To them, it was highly unlikely that controller players could have hit the shots they did without the help of aim assist. (Statespace) A player uses a controller to manually aim at targets, without aim assist. Aim assist functions by automatically changing the variables in Fitts’s law to be more favorable to imprecise movements. Professor Mandryk and her colleagues at the Interaction Lab have studied this in relation to aim assist, too. Since May’s dust-up, Epic has made some concessions to its hardcore playerbase, reducing the strength of aim assist on PC.

Source: Washington Post October 16, 2020 17:03 UTC