You can go to your options and turn your own aim assit off.

You can get rid of it if you want but it doesn't stop people who have lock on controllers.

That's a thing?

LOL, there are way too many theories about why it seems "more" people played Dust back before the Aim Assist was introduced. So I can't agree with this stance from the very first post in this thread.

Dust was more BRUTAL and hard to play back then, and that kind of "game" has a way of hooking long-term players and cerebral players FAR more than it does quickie short-term players and simple-game lovers. (But, interestingly the long-term players resist using AUR more than the short-term players---I am an example of that---so CCP's recent profit may be HELPED by having a fast turn around of short-term players, instead of the "more" long-term players you enjoyed before Aim Assist).
WOW. What a theory.

Another theory is, fewer people are playing the current version of the game because there's not as clear a path to climb towards Planetary Conquest benefits right now. Not having anything at all to do with "Aim Assist". Back then, it was ultra-cool to finally build your character to a level respectful enough to dip your foot in a PC match----today, PC is played for fun, with less prestige and less struggle... so why worry to build ambitions and stick around in this game for the long haul anymore? Play like Destiny for 3 months or so, then yawn and put it down.

See? All sorts of theories.
I won't give my opinion about Aim Assist again.
But it is cool to play in a sci-fi environment where your weapon-technology has become so adept at scanning an enemy,
identifying the make of her dropsuit,


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analizing her suit hp weakness,
and plotting the highest probability of hit and kill,...
....that we don't just "attack" an opponent in this universe. In New Eden you MUST coat you suit in peanut butter, jiggle from side to side rapidly, and drag a live farm hen on a rope behind you,... to try to throw off the opponent's targeting system as you run up to fight him.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic. I'm serious, I LIKE this. It's funny, it's hilarious to see what some of you do to avoid a slug in the forehead, and I don't have laughter-fun any other PS3 game nearly as much as my good time playing Dust.

...Maybe that's why my BF doesn't play this game with me as much any more. He takes the gameplay more seriously than me.

Seconded.

Atiim was a good sort.