Every time someone brings up a controller vs mouse and keyboard, most of if not all comments will push towards the OP to “switch to mouse and keyboard” because “it’s better!”
In my eyes, the person is already accustomed to controller, they’re used to the sensitivity, and if not it’s a quick change.
If they’re going to get used to mouse and keyboard they need to:
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find a reasonable mouse
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find a reasonable mousepad for their situation
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find out if they’re a wrist aimer or an arm aimer
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make sure their windows mouse sensitivity is set to 6/11 for some reason otherwise everything else will be messed up
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find their “optimal sensitivity” many of which tutorials are (subjectively) hard to find (the good ones)
I’m both a controller and mouse and keyboard user but I find it easier to aim with a controller. It feels natural.
Yeah, now try without any Aim Assist.
Why. Why can’t people just have fun as their goal here.
Having fun IS the goal, but the discussion here is about controller vs KB/M for FPS games. Yes of course you can have fun with both, but let’s not pretend that controllers are as good as KB/M in shooter games because it’s just not true. They are slower, not as precise and require aiming assistance in order to compete with KB/M in multiplayer games.
It’s as good, more good for op, if the goal is to have fun, not be the best.
Based on OPs post, I think it’s fair to assume that they aren’t even aware that console games bake-in auto aim. Most console players in general are unaware of that fact.
Nobody is saying don’t have fun, or don’t do what you want. But a lot of times unpopular opinions are unpopular because they’re built on a poor grasp of the topic matter.
In the same way I’ll educate someone on how tax brackets work when they say “my boss told me I’m better off not getting a raise because it’ll bump me into the next tax bracket”, I wouldn’t expect people to just nod and smile when they demonstrate a similarly poor grasp of game input devices.
They don’t care that there is auto aim, their goal is to have fun, not be the best there ever was without crutches. This is why it’s so hard to talk online about anything to do with video games, the nerds make it insufferable. Op can’t talk about this obviously
I think you skimmed my post, and I don’t even think you read the OP post at all.
People are misunderstanding this post. Ops goal is fun, not being the best fps player they could possibly be.
Ops argument is that a mouse keyboard setup, when the goal is “fun,” in their eyes, is not better.
Then, they get jumped by gamer nerds who want to statisticly prove why op is wrong, but it’s just missing the point.
He said he finds it easier to aim with a controller. I think it’s fair to point out that the reason for that is in no small part due to the auto aim.
I had to listen to a buddy growing up with two doctor parents and extremely wealthy grandparents who thought he was some kind of counter cultural Maverick for backpacking through Europe after high school before spending the next like 12 years getting like 4 different arts degrees because there was an infinite educational fund set aside for him.
This has similar vibes. Born on 3rd thinking you hit a triple.
