The skill gap is so compressed, that itGÇÖs like a slot machine. You might as well just sit down at a slot machine and have a thing that pops up an says GÇ£I got a kill!GÇ¥ TheyGÇÖve taken individual skill out of the equation so much. So you see these guysGÇöI see it all the time, they come in to play Red Orchestra, and theyGÇÖre like GÇ£This gameGÇÖs just too hardcore. IGÇÖm awesome at Call of Duty, so thereGÇÖs something wrong with your game. Because IGÇÖm not successful at playing this game, so it must suck. IGÇÖm not the problem, itGÇÖs your game.GÇ¥ And sometimes as designers, it is our game. Sometimes we screw up, sometimes we design something thatGÇÖs not accesible enough, they canGÇÖt figure it out, we didnGÇÖt give them enough information to figure out where to go... but more often than not, itGÇÖs because Call of Duty compressed their skill gap so much that these guys never needed to get good at a shooter. They never needed to get good at their twitch skills.

There was some impossible strafe dodging & aiming going on in Chrome. But that's a whole other topic.

In my Heavy suit I never noticed Aim-Assist. Use of cover at times limited incoming fire and when in the open the suit was slow enough evasion wasn't that hard to overcome. The legitimately good players (& the input cheaters) can maintain sustained headshots which against heavy frames is better than any AA.

Chrome had some terrible hit detection. I got the drop on a shotgun scout with my HMG on what was then a new map, he starred to jinky back and forth in a manner that is impossible with a joy stick. While ignoring all my DPS he casually three shotted me. My favorite HD story was a perfectly timed flux on a shotgunner about to cross a bridge. As his shields dropped my Toxin SMG was unloading somehow doing no (or negligible) damage. Charging across he three shotted me. My HWS was at 3 or 4 and SAS 5. In both cases I was better positioned and prepared only to magically lose thanks entirely to game bugs.

The glitch-fest and game-input cheats of Chrome are gone and I don't miss it.

Hit Detection has improved significantly with Uprising. While my HMG performance has had ups and downs now I can have good games whereas in Chromosome nearly breaking even was an excellent match. The only downside that immediately comes to mind is the fixes have indirectly nerfed the hell out of scouts and light frames.
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The glitch-fest and game-input cheats of Chrome are gone and I don't miss it.

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Chromosome HAD aim assist.

It was removed early Uprising, which made people mad because aiming didn't feel right.

You know why it didn't feel right?
No aim assist

You want to gimp yourself thats fine by me but you have no business or right to try and change the way others play. AA is there for a reason if you dont like it then dont play.

I asked him to repeat the experiment without aim assist.
I believe it's just lag compensation.

The claim isn't that each person with a KB/M is inherently better than a person with a DS3. It is that the ceiling for KB/M is WAY WAY higher than a DS3. You balance around top-end play, not scrubs.

I HATE aim assists, but in order to level the playing field the KB/M people need to make concessions. That means (in my opinion) adding momentum (so that you can't change direction instantaneously) and turn speed caps and momentum.

If CCP would just implement those things, and get them right, and then leave them alone, I think any and all aim assist could be taken out, and I would be extremely happy (even while dying).

I do care about getting better myself at aiming and tracking targets with my controller.. For DUST and Future of FPS's I may play(yes with the DS4). I Know Knight Solaire might be slightly better at aiming naturally then I am right now. But I am confident that my aiming potential could be just as good(If not better) given the chance for it to be worth turning aim assist off, to test and practice.

Some may enjoy not having to try hard to aim at a scout. I however enjoyed the concept of the scout suit, Medium suits and heavy suit, and that some would be easier to aim at and some would be harder, one of the main premises that attracted me to DUST 514. I have tried for several patches to get over aim assist making the time I put into learning how to aim on the controller worthless. But when I am actively hitting targets jumping, falling several stories, sprinting at 10m/s+ or even being across great distances(SCR/RR) I am able to Aim and track those targets as good as I hoped to when at my full personal aiming potential.

Some players may want to just worry about learning the skill system, fitting system and maps of DUST 514, and let all the actual use of the Guns in the FPS game be guided by a program setting that helps me aim center target, or stay on target while they move and jump..and many many other advantages I feel. Then why do we pay for our suits? why do we brag about anything really except the time we have put into DUST 514. Not how good we have got at a First Person Shooter built around a MMO concept.

I felt i stood a chance against some of the most recognized names on the killboards, I could claim killing a fair few with pride(As if that is really an accomplishment in the grand scheme) But it was me that did it(With no AA)and I always felt that I stood a chance. Now if they see me and I see them.. I Stand no chance, it is skill points and math, sure if I catch them off guard or have their back to me for a little time I can let Aim Assist help me aim quickly at them and usually kill them. But any ability I had to get the better of the famed "Gun Game" that addicted me to this title is gone, and the victories I do get feel hollow, almost like the sense of achievement in killing someone was robbed from me.


In Short +1 Remove Aim Assist.

CCP may support a F2P title, but they should promote making a better game player, not catering to those who refuse to get better.