Apex Legends pro HisWattson calls aim assist \u201cunfair\u201d & wants controller banned in comp Joe Brady (@joebradyphoto)\/ALGSThe never-ending debate about the imbalance between controller and keyboard & mouse players continues to rage on in Apex, sparked once again by HisWattson claiming aim assist is unfair, and not fit for a competitive game. There has been a renewed focus on the advantages of controller players, partly sparked by pro player Mac \u2018Albralelie\u2019 Beckwith temporarily switching to controller, and the prevalence of controller players at ALGS tournaments. While there are obvious drawbacks to the limited buttons and aiming with a toggle rather than a mouse, it\u2019s believed that the strength of aim assist is enough to make up for this \u2013 something Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2018 McMillin believes too. HisWattson claims aim assist is \u201cunfair\u201d in Apex Amid the debate, HisWattson posted a lengthy Twitter thread to give his view. As one of the best players in the world, his take has made an instant impact. \u201cI\u2019m gonna keep it a buck. From a competitive standpoint, aim assist is unfair and unfun to play against,\u201d he said. \u201cHow is it fair that it takes me ~200 ms to react to enemy movement but my opponent has a computer that reacts for them in 0ms.\u201d He continued, arguing that if Apex wants to be truly competitive, controller should be banned from competitive play. \u201cController has a lower skill ceiling, lower skill expression, and is so bad for aiming they had to make it do 40% of tracking for you just so it would be useable. I don\u2019t care if people play on controller but if you think that controller doesn\u2019t make the game significantly less competitive then Idk what to tell you.\u201d Despite this, he did clarify that he still believes mouse & keyboard is the superior input overall. But, regardless, argues that controller players lower the skill gap of the game. Apex caster Jon \u2018Falloutt\u2019 Kefaloukos agreed that controller was not the most competitive option, but that Respawn is prioritizing inclusivity over competitiveness: \u201cApex wants to make their game as inclusive as possible, while still offering a fun competitive experience. Thus we ended up here.\u201d While many players agreed with HisWattson\u2019s view, there was unsurprisingly a lot of disagreement too. Some argued that it was \u201cgate-keeping\u201d and a \u201csuperiority complex\u201d from keyboard & mouse players. Respawn has mentioned the issue of aim assist infrequently, with the last significant comment on it from developers back in 2021. At the time, they said they would \u201cevaluate whether or not aim assist is \u2018too good\u2019.\u201d Since then, however, there have been no significant updates to aim assist values, and so, the debate continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends pro HisWattson calls aim assist \u201cunfair\u201d & wants controller banned in comp Joe Brady (@joebradyphoto)\/ALGSThe never-ending debate about the imbalance between controller and keyboard & mouse players continues to rage on in Apex, sparked once again by HisWattson claiming aim assist is unfair, and not fit for a competitive game. There has been […]<\/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-16186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186","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=16186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}