats, they made other weapons better, which indirectly nerfed the Mass Driver.

If splash weapon got Aim Assist, they would be insanely OP.

You would be slaughtered by mouse and keyboard

Exactly. Everyone I know that plays Dust 514 with Mouse and Keyboard says using it in 1.4 is absolutely terrible but then again, it's always been terrible. I tried it but honestly it still feels.... Bleh.

If there's a secret, let me know. I'd like to get back to MKB at some point.