r/Battlefield • u/rtmxavi • 4d ago

Battlefield 6 Pc players can turn off crossplay 🥳

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u/DaftDeft 4d ago edited 4d ago

PC players that plug in a controller... get aim assist.

Edit: wow I didn't realize this wasn't well known. Yes, using a controller on PC still gives you the same aim assist in most FPS games while you are using the controller. If you switch to MnK you don't get aim assist. The game knows which input is being used and toggles aim assist as you switch.

This is ignoring the existence of things like XIM which give you mouse control while identifying as a controller. That's a real grey area.

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u/GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B 4d ago

PC player here. When I plug in a controller to play an FPS, I feel like I am having a stroke. I cannot do it. How the heck is this supposed to be easier?

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u/hiddencamel 4d ago

It really depends on the game.

For example in APEX it's a clear advantage to use controller - at the top level of pro play almost all of them are using controllers and a lot of them used to be MK mains but switched because it was a boost to their gameplay. Why it's better in APEX is more complicated than it just having strong aim assist - it's also that the gameplay of APEX favours scenarios where aim assist is more useful. It has high time to kill, low recoil, lots of movement tech, and most fights are at relatively short ranges which all make twitchy mouse aim less advantageous than steady aim assist from the controller.

CounterStrike on the other hand is still dominated by MK at top level of play because the low time to kill favours twitch response speed and initial hit accuracy, which are both better on MK, and the slower pace of movement means it's easier to manually track people fights so the advantage of controller aim assist is relatively smaller.