Serious question, what is the appeal of assisted aim in multiplayer?

[Simply Logic]

Usually players who are bad at free aim resort to auto-aim because that's what their original settings were. Nobody's complaining.

[SuperJude™]

Sir Michael is correct. GTA is the only game that forces the training wheels known as Auto Aim upon its fanbase.

 

Unfortunately many people are too lazy to aim then get upset when someone points out that it isn't aiming it's fake hand held aiming designed for the 10 year old that make up half the fanbase.

 

Personally if I can't find matches I simply will not resort to auto aim.

 

I find the experience to be wholly unpleasant.

 

Ideally it's OK for me to express that opinion without some auto aim user ranting at me.

[Blasterman4EVER]

It's more fun. You can lock on and blast and continue playing Grand Theft Auto. The goal of GTA is not to own people with headshots in free-aim. It's to stunt and steal cars and have fun and run over pedestrians.

[Soran Is On]

It's more fun. You can lock on and blast and continue playing Grand Theft Auto. The goal of GTA is not to own people with headshots in free-aim. It's to stunt and steal cars and have fun and run over pedestrians.

this troll trying to dictate to me what the goal of GTA is. That sentiment might fly while talking about glitches but here talking about an actual game mode with in the game that holds no weight.

[fear_the_nut70]

Ok I get that some might prefer to play assisted aim against the sharpshooting AI in missions and survivals, but I will never understand why players prefer it to freeaim when playing against other players. GTA to me is all about the cars and shooting, but the two cannot mix in assisted aim, vehicles are a death trap, so you either walk around the map and take cover behind objects or you end up getting easily killed if any players are that way inclined.

 

I know free aim is difficult, but that's what makes it appealing and rewarding to me, I like the challenge of aiming myself, why don't others?

 

Please I really don't want any spam or bigoted responses, saying that I'm an elitist showing off. I genuinely want to know why players want the game to aim for them!?

 

Most people are hedonistic and want immediate gratification which means they won't put the work in to actually get good at the game. (its the same reason people buy modded accounts, but I know that is a different subject). I find this particularly true as it pertains to the kiddies, who seemingly now dominate this game.

Edited January 26, 2016 by fear_the_nut70

[Blasterman4EVER]

 

It's more fun. You can lock on and blast and continue playing Grand Theft Auto. The goal of GTA is not to own people with headshots in free-aim. It's to stunt and steal cars and have fun and run over pedestrians.

this troll trying to dictate to me what the goal of GTA is. That sentiment might fly while talking about glitches but here talking about an actual game mode with in the game that holds no weight.

 

[dropped down from ignored message]

 

When people like you call me a troll, I feel accomplished. I'd ask what you believe the meaning of troll is, but I wouldn't read it.

[MrYoungGun]

I just wish Rockstar would tune down the NPCs for free aim, make them a little less crack shot. Sure the AI as a whole in this game is terrible but at the very least they could lessen their accuracy in FA. I feel this is the #1 reason there's so few FA players, a game that consists mostly of PVE should have AI that reflects the difficulty settings. All of Rockstar's other games I've played were much more enjoyable on free aim, RDR had a massive "hardcore" player base that lasted up until the servers were ruined. The neglect of things like this and the focus on giving us more things to buy just exemplifies the sad downward spiral of what used to be my favorite company.

[hornedturtle]

I just wish Rockstar would tune down the NPCs for free aim, make them a little less crack shot. Sure the AI as a whole in this game is terrible but at the very least they could lessen their accuracy in FA. I feel this is the #1 reason there's so few FA players, a game that consists mostly of PVE should have AI that reflects the difficulty settings. All of Rockstar's other games I've played were much more enjoyable on free aim, RDR had a massive "hardcore" player base that lasted up until the servers were ruined. The neglect of things like this and the focus on giving us more things to buy just exemplifies the sad downward spiral of what used to be my favorite company.

"I'm too lazy to get good so r* should make it easier" is what i read.

 

Because of that sh*t mentality I'm forced into doing 1 life runs in most modern games so i can have some form of challenge =.=

[Soran Is On]

 

 

It's more fun. You can lock on and blast and continue playing Grand Theft Auto. The goal of GTA is not to own people with headshots in free-aim. It's to stunt and steal cars and have fun and run over pedestrians.

this troll trying to dictate to me what the goal of GTA is. That sentiment might fly while talking about glitches but here talking about an actual game mode with in the game that holds no weight.

 

[dropped down from ignored message]

 

When people like you call me a troll, I feel accomplished. I'd ask what you believe the meaning of troll is, but I wouldn't read it.

i still think you'd read it. And pretend you didn't. Also semantics mr.troll. You do enjoy a good carry on for no reason don't you.

 

Savor the block. Mmmm

[Starsky83]

Ok I get that some might prefer to play assisted aim against the sharpshooting AI in missions and survivals, but I will never understand why players prefer it to freeaim when playing against other players. GTA to me is all about the cars and shooting, but the two cannot mix in assisted aim, vehicles are a death trap, so you either walk around the map and take cover behind objects or you end up getting easily killed if any players are that way inclined.

 

I know free aim is difficult, but that's what makes it appealing and rewarding to me, I like the challenge of aiming myself, why don't others?

 

Please I really don't want any spam or bigoted responses, saying that I'm an elitist showing off. I genuinely want to know why players want the game to aim for them!?

Edited: I was prob a bit harsh on OP so removed my post. But seriously this game isnt some w*nkfest childish COD where K/D means everything. In fact thats why I play AutoAim its just a far less self inflated Narcissistic community. Much like the PC community on a whole I just cant stand the bs that goes along with it. Edited January 27, 2016 by Starsky83

[Soran Is On]

Lol @ starsky this thread is more than a year old. 2ndly he wanted to illicit a reaction out of assisted Aimee's that would take offense. And it worked.

"I'm too lazy to get good so r* should make it easier" is what i read.

 

Because of that sh*t mentality I'm forced into doing 1 life runs in most modern games so i can have some form of challenge =.=

its not the aim but the bs spawns I have a problem with. Aim has little bearing on enemies materializing behind you when your certain there's nothing going to be there. Edited January 27, 2016 by stonedpimpso

[Starsky83]

Lol @ starsky this thread is more than a year old. 2ndly he wanted to illicit a reaction out of assisted Aimee's that would take offense. And it worked.

"I'm too lazy to get good so r* should make it easier" is what i read.

 

Because of that sh*t mentality I'm forced into doing 1 life runs in most modern games so i can have some form of challenge =.=

its not the aim but the bs spawns I have a problem with. Aim has little bearing on enemies materializing behind you when your certain there's nothing going to be there.

Yeah my bad, got that a bit later on haha total fail. Arh these topics just make me see red, its a real shame as it just totally brings down the community. I really need to learn not to get dragged down with it.

[Soran Is On]

 

Lol @ starsky this thread is more than a year old. 2ndly he wanted to illicit a reaction out of assisted Aimee's that would take offense. And it worked.

"I'm too lazy to get good so r* should make it easier" is what i read.

 

Because of that sh*t mentality I'm forced into doing 1 life runs in most modern games so i can have some form of challenge =.=

its not the aim but the bs spawns I have a problem with. Aim has little bearing on enemies materializing behind you when your certain there's nothing going to be there.

Yeah my bad, got that a bit later on haha total fail. Arh these topics just make me see red, its a real shame as it just totally brings down the community. I really need to learn not to get dragged down with it.oh these forums will drag you down sometimes don't get me wrong. See blasterman a few post up for example. Bout as low as you can go. *Ba-dum tiss* Edited January 27, 2016 by stonedpimpso

[Mrnrfan182]

When I started to play GTAV a couple of years ago I tried free-aim and found it just wasn't executed very well in this game. Many of your targets are small, often crouched behind objects and they're barely visible. The game itself seems to be designed for an assisted aim. I probably sounds like I'm just sh*tty at the game, and that's probably true, but with NPC's that can snipe you by blind firing around a corner for a damn near one hit kill, I just didn't find myself having fun.. Since you can essentially become "free-aim" by lightly holding the fire button I see no reason to go into a dedicated free-aim session. I can mop the floor with the assisted kiddies that try to roll all over the place by simply shooting them while they do it. I've done a few heists in free-aim and it was a miserable experience. I don't feel like I'm any less of a player...but I sure as sh*t enjoy myself more when I'm in assisted...oh well.

[Pressure Drop]

I don't have anything against Assisted Aim as such, I like to use it for contact missions and things when I purely want to make money.

 

However for deathmatches / captures and other PVP stuff, free aim is king. Much more competitive and fun. It would be good if they could make free aim the default, with the option to change it if you wanted to.

 

What I cannot forgive however, is the fact that you can choose "assisted free aim" and get into lobbies with people who are using just free aim. This is completely unfair, assisted free aim needs to be merged with full assisted servers, and I wish Rockstar would fix this ASAP

[BatFerYou]

I have autoaim respawn kill respawn kill freemode nightmares.

I'd rather be chased by aliens, or go to work naked.

What an unpleasant experience.

[NFSGalaxy]

An ex competitive free aimer here. Picked up fa after seeing it fiddling with settings one day, used it ever since. It's not hard either, but it requires a bit more than aa. Footwork is key in fa, enough said there. Now someone mentioned the community for fa is trash. No argument there, however, have you taken a close look at the aa community? Didn't think so, bud. And mrnrfan, fa wasn't executed as well as it was in Max Payne 3, but is is usable in pvp.

[NBAKingzFan10]

Once upon a time in a land far, far, away there was this thing called personal preference. Everyone did whatever they wanted without critique because people just understood that everyone different and that not everyone is going to agree on, nor like, the same things. Life was simple and times were good. Everyone rejoiced!

 

Then, one day, a small group of people started thinking their way of doing things was superior and dared called out anyone who differed in opinion by calling them names and making fun of their perceived inability to do what they, the instigator, could. This small group progressively grew in size until everyone started to get super defensive of their personal preferences. This eventually got to the point that they felt the needed to put down everything that wasn't of their own liking in order to pretend their thing, their opinion, was better than everyone else's.

 

It started small with things like Coke vs. Pepsi and domestic beer vs. imported. Later it escalated with Mac vs. PC and Xbox vs. Playstation before eventually reaching its peak with the iPhone vs. Android debacle... but nothing could compare with, nor would anyone predict, what would soon become upon the inception of GTA Online; the free aim vs. auto aim war had begun.

 

Many threads were created and for pages and pages they argued back and forth over who was right in the ultimate quest to determine the superior aim style, as well as which group had the biggest ePeen. Despite the passing of 2 years time, the battles raged on with no ending in sight. Times grew dark and the rejoicing was no more.

 

Fast forward 20 pages and this particular thread is merely a reminder of the names that have been etched into walls of many ignore lists. Any would-be civility has been ravaged apart by the mere difference of opinion. Even still, this battle continues onwards with very little progress to show for either side.

 

When will it end? Who knows, but one thing is certain; this is really f*cking stupid, guys. Who cares who uses what or why? As long as it doesn't affect other players (and sorry but empty lobbies are not a valid reason to bitch about AA, you FA warriors.) it should be a non-issue.

 

In the wise words of the great philosophical group WAR: "Why can't we be friends?"

[shadowoperative]

This is the internet. All the children think others want to hear their opinions.

[JackCarter]

I play full auto aim. Never been able to shoot for sh*t on video games with the little controller.

[rsquattro]

I suggest more rp per kill for free-aimer this is the challenge/reward ratio and you wil see more populated free-aim lobby . 1 shot 2 problems fixed !

[BatFerYou]

This is the internet. All the children think others want to hear their opinions.

 

That's just your opinion. On the Internet.

[shadowoperative]

 

This is the internet. All the children think others want to hear their opinions.

That's just your opinion. On the Internet.

That is your opinion of my opinion. On the interwebz.

[BatFerYou]

 

 

This is the internet. All the children think others want to hear their opinions.

That's just your opinion. On the Internet.

That is your opinion of my opinion. On the interwebz.

 

 

No! What I said, was a fact. An observation of something occurring right in front of me, with the source quoted.

 

Also, I'm wearing your underwear.

 

[shadowoperative]

The fact is I don't wear underwear so jokes on you. My boys are unencumbered.

 

We better get back on topic.

[BatFerYou]

The fact is I don't wear underwear so jokes on you. My boys are unencumbered.

 

We better get back on topic.

 

Oh sh*t, yeah. Errr your lack of underwear is "free aim". Right?

 

HI MODS.

[am30]

I free aim when I take a slash.

[FluffehHamster]

just a question on this , in free roam if u choose free aim , is it a free aim only loby? and does that not just result in everyone resorting to running people over in their cars?

 

thinking about trying it.

[am30]

just a question on this , in free roam if u choose free aim , is it a free aim only loby? and does that not just result in everyone resorting to running people over in their cars?

 

thinking about trying it.

 

Free aim will get mixed in with free aim assisted (which isn't as huge an advantage as it sounds or as some make out). In my experience, it's full of RPG enthusiasts and idiots in jets - even more so than auto-aim.

 

Personally, I leave free aim for games where it works.

[Furry_Monkey]

just a question on this , in free roam if u choose free aim , is it a free aim only loby? and does that not just result in everyone resorting to running people over in their cars?

 

thinking about trying it.

 

Lots of explosives in free aim. I quite like it, as a bike rider, because it means I can ride past players without automatically dying. That being said, that's one of the reasons I'm a better player - because in auto aim I have to act as if everyone can kill me easily, because they can.

 

Also, despite what the free aim fanatics will say, prepare for emptier sessions as well. You'll get the odd full lobby, but it's mostly single figures. Definitely give it a try though, as it does make a refreshing change to swap every now and then, even if it's only briefly.

 

That's one thing that seems to be missed by a lot of these spittle-faced radicals. We have a choice, which means we all automatically win. If we were forced one way or the other it would be sh*t - surely we all agree on that!

Edited January 27, 2016 by Furry_Monkey