I’ve talked here before about myself being a veteran player who played console/controller for a generation. I booted up Halo today and have made the decision to be done with Halo entirely which admittedly was a difficult choice. The issue is that I still love Halo and I think Halo Infinite is a great game. I wish I didn’t want to play Halo because it would have made the choice much easier to uninstall the game. I’ve never once walked away on my own accord when it came to Halo. I always have cherished the games and stuck with the series even when things got difficult.
My issue is surrounding the balancing issue between controller and mouse and keyboard. Of course, I played on controller all of my time being a Halo player as we didn’t have a choice. Now that I want to play mouse and keyboard, I feel shunned not just by the community but by 343. It’s clear mouse and keyboard players aren’t welcomed. The nearly aim-bot aim assist is perfect and that’s something nobody can compete with. Aim assist is too strong and this has been echoed by the mouse and keyboard community but even controller players. The players who think controller has low aim assist are generally players that are below the average rank level (sometimes at average level) but certainly never Onyx. Anyone who is Onyx knows just how insane aim assist is.
This is an issue that makes the game unplayable. You are either forced to play controller if you are a competitive player like myself or play other games. I will not go back to controller but I will play other games. Sadly, this issue will never be fixed. I sit in disbelief in how 343 could not know how broken aim assist would be. It’s hard to believe they willingly made it this strong. How could they not know things would be this unfair?
I officially join the 99% of mouse and keyboard players who gave up despite wanting to play a beautiful game.
Yeah, I’m about done too. Mouse and keyboard have a few advantages like movement and medium/long range engagements with BR and sniper, but otherwise it’s really tough to be competitive. I’ve just accepted I’m not going to win most close-up fights. I had to use a controller to play Last Spartan Standing at all because pistol fights are completely lopsided.
If they come up with some kind of solution, I’ll jump back in.
There goes another one.
Every few days it seems one of these posts pop up.
All the best dude. Sucks we find ourselves in this situation.
Sad times indeed.
This isnt an airport no need to announce your departure. Especially when its over lack of support of a control systems thats not only new but is absolutely hated by the casual gamer as no matter how good the aim assist is unless its full aimbot they have no chance against you and youre mouse aim especially at distance
Well this isn’t short from odd. So you’re quitting Halo, as a controller player, because you think that mouse and keyboard players are at more of a disadvantage?.. That must be a first.
And it’s still really strong. My performance increased dramatically when I swapped from MNK to Controller, and I haven’t played a controller FPS since 2018, least of an online one.
It’s as if I didnt play those games on controller in their prime. Have you even played those games? This is a common misconception or a blatant lie controller players claim. Even if it were true aim assist VS no aim assist, who is going to win? Aim assist at least 60% of the time. What’s your rank?
What games are you playing now? As mentioned, I uninstalled the game but have been playing Quake, CoD, OW just to name a few. I wish I wasn’t a console/controller scrub my entire life so I could have more of an interest in PC shooters but hey, here I am. Fighting with controller players who have not a clue and will probably never will. Sad.
Turn off aim assist so we can both not have aim assist. Then it’s fair.
If the balancing between controller and mouse and keyboard are the issue for you… why don’t you search solo/duos ranked with mouse and keyboard? That will give you all players playing that specific way.
You’re welcome to review my halo tracker and Bungie/Waypoint service record. I’ve consistently played for as long as Xbox has been around and I usually bounce between high platinum and low onyx (or the 1-50 equivalent ranks which I believe are the 40’s) depending on how much I’m feeling like grinding ranked during a season.
Once Infinite gives us some semblance of region selection I’ll grind ranked a lot more.
And none if that matters. Again, Infinite’s aim assist is lower than H4 and H5 and also has a higher strafe acceleration than any other title which actively makes aim assist work against you sometimes.
Listening to MnK players complain about aim assist in Infinite is ridiculous.
Yeah, I’m always kind of shocked when I see people saying that Halo Infinite aim assist is super high or an “aimbot”. I feel like my controller has almost no aim assist at all which combined with the joysticks makes using the Commando or Sniper Rifle a pain in the -yoink!-. I tweak my sensitivity often because I often overaim past my target due to the acceleration on controller with neither sticky aim nor the precision of my mouse.
Considering aim bots are 100% accurate, PC would still be the better option lmao.
Anyways, I find all of these arguments saying controller players have an advantage over M&K to be completely invalid. Decades of gaming across multiple platforms and generations shows that M&K will always have an edge over controller players hence why they don’t mix the 2 in major competitive forms, it’s a fact.
I love it when posts like these pop up every now and again.
Controller aim assist is not as bad as you think it is. Mouse and keyboard players shred in crossplay ranked, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
That’s not true at all. Do you have first hand experience with this or are you guessing?
Mouse and keyboard players are at a significant disadvantage in this game. No pro players are using mouse and keyboard. The main weapons like the sidekick and BR are a lot easier to use on controller.
I played in the HCS infinite open tournament this weekend, and I rank high onyx on controller, champion rank in Halo 5. You know what teams won? Mouse and keyboard. And I tried my hardest. Worst part is I watched the replay of every match. The way that they could snap onto my face with their reticle at a distance was unbelievable. They were on keyboard and mouse, their accuracy was 20 percent better than mine, in the high 70s. The way I strafe and move myself on infinite makes aim assist almost non existent. I’m tired of hearing it. I really am. If you’re complaining and you are on keyboard and mouse, then play against the keyboard and mouse players I played against two days ago. Then come back and complain after watching them.
I’ll say it repeatedly, console needs aim assist put back where it was on 4 and 5. Or gameplay especially tournaments need the option of no cross play. I have nothing against keyboard and mouse players, but to be in a tournament and know that you’re good just to get slapped around like a diamond rank to keyboard and mouse. Like really? Go through what my team did in the tournament and tell me how much it sucks then.