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Shooters are the best possible example of consoles not being ideal for certain games. Give me a keyboard and mouse and I'll potentially beat the best shooter champion trying to struggle through playing an fps with a controller.
To be fair a console is just a locked down pc these days. There's no reason technically why you couldn't use a mouse and keyboard. The only reason is because they're focused on couch play and lack of interest I think.
Right, exactly. It's definitely possible for some games to be playable on console with mouse and keyboard, but given that it's not the norm you definitely may have issues. A serious fps player likely would not want to switch to a console without some convincing.
I agree. I mean, SteamOS also exists now. Maybe valve could introduce some lockdown mode where you get no kernel access as the user for these types of games or something. I don't know.
Either way, there has to be a way to solve this problem without kernel level anti cheat.
My understanding is that the solution is and always has been to write a good network subsystem for your game/engine. That's not easy, so most developers would rather spend time on the gameplay and outsource the cheating concerns to the ultimate sledgehammer against cheating: full freaking kernel access. It's honestly terrifying what could happen granting random companies that access, and it's probably a miracle we haven't seen a million users have their data leaked, deleted, corrupted, etc.
What if the companies doing this kernel level anti cheat refocused their efforts on a secure network stack for developers?
I think that could be a great change! I don't honestly know enough to think through all the implications, but it at least sounds like something that could work and may be more feasible moving forward. I don't think the kernel level stuff can last forever regardless. Once that first horrific mistake happens and data is lost on millions of machines... they're going to change approaches asap. Sadly it might take something like that to get it to happen though.
that heavily depends on the game. the majority of professional Apex Legends players use gamepads because of the aim assist advantage.
would golf tournaments be improved if the ball had a strong magnetic attraction to the hole? lol I don't think so
I'd rather the tournaments banned aim assist
Yeah, I don't doubt that. But it's funny that the reason for it being preferred on console is that you don't actually have to aim well lol. Making it, imo, a shitty shooter.
oh, I'm talking about PC players using the controllers.
some argue that the stupidly strong aim assist is a way to give the console players (since there's PC/console crossplay) a chance against KB+M users who get to use some movement techniques that aren't possible on a controller and that make it much more difficult to hit them, but tons of people started using controllers on PC just for the aim advantage, so it's definitely been an overkill.
Ohh, wow. Yeah that is crazy. I get that reasoning, but I would agree it's overkill to go ahead and give the controller a leg up! The only shooter I ever could stand on a controller was Halo and that was after a lot of practice (and not having a choice, playing against friends on their xboxes). Still kinda hated it in the back of mind lol