After watching all the videos I think being able to turn off the aim assist would be a nice feature. Anybody know if you can? :confused:

i hope so, i wanna turn it off too

I don't think there is ANY aim assist from what I've heard.

there is aim assist but its off by default. a couple player vids on youtube hav mention that they couldnt play without it.... cod has handicap so many ppl

Yes aim assist exists
Yes aim assist can be turned off

Kudos for clearing that up. Will be playing without auto-aim as per usual! :celebration:

Damn right. :toughninja:

I really hope that servers have the option of turning it off, and the same kind of thing with matchmaking on consoles.

+ a billion.

Cool thanks guys iv looked around and couldnt find an answer. Ill remember to come here if i need any info

Console players aren't people.

Now thats not very nice...

Im not sure what game it was but I had played with aim assist to see exactly what it does, and from there on I've turned it off. I want to aim for myself, not have some option magnetically attaching my cross-hairs to an enemy.
So I too will be turning aim assist off.

right... and pc players dont have lives... go somewhere else pc elitest

I miss the good old days of Cod1 and Cod2 on the PC. Before it went mainstream and hit console. I don't mean to be a console basher.. but lets be honest, look what it did to CoD.. BESIDES making them a sh!t ton of money.

personally cod4 was its best... and also cod1&2 were on console so your point is invalid that cod went down hill due to consoles.

if you really want to bash consoles blame it on the devs for dumbing things down for them since they wanted to make it more mainstream and appealing for a typical person (just look at the wii). theres nothing wrong with consoles at all, its just the devs limiting themselves to please the casual player.

Off by default eh? That's abnormal. Good though. From the videos I've seen, I don't think I will want, much less need, any assistance with my aiming.

Aim assist does more bad than good for me. i'm glad it's off by default.

I think that there is a hardware aspect to the conversation. I am not sure if it is right to say that devs are "dumbing things down" for adding in aim/hit assist. If you take into consideration the input limitations on consoles as opposed to PC's, I think that developers should add at least some form of aim or hit assist into FPS games for consoles. I think that it is a necessary compensation due to the inherent input limitations of consoles.

What I mean by input limitations is this, a PC gamer aims by moving their mouse until the reticule is over a target. This means that aiming is a direct map of mouse travel distance. A console gamer, however, must push their stick until the reticule is over a target. This means that aiming is a function, not of distance, but of time (maybe: d = p*s*t where d is distance, p is stick position, s is sensitivity in the respective axis and t is time). A skilled PC player can get get shots on target much quicker, where the console gamer must increase sensitivity to crazy levels to get the same kind of shot on time.

This requires a different kind of reflex for the console gamer, where it is not about moving you hand/arm or thumb a certain distance and stopping. It becomes a "When is it correct to stop pressing in that direction?" kind of thing. Not to mention that tracking a moving target (which happens a lot in Brink) requires a fine-level of pressure adjustment instead of a constant hand/arm movement.

Since not everyone is of "teen-cyborg" or MLG status and capable of playing at maxed sensitivity, I think that to help a game feel "solid" for the typical console gamer, a bit of help is needed.

That being said, I personally hate it when an aim-assist "pulls" me off of a weak target due to another target passing in front (but love exploiting that in Halo). If it weren't for my nervous thumbs, I think I would always prefer no aim-assist.

Aim assist is on by default on PS3 - it's not a heavy-handed aim assist though, so I don't mind it. On PC, aim assist is evil, but on consoles, I don't mind it anywhere near as much, except when it's overdone and basically snaps your aim - or when it auto-aims as you switch to ADS (quickscope = broken game mechanic)

I turned it off straight away, but there's probably still some background assist as I play on 360. At least I never ever feel like I'm being dragged into aiming like you do with some shooters.

I play with it off. But it seems most people online are used to auto aim being on from the start as they can't hit anything.

That's good for me though, their lousy aim is my gain.