News - Is This Ruining Warzone 2
and I figured this gives me a very unique perspective as somebody who knows the struggles of both platforms, the difficulties they face, and how some instances of gameplay can produce results that feel unfair or unbalanced, and what makes this debate even more fiery is that the playing field is effectively level even now.
If your console has an FOV slider, the current-generation PS5 and PS4 are seemingly doing 120 FPS with no problem, and, even if you're on a high-end rig on PC unless you're on a super-top tier rig, you're probably seeing frame rates in and around the same region as console players as well with fov slider capability, so I decided to hop into a private lobby of Modern Warfare 2 to understand the aim assist mechanics in Modern Warfare 2 and, by extension.
War Zone 2, because they do appear to be identical from the testing I've done. See what the situation is and whether or not Aim Assist is truly overpowered and something that should be changed. So what do we know about aim assist in Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2, and how does it differ from Modern Warfare 2019 and Warzone 1?
The answer to that is that it's a lot of the same but with a bit more refinement. We'll answer the big question of whether or not it's overpowered a little bit later, but in terms of key functionality, Warzone 1 and Warzone 2 share a lot of similarities. Aim assist works at hipfire up until 25 meters, and it works while aiming down sight up until 200 meters now.
Of course, there are some caveats to this. If a target is 200 meters away, the actual character model and the aim assist bubble, so to speak, are smaller, and therefore it feels as though the overall strength of aim assist has been reduced, but it does still exist. The same applies to sniper rifles; they do exist up until a certain range, in this case 200 meters.
Of course, much like Modern Warfare 2019 and Warzone 1, the same applies to War Zone 2 and Modern Warfare 2022. Rotational aim assist is really the sticking point here. While slowing down aim assist is entirely strong, actual aim itself only slows down by a few percentage points, which is exacerbated by rotational aim assist, in which, when one character is strafing and you yourself are strafing, the game is trying to latch onto your opponent, and you can see this in the footage, where I'm not actually moving my aiming stick and I'm not actually trying to track my target, but when I strafe in the opposite direction to a target in front of me.
the game does its best to track my opponent, and this works on both the horizontal and vertical axes, so if somebody jumps in front of you, aim assist will kick in exactly the same rotational setup. So in terms of tracking opponents and centering aim assist in close range scenarios, it is extremely powerful, and even without really trying to aim or adjust or make micro adjustments, a controller will do.
I would say about 40 to 30 percent of the work is for you as the target heads into the distance and their overall character model decreases. And the aim assist bubble where this locks into also decreases, and considering the horizontal and vertical recoilers in Warfare 2 and Warzone 2, it does become much more challenging to hit an opponent over range, and we'll talk a little bit more about that later.
Now, one thing that needs to underpin this entire article is a setting called "field of view." If you're playing at a higher field of view in Modern Warfare 2 or Wall Zone 2, which realistically, depending on the size of your screen and the distance you'll see away from it, you probably are or probably should be, then the feeling of aim assist or the visual implication of it, the visual strength or visual effect of aim assist, and how it feels in game.
Stronger at higher FOVs: The actual statistical and tracking strength of this effect is exactly the same regardless of your FOV value, but because with a higher field of view your perspective is widened and therefore slightly further back, you notice this effect much more strongly. In a very similar sense, lower FOVs appear to sprint slower, and higher FOVs appear to sprint faster, even though the value is exactly the same.
One thing that is definitely different from Modern Warfare 2019, Warzone 1, Warzone 2, and Modern Warfare 2 is the aim assist occlusion. A big problem in Warzone 1 and Modern Warfare 2019 was that aim assist would often track rewards and objects that it wasn't supposed to do, but as you can see from the background footage, that problem has seemingly been solved on a much better scale this time around.
A character is hidden and out of sight, and the aim assist does not lock on even if they're at extremely close ranges, which is really good to see and a really strong quality of life fix that hopefully you will see throughout the entirety of Warzone. Now, there is the opportunity that certain textures in the game, certain assets, or certain things with physical values might not work exactly as intended throughout the entirety of Al Mazura, but for the most part, it looks like they've done a really good job with this, so with all of this information known, is aim assist overpowered?
in War Zone 2. The answer is not so simple anything; over, say, 60 meters, 75 meters, or so, keyboard and mouse definitely have a massive advantage now. Like I mentioned earlier, if you're playing at a higher FOV, things appear to be further away, and when you're on a controller, the precise adjustments for smaller targets are much more challenging than they are on a keyboard and mouse, and generally speaking, controlling a The recoil patterns, especially the combination of vertical and horizontal over range at distant targets, are substantially easier on a keyboard and mouse, and I found a much easier time tracking targets over range on my mouse.
which is a Logitech G Pro super light, than I did on my controller, whereas, at close ranges of say 40 to 0 meters, it's the inverse; I would 100 percent want to be on a controller because you get that really strong tracking mechanic, and if you're a good controller player, you can make micro adjustments, be more precise, get more headshots, get more torso shots, and ultimately decimate your opponents.
That degree of close range tracking in comparison on the keyboard and mouse in comparison on the platforms is much more challenging, and even for somebody like me who has played on both platforms for a very long time. I still find it quite challenging to track nearby opponents on a mouse in comparison to a controller, and this is where I feel the large ARG argument about the power and overpoweredness of aim assist arises, because ultimately it depends on the range and the skill of the player.
