I think a lot of people are upset about the aim assist because the increase in use of hip fire which I totally understand. To be honest I love 1.4 in every way, I think its a great addition to Dust and has brought back a lot of players. But I see there are issue regarding aim assist in the community when I truly don't think its the aim assist being the problem.
First I want to address every shooter out there has had aim assist in some form or another especially console games. Whether its adhesion, friction, etc. and aim assist in Dust 514 is not really the issue i find most players are troubled by. I feel it is the problem with Dispersion and recoil in this game.

So Dispersion in Dust 514 is apparent, but should be even more so; considering there is a skill to sharpen this mechanic in the game. This Skill Sharpshooter and certain operation skills (ex. assault rifles reducing kickback) the spray of the weapon is nearly as accurate as aiming down the sights making them very effective. So we should be seeing larger dispersion in hipfire (and perhaps aiming down the sights too) and the skill sharpshooter which helps tighten that hip fire have less impact (or just increase dispersion in general which making skilling into sharpshooter more viable) so people who wish to hipfire have to actually invest into this particular skill no different from any other weapon or skill points in the game.

Recoil in this game is virtually non-existent and it is only masked by the dispersion of some automatic weapons (HMG). You will notice very many automatic weapon have low recoil but high dispersion (or at least higher than other weapons) a great example would be our HMG which does not recoil at all. But despite having no recoil its dispersion is quite large, yet some might figure with a weapon that is a sort of replica of LMG in modern day weapons there would be higher recoil. Now this example goes hand and hand with Assault rifles and SMG; every automatic in the game. The only weapons that seem to have some sense of recoil is semi automatics.

So in conclusion, aim assist really is not the issue I see being apart of the core shooting mechanic in the game. Everyone has played with aim assist and probably didn't even know it. The only reason its apparent now is because we had adjust without aim assist for so long that now we see how aim assist helps with precision and comfortable shooting. I think players who are upset about aim assist should be more focused on giving feedback on Dispersion and Recoil in the game if anything. Look at game like battlefield which survivability is so much lower compared this game but hipfire from 50 meters is pointless compared to aiming down the sights. Yet in Dust which Survivability is higher considering we can taking more of a beating the; dispersion and recoil which is not even noticeable is what I think everyone truly feels is overlooked.

What we experience right now is a combination of changes that come all together now.

First the low recoil / dipersion that you can achieve through skills
The greatly improved hit detection for most weapons
A srong aim assist (its not really an aimbot)

Before 1.4 the bad hit detection somewhat balanced automatic weapons and therefore the skills were fine now this balancing factor was removed and the true power of those skills appear. The aim assist is not really the source for that issue but it makes things a bit worse.

All this lead to drastic reduction in TTK which is not good for Dust.

I made a suggestion a while back to tone the skills down a bit, but maybe a change to sharpshooter so it only affects dispersion while ads could help as well the same could be done for the operation skill. So in order to benefit from those skills you have at least to aim in some way...

Still the AR/SMG are the only weapons that benefits from those skills there are still weapons with similar "problem" like SCR, AsCR or the LR these weapons benefit greatly from the combination of improved hit detection and AA. I have no clue what to do with these weapons.

Correction: I believe dispersion only has a skill to help it for the HMG and AR, not scrambler, SMG, or SP.

i honestly dont get why every1 wants to hate aim assist...

it really didnt change much...

hit detection seemed to be improved...

aim assist isnt really noticeable for me.

im pretty sure the proto bears r just complaining like noobs and want to nerf everything except their own stuff...


there is not a major problem that i know of that has come from 1.4 so far as the proto nubs got there wish and can now freely play in the middle of the road with out being run over...

Well its those who work really hard and invested into that game style that are frustrated. Also some have problems concerning RPG elements vs Shooter elements. This game is actually market towards players who are playing COD, BF, and halo Believe or not. They announced that during the fanfest 2013, i guess either most people did not see it or just ignored it.

Damn dude your right, Battlefield 3 did it why not Dust

The ASCR is automatic, but has recoil, but the hipfire makes this void.

Correction: I believe dispersion only has a skill to help it for the HMG and AR, not scrambler, SMG, or SP.

Aim assist works in every console game out there, I wouldn't need to mention this if CCP actually kept aim assist instead of removing it during 1.2 which as you see is graphs of player count that when the player base drop drastically. People should be focused on more intuitive core mechanics and you seems to be one of those people. Dispersion and recoil are in need of this game, just take notes from planetside 2 which is coming to PS4. Hurry up CCP you're running out of time.

I Suport this endevor, but still my crazy laser Assist needs fixed, whiping back and forth and killing people without me aiming is weird.

I Suport this endevor, but still my crazy laser Assist needs fixed, whiping back and forth and killing people without me aiming is weird.

I Suport this endevor, but still my crazy laser Assist needs fixed, whiping back and forth and killing people without me aiming is weird.

I love the improved laser rifle even with the aim assist, now it feels viable for once. actual since this release cheap tactics are at a all time low and aiming feels great. I actually can't ***** about weapon balance anymore since shooting feels more comfortable and more so less cheesy with the whole matrix left and right dodge.

indeed it has recoil but nearly enough. The automatics in the game should have a larger recoil considering the damage hipfire can do, so when someone hip fires there should be larger dispersion but aiming down the sights should have larger recoil. So when ASCR and most semi automatics has some sense of recoil, it clearly is not enough considering you can skill into the sharpshooter skill to help stabilize this core mechanic. So the sense of recoil you feel for the weapon is probably going to be less if you actually spend skill points into sharpshooter but I run ASCR without this skill and feel recoil is not nearly enough sense I don't dedicate to it. you get my drift?

I agree, which is why my SC-Rifle and laser are seeing the light of day. just saying when my laser puts on a Daft Punk laser light show whiping all over the place while i hip fire it and hitting multiple targets, i kinda want the assist toned down a tad.

I think the ScAR is pretty good on recoil considering its RoF. Maybe just a tad bit more. But the AR has much higher RoF and less recoil. Doesn't make any sense to me

I think the ScAR is pretty good on recoil considering its RoF. Maybe just a tad bit more. But the AR has much higher RoF and less recoil. Doesn't make any sense to me