Somebody with a better understanding help me out (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Tuesday, September 01, 2015, 18:04 (3468 days ago) @ BeardFade

I could be totally wrong but isn't aim assist basically two components: stickiness and bullet magnetism? Stickiness affects your reticule prior to the trigger pull and bullet magnetism affects the trajectory of your bullet upon fire. Is that right?

If so, in this scenario, you really don't want to turn off bullet magnetism, but rather the stickiness component. Without bullet magnetism, you wouldn't be able to hit much of anything I suspect. I'm not sure there is a complicated algorithm for stickiness as has been suggested. I think it just follows the closest target to the player. In most cases and with most guns this is a good thing, but perhaps it would be best to have it reversed or turned off with sniper rifles since you tend to be aiming for the further targets? Maybe only having it kick in past a certain range (hand cannon range) would be better? Adding in anything more complicated to the algorithm could have a cost in game performance.