NRG Zayt sparks debate after claiming controller Fortnite is cheating Xbox \/ YouTube: Sneak EnergyThe latest in a long series of high-level players to criticize aim assist in Fortnite, NRG\u2019s Williams \u2018Zayt\u2019 Aubin blasted using a controller as \u201ccheating\u201d and re-ignited the debate surrounding the strength of aim assist in the battle royale. Since the earliest days of using controllers in competitive PC titles, arguments have raged across the gaming world over the differences between input devices. Some say mouse-and-keyboard reign supreme, while others prefer the more accessible controller playstyle. In particular, Fortnite has been caught in this crossfire numerous times. In 2020, Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins blasted the aim assist in Fortnite when he compared it to using aimbot and voiced concerns that controllers give players an unfair advantage over their counterparts using KBM (keyboard and mouse). While the aim assist in Fortnite has already been nerfed several times and the debate around the mechanic mostly settled down, pro player Zayt reignited the conversation when he labeled using a controller in Fortnite as cheating, echoing Ninja\u2019s opinion from last year. In a tweet on February 28, the NRG player slammed the use of controller in the BR, and said \u201c[using a] controller is still cheating, I don\u2019t know why no one talks about it.\u201d His criticism immediately sparked a furious debate, and players voiced strong support for both sides. Read More: How to get Alien skins in Fortnite Season 5 – \u201cIt\u2019s so annoying getting aimbotted by [controller] players with no bloom or missed bullets,\u201d one user responded. Another countered Zayt\u2019s opinion and referred to KBM players using scroll wheel reset (a key bind method that allows for much faster editing): \u201cscroll wheel reset is much more broken than aim assist.\u201d Other players took a more neutral approach, and while they admitted the strength of aim assist was still up for debate they also pointed out that developer Epic Games reduced the mechanic\u2019s efficiency in several patches last year. \u201cI agree,\u201d one user responded \u201cbut you can\u2019t deny that it\u2019s been taken down a notch in the past.\u201d Read More: Fortnite Season 5 Week 13 challenges – While Zayt\u2019s tweet created plenty of heated arguments, others took a more lighthearted approach in their replies. Hampus \u2018beehive\u2019 Johnsson \u2014 a former Fortnite pro for Luminosity and current social media manager at NRG \u2014 immediately turned Aubin\u2019s statement into a meme. Zayt\u2019s tweet about aim assist is far from the first time streamers and pros have voiced concerns over its balancing in Fortnite. In addition to Ninja, other big-name creators like Tfue, NICKMERCS and SypherPK have all argued over the state of aim assist in the past. Epic is just one of many developers whose games have come under fire for unbalanced aim assist. Activision and Respawn have faced similar outrage from their communities over aim assist in Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends, respectively. It remains to be seen how much discussion Zayt\u2019s tweet on aim assist will ultimately spark, and if Epic will take action once again to reduce the strength of aim assist on PC. We will make sure to keep you updated on any further developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NRG Zayt sparks debate after claiming controller Fortnite is cheating Xbox \/ YouTube: Sneak EnergyThe latest in a long series of high-level players to criticize aim assist in Fortnite, NRG\u2019s Williams \u2018Zayt\u2019 Aubin blasted using a controller as \u201ccheating\u201d and re-ignited the debate surrounding the strength of aim assist in the battle royale. Since 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-76881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76881","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=76881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}