A new leak from a reputed leaker suggests that aim assist on Apex Legends PC will get some major nerfs in Season 22.
Aim assist has always been a controversial topic in Apex Legends. Although it wasn’t a serious issue at the beginning, as soon as players started to get better in the game, the integrity of aim assist started being questioned, especially by the MnK players.
Even in the most competitive Apex Legends scene, the aim assist’s superiority is evident. According to the stats shared by Liquipedia, more than 64% of the players used controllers as their main input method in the ALGS 2024 Split 2 Pro League NA. The supremacy of aim assist is further demonstrated by the fact that 75% of the best 20 players in the Pro League are controller players.
Due to that reason, many pro players who built their Apex Legends career as MnK players shifted to controllers for its aim assist superiority. ImperialHal, Lou, and Albralelie are some of the examples of those who have switched to controller from MnK.
As a result, players have been grumbling about aim assist and requesting Respawn nerf it for a while so that MnK players can compete with them on an equal footing. And now it looks like Respawn had been listening all along as a new leak emerged that suggests aim assist will get nerfed in Season 22.
Osvaldatore, a reputed leaker in the Apex Legends community, recently shared on X that two aim assist nerfs are coming to Apex Legends in Season 22. The nerfs include the decrease of aim assist’s intensity from .4 to .3 and an increase in camera shake while taking damage. According to the leaker, the aim assist changes will only come to the PC version of Apex Legends.
On paper, the decrease in aim assist intensity may not seem big. However, it is a 25% decrease from the original value. So, players will definitely feel the difference while playing in an actual game. Moreover, the increase in camera shake will also have an impact while having gunfights.
Although the leak of aim assist nerfs has made many MnK players happy, the majority of the controller players have not taken it well.
However, keep in mind that it is only a leak. So, there might be a possibility that the aim assist nerf may not go through. As Apex Legends Season 22 patch notes are dropping on August 5, we will have to wait til then to get concrete evidence regarding whether aim assist on Apex Legends PC will actually get nerfed or not.
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