In the shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the stun grenades are bugged and give players with controllers a significant advantage.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is entering the second season, but even months after release, some old bugs remain. One of them is a bug with the stun grenades, which puts players with mouse & keyboard at a distinct disadvantage.
Stun against mouse and keyboard players significantly more effective
What is this bug? Players using mouse & keyboard are hit significantly harder by the stun grenade than soldiers with a controller. The movement restriction has a much stronger impact.
How big is the difference? Actually quite significant. For a quarter turn around their own axis, players with mouse & keyboard take almost twice as long when hit by a stun grenade.
The Redditor “J3RRY__” came up with a small test to demonstrate the impact of the stun grenade on input devices.
How was the test conducted? He made a quarter turn after getting hit by a stun grenade and measured the time it took to aim at his opponent with the sights. He tried this with a controller and two different dpi values for mice. The higher the dpi value, the more sensitive the mouse.
- Controller: 2.541 seconds
- Mouse, 1600 dpi: 5.119 seconds
- Mouse, 10,000 dpi: 4.799 seconds
In another post by “J3RRY__” in the thread, the user also showed a video in which he conducted the test with different sensitivity settings and found no change in times.
Here is a comparison with the hand movements in view:
Infinity Ward doesn’t seem to have the bug on their radar
Is anything being done about it? At the moment, it doesn’t seem that way. This unfair advantage appears so far not to have reached the developer Infinity Ward.
The difference is really noteworthy, and if it becomes a bigger problem, the responsible parties will likely work on it.
With the new season 2, the issue is unlikely to be fixed, as there were no indications of this in the extensive leaks. Check out the trailer for season 2 here, which was released online earlier than planned.
Some players believe that another advantage for controller players is the aim assist. This is how to use aim assist effectively.
What do you think, which input devices have the greatest advantage in crossplay? Here is our article on the topic:
