Disable Aim Assist Halo Infinite Pc
Berry Spitsberg
A Halo Infinite developer has responded to a gameplay video making the rounds about the sci-fi shooter's use of aim assist on PC. Lead sandbox designer Quinn DelHoyo shared some important context about what's actually happening in an attempt to downplay concerns about it.
DelHoyo explained that this video looks like an extreme example of aim assist--because it is. The player has gone AFK and the game moves the crosshairs onto the enemy as part of the aim assist feature, which is popular in many online shooters. DelHoyo pointed out that, had the player touched the mouse (or controller, presumably), aim-assist would be "instantly disabled."
The Halo Infinite multiplayer beta began today, September 24, for 4v4 Arena Slayer on a variety of maps. The testing period will run for two four-hour periods today through Sunday--you can see the full Halo Infinite beta schedule here. Another beta will take place the following weekend for Big Team Battle, which features a cheeky reference to Destiny with its loot caves.
Anyone looking to participate in the Halo Infinite tests should sign up to become a Halo Insider. After a lengthy delay, Halo Infinite is slated for release on December 8 across Xbox One, Xbox Series XS, and PC.
Whether you're concerned about privacy, don't want friends "dropping in" uninvited, or just want Alexa to stop repeating your questions and commands back to you, here are six features you should disable in the Alexa app right now.
Over the past few years, Amazon has very slowly been ramping up the use of Hunches, those follow-up questions Alexa asks you after you interact. Sometimes these suggestions are helpful, for instance offering to lock your door at night or suggesting a new way to use timers, but they can also be annoying and disruptive when you're in the middle of a phone call and don't want to have to tell your voice assistant to stop talking.
Frustratingly, Amazon still seems by default to opt users into its program using voice recordings for research purposes. Whether, like me, you're uncomfortable with the data-gathering potential of such a feature, or you don't like the idea of a real person listening in on your daily interactions with (or potentially just in proximity to) your Echo device, turning this feature off is probably the best move.
While you're turning off this feature, you might also consider setting your voice recordings to automatically delete after three months, an option you can find on the same page as Use of Voice Recordings.
While you're looking at the Alexa Privacy page, another menu worth perusing is Manage Skill Permissions. Here you can scroll down to see which skills (Amazon's word for apps and features) want access to everything from your street address and contact info to your Amazon Prime payment info. Many of these permissions default to off, but every once in a while, it's a good idea to check which skills you've enabled over the months or years of using Alexa, and if they've gained one-time access that you don't want them to keep forever.
Alexa's Drop In feature is a cool way for friends or family to connect when unable to get together in person, for example, over the holidays with ongoing travel restrictions. Unlike a phone call, drop-ins don't require you to "answer" the call: Your friend just speaks out of your device's speaker. Sounds cool when you first use it, but it's easy to forget that virtual visitors once permitted will then have access to drop in anytime -- unannounced. Unless you want to risk friends or family members using the feature at inopportune times, you should switch off Drop In until you want to use it. Here's how.
This is a really simple one, but it's easy to forget. If you use an Echo Show device, make sure your camera is disabled or covered when you aren't using it. Hacking laptop cameras and other webcams is a notorious method of spying on people -- one used by governments and individual hackers alike -- and keeping your camera disabled is a simple way to protect yourself.
OK, this isn't technically turning off a feature, but in effect, Brief Mode "turns off" Alexa parroting your questions and commands back to you. It's one of my personal favorite features, because Alexa's parroting quickly gets on my nerves when I'm playing music (and I usually can tell it misinterpreted my command immediately, without hearing the voice confirm that).
By default, Band Steering is turned on. How can one turn it off? I have some smart plugs that only work on the 2.4 ghz network. With Band steering turn on, the smart plugs are unable to connect to the 2.4ghz network. Also, the Rogers installer advised me to keep band steering turned on as turning it off could affect TV performance. Is this true?
@SanjeevB in theory Band Steering should give you better overall performance by moving devices that are further away from the modem to the 2.4 Ghz band, which has a longer range and lower data rates, and moving devices to the 5 Ghz band when they are closer to the modem as the 5 Ghz band has wider bandwidths and therefore higher data rates. Remember, the operative words here are "in theory".
In most of the houses setup by default now with rogers, both the 2.4 and 5ghz are all set up with the same SSID name.
So most devices will then go and grab and pick up whichever one is stronger.
A 2.4ghz device, should only see the 2.4ghz.
BUT.. i think the issue comes in with the band steering.
That the router end is supposed to try and switch the user over to the other, when available/stronger.
I think in some cases with these, that it trys to flip over devices, even though they cant go onto the other frequency.
You should be able to log into the modem settings, and disable the band steering.
No you cannot disable band steering from the mobile app. You need to log into the modem then follow the instructions in the second post in this thread. It should only be turned off if you are experiencing a specific problem with a particular device. Try to solve that issue and then turn band steering back on for optimal performance.
You go into the modem itself at 10.0.0.1, and there's no ability to change anything for WiFi besides turning the individual bands off. It then refers you to either the site, or to use the app, neither of which provide options to affect the band-steering.
I've called in and asked them to disable it, only to have the agent refuse me because "you have pods." It's my understanding that these pods function on a different frequency outside the 2.4 Ghz and 5Ghz frequencies. I'm perfectly capable of managing my home network myself, but I get the feeling these automatic settings are meant to reduce complaints from average Joe with no networking experience.
The Ignite XB6 gateway enables band steering when the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands have the same network name. There was never an explicit option to disable band steering but you could by assigning separate WiFi network names.
The lack of control can be frustrating, but I also have the same complaint about every consumer WiFi mesh solution on the market. However, those mesh networks cater to users who need good WiFi coverage but lack any actual technical depth when it comes to networking, and if you make too many options available, users will inevitably create even more problems for themselves AND for their neighbours.
With the Ignite gateway on its own, you can still have a decent amount of control, the same as what you would get with your average consumer WiFi router. However, installing the Ignite WiFi mobile app and/or using the Ignite WiFi Hub simplifies management but also automates more settings.
As soon as you introduce Pods into the mix, you lose even more configuration options. @CommunityHelps will have to confirm this but apparently users are reporting that just having Pods associated with their account centralizes actual control of their XB6 under the Ignite WiFi Hub. However, this is a common thing with WiFi mesh networks; they were designed to run themselves and optimize over time to current/changing network conditions.
Even if the network settings are automated, the most critical part of getting a WiFi mesh to work well is the placement of the Pods/mesh nodes themselves. Ideally, you should place the XB6 gateway in a central location so that it can be the hub of your network, then place the Pods such that they still have good upstream connectivity to the XB6 but can also extend coverage to the hard-to-reach places in your home. If you place them in an area that has poor upstream connectivity, your WiFi mesh will be very unstable and your throughput will be very poor.
Since Rogers has effectively taken ownership over managing your WiFi, if you are seeing poor WiFi performance, call technical support. They should be able to assist you in placing your Pods and have visibility (using their internal tools) as to whether any Pods have poor upstream connectivity or poor connectivity with any devices on your network. However, one thing that they cannot do is to disable Band Steering, if you have Pods installed, because the mesh requires it.
Edit: I do not want to disable band steering but I want a device to connect to the 5 GHz band while keeping my mesh network.
I have the mesh setup and I understand when you setup a mesh network you must use band steering and the gateway will make the descions which devices will connect via 2.4 Ghz or 5Ghz. I want to force a streaming device to always connect to the 5 Ghz band, is that possible?