Holy christ the "aim assist" of Mad Max is atrooocious :S

[zegh8578]

It pretty much ruins most of the game, all by itself...

Am I the only one experiencing this? I tried to Google around for anything to remedy it, but didn't get any wiser...

I mean, games like GTA also have aim assist, but GTA won't continously prioritize dead bodies and burning car-wrecks, and Mad Max WILL prioritize dead bodies OVER living enemies - at all times.

Proximity has no effect, and I will FACE an enemy, I will be close enough to kiss that enemy, I will flip my shotgun out, and auto aim WILL turn my character 180 degrees around, to shoot a dead body 30 metres away - as a rule, I can't believe how this garbage passed testing...

Everything else works fine, combat mechanics, driving, but whenever I need to use ANY kind of fire-arm, being shotgun, harpoon or sniper rifle - if there is ANYTHING non-threatening around, the aim WILL turn awayyyy from enemies, and ON to the allready dead, rotting, piece of shit, and then I have to wrestle the aim away and back on enemies - every damn time.

My only working hypothesis is that this is some deliberate feature to "add challenge", but it's mostly just adding mental breakdown... :I

 

[Walpknut]

I tried googling about it but all I can find is people asking the same. They didn't even include a "aim assist off" option in the settings menu?

 

[zegh8578]

Nope

I mean, I'm not demanding perfection here, but to be honest - the first time the game auto-targeted a dead body, I thought "hey, I'm probably gonna learn how to use this for something practical later, although I've got NO guess as to what it might be :S"

You can harpoon dead bodies, and throw them around. Maybe... for fun? But yeah, it's the last thing you want when you're in the middle of an insane battle, to harpoon dead bodies, and shoot your last shotgun shells at the fenders of burning cars

aaand that's it! Ran into a game-breaking bug, and that's that! My PS is offline, so, that was Mad Max! A bunch of auto-aiming for birds and lizards, and no way to finish the fucking thing. (The particular bug was one where entry-gates to a camp does not open, thus preventing completion of the game. Yay!)

And this is why I don't like game consoles...

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

Sounds like I did the smart thing and not buy the game when it was just released. I sadly already had a suspicion that the designers might had flunked on some parts of the game such as trigger bugs and gameplay.

 

[zegh8578]

Heh, yeah, give it some time to get fixed. I have usually been the one to get a game years after release, and this was an exception as I got it on the day of release. Not for any other particular reason than it coinciding with my few trips to the city

To be fair - it's not ridden with bugs, that gate-bug is the only outright glitch I have encountered. The aiming-thing is, well, poor game-design, and can get extremely aggravating in hectic chases, goddamn those fffucking birds...

 

[comscar]

Got this for PC, didn't notice any aim assist. Repetitive as it was, I liked it a lot. The shoehorned RPG skill tree was awful though, same with the rushed story ending.

Half the enjoyment came from the screenshot editor... It's such a shame more games don't have a feature like this!

 

[zegh8578]

Got this for PC, didn't notice any aim assist. Repetitive as it was, I liked it a lot. The shoehorned RPG skill tree was awful though, same with the rushed story ending.

Half the enjoyment came from the screenshot editor... It's such a shame more games don't have a feature like this!

I'm usually a PC gamer, and just got my Playstation - and aim-assist seems typical for console games because of the difficulty of precisely aiming with those sticks
Aiming with a mouse is a matter of just wrist-twitches, so... I envy you there.

I like the game itself too, and as you say - despite its repetitiveness, it's an entertaining game to play.

(I got GTA4 on a PC, here I can be creative with sadistic executions, shooting people in their knees, right in their face, etc. I got GTA5 on Playstation, and here I rely on aim-assist, otherwise my aim would be just thrown around the screen, I wouldn't hit a thing. The result is nothing but center-chest shots.

Similarily, a friend of mine who is an avid player of Battlefield, when I watched him play, I was very dissapointed as he relied almost solely on wild bursts of fire. He's one of those who will bend time and space to defend his hobbies above everything else, but admitted that pitting PS players vs PC players is impossible, because of the high degree of precision you get by aiming with a mouse)