Fortnite removes abusable “legacy” aim assist for controller players

Enlarge / Sorry, sniper, you can't just snap to your hidden target by tapping L2 anymore...

Epic is removing a controversial "legacy" aim assist mode for Fortnite players who play using a handheld controller. The move is the company's latest effort to improve competitive balance between controller users and players using the increased speed and precision of a mouse-and-keyboard setup.

Looking back on a "legacy"

While Epic initially made efforts to segregate controller and mouse-and-keyboard players, an October matchmaking update started placing PC and console players in the same matches. "With the rollout, we've seen a lot of discussion about potentially unfair competitive advantages from pooling players together across platforms and input devices," Epic wrote at the time. "The new matchmaking system, however, accounts for various skill levels across different platforms and control inputs, and groups players of similar skill levels together."

Around the same time, Epic also made a significant update to its controller settings, allowing players to tune the game's analog stick sensitivity in a number of ways. That update also "implemented a new aim assist system" that used a new weighting algorithm to "calculate targets in screen space, which allows a more consistent feel regardless of that target's range."

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