I play K B/R.

More often than not, if I'm in an even both-start-shooting at the same time 1v1 with a suit and weapon *especially RR) at the same level as me, I'll melt in fractions of a second before I can make a dent. We both stand still and my red-dotted shots miss while my killer doesn't seem to miss a single one, even at lomg range.

Alright: I'm pretty damn far from being the best player ever, but I suspect something wrong when I can hardly do any damage to an equivalently-cited dropsuit and weapon under even circumstances with noone else around.

Is this the aim-assist bullshit I'm missing out on?

I'm really not sure yet, but I'd appreciate the cheeap boost if it is.

lol @ homing bullets. All it takes is one forum post and a couple of likes...

AA keeps me from drinking.

It usually makes homing bullets but I highly recommend disabling it. You will improve without it. Aim for the center of mass or cranium.

Playing as a KB/M player in close quarters is pretty much suicide. There shots hit around corners and sometimes seem to magnetise towards you while you have to try your best to aim properly.

It's called "bullet magnetism" and it works by registering hits when you are a litte off target.

It's a seperate effect from AA which acts to keep your aim on target.

I know what they're talking about.

I just find it funny that "homing bullets" were rarely brought up until one AA thread I read and it has been popping up all through the forums ever since.

If you played in chromosone you'd remember the AR back then had a big front sight that inhibited aiming compared to the current tiny spike as a front sight we have now, yet despite the terribad sights, if you aimed over the enemy, it would hit them anyways, even though you sometimes felt like you weren't EXACTLY centered, but couldn't tell because of the bigass front sight.

Lol I think that was me.

The AA in this game reminds me of Homing Eggs in banjo tooie. It was a cheat that allowed you to fire in a general direction and the shells fly directly towards the person.

@OP:

Try out the AA with KB/M with a HMG vs the controller. You'll see how crazy the "homing bullets" effect is.

AA doesn't exist at all anymore, the aim assist was drastically turned down a patch or 2 after implementation, it used to drag your aim towards the target but since the tone down i haven't noticed a single drag towards target even once. Even with the laser rifle, which was king of aim assist, and would drag like crazy, it now doesn't drag at all.

What WAS introduced after AA was implemented, was hit detection improvements. These improvements meant all control schemes, controller, kb/m, and PS move all now have the ability to have registering hits despite being VERY SLIGHTLY off target.
If you played in chromosone you'd remember the AR back then had a big front sight that inhibited aiming compared to the current tiny spike as a front sight we have now, yet despite the terribad sights, if you aimed over the enemy, it would hit them anyways, even though you sometimes felt like you weren't EXACTLY centered, but couldn't tell because of the bigass front sight. This was due to much better "hit detection" (not the real defenition of hit detection but CCP acts as if it is.)

So, we have a little of this bullet magnetism hit detection now that we had alot of in chromosone, and aim assist was in the game and beast but was took out or toned down to uselessness without being in patch notes, as a result of this, 90% of the playerbase still blames aim assist which is now irrelevant, whilst forgetting about the "hit detection" improvements, which lower TTK for most weapons.

As for you OP, the reason you lose is because you had bad aim during those fire-fights while your enemy didn't. If you're even a tiny bit off you won't hit them, even with "hit detection" that doesn't change much. This happens ALL THE TIME in dust, in a 1v1, one guy gets lucky and his aim falls on target initially as he aims, thereby hitting almost every shot, his opponents aim falls SLIGHTLY off, thereby missing almost every shot.
Mainly due to our very accurate guns really

You can remedy this by hipfiring as well, as the hipfiring is much easier to adjust during full auto and is less accurate, so its easier to hit consistently. Thats why hipfire feels like most other games yet our aiming down sights feels so different, as its quite literally HIT OR MISS, do or die.

lol @ homing bullets. All it takes is one forum post and a couple of likes...

I play K B/R.

More often than not, if I'm in an even both-start-shooting at the same time 1v1 with a suit and weapon *especially RR) at the same level as me, I'll melt in fractions of a second before I can make a dent. We both stand still and my red-dotted shots miss while my killer doesn't seem to miss a single one, even at lomg range.

Alright: I'm pretty damn far from being the best player ever, but I suspect something wrong when I can hardly do any damage to an equivalently-cited dropsuit and weapon under even circumstances with noone else around.

Is this the aim-assist bullshit I'm missing out on?

I'm really not sure yet, but I'd appreciate the cheeap boost if it is.

I play K B/R.

More often than not, if I'm in an even both-start-shooting at the same time 1v1 with a suit and weapon *especially RR) at the same level as me, I'll melt in fractions of a second before I can make a dent. We both stand still and my red-dotted shots miss while my killer doesn't seem to miss a single one, even at lomg range.

Alright: I'm pretty damn far from being the best player ever, but I suspect something wrong when I can hardly do any damage to an equivalently-cited dropsuit and weapon under even circumstances with noone else around.

Is this the aim-assist bullshit I'm missing out on?

I'm really not sure yet, but I'd appreciate the cheeap boost if it is.

AA doesn't exist at all anymore, the aim assist was drastically turned down a patch or 2 after implementation, it used to drag your aim towards the target but since the tone down i haven't noticed a single drag towards target even once. Even with the laser rifle, which was king of aim assist, and would drag like crazy, it now doesn't drag at all.

I just noticed AA for the first time when I played last night. Was using an HMG to defend a node located inside of a building. I was standing at the top of the steps (out of view from one direction, direct line-of-sight to the only other entrance) when an enemy came in. I noticed my reticule shift to follow the player briefly before I opened fire. I'm assuming that AA only works if you're stationary?

I think aim assist should have to be fitted like any other module, to cut down on higher power players using it as a boost... but personally, I seem to hit more targets with it off.