Never had this happen... if you start dancing in front of me my bullets stop registering hits even though its a full stream of them as you cross my aim dot. I see shield effect but shields start to go up on the guy dancing.

Was semi AFK with controller down on the coffee table and watched an enemy run by me. The reticule followed him. Aim assist is on.

(Turn it off)

I can tell its off on my end.

Actually, Auto-Aim (different from Aim Assist) isn't on for everyone all the time.

I sometimes have trouble aiming where I want because of the auto-aim, I sometimes have the auto-aim correcting for me effectively, and I sometimes don't have any auto-aim at all.

When it's glitching out, it's annoying because it's throwing your aim away from the target, sometimes in stupid ways. When it's working properly, it's less annoying, but I still wish I could turn it off. But when it's not working, it's annoying because I know it's going to come back at an inconvenient moment.

You do have it.

Yes you do.

There is aim assist in dust people. Lots of it. I feel like I just fell in the twilight zone and now the word aim assist means something different.

People are persistently complaining about this feature in dust 514.

My question to them is... There's aim assist in the game?

Am I the only one that feels that there is absolutly no artifical control or contribution of the game in assistance in killing? I played plenty of FPS in the past that has the feature and some which has 'overkill' of the feature.

I do know aim assist exists in alot of shoters for one purpose and that is to combat lag. so people with 24ms lag wouldnt have too much of an advantage over 300ms lag, but yet in dust 514 I have seen NO evidence of aim assist at all.

The quickest way to tell if there is aim assist in a game though usually involves a sniper rifel and getting a very good feel on how fast you can 'track' with the rifle. Then at extremly long range shots track the recitile over a vaiable target and not stopping for it. If any amount of slow down occurs thats usually becuase of aim assist and this does not happen to me in dust 514. In CoD the worst offender of overkill on aim assist would litterally stop tracking direction nearly entirely and even worse if you are fast enough pull trigger as soon as the 'skip' occurs and gaurantee kill shot every time.

Yes I am a horrible sniper shot in this game that doenst mean I suck at aiming I wind up usually 30:10 kills in most games and the shots that miss are the shots that went outside the recitel travel box such as the forge gun sometimes going a bit to high and to the left once every 10 shots.

I dont know do any of you feel that there is aim assist on? How do you know its on? what tests do you preform to confirm that the client is helping you aim better?

Current tests I've performed.

Sniper drag, taking a zoomed sniper rifle and sweeping it across a target, a certain amount of magnetism should occur. - Negative

Zoning, the process of 'quick scoping' that works in either scoping or unscoping. Gun does not snap to a stationary target if the target is very slightly off dot. There is no tracking during zoom. - Negative

Hands free, if an enemy where to sweep across the recitile the gun will track regardless of the movement of the main body. - Overly Confirmed Negative for me as I have much better luck aiming with the body than actually attempting to aim, but the fact I have to strafe to acheive left or right and of course thats not a gaurantee means there isnt that much of an aim assist, this does confirm dead centering in this game though. With adjustable spread.

Variety of weapons used, just about all types the least favorite of the current weapons I dont like using are mass drivers sniper rifles and swarm launchers, but I still use them.

You do have it.

Yes you do.

There is aim assist in dust people. Lots of it. I feel like I just fell in the twilight zone and now the word aim assist means something different.

Some people have it and many others do not. I am in the boat with the OP. I've tested this out with several types of weapons and have yet to see what many people have described in their tests. Knowing that some people actually have it has made me understand a little better how someone can be sprinting at me, immediately stop for just enough time to 3 shot headshot me, then continue on their way as if everything was just fine. Unlike all of you who seem to have too much of it, I have none. I have to try harder in this game to accurately aim and shoot someone than in anything else I have ever done. Hell, even when I am standing still right in front of someone, half the time my rounds don't hit.

I just find it scary that there are people who dont have it and some who do. something is making the clients inconsistent despite the file checks, possibly hardware related?

I have ol 60 gb ps3 post backward compat hardware removal pre slim era

Last I heard the aim assist was glitched out.

Some people see no aim assist, or very little. Others have SEVERE issues with aiming at anyone.

The next build is meant to have the problems with it sorted. But they've said that about hit detection and it's still problematic (although from people who played the older builds, it HAS been getting consistently better).

Again we all have aim assist, you may not see it or feel it, but its there. Take it from players who have been playing with and with out Aim Assist its there for everyone. You say some players do or some players don't have it, but its a server side issue, so that means we ALL have it (face palm). You don't see it thats fine, your new here and have not played with it working correctly. But please understand when about 50 players (good players) say they have aim assist issues, its there for all of us.

I know what aim-assist is, I've experienced it in many online shooters such as CoD, and I've never felt it at all in this game. When I first started playing I would constantly overshoot moving targets because I wasn't used but now I'm a lot better and there are certain benefits to no aim-assist that I've noticed (I don't have to worry about other enemies running in front of my target for example, my aim won't shift at all).

Yeah I would like it for the sniper if it wasnt so hard to controller aim maybe with mouse sniping can be one of the things I could be good at.

As for the other guy who keeps saying we have it let me ask you one thing. What is the difference between aim assist and auto-aim outside the order of magnitude?

Auto aim I do nothing and it aims for me, aim assist helps the player find the correct spot to aim.

Guys, devs have stated that YES aim assist is ON and it is not working correctly. End Thread/

Also chrome, Firefox and Explorer have right click, spelling options to correct misspelled words. Again offering this as a suggestion to improve yourself. You kids take everything to personally.

You take things too seriously, also IE doesnt have it in BBC injected fields. Also if you seriously think this thread needs to end, report it.

Also let me ask again what is the different between auto-aim and aim assist because you just gave the description of two sides of a coin again.

Not to be a **** but...

the correct form would be "too"

Proper definition of the difference between auto-aim and aim assist.

Technically, the two terms are interchangeable, but each is more commonly applied to one of two types of auto-aim/aim assist.

Active aim assist is the bad option, and if it's ever in a game, there should always be a way to turn it off. This is the kind most people call auto-aim. It's is the type of setup where the game will actively turn for you to some degree. In DUST, this is what people keep complaining about, because it isn't consistent and will sometimes not only aim for you, but also lead your shots by a wider margin than your shot speed needs, meaning it's actively aiming AWAY from your targets when they change direction quickly. When you add that to the player's attempt at aiming, it ends up throwing your shots WAY wide of the mark.

Passive aim assist is usually just referred to as aim assist. Instead of aiming for you, passive aim assist adjusts your turning speed slightly, speeding you up as you turn towards a target, and slowing you back down as you turn away. It's usually only a subtle variation in speed, and almost every console shooter has it to a limited degree.

LOL you're talking about Auto Aim not aim assist.

At no point do any of us stat that with out touching the controller. What you're talking about it is auto aim.

It's there for sure. I spawned in an ambush match just as an enemy was running by and, without any input on my end, i literally turned 90 degrees tracking him until he rounded a corner.

How many times do we have to have the same people saying the same things over and over and over again?

CCP have said that there's aim assist, without specifying whether it's passive aim assist (actually aim assist), or active aim assist (auto-aim), or both.

CCP have also said that whatever they've done isn't working properly. They haven't specified WHAT the problem is, or what they INTEND to happen.

Various players have experienced DIFFERENT reactions from the system. If whatever is being done is happening server-side, that would cause lag-based inconsistencies, and would be a completely idiotic idea in the first place. ANY kind of aim assist WILL be managed client-side if they have ANYONE working for them who has EVER worked on ANY online FPS in the history of FOREVER because otherwise STFU AND GTFO.

So, we're clear that it's a client-side issue, but it's affecting people (or appears to be) in different ways. At OUR end, we'd need a LOT of discussion to confirm whether differing hardware (different model PS3s made in different locations with different HDDs, etc.) or simply different playstyles (are you mostly using Scout with SMG? Heavy with Forge Gun? etc.) are a factor, or whether it's actually completely random. I've had times, using EXACTLY THE SAME setup in-game, where VERY different results have occurred with regards to the auto-aim system. My guess is that it, like hit detection, is responding in an inconsistent manner for some reason. For some players, this means that auto-aim is either so slight they don't notice, or is literally not kicking in at all. For others, it's the other extreme, and it's overcompensating or it's doing the entire job for them. For still others, it seems to be working normally, and they're wondering what all the fuss is about. Then there are at least a few people like me, who are seeing VERY different responses from the auto-aim system from one encounter to the next, frequently even within the course of a single battle.

It's there for sure. I spawned in an ambush match just as an enemy was running by and, without any input on my end, i literally turned 90 degrees tracking him until he rounded a corner.