{"id":15708,"date":"2025-01-28T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/apex-legends-players-are-sick-of-controller-cheat-ruining-the-game-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:21:32","slug":"apex-legends-players-are-sick-of-controller-cheat-ruining-the-game-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/apex-legends-players-are-sick-of-controller-cheat-ruining-the-game-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends players are sick of controller \u201ccheat\u201d ruining the game &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends players are sick of controller \u201ccheat\u201d ruining the game Apex Legends \/ Respawn EntertainmentPlayers of Apex Legends have had enough of a controller exploit that some are calling a \u201ccheat\u201d and many are calling for it to be banned. Apex Legends and FPS games in general, have often featured heavy debates within their respective communities surrounding whether they are easier to play on consoles or PCs. With the introduction of crossplay in recent years and the ability for players to use either a controller or a mouse and keyboard for their console or PC, the debate has only gotten hotter. This has been no different for the Battle Royale, whereby the use of a particular controller configuration exploit on PC has left many players of Apex Legends furious, calling it a \u201ccheat.\u201d Apex Legends fans have had enough of controller config exploit One user posted to the Apex Legends subreddit, sharing a direct gameplay comparison for when using the configs to alter the use of his controller and when not using them, with a mouse and keyboard. \u201cTo everyone that says roller tap strafe configs are remotely justified or not OP,\u201d they titled the post. The video unleashed a heated debate in the comments, as it is said to combine the \u201cbenefits of PC movement with controller aim assist,\u201d in order to gain a perceived competitive advantage. \u201cWho is saying configs are justified? Pretty sure there is a consensus that configs is cheating,\u201d one user said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just imitating mouse &#038; keyboard movement, it is strictly better than manual tap strafing. You can lurch in every direction vs. traditional scroll bind which is only one direction,\u201d another user said. \u201cMy bud played like this. Best Octane I ever knew. Miss ya bud. I\u2019ve never been able to play lifeline like I did when we ran games. We were unstoppable,\u201d one user shared. Despite various users saying that only \u201ccheaters\u201d use them and that they should be \u201cbanned,\u201d one player said: \u201cRespawn does not consider it cheating and has made no attempt to ban anyone who uses them.\u201d It will be interesting if and how Respawn will respond after various players have said it has \u201cruined\u201d the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends players are sick of controller \u201ccheat\u201d ruining the game Apex Legends \/ Respawn EntertainmentPlayers of Apex Legends have had enough of a controller exploit that some are calling a \u201ccheat\u201d and many are calling for it to be banned. Apex Legends and FPS games in general, have often featured heavy debates within their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}