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Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.09.10 08:43:00 -
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I tried to test it out both on and off to notice a difference. Basically, how it tends to work for me is it doesn't actually help you aim any better. The large majority of the time it does nothing at all. However, when shooting at a distance and i hit someone dead on i've noticed it actually sort of locks onto them a little bit. If you hit them dead on you can walk side to side a bit and continue hitting them without manually adjusting your aim back and forth as much as you move. Move too much and it'll break the lock. If you release the trigger, again, it breaks the lock but if using an AR and continuously firing and you place that initial shot well it will lock on to a certain extent. Any time i've felt like i noticed it was only after the very first shot of a burst was well placed. If firing without aiming well and trying to walk the shots onto your target, it doesn't seem to lock on at all. If your target is moving a lot, it doesn't really work either.
When it does work it isn't drastic and usually afterward you think to yourself "that felt like it locked on a little, but i'm not sure".
This is my own personal experience. With it off i didn't get that same feeling, so i think the aim assist is legitimately doing it. I could also be completely crazy and it's a placebo effect, but i 'm pretty sure this is the way it works or at least a situation in which it is most evident.
That said, i really don't find it to be an 'easy mode' in any way. In certain situations it can help, but it can also hinder in others. There have been times when it's kicked in, and i wasn't expecting it while manually adjusting my aim and my over-compensation actually broke the aim assist lock and threw my aim farther off target than it would've been without it on. As with anything, it's a trade off. Learn to use it and it can help. Turn it on thinking it's easy mode and that you don't have to aim well and it'll actually work against you.
I suggest you just test with it on and off. If it helps, use it. If not, don't. It really doesn't matter and i think it's mild enough that it doesn't truly give any noticeable advantage. I don't even care if you use it to shoot me. If you are able to kill me purely due to the aim assist then i deserved it because i was either standing still and/or you got the jump on me with a really well aimed initial shot. In those cases it comes down to my stupidity or your good aim. Both are perfectly fair reasons for me to die. The aim assist factor is negligible. |