K&M on console is essentially cheating... (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Sunday, February 12, 2017, 16:05 (2932 days ago) @ Cody Miller

They do have an edge, yes, but the edge a mouse gives over thumbsticks is insane. It's an entirely different game. You could try to balance it by removing aim magnetism when people use a mouse, but it's still be a pretty big difference in ease of accuracy.

I do agree that the edge is potentially great. But would this not be a problem with sbmm or ranked playlists? You wouldn't have an edge because you'd be up against people playing around your level.

Yeah, that's why I said that the highest-tiers of competitive play are all mouse and keyboard, because they blast through the ranks fairly quickly. Unfortunately, the SBMM-seque design resets every season, dumping those players back into the regular pool. On top of that, in games like CoD and Overwatch, there is no SBMM in all other playlists, so the average player will find himself coming up against mouse and keyboard players on a regular basis.

And the edge is indeed great. In Destiny, it makes airborne aiming extremely easy, which this Last Word player takes advantage of when he's not snap-sniping.