NICKMERCS defends Fortnite controller players after Ninja slams aim assist Instagram\/SCUF GamingNick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff hit back at Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins after the Mixer star slammed players who use controllers on PC, and suggested they shouldn\u2019t be allowed to compete on the platform. The pair were grouped up on stream for some squads matches when the conversation drifted to controller players who play on PC, which Ninja claimed was \u201cbroken\u201d since they have the same aim assist as on console, but with higher FPS. After hearing Blevins\u2019 comments, NICKMERCS, who is the biggest name in the Fortnite controller community, challenged him to plug in a gamepad to test it out for himself. \u201cNinja, if it was OP all those motherf**kers would be playing it, and you know it,\u201d the FaZe star said in response. Nick went on to call out his Mixer counterpart and other Fortnite pros for making a big deal anytime a controller player finished top-10 in a tournament, even though they face several disadvantages, he claimed. \u201cYou get the top 100, and ten of those kids are controller players, and because one of them\u2019s in the top ten, everyone\u2019s got a f*cking problem with it,\u201d Nick argued. \u201cBut it\u2019s the same argument every time.\u201d \u201cI think the issue is that it\u2019s not that one person is in the top-10, it\u2019s that the guy who\u2019s a controller player in the top-10 has 50 times the eliminations of all the PC players,\u201d Blevins hit back. \u201cThat\u2019s the problem.\u201d Kolcheff countered with the argument that controller players were actually at a disadvantage when it comes to building, compared to their PC counterparts, but Ninja said if they just find a teammate who can build, controller players can focus purely on fighting and editing. \u201cWhat you\u2019re saying right now is the problem \u2013 the pick a duo partner who can build and edit for them, that\u2019s unfair,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t even have to build, they just follow a tunnel, edit out, and just laser. That\u2019s when it becomes an issue.\u201d This age-old argument then begs the question \u2013 what can be done to make both sides happy? Obviously playing on a controller is going to always remain a big part of Fortnite, so Ninja suggested that players should only be allowed to compete against others using the same peripherals. \u201cWhy are controller players even playing against PC players?\u201d the Mixer star asked. \u201cPut them in their own servers. Put all the console players, the Xbox controller players together in tournaments, let them play against each other.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t think that\u2019s great though?\u201d Nick replied, suggesting that the mix of players is what differentiates this competitive game from most others. \u201cYou don\u2019t think it was a unique thing that makes Fortnite, Fortnite?\u201d Ninja did admit that the solution may not be nerfing aim assist, which is what a lot of big-name Fortnite players have suggested in the past. He accepts the fact that the mechanic is essential to those who play on controller, and instead Epic should focus on balancing out the competitive field rather than making fundamental changes to the game. The two seemed to agree on that front at least, as even Nick said that console players should probably compete against each other rather than be forced to play against those on PC, who have significant advantages that go beyond aim assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS defends Fortnite controller players after Ninja slams aim assist Instagram\/SCUF GamingNick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff hit back at Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins after the Mixer star slammed players who use controllers on PC, and suggested they shouldn\u2019t be allowed to compete on the platform. The pair were grouped up on stream for some squads matches when the […]<\/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-76617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617","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=76617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}