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AutoAim vs Free Aim - What's your Pros & Cons

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sultangris

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. There is just 2. Both auto aim lobbies are together and so are both free aim. Doesnt make sense but thats how it is.

 

 

Thats not how it is.. Aim modes are not tied together. Not sure why people keep saying this.

 

There are 4 aim modes.. And you cant enter the other without switching to it.

there are 2 kinds of lobbies and each one has 2 options. Go to free aim assisted snd invite a full on free aimer. It wont make him switch. And in his setteings it will say Free Aim. Not free aim assisted like in yours. There are only 2 aim lobbies.

 

WRONG.

 

 

There are 4. None of which can be entered without changing to said aim mode.

 

I cant join Fee Aim Assisted while being in Full free Aim. Not sure who started this, but its simply not true. As myself and a few friends have tested this the moment we heard this a while back.

 

 

 

 

Considering there are only 3 aim mode choices what is the 4th aim lobby and how do you get in it? Lol! Pretty sure there's only 2 unless it was changed.

 

Aa is best for missions and such, game isn't designed to play against npcs using free aim, it can be done but there are many downsides, lol

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. There is just 2. Both auto aim lobbies are together and so are both free aim. Doesnt make sense but thats how it is.

 

 

Thats not how it is.. Aim modes are not tied together. Not sure why people keep saying this.

 

There are 4 aim modes.. And you cant enter the other without switching to it.

there are 2 kinds of lobbies and each one has 2 options. Go to free aim assisted snd invite a full on free aimer. It wont make him switch. And in his setteings it will say Free Aim. Not free aim assisted like in yours. There are only 2 aim lobbies.

 

WRONG.

 

 

There are 4. None of which can be entered without changing to said aim mode.

 

I cant join Fee Aim Assisted while being in Full free Aim. Not sure who started this, but its simply not true. As myself and a few friends have tested this the moment we heard this a while back.

 

 

 

 

Considering there are only 3 aim mode choices what is the 4th aim lobby and how do you get in it? Lol! Pretty sure there's only 2 unless it was changed.

 

Aa is best for missions and such, game isn't designed to play against npcs using free aim, it can be done but there are many downsides, lol

 

 

 

Theres 4 aim modes on Xbone and PS4. Even in old gen there was more then 2.. ben a while. But im pretty sure its 3 aim modes. Traditional atuo aim, Assisted auto aim and Free aim.

 

 

Auto aim makes it boring as hell for me. The NPC may use auto aim but, they are stupid and easily out smarted. I`ve never, ever played anything in GTA V that could not be done in free aim and it was never that hard.

 

If you run into a FA mission thinking like a AA player you will get ripped apart. Thats about it.

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Crimson Flam3s

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Free Aim easily. I see it as the standar since 99% of games have no aimbot, literally FA is not like some hardcore mode, to me AA is just annoying since it snaps to a random target and boring. I find FA more fun.

 

Gun battles can be longer, and more engaging. I just don't find it fun to be in cover constantly and whoever pulls the trigger wins. Also using free aim vs lots of enemies close together like in survivals will easily let you kill 10-15 of them in a second or 2 by straffing.

 

If you get good at free aim, you can practically kill just as fast as Auto Aim(not in all cases of course) but there goes AA's advantage. Then vehicle vs ground players battles are better.

 

Basically I don't feel I need AA and it's aiming advantage can be reproduced in FA so there is that.

 

If you do play AA, and wanna up your skills, I would recommend giving FA a try. When you come back to AA, you will have the absolute long range advantage.

And you are absolutely right.And this is coming from an Auto Aimer. Playing FA once in a while (or not pushing the left trigger too much or halfway pressing R2) makes you aim better at long ranges, giving you a higher advantage over AA Only players.

IMO you should master both.

 

AA can teach players some stuff as well I guess, like self preservation. In some of the high lvl FA matches, standing out in the open and running without thinking will absolutely get you killed in a second but having that mentality of taking good cover and vantage points with your team mates can be beneficial instead of Rambo'ing everything.

 

As for the FA long range aiming advantage, there is even a more superior technique. It basically consists of aiming(L2) while running, thus giving you the same speed as run n gun(r2 halfway) but twice the accuracy. In ps3 this is something called "CLAW" because of the way you hold the controller in order to hold X while moving and shooting. I found it too tedious and never used it, but on V ps4 and it's greater custom controls, you can use a setting that allows you to run and aim pretty comfortably ( "alternate fps 2" I think). Not only will you have the long range advantage, you will now have more accuracy and even some room to move your character backwards away from the opponent, while shooting, if they keep getting close to lock on to you and you haven't killed them yet.

sultangris

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Theres 4 aim modes on Xbone and PS4. Even in old gen there was more then 2.. ben a while. But im pretty sure its 3 aim modes. Traditional atuo aim, Assisted auto aim and Free aim.

 

 

Auto aim makes it boring as hell for me. The NPC may use auto aim but, they are stupid and easily out smarted. I`ve never, ever played anything in GTA V that could not be done in free aim and it was never that hard.

 

If you run into a FA mission thinking like a AA player you will get ripped apart. Thats about it.

Yup those are the 3, what's the 4th?

 

You'd have to be pretty dang good at fa to beat the timed missions, if it's even possible. I use aa but I play them all on hard. Even using aa some timed ones are a challenge cause the npcs cheat so bad, lol! I find console controllers pretty poor to use for free aiming vs keyboard/mouse. Controllers sticks just don't have enough range of motion, not to mention all buttons are controlled by two thumbs, very inefficient setup.

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Theres 4 aim modes on Xbone and PS4. Even in old gen there was more then 2.. ben a while. But im pretty sure its 3 aim modes. Traditional atuo aim, Assisted auto aim and Free aim.

 

 

Auto aim makes it boring as hell for me. The NPC may use auto aim but, they are stupid and easily out smarted. I`ve never, ever played anything in GTA V that could not be done in free aim and it was never that hard.

 

If you run into a FA mission thinking like a AA player you will get ripped apart. Thats about it.

Yup those are the 3, what's the 4th?

 

You'd have to be pretty dang good at fa to beat the timed missions, if it's even possible.

 

 

On next gen its got 3 auto aim modes and one free aim mode. Full Assisted Aim, Partial Assisted Aim and Free Aim Assisted Aim (which i always find funny) and Free aim.

 

And the timed mission usually can be done with a good vehicle in tow Or some good players. A bullet proof car and some smoke bombs can give you the a quick way of doing things. For me anyways.

CH14R1

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Theres 4 aim modes on Xbone and PS4. Even in old gen there was more then 2.. ben a while. But im pretty sure its 3 aim modes. Traditional atuo aim, Assisted auto aim and Free aim.

 

 

Auto aim makes it boring as hell for me. The NPC may use auto aim but, they are stupid and easily out smarted. I`ve never, ever played anything in GTA V that could not be done in free aim and it was never that hard.

 

If you run into a FA mission thinking like a AA player you will get ripped apart. Thats about it.

Yup those are the 3, what's the 4th?

 

You'd have to be pretty dang good at fa to beat the timed missions, if it's even possible.

 

 

On next gen its got 3 auto aim modes and one free aim mode. Full Assisted Aim, Partial Assisted Aim and Free Aim Assisted Aim (which i always find funny) and Free aim.

 

And the timed mission usually can be done with a good vehicle in tow Or some good players. A bullet proof car and some smoke bombs can give you the a quick way of doing things. For me anyways.

 

 

And we have 4 types of lobbies for each one of them?

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Chloroform

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Auto aim for me because I'm a bitch like that. I tried to play free aim one day and all the people in them lobbies talked about was how bad auto aim players are. It was so ridiculous that's all that was being talked about. No clue how it is now but f*ck that sh*t, that motorcycle crew was filled with babies that wanted me to join them.

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ten-a-penny

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Lol i never knew people played free aim lobbies they think by aiming a gun with no recoil in a third person shooter takes skill lol hopefully they stay on their sh*t side of the servers

Right, so FPS's can have auto aim all day and nobody bats an eye, but when 3d person games have Free Aim, its Hell?

 

OK.

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Crimson Flam3s

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Lol i never knew people played free aim lobbies they think by aiming a gun with no recoil in a third person shooter takes skill lol hopefully they stay on their sh*t side of the servers

 

Skill: the ability to do something well

 

Since AA consists of pressing 1 button to automatically aim at a target, while FA is done manually, technically a FA user is more skilled at actual aiming. Not that gun battles or the game is all about aiming anyway.

 

Btw since when did personal opinions define skill? A game mechanic can be as sh*tty as you want but if someone else is doing it better than you then they are automatically more skilled than you.

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ten-a-penny

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Hell you can have an FA player who can't shoot or drive for sh*t and an AA player that can do everything in this game with ease. Aiming style doesn't equal skills.

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sultangris

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Lol i never knew people played free aim lobbies they think by aiming a gun with no recoil in a third person shooter takes skill lol hopefully they stay on their sh*t side of the servers

Skill: the ability to do something well

 

Since AA consists of pressing 1 button to automatically aim at a target, while FA is done manually, technically a FA user is more skilled at actual aiming. Not that gun battles or the game is all about aiming anyway.

 

Btw since when did personal opinions define skill? A game mechanic can be as sh*tty as you want but if someone else is doing it better than you then they are automatically more skilled than you.

Heh, it's clear you've never played aa. You could argue it actually takes more skill cause there are more factors at play and it's much faster paced if you're doing pvp in free roam. If you just press one button you're gonna get pwned every time, lol! You actually have to use fa in conjunction with aa if you wanna succeed.

GhostlySentinel

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Auto Aim- Easy to kill, easy to die.

 

Free Aim- Hard to kill, hard to die.

If you're good you can be very hard to kill in aa,

And if you're good you can kill very easily in Free Aim, I'm speaking of the average though.

sultangris

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Auto Aim- Easy to kill, easy to die.

 

Free Aim- Hard to kill, hard to die.

If you're good you can be very hard to kill in aa,
And if you're good you can kill very easily in Free Aim, I'm speaking of the average though.

Yup, they are very different games really, you cannot play them the same way or you will have problems

Anthropomorphic

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Only pro I can think of about using auto aim is that it is easier to kill people with it and to have people join your lobby, which is why I switched to auto. It's impossible to get people to play with you with free aim in heists.

 

Cons are that it is harder to spread your bullets, which I am very used to do.
Accidentally aiming at the wrong person is also quite annoying, and you can not really decide exactly where to aim, say if you want to aim for the head or to. It automatically aims for the chest if I am not mistaken.

Dest45

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. There is just 2. Both auto aim lobbies are together and so are both free aim. Doesnt make sense but thats how it is.

 

 

Thats not how it is.. Aim modes are not tied together. Not sure why people keep saying this.

 

There are 4 aim modes.. And you cant enter the other without switching to it.

there are 2 kinds of lobbies and each one has 2 options. Go to free aim assisted snd invite a full on free aimer. It wont make him switch. And in his setteings it will say Free Aim. Not free aim assisted like in yours. There are only 2 aim lobbies.

 

WRONG.

 

 

There are 4. None of which can be entered without changing to said aim mode.

 

I cant join Fee Aim Assisted while being in Full free Aim. Not sure who started this, but its simply not true. As myself and a few friends have tested this the moment we heard this a while back.

 

 

 

 

WRONG

 

seems like your game is bugged because I play partial and join friends in full free aim all the time without switching my aim mode. I still have partial aim in free aim lobbies.

 

Its

Auto-Aim Partial

Auto-Aim Full

In one lobby

 

Free Aim Assisted

Free Aim Full

In another.

 

I used to think the same thing you do but it doesnt work that way.

Crimson Flam3s

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Lol i never knew people played free aim lobbies they think by aiming a gun with no recoil in a third person shooter takes skill lol hopefully they stay on their sh*t side of the servers

Skill: the ability to do something well

 

Since AA consists of pressing 1 button to automatically aim at a target, while FA is done manually, technically a FA user is more skilled at actual aiming. Not that gun battles or the game is all about aiming anyway.

 

Btw since when did personal opinions define skill? A game mechanic can be as sh*tty as you want but if someone else is doing it better than you then they are automatically more skilled than you.

Heh, it's clear you've never played aa. You could argue it actually takes more skill cause there are more factors at play and it's much faster paced if you're doing pvp in free roam. If you just press one button you're gonna get pwned every time, lol! You actually have to use fa in conjunction with aa if you wanna succeed.

 

 

Too bad in that post I wasn't talking about which aim preference is better, but about aiming itself which is non existant in AA for short/medium range battles. I also played GTA IV in AA for a long time and have tried it in V so I know what I'm talking about.

 

As for your other question, Free aim assisted is like call of duty's or battlefields assist, where you do the actual aiming, but the reticule slows down ( or feels a little sticky) on enemies. I would highly recommend it, for anyone who wants to give FA a try.

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Btw aiming in FA is actually not that difficult, but what is difficult is the movement of enemies npcs/players. Strafing is really important in FA, learn it well and it's gonna be harder to be hit(except vs npc's in hard diff, cover for the win :D). better yet co-ordinate your strafing with your aiming, and you can easily dodge the bullets while giving you time to react and shoot back players.

 

This is basically what you can do if you are used to FA:

 

 

Someone please time the kills from the moment I engaged the opponent and see if it takes long to kill someone.

 

In the end, I just like to clear misconceptions about both modes. some AA dm's can be strategical when it comes to positioning it's not just brainless pressing l2/r2. Doesn't mean you can't play like that in FA as well. One bad move, leaving you out in the open and you are dead, it doesn't take forever to kill someone, cover and team positioning matter.

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sultangris

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This game and the nature of the character/camera-view movement are simply NOT DESIGNED for free-aim gameplay.

 

It's like playing darts on the deck of a small boat at sea.

Lol, true dat! Simply just walking around is unbelievably clunky. This game would be sweet if they could optimize and refine it.

Chinsei

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i like Free aim i do it any time i play a mission when there aren't alot of enemies but i leave the thing set to traditional GTA because <.< taking out 10 NPC cops when your in a hurry isn't(for me) do-able in the open <.< i don't like spray an pray and my pickyness often gets me killed when i take my time to free aim.

 

i don't see any problem with either really there just play preferences. Autoaim is just a crutch for people to use though. when it comes to fighting players i'd say Free Aim is better since you have to relay on your own ability. in auto aim you just have to catch someone off guard from cover , though i don't PVP awhole lot i mostly just do missions an hang out in private lobbies cause ...people can't help but make an ass out of themselves <.<

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