

Read more: Fortnite community outraged by change to platform-based matchmakingīut when they went back to using KBM in a practice session, the crosshair started following the target apparently without any movement from the user’s mouse.To make the stick drift, the YouTuber went into Fortnite’s controller settings and set the “Dead Zone” to a very low setting of 0.05, which the game warns players should “use at your own risk.” In a video, YouTuber ‘Ohhyy’ outlined how they can get the effects of aim assist while using KBM with a few tweaks of the backend controls in the game.īy hooking up a controller to PC, Ohhyy gave the joystick a bit of a “stick drift” and then activated the new aim assist mode. Aim assist for PC players could change the landscape of the Fortnite competition. But it now seems like everyone in the Fortnite community can take advantage of it. The news turned out to be a point of dread for PC players, seeing as this meant console players’ already-controversial aim assist was getting improvements.

The aim assist feature for Fortnite console players has long created a rift in the game’s community, but a new “exploit” is bringing it to mouse and keyboard (KBM).Įpic Games retooled the game’s aim assist system in the v10.40 update which, among other things, helped to relieve “left trigger spamming” along with introducing a revamped weighting algorithm to Fortnite.
