Apologies to the GAF'ricans that invited me to missions, free roams, races and parties last night that I either missed or skipped.
We had *ahem* a few drinks after work last night to celebrate Christmas and by the time I got home I was way too lashed to be anything other than a pain in the arse and a huge liability to anyone playing with me.
In that state randoms are the only correct people to play with so I spent yhe evening falling off things, crashing and setting fire to myself in other peoples games.
Is there a known bug with matching people and their aiming mode? My friend and I both set it to "free aim - assisted" in single player. When I join his Online session though, it tells me I have to change my aiming mode and it puts me on full free aim. He doubled checked, and while were were both in the same session, I was on "free aim" and he was on "free aim - assisted". When I quit back to single player, I saw a message that said, "aiming mode reverted to free aim - assisted."
Does the game maybe force higher level players to play with less auto-aim if they join in with lower levels? He's level 32 and I'm 56.
I don't think it is a deliberate game decision but don't know for sure.
I have heard vaguely of a few possibly exploitable glitches that could result in a player having aim assist in a free roam session but I've not experimented to confirm it.
It's probably a bug but if you continue to experience it post again, I'm curious.