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Senior dev on Fortnite: human-like aim assist, quick weapon, flick stick, gyro, etc 🎮. Prev assists on: Deathloop, HOTDR, Severed Steel. Also a Pastor 📖

Perth, Australia

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Joined March 2009

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@JibbSmart

Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

Pinning a thread of my Twitter highlights, starting with my very recent work on @FortniteGame , redoing their gyro controls and adding flick stick. This has been a hugely rewarding experience! ...🧵

@FortniteGame

Fortnite

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We've added new and improved gyro controls along with flick stick on the platforms that support it. Made in collaboration with input specialist and flick stick creator @JibbSmart , check out the video for all of the details of what's new! More info:

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@JibbSmart

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7 months

This is the simplest demonstration I've seen of why sticks aren't good for aiming. Absolutely nothing wrong with Antonio's aim here. No rush. Doesn't miss. But the nudge pause nudge pause nudge pause shoot is something you never see with gyro or mouse

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never seen these before

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Human-like aim assist is live in Fortnite! This was mostly my baby, so I'm super excited about it! For most players this will be a very subtle change, but there's a lot of questions about "is it better? is it worse? what is it?" so I thought I'd flesh it out a bit. 🧵

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@DaveOshry @DOOM knows what's up

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@AlexStrook I remember seeing an ad in Canada for a small burger: "Only have a toonie ($2)? This burger is only $1.99 (plus tax)" SO I CAN'T BUY IT IF I ONLY HAVE A TOONIE?? Madness.

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Regular Fortnite or COD gameplay doesn't look like this thanks to aim assist, which is essential for fast-paced shooters, but disqualifies them from fair comparison with other input methods

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Almost a year before the Xbox Series X came out I emailed Phil Spencer insisting on the importance of gyro for the next gen. It came to nothing. Fair. Expected. But that same day I also cold-emailed Epic about gyro controls, and the rest is history:

@FortniteGame

Fortnite

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We've added new and improved gyro controls along with flick stick on the platforms that support it. Made in collaboration with input specialist and flick stick creator @JibbSmart , check out the video for all of the details of what's new! More info:

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Real-time controller overlay including gyro in action!

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Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

I worked on Fortnite! It's free and it's on basically every platform so if you've ever wanted an easy way to try #FlickStick or cutting-edge #GyroAim , this is the way to do it!

@FortniteGame

Fortnite

3 years

We've added new and improved gyro controls along with flick stick on the platforms that support it. Made in collaboration with input specialist and flick stick creator @JibbSmart , check out the video for all of the details of what's new! More info:

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7 months

Compare with gyro:

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I think early gyro aim implementations left a bad feeling in people's mouths due to basic low pass filters adding lag. Modern controllers and better filtering are here, though. It really doesn't have to be that way.

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@JibbSmart

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2 years

Got a real job! Senior Gameplay Programmer at Epic Games 💛

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2 years

@ohshidt Whoever invented "the wheel" has a lot to answer for

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18 days

Because aim assist knows exactly where your target is moving at every moment, it gives players superhuman help. It can at times even make aiming "sticky" in a way that is literally impossible for unassisted human players to match. How much superhuman help is fair? None!

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This thread isn't an "official Epic" thing, but I am main the developer behind it, so let's clarify a couple of things. First: "human-like" is new and as far as I know no one else does it, but most of Fortnite's aim assist is unchanged. Aim assist will mostly feel the same.

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Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

23.63 seconds in the #5GunChallenge in Fortnite. Room for improvement, but I don't do so great under pressure 😅 Here's the level:

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18 days

Something a few folks are already missing: We're not finished tuning aim assist. You want more help on controller? We have to take out what's unfair (and impossible to balance, imho), first. That's what human-like aim assist does :)

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11 months

The most important "next gen" feature of the DualSense is something Switch, Steam Controller, and even the DualShock 4 have always had: Aiming that's more fun, more powerful, easier to learn, easier to implement (especially because you no longer need aim assist). Gyro.

@KevinCow

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It's once again silly that if I play a PS5 game with a PS5 controller on PC, I can get gyro aiming. But if I play the same PS5 game on an actual PS5, I can't. Gyro adds more to the game than all the silly haptic and trigger gimmicks they use to show off the controller.

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4 years

@BattleNonSense @CallofDuty @Activision @Blizzard_Ent They could also save a lot if they had the highest-res textures separated into a "4k texture pack" or something for the dozen or so people who want it.

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Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

Thank you so much, @valvesoftware , for sending me a Steam Deck! I can't wait to see what it can do!

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2 years

Really helpful side-by-side here. You might call it "game design" for gyro aiming to feel bad for "realism" or something. But then their mouse aim should feel just as bad for the exact same reasons. Gyro is the mouse of the controller. It's that simple. Make it good :)

@FlickStickVids

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@FlickStickVids

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Gyro aim on #ResidentEvil4Remake is broken, It was supposed to work like a mouse, but it has a huge delay and drag effect. #FixGyro @RE_Games @REBHPortal @CapcomUSA_ @CapcomEurope @capcom_official @CapcomAustralia @capcom_france @dev1_official @CapcomVancouver

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2 years

#DEATHLOOP is (by my count): - 5th game ever to have FLICK STICK (2nd on PlayStation) - 2nd game ever with player space gyro controls (gyro gaming discord gang will like that) Also, since the settings can't do decimal points, the sensitivity is natural x 10

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18 days

Human-like aim assist won't make easy shots any harder than they used to be. But it will drastically reduce humanly impossible tracking when targets suddenly change direction. And so this means that ultimately it should be better for controller players AND non-controller players

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Jibb Smart 🎮

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Second: We don't take aim assist changes lightly. This wouldn't have been possible without the support of the balance design team, producers, directors, QA, helpful research by UXR, and months and months of internal company-wide testing.

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18 days

The goal of human-like aim assist is to remove the superhuman factor from aim assist. We take away that impossible stickiness by carefully modelling how a human reaction time works -- at least in cases where it's consistently predictable.

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Third: Who is it better for? Controller players or non-controller players? Well, both! But first we need to talk a bit about one of the challenges of balancing aim assist. Every game's aim assist is a bit different, but generally, standard aim assist has a problem...

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Balance folks do a great job anyway finding a balance of assistance for controller players without squeezing mouse players out of the game. But in every cross-platform game with aim assist, there's a tension between what's comfortable for controller and what's fair against mouse.

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@JibbSmart

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But I'm sure that by removing the impossible superhuman-ness of aim assist, this will let us improve the feel of aiming for controller players AND the competitive integrity for playing against mouse players at the same time :) Feedback is always appreciated!

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Jibb Smart 🎮

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There's always going to be *some* tension between how much assistance is suitable for controller and what's unfair for competitive cross-device play. But by removing most or all of the "superhuman"-ness of aim assist, we remove a lot of that tension.

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@JibbSmart

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2 years

All keyboard, no mouse 🔥 (Shared by Betta_Core-Duo, the ultimate controller collector, in the gyro gaming discord)

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7 months

Some folks imagine gyro/motion aiming to be chaotic flailing around. Watch the controller in the top right to see how THANKUN plays:

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Jibb Smart 🎮

2 years

Alright, I think we can call it. 2022 was Year of the Gyro! #Fortnite , #CallofDuty , #GodofWarRagnarok , #Deathloop , #NeonWhite , the #SteamDeck , and much more made this an exceptional year. Read a little more about why 2022 was Year of the Gyro:

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Jibb Smart 🎮

2 years

Here are the slides from my #GCAP22 talk, "Mouse-like Precision, No Aim-Assist (great gyro controls)" 🎮🎯 Tweaked to make it easier to follow without my talking. Plus, bonus slides at the end for further learning and exploring! #gamedev #gyroaim

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Gyro is by far the most mouse-like input on standard controllers, requires no aim assist, is more intuitive for newbies than stick aiming, and is easy to implement well (with the right resources). It's a blindspot for a lot of devs, but vital for any who take 🎮 aiming seriously

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Coleman Palm (Altombre)

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@AshwinDsouza60 No gyro support for console, no. It's cool tech though, I also want to play around with it more. How long have you been using it on PC?

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CSGO is, as far as I know, the second ever live game to have flick stick built-in. This means no need to carefully calibrate it. It just works. It still needs to be bound to the right stick in Steam's controller menu (2nd pic), since that's how all rebinding works in CSGO.

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Standard aim assist is traditionally *most* noticeable when it's giving that superhuman help. In our testing, human-like aim assist is much less noticeable even though it does just as much work, which probably means it's much better at matching player intent moment to moment.

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18 days

By mostly removing the superhuman stickiness, this effectively gives us a new dial to tweak aim assist that isn't "stronger" or "weaker". It's instead more or less human-like. And we've put it at the fast-end of human reflexes so it should never get in the way of your own skill.

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@JibbSmart

Jibb Smart 🎮

2 years

Aero GPX has a demo now, so if you wanna try "2D Steering" in an already ridiculously tight racing game, now's a great time to give it a go!

@aaronmac64

Aaron McDevitt :: Aero GPX is OUT in EARLY ACCESS!

2 years

I threw together a quick stick input viewer to show you all what is different about 2D steering; you push forward and rotate along the gate of the stick in order to turn the machine while grounded. Here's a full time attack using 2D steering with the stick input viewer active:

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We introduced this mid-season so we can better compare player performance before and after. I don't know exactly how we'll tune things -- that'll depend on how player performance changes and on the discernment of our excellent balance designers.

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Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

New gyro controls are on PS5, PS4, Switch, Android, and PC (if you have a PS5 or PS4 controller plugged in). Flick stick should just work (it's just a check-box in the Touch & Motion settings) without any calibration.

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Jibb Smart 🎮

7 months

@PotateJello Nope

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Aubrey Hesselgren

9 months

I think early gyro aim implementations left a bad feeling in people's mouths due to basic low pass filters adding lag. Modern controllers and better filtering are here, though. It really doesn't have to be that way.

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Hey #IndieDev and #GameDev , the simplest, lowest-hanging fruit you might be overlooking for your game to play well on Steam Deck (or *any* handheld PC) is to support gamepad and mouse input at the same time without flickering icons! Read more here:

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3 years

If you're making content about the Steam Deck, make sure you're giving gyro aiming a go. Valve knows its value and designed the Deck for it! If you hit that Steam button and go to customise controls, there are quick settings to easily add gyro, trackpad, back-buttons in ANY GAME

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Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

#GameDev on all platforms, please listen to Valve. This is what I mean when I say "the gyro is a mouse", and "if it plays better with mouse, it plays better with gyro"

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3 years

@shieldsjames had gyro and accelerometer like all other modern controllers:

@FortniteGame

Fortnite

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We've added new and improved gyro controls along with flick stick on the platforms that support it. Made in collaboration with input specialist and flick stick creator @JibbSmart , check out the video for all of the details of what's new! More info:

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Most conventions of game controls are popular because they're popular and adequate, not because they're good. But players who have gotten used to conventional controls and have forgotten how hard they were to learn resist better controls and make progress slow.

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Anthony Giovannetti

1 year

What is an *actually* controversial game design opinion you hold?

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Jibb Smart 🎮

2 years

@pcgamer Gyroscope:

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3 years

I've waited so long to be able to play splitscreen with #GyroAim and #FlickStick ! Fortnite on #PS5 💙

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Cold-emailing almost never works (at least without some recognition). I cold-emailed many devs and heard back from almost none. I'm immensely grateful to Epic, and I count it as practically miraculous that I get to work on Fortnite from Perth. Try it, but don't count on it ✉️

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7 months

Looks like this in an actual FPS with no aim assist:

@minusZZERO

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7 months

THE FINALS - Week 1 Highlights | No Aim Assist - PS5 Controller Gyro (Motion Control) Aiming. #DualSense #GyroAiming

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3 years

had a gyro and accelerometer

@shieldsjames

James Shields

3 years

Finish this sentence: I wish my Xbox controller ___________.

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8 months

The Finals has great looking gyro settings! Wow! If you want the most mouse-like aiming on a controller, turn on gyro! Just have it on while zoomed in when you're getting started, and turn the controller to tweak your aim. Experienced players use it for mouse-like flicks 🎯🎮

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@reachthefinals

THE FINALS

@reachthefinals

8 months

💥Update 1.6.0 is out!💥 Play STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT this week to unlock a dazzling bundle, that will forever remind you of your time spent duking it out in the dark. Head over here to dig into the full update notes:

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1 year

How it started / How it's going #Fortnite Quick Weapon

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2 years

How do we close the gap between controller and mouse with no need for aim assist? Come see me at @GCAPConf where I'll be speaking on how simple it is to add powerful, approachable, accessible gyro / motion aiming to your games 🎮🎯 Tell all your #gamedev friends!

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9 months

🎮🎯👀 Gameplay designers and programmers, please click all the way through! For more and more players, thumbsticks without gyro is like keyboard without mouse: clunky, overly reliant on assists, less fun. Does your game have good controls? Really? #gamedev

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Aubrey Hesselgren

9 months

I think early gyro aim implementations left a bad feeling in people's mouths due to basic low pass filters adding lag. Modern controllers and better filtering are here, though. It really doesn't have to be that way.

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2 years

Call of Duty Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 have flick stick 🤯 And huge upgrades to the settings: - Steadying - Custom sensitivity scaling for different zoom levels Let's dig in... 🧵

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1 year

Discussion is great, but real-time public debate is overrated because one party will cite a nonsense article poorly interpreting a badly done study that can't be countered because the other party hasn't ever heard of it, and then the first party's fan club will think they "won"

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“Vaccines cause autism unless you show up and perform for me on demand. The people demand a show.”

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Apropos of nothing: accelerometers aren't gyroscopes and gyroscopes aren't accelerometers. They often come together. They can come separately. For aiming in a game, both together is best, gyro on its own is still very good, and accelerometer on its own is near useless. Cheers

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4 years

@DaveOshry @DOOM If you like "motion aiming", I happen to know a thing or two about it. Check out some of my stuff and see how much better it gets!

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5 years

Real-time controller overlay including gyro in action!

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Okay, I Am Your Beast, I see you 👀 In case you hadn't heard, the absolute simplest way to make your game control well on a Steam Deck is to let it accept gamepad and mouse input at the time, with the on-screen prompts locked to gamepad. More info here:

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Jibb Smart 🎮

2 years

"GYROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

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7 years

@tha_rami Untie someone's shoelaces via twitter

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5 years

Introducing a new way to navigate 3D games: the flick stick. By matching camera yaw to stick angle, quick flicks and big turns are easier to pull off than with either a mouse or traditional stick aiming. Good Gyro Controls Part 2: The Flick Stick

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This used to be the norm, but it feels unusual these days to add gyro on Switch and not on PlayStation. It's not any harder to do, and it's not any less useful on PlayStation. Anyone able to give any insight here? @Obsidian

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@GroundedTheGame

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🌱 Patch 1.4.4 is now out for all players! Please update your game when you see that this patch is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

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I feel we're in the "early adopters" bit for gyro aim, right before the chasm. Some huge games with good implementations, but: - Not taught to players - Most other games lack the option - Even big games that care about controls and would obviously benefit lack them (eg Apex)

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Aubrey Hesselgren

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2 years

Mouse-aim with a controller

@ProductHunt

Product Hunt 😸

2 years

Pitch your product in 5 words or less

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2 years

I've said it before: if I'm playing a shooter I'd much rather a single Joy-Con than a whole Xbox controller, because Xbox has no gyro

@TF2SolarLight

SolarLight

2 years

I present to you, the single joycon double airshot

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2 years

First impressions of #GodofWarRagnorok on PS5: 👍 "Favour performance" by default 👍 God of War recap option at main menu 👍 Pad swipes as optional bindings 👍 Gyro- uh... "Motion Sensor Function Aiming" let's goooooooo! 🎉🥳 (disabled by default... I get it, but...

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Jibb Smart 🎮

3 years

Just wanted to put this @DOOM gem from 4 years ago on your timeline again

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@DOOM

DOOM

7 years

@Ryangsmith912 @DCDeacon literally everyone

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9 months

With Fortnite 28.10, there's a new option for Quick Weapon called "Instant Toggle". This makes switching to your primary weapon as fast as possible by making it switch "on press" rather than "on release". Make sure to turn it on in the settings :)

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In February, Fortnite set a new bar for gyro controls on PlayStation. In the last 2 months we've gotten gyro aiming in Deathloop, God of War Ragnarok, and Call of Duty Modern Warfare II / Warzone 2.0. Who knows how many games are working on gyro controls right now?

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2 years

My "PS5 games that got gyro in 2022" collection 🎮🎯 #PS5Share

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2 years

This should be illegal, @HP

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2 years

Shoutout to the non-gyro games helping folks realise how good gyro aiming is. It'd be nice to get gyro updates for these games, because the old-school controls are already aging poorly

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2 years

Have a "mixed input" post on cohost: 1 million reasons to support mixed input in your game 🎮⌨️🖱️

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gyro

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11 months

In a competitive game, I think accessibility features should not give high level players a competitive edge. Automate competently, not competitively. Aim assist is an accessibility feature.

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2 years

Here are some snippets from my talk that is intended to be a solid entry point for any #gamedev considering gyro controls (from doubtful to keen, first-timer to experienced). Full talk and link to updated slides in the replies

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2 years

Overwatch 2 disabling aim assist in crossplay with PC players? Understandable, since modern aim assist is very inhuman. So it doesn't make things *fair*. It just tries to offset one platform's advantages with *different* advantages. We can fix this! (Tell your dev friends!) 1/3

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Dear #CallofDuty players, Welcome to #GyroAim ! If your first instinct is to turn it off -- wait! Give it a chance! It's the mouse of the controller! Tuned right, even subtle hand movements control recoil, get headshots, and even make fast flick shots...

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Modern Warfare 2 BETA Gameplay | No Aim Assist - PS5 Controller +...

Leftover beta gameplayGame: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Gyro Aim: ON Aim Assist: OFF Controller: DualSense (PS5 Controller)Sensitivity: 90 degree rotatio...

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4 months

Looking back I see Fortnite's impact in Call of Duty, The Finals, God of War Ragnarok, No Man's Sky, etc. Even in Steam (which had the biggest influence on my own gyro exploration 8 years ago). Maybe some impact in other less similar gyro implementations? All from a cold email.

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7 months

The Alpakka controller is built around getting high precision gyro controls into games without needing an input remapper. The folks at Input Labs were kind enough to build one for me, so hopefully I can make time soon to give it a proper go

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4 years

@tuxedolabs How we use modern controllers hasn't changed much in 20 years. I'm exploring new and better ways to play with the hardware that players already have if you're interested

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5 years

Real-time controller overlay including gyro in action!

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4 years

Seems I should really give the latest Steam Client Beta a go and see what "Jibb Smart's Flick Stick" is all about 😁

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2 years

God-willing, our third child will be born tomorrow. Our eldest turns 4 this month. Looking back at where I was 4 years ago, a lot has changed. God has been kind <3

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3 years

Trying out #HorizonForbiddenWest 's Motion/Gyro Aiming. I'm so glad it's here! A very natural improvement over stick-only aiming! Some peculiarities of note that I'd love to see improved...

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2 months

No aim assist, not even a right stick. The Alpakka controller is awesome, and @NoMisZx is a beast

@NoMisZx

NoMisZx

2 months

Gyro is a absolutely viable to compete against MnK. got into the top 8% in @ViscoseOCE voxTS task with Gyro. Controller these days don't need aim assist anymore, but people need to evolve. it's not only almost as good as a mouse, it's also a really fun and satisfying way to play.

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@SplatDroid @HilariousCow Also, Steam Controller (with gyro) came out the same year as Splatoon. Valve folks have known what's up for a long time :)

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2 years

Who'd like to see @PlayApex offer these kinds of controls natively? Until then, it's just not making the most of the controller

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Jibb Smart 🎮

10 months

Follow this game closely, it's gonna be sick!

@aaronmac64

Aaron McDevitt :: Aero GPX is OUT in EARLY ACCESS!

10 months

I've been completely overhauling the quick turn mechanic; it's needed it for a while. The new version is shaping up really well; and when you combine it with 2D steering for deadly precise analogue input, you can do some insane stuff (check out my turn after the lap marker!)

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2 years

Gyro players, this is probably the setting you're looking for in the excellent Metroid Prime Remastered

@andrewfury

Tri-State Area Andy

2 years

PSA: you can use gyro + dual stick aiming in Metroid Prime remastered it's just buried in the options a bit

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2 years

Fortnite: "Tightening Threshold" CS:GO: "Precision Zone" Deathloop: "Precision Threshold" God of War Ragnarök: "Reduce Small Motions" Call of Duty: "Gyro Steadying Threshold" Same setting, different name every time. But it's so simple, and can reduce gyro motion sickness. Do it!

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I think PlayStation would care less about how much longer they have COD if they leaned into the fact that the best console version of every game should be the PlayStation version. You know, instead of just pretending they're Xbox + fancy haptics

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3 years

📢 JoyShockMapper 3.4 📢 All about driving. This video covers my contributions to the latest version of JSM, including some tips for #gamedev looking to add the same to their games: - 2D Steering - Motion Steering - Winding Stick Steering

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5 years

Accessibility in games is being talked about more and more these days, which is great! It touches so many different aspects of game design/implementation. Let's have a crack at a basic checklist for accessible controls in PC games:

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2 years

Every game that uses a cursor should let you control it with gyro/motion controls. It's like a laser pointer in your lap 🎮🎯 #PS5Share , #NoMansSky

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1 year

Fortnite 24.30 happens to have a couple things I worked on! Faster/simpler resetting edits for controller/mouse, and a new settings tab with new firing options on mobile to help players get more done with fewer presses

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2 years

Very surprised to see anyone at all doing this. Yes, work needs to be done to close the gap between controller aim assist and direct mouse aim. But giving mouse aim assist -- making it LESS direct and MORE artificial -- is moving the wrong node in the wrong direction

@XLR8_LIVE

XLR8

2 years

Like I said, M&K has full blown aim assist now in Halo Infinite

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8 months

It's so cool that handheld PCs are taking off. And Steam does a lot of work to make games that play better with a mouse play great on a handheld with no mouse -- it has an excellent built-in remapper that can put gyro and flick stick into just about any relevant game:

@JusFoNo

🇵🇱 🇬🇧 JusFoNo 🇪🇸 🇫🇷

8 months

PC precision shooter games on a controller? In *my* household? It should be more common. Typical joystick aim is terrible for precision, but this combination of "flickstick" and gyro is so precise that it removes the need for aim assist entirely Try it :))

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Jibb Smart 🎮

1 year

Relatedly, here's your once-in-a-while reminder that conventional control schemes are often neither the easiest to learn nor the most fun when mastered -- let's expand our conventions for better approachability, accessibility, and mastery:

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7 Building Blocks for Better Controls

Let’s offer the best experience we can to new players, disabled players, and expert players, by offering them alternative building blocks that better suit their experiences and their ambitions.

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Dillon Rogers

1 year

The topic of "natural feeling controls" is fascinating, though. Like we think full mouselook is obvious now, but it was super weird when id first implemented it. Reminds me of how Alien Resurrection got panned for what would become the dominant gamepad scheme.

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2 years

Dear Xbox, If you start working on a gyro+accelerometer attachment for Xbox controllers now, how long will it take until you're ready to ship? How many more games will play better with gyro than without gyro by then? Fortnite, Deathloop, Call of Duty... what's next?

@JibbSmart

Jibb Smart 🎮

2 years

In February, Fortnite set a new bar for gyro controls on PlayStation. In the last 2 months we've gotten gyro aiming in Deathloop, God of War Ragnarok, and Call of Duty Modern Warfare II / Warzone 2.0. Who knows how many games are working on gyro controls right now?

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