Fortnite PC aim assist reportedly nerfed in unannounced 12.61 hotfix Epic GamesEpic Games have finally made a move to reduce the power of Fortnite controller aim assist on PC in a secret v12.61 hotfix patch pushed onto live servers on May 28, according to new code found by renowned data miner Lucas7yoshi. The suspected dominance of aim assist on Fortnite\u2019s PC version has been the hot topic in the battle royale community of late. Fanbase figurehead Ninja suggested it was like installing an \u201caimbot,\u201d while Tfue threatened to quit over the feature. Epic has now finally reacted after months of community uproar. On May 19, the developers confirmed they would be making changes once the FNCS Invitational Finals concluded. A week later, the \u201ccontroller tuning\u201d has landed. Fortnite v12.61 patch hotfix targets PC aim assist Epic reportedly sent the v12.61 patch hotfix live on May 28. The patch should lower the impact of controller aim assist on PC. There was no word from the devs about the change, however, on any of their official channels. Popular Fortnite data miner Lucas7yoshi confirmed the aim assist nerfs instead. The famous code-dipper revealed he had discovered a handful of code strings pushed in a secret battle royale update targeting aim assist. A hotfix was deployed adjusting aim assist on Windows and Mac I do not know what these values exactly mean, but after a restart of your game\/going into a match they should be applied (Windows and mac only) pic.twitter.com\/amt2dq9hNJ \u2014 Lucas7yoshi \u2013 FESTIVAL ARC??? (@Lucas7yoshi) May 29, 2020 Lucas7yoshi added these updated \u2018Gamepad.AimAssist\u2019 strings would only come into effect once players \u201crestart the game\u201d or \u201cload into a Fortnite match\u201d in v12.61. The unannounced hotfix has been shipped for both PC and Mac. Here are the four code string changes made in the hotfix: PullInnerStrengthHip \u2014 reduced from 0.60 to 0.45. – PullOuterStrengthHip \u2014 reduced from 0.50 to 0.38. – PullInnerStrengthAds \u2014 reduced from 0.70 to 0.52. – PullOuterStrengthAds \u2014 reduced from 0.40 to 0.30. – Epic also secretly ships two PC aim assist buffs The 12.61 hotfix comes just days after Fortnite players discovered Epic had secretly buffed aim assist this week, both of which may keep the feature relevant. These changes \u2014 also completely unannounced by Epic \u2014 tweaked two values for the title\u2019s infamous feature. One was its ability to track players through builds. The other was a small boost to aim assist range: it now works past 100 meters. So they buffed aim assist\u2026 (Before the update, you don’t have aim assist past 100 meters, now you do. pic.twitter.com\/sgMup2YInw \u2014 Clix (@Clix) May 26, 2020 These new aim assist changes in v12.61 are far from the only secret swaps Epic have made as Fortnite barrels towards the end of Season 2 in early June either: the huge battle royale\u2019s storm has also been deliberately tampered with. Unfortunately, there may still be a bit of a wait before Fortnite Season 3 finally arrives though, after Epic confirmed the highly-anticipated seasonal switch \u2014 and the huge Doomsday event \u2014 has been delayed until June 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite PC aim assist reportedly nerfed in unannounced 12.61 hotfix Epic GamesEpic Games have finally made a move to reduce the power of Fortnite controller aim assist on PC in a secret v12.61 hotfix patch pushed onto live servers on May 28, according to new code found by renowned data miner Lucas7yoshi. The suspected dominance […]<\/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-72526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72526","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=72526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}