The aim assist in Call of Duty: Warzone is a popular topic of debate. Now Twitch streamer Shroud has chimed in, stating that aim assist doesn’t really play a role anymore.
This is aim assist: In CoD Warzone, players from both console and PC can play in the same lobby. To balance things out, console players have aim assist. They receive a little targeting help. PC players do not have this, as they can aim faster with a mouse and thus have an advantage.
It is one of the fundamental discussions in Warzone: Do console players have too great an advantage with aim assist? We have explained in our guide how to best use aim assist.
Now the streamer and shooter expert Shroud has intervened, who just recently returned to Twitch. He states that aim assist wouldn’t matter and that there is no clear advantage here.
Good balance thanks to poor servers
This is the situation: Shroud is playing with fellow streamer summit1g and is using a pistol. He mentions that pistols and sniper rifles are the only weapons in Warzone where differences between PC and console can be noticeable.
“Using a pistol as players with a controller is incredible. It’s so easy on a controller and it’s so hard on a PC,” says the Twitch streamer. In return, he also admits: “Sniping is easier on PC.”
Shroud believes that all other weapons have no noticeable differences.
Why are there no differences? The streamer attributes it to the servers of CoD Warzone: “It’s a damn CoD, it runs on shitty servers. No offense to CoD, I understand that it is very difficult to have 150 people on a map of this size.”
He explains that the server quality is much more decisive here than the small differences between controller and mouse.
How do other players see it? Other streamers and players have also weighed in on this. In May, DrDisrespect played with aim assist and found that it was indeed much easier. He even managed a blind kill.
In June, rumors arose that aim assist was now stronger and thus even unfairer. Several players complained about this.
A former world champion also commented on the aim assist issue. He stated that the aim assist was almost completely removed from the game in May 2020. It seems that Infinity Ward is occasionally tweaking the controversial feature. There are definitely voices arguing in both directions.
