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Anthony McGlynn

Battlefield 6 lead confirms aim assist is getting nerfed, but the 25% recoil reduction is staying for now: "The stickiness straight up kills you if there's multiple enemies"

Battlefield 6.

If you're one of the Battlefield 6 players who've had problems with the aim assist, good news - it's getting toned down. A nerf is being deployed to make aiming easier, after consistent complaints the assistance did the opposite.

Details of the change come from Matthew Nickerson, the console and controller design lead at EA, who revealed that the aim assistance is going to be dialed down. "Far less stickiness so it does not create that rotational persistence that is currently live," he explains on Twitter. "Consistent slow down, no ramp."

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