4 years in development, and the beta gameplay shows that Treyarch’s crafting has been in good hands. The game looks great, plays like a fine-tuned guitar, and, well, controller players are hit with an RC-XD. Probably, no one was expecting a heavy nerf on the controller’s aim to assist with the launch of Black Ops 6 beta, and here it is. But is it good, though? Are Mouse & Key buddies finally happy?
The debate between the controller players with aim assist and the mouse and keyboard users has always been one of the hot topics of the Call of Duty community. Some would assume that aim assist’s help to professional controller players is a huge rock against the mouse and key players, and they’re kind of right. Others say that the mouse is an input that delivers super high precision aiming in comparison to the aim assist, and they’re also right.
So if there’s a fine line between the two inputs, it should be a mild aim assist that doesn’t track the enemy, something that I’ve been sensing its presence very heavily during my playthrough in the first hours of the Black Ops 6 beta release. It’s good, it’s making the game more competitive, but it’s too much!
Let me explain the concept by comparing the Black Ops 6 beta aim assist to the MW3/Warzone version that we currently have in Season 5 Reloaded. The one in Black Ops 6 doesn’t track, doesn’t slow down too much near the targets, and sometimes it even misleads my aim to other directions by late response. On the other hand, the MW3 version tracks and slows near targets, and it even gets much easier to use while playing with the Marksman Rifles — except for the Kar98k.
You see the point here, right? We controller players are trapped between the super buffed and ground nerfed aim assist of MW3/Warzone and Black Ops 6 beta. But hey, this is just the beta, a test. The feedback on this matter would be heard by Treyarch, and I hope that they give us something better for the aim assist and its bizarre nerf. Something that doesn’t turn into an aimbot and doesn’t force me to turn off the damn thing, either.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is set to release on October 25, 2024.
