What's the biggest miracle an ST has ever performed? XIM veterans chime in

[piiwii]

I've only had the XIM for about 3 years so I don't know all the history of it. So far the most mind blowing ST for me has been Halo 5. It transformed this game from a virtually unplayable product from a tone deaf developer to something that almost resembles 1:1 controls.

I was also really impressed at how the v4.1 Rainbow Six Siege ST was able to remove the stutter. Another clever use of an ST to work around some in game problems.

I'm curious as to what other miracle ST's are out there?

[Od1n]

the first ST in Halo 3 was crazy to experience coming from all the standard translators on the xim2, and i really liked the Halo Reach standard translator experience
the step up was crazy, and Halo 3 doesnt have a really good aim-system

[piiwii]

Wow I thought H5 was an outlier. So is it safe to say that the Halo series in general has always been problematic? I thought it was just 343i wanting to be "innovative"?

[OBsIV]

Halo is the series that motivated me to create XIM's Smart Translation system. Every Halo game has an extremely difficult aiming system. That's impossible to model using "standard" methods of translation.

[piiwii]

How would you rank all the Halo games in terms of ST difficultly? Worst to best, e.g.

1) Halo 3
2) Halo 5 initial release
3) Halo 5 current state
4)

I'm curious to know where H5 stands in the grand scheme of things...how bad was it exactly?

[OBsIV]

The biggest problem with Halo 5 is that velocity jump. Any game that has something like that is bad due to the fact that there is simply large amounts of reticle movement that just isn't possible.

[Dsung99]

If there is ever an ST that's released for the division that can miraculously counter the aim assist/input lag then that, would be the biggest miracle of them all.

[antithesis]

Xim 3 prevented me from running out of bullets due to poor controller aim in Uncharted. Everything since has been the cherry on top.

[OBsIV]

If there is ever an ST that's released for the division that can miraculously counter the aim assist/input lag then that, would be the biggest miracle of them all.

When a game has heavy time-based acceleration and velocity jumps, unfortunately nothing can be done. I can't imagine even controller players liking that as it's non-deterministic (it's hard to reproduce the same movement twice consistently). But certain developers insists on putting that in there for some reason.

[piiwii]

When a game has heavy time-based acceleration and velocity jumps, unfortunately nothing can be done.

You guys managed to bring H5 near 1:1 and that has a big velocity jump.

[Zacharybinx34]

If there is ever an ST that's released for the division that can miraculously counter the aim assist/input lag then that, would be the biggest miracle of them all.

When a game has heavy time-based acceleration and velocity jumps, unfortunately nothing can be done. I can't imagine even controller players liking that as it's non-deterministic (it's hard to reproduce the same movement twice consistently). But certain developers insists on putting that in there for some reason.

Have you ever considered making a video explaining to developers how to make their look mechanics not suck for controller users?

[Od1n]

If there is ever an ST that's released for the division that can miraculously counter the aim assist/input lag then that, would be the biggest miracle of them all.

When a game has heavy time-based acceleration and velocity jumps, unfortunately nothing can be done. I can't imagine even controller players liking that as it's non-deterministic (it's hard to reproduce the same movement twice consistently). But certain developers insists on putting that in there for some reason.

Have you ever considered making a video explaining to developers how to make their look mechanics not suck for controller users?

there are already good guides out there but game devs seem to not have enough time to search for those

eg this one
http://drstrangevolt.blogspot.de/2012/12/aim-acceleration-in-console-shooters-part2.html
and here part one
http://drstrangevolt.blogspot.de/2012/12/aim-acceleration-in-console-shooters-part1.html