no seriously, wth is up with the aiming in this game?

I fear that mild cheating becomes standard. LAG switching, mild speed hacking, aimboting in smaller cone. Everything could be seen here. And constant whining for nerf or buff coming from people who not realize they are outplayed not by better weapon but by Haxors.
Specially during alerts skills of some groups goes rocket high.

Basically it's not a 1:1 input from your mouse when you perform fast movements. Lets say you move your mouse really slow 20 cm horizontally across your mousepad and do the same distance again but really fast, negative mouse acc would make you travel a shorter distance in game.
It's not noticeable for most players since they get used to it (like I did, if it even exists) but if you're someone who's been using the same sensitivity since like the 90's it's pretty much a gamebreaker for them.

you know this game has a target audience right? Features like needing to aim down iron sights and also slowing down when shooting is to make it easier for other players.

It would be fantastic if they had stamina like in the first game so that jumping and getting shot tired you out to force you to walk for a short duration, but that was because people wore armor and were designed to have a slightly higher TTK because of it.

no one wears exosuits this time around, except for maxes.

Perhaps you could show us a video of this problem?

This is what I'm thinking. I never seen anyone complain that their PIVOTING actually gets slowed down by taking damage.

That's one weird bug

I have to agree. Being someone who, much like OP, is at least decent at every shooter I've ever played (I didn't start playing as early but be sure I've played all the major FPS games in the history of gaming). However, once I actually got used to the shooting in this game I was back at being above average. The shooting mechanics in the game are perfectly fine, they just take some time to acclimate to (as they do with most shooters).

https://players.planetside2.com/#!/5428061686723008785/

OP, if that's you then I'm afraid the probelm's gotta be on your end. Your accuracy is incredibly low on all of your classes, whether you're getting lag from a messed up connection or your mouse settings aren't quite right or you're just not used to shooting in this game (ie holding down the trigger and spraying away).

At first I found movement annoyingly sluggish and clunky in this game but I guess I have gotten used to it (or devs improved it?) as I don't notice it anymore. Altough it's always as annoying trying to get over obstacles or get on top of steep hills as spamming space just makes me jump on spot or doesn't allow me to jump at all. I often find myself shouting to the game "JUMP GODDAMNIT, GO UP, UP!!!", lol.

This is not COD.

Well as it looks like he's pretty new to the game so his accuray and KD is... well normal for a new guy in ps2. You should watch some tutorials from mattiace and other ; links :http://www.youtube.com/user/MattiAceGaming/videos (he got really good tutorials about aiming and battle awarness) http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdG9PVHAAQrwekvEjCxMlwg (good reviews of stuff like smoke grenades ect.) and http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTstyuNCwpgEM1pEiRRxWhA (more gameplay). BTW: I got now around 600 hours in this game, when i got shot from the back i can't turn back in 99% of the cases or i don't even try because the TTK is just too low to allow me that. Best advice i can give you is, when you got shot from behind , try to turn you, or search for cover really quick.

I guess it is just me.... except other people notice this happening too. I aim fine in every other game but this one - even with this new killer box. I've only been playing a month and I guess I have to get used to the THIS game being different than all the other games that have paved the way to great shooters, before it. At least my KDR is 1:1 now where it was way worse on previous computer.

Today, I noticed my aim scoped in never seems to be on the target, always left or right - which, to me, AGAIN, seems weird because I have no problems targeting every other game I've played. Just THIS game. Whatever. Only been playing a month

Never noticed this personally. Maybe because I was playing before they adjusted the flinch..which I didn't mind personally. All you can do is try not to get flanked. Accept that someone caught you unaware and took you out. That simple really.

I believe you are experiencing severe momentary frame drops, like you lose 20fps for a second, and you die hence it feels like some kind of stun lock.

I would like to address my accuracy as shown in the stats. When I began, I was playing on a 6 year old 4GB 2 core processor getting on average 2 to 4 FRAMES PER SECOND in huge fires fights. That's not a typo: 2 to 4 FPS. There is NO WAY in #3!! anyone will get good stats trying to play like that. But I stuck it out, played with friends, stayed IN the 2 to 4 FPS battles for hours knowing I would get a better PC soon. It was a fun slide show!

So, my stats are in the toilet and I don't care about that. With my new PC I'm able to SEE things now and sitting around 1:1 kdr where I was at like 30D to 1K
When we played small bases, FPS was okay around 30ish, and I even noticed the fliching then also during aiming.
I'm not in this for stats or score or points, just fun fair play shooting game.

Thanks for the input and suggestions, I am reading and doing them all!

impretty sure there are 2 settings mouse sensitivity and scoped sensitivity . there a couple of others but im pretty sure these are the only ones that have to do with aiming . play aroound with both til you get it feeling right .

Give yourself another month to get the feel of it. There is always some adjustment to be made. You look at my stats from BF3 or BFBC2 and you can see I can tear things up as infantry. Here its a different environment. Different pace, and a necessity to be part of a squad/platoon/outfit. You won't do well in here without others fighting beside you.

oh and has no one played BF3 when i played the flicnh and supression was overdone . at least we dont have to contend with supression here ....

I would hate the grenade...BUT THEN I GOT HIGH.

It's flinch. If you get shot by behind in this game you have two options. You jump and turn around in the air which can possibly save you from a few bullets then allow you to adjust your aim. Two which is the best option by far, get to cover and reset the duel while checking the minimap to see where the shooter was.

speaking of hacks.... watched a couple very new YOUTUBES with aimbot/radar stuff. Pretty sad that even works. Sadder people have to stoop to that.