Auto-Aim
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Examples
The site GiantBomb has a page listing games using various forms of Auto-Aim.
Using the pattern
Auto-Aim is added to games to make Aim & Shoot actions easier, most often in Combat situations and more often in games with Third-Person Views than First-Person Views since these types of actions are more difficult in these. The site GiantBomb describes three different types of Auto-Aim[1]: Reticule Magnetism, Bullet Magnetism, and Lock-on.
The first works by moving players' Crosshairs towards Enemies while the other modifies the trajectories of shots so that those aimed slightly wrong can hit anyway.
Reticule Magnetism
When the player points the reticule near an enemy, it automatically pulls towards the enemy, closing the aim:fire ratio gap.
Bullet Magnetism When the player fires while aiming near enough to an enemy, the bullets will go straight to the enemy instead of where aimed. The aiming reticule is not moved.
Lock-on
Interface Aspects
Auto-Aim can be considered an since it affects how players need to do Aim & Shoot maneuvers in games.
Consequences
As stated above, Auto-Aim is a way of making Aim & Shoot actions easier in games. By doing so, they create Player/Character Skill Composites and can be Balancing Effects in Multiplayer Games. Since they increase players' effectiveness, the pattern supports an Exaggerated Perception of Influence, at least regarding the players' own contribution to the successes of the actions. Those instances of Auto-Aim that use lock-on add Point of Interest Indications to games.
Auto-Aim can be said to work against the Game Mastery pattern since it removes the need to become skilled in one area of competence from a game design. It also works against Perceivable Margins because it can actually become impossible to notice near misses, something which also makes the pattern incompatible with Near Miss Indicators.
Relations
Can Instantiate
Balancing Effects, Exaggerated Perception of Influence, Point of Interest Indications
with Aim & Shoot
Player/Character Skill Composites
Can Modulate
Can Be Instantiated By
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Possible Closure Effects
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Potentially Conflicting With
Game Mastery, Near Miss Indicators, Perceivable Margins
History
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