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Subject: Turning off Sticky Reticles

I am the slayer of buses

I'm not proud to have my first post be a plea for help mixed in with a complaint, but I need help, and din't know where esle to turn.
Basicly, and with out getting into a debate over the pros and cons of the sticky reticle, I'd like to know if there's a way to turn it off or work around it. I'm sick of trying to lead a shot and fight the sticky reticle.
Again, I'd prefer this not come down to a debate over personal preferances or the thr few pros and many cons of the sticky rectecle I just would like to know how to run it off. I've played FPS for years and have always lived by the motto:
"If I wanted a bullet to go though, I would have aimed there"
There for, in any FPS or 3rdPS I've ever had, step 1 is always to turn off auto aim, sticky reticle, and any other features that hinder my prformance falcle perading around as an "aim assister". I like to combine leading with letting my target walk into my sights, and this feature can cramp my style at times.
It's not always a factor, but I've had enough problems with this feature in this game, and many others that I'd just rather turn it off as I serves me no benefit being on and penalizes me at times being off. I mean it's like the chief's got ADD and can't focus, cuz it definetly doesn't help my aim.

If there's no way to turn it off, I'll just deal with it and adapt, no problems there, but I'd rather not have 2 or 3 kills be lost due to this little quirk when simply turning it off can fix everything. If it's not in halo 2 then this might be a possable feature to have in Halo 3, since having the optoin to turn off auto aim is realy no diferent than cranking up the stick sensitivity in the grand scheame of things.

  • 06.30.2007 7:38 PM PDT

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did you ever hear of an auto-cocker?
...Thats what she said.

How does it make you lose kills?

If anything it should get you more kills!

  • 06.30.2007 8:05 PM PDT

I am the slayer of buses

well not alway true. I really does more harm then help to me.
Imagine this senario.
You've got your sniper scope on the driver of a fully loaded warthog, when suddenly, another enemy jumps by, avoiding a nade or something. You had the driver nicly set up in your shot, you might have, you might not of, he might have swerved at the last moment, these things happen sometimes. But due to the jumping, 3rd party guy, you sight goes COMPLETLY of target due to the cheif's ADD and you have to set the target up again. While with proper reflexes, you may have been able to shoot the jumper, 95% of us normal humans who lack your uber reflexes are destened to miss both targets and line up the shot again b4 the guy ducks behung a rock and the flag is gone forever.

Again, I'm not here to debate it's usfulness, or lack there of. It's personel preferance, and my prefernce is that it's bad enough I have to fight a fast moving target, but I also have to combat a targeting reticle that really wants me to shoot one place, rather than where I really wanna shoot.

I simply just want it off. If there's no optoin to do so, fine, I'll deal other wise I'd like to know where to turn it off.
I'm the last person to boast about my skills, or lack there off, I consider my self about average when it comes to Halo 2 Multiplayer, but it's both agravating and at times insulting to be told be a small piece of code or script on a 6 inch plastic disk that my aim is off and should shoot here only to have it miss.
It's not always an issue, but it comes up enough to bother me.

  • 06.30.2007 8:20 PM PDT
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You can't turn it off.

*edit* It sucks sometimes but IMO it helps more than it hurts. For instance I've been constantly screwed out of a kill by using the fusion cores because the reticle drags where I want to aim and moves it towards the player and I end up missing the window of opportunity to blow him up. But compared to the number of kills I got by merely shooting them accurately...I can't even count. The sticky aiming is just a necessity when you're aiming with thumbsticks anyway and everyone has the same disadvantages so I can live with it.

[Edited on 06.30.2007 8:53 PM PDT]

  • 06.30.2007 8:41 PM PDT
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go to settings, player profiles, then EDIT and it should be in there somewhere. if you want to turn auto aim off, that is.

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  • 06.30.2007 8:51 PM PDT
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No you can't.

It's ALWAYS on.


....And auto look centering isn't it.


*edit* I like to use the reticle stickiness to my advantage. If you see a teammate about to die from enemy fire then place yourself in the line of fire to divert his aim and screw your enemy over.

[Edited on 06.30.2007 9:02 PM PDT]

  • 06.30.2007 8:55 PM PDT

I am the slayer of buses

Man, I hope they add the optoin to turn it off in Halo 3

  • 06.30.2007 9:15 PM PDT

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wow... anyone who turns auto aim off is going to get DOMINATED. Try doing BR battles with people on the same team, it's pretty funny. Aim assist is nescesary in such a fast paced game, or else no one would be able to kill well. And the "lock on" effect is to help latency.

  • 06.30.2007 9:29 PM PDT

I am the slayer of buses

granted, an aim asist of some nature may be needed in an online game due to lantancy, but there needs to be a better way to program a sticky reticles that doesn't have ADD with out having to press a botun to lock onto a target first (think battlefront 2, that auto aim made me sooo mad). Like if the reticle is idol, how about it stays put unless you move it diliberetly, where as if you're running and gunning it will do it's sticky thing. Don't get me wrong, it's helpful under some cercomstances, but there are times I wish I could kill it with fire.
Another hyptheticle senario: At mid-range with a BR on swat. I've got the guy's head lined up and he moves behind a piller momentarily or his buddy slides by or something that would make your cross hair stick to something else and suddenly you loose the head shot, you fire and and only nick him. He ducks down and either gets away or retaliates in a unfavorable maner. IF it weren't for that unsticking or re-sticking, that head shot would have had him down in one hit.
Again, it's not always a bad thing. Some times it helpful, most of the time I don't even know it's there. But I'm usualy reminded of it's presense when I actually am required to use more aim then usual. Yes, that's right, the more precisoin's need the more auto aim hurts. Try it some time, I notice it most almost anywhere on Sancuary (especially from the base into the midle area) and looking from the ally into the tent on turf. Have a 2 guys giggle about, one in and out of cover and the other moving about in front of the other guy maaking sure no to kill the guy up front from about mid range. Do it in one shot with a berrage, don't miss. Then try it with allys, with no stickyness bothering you. I know that for me, at least, I'll have better precisoin, with out auto aim.

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  • 06.30.2007 10:08 PM PDT
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be an elite the dont haVE AS MUCH AUTO LOCK

  • 06.30.2007 10:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zach The One
wow... anyone who turns auto aim off is going to get DOMINATED. Try doing BR battles with people on the same team, it's pretty funny. Aim assist is nescesary in such a fast paced game, or else no one would be able to kill well. And the "lock on" effect is to help latency.


not true i play bf2mc and its not hard, infact i like less auto lock, which is why i like halo 1 and halo 3 over halo 2.

  • 06.30.2007 10:17 PM PDT
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As Zach said, you should test this out on people on your own team, and you'll see why it's there.

Aim assist is necessary in this game. Granted, it's a little high (and has been toned down in Halo 3) but you wouldn't do better without it. Guests would kill you considerably fast, and lets not even think about what it would be like against someone who can 4 shot consistently.

  • 06.30.2007 10:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: n0 1 w1LL n0t
be an elite the dont haVE AS MUCH AUTO LOCK


I don't think that's true. The only difference Elites have are minor hit box detections, not less aim assist coding.

  • 06.30.2007 10:20 PM PDT