Recently, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players have been frustrated with the high volume of stealth changes occuring in the game. Though most players can tolerate not being told about small balance changes, a recent change has affected controller aim setting, and players aren't happy about their muscle memory being messed up as a result.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players, as in any first person shooter, rely heavily on muscle memory keyed to specifically dialed aim settings. So when devs make changes to these, especially unannounced ones, it can really throw off a lot of people's game.
The changes are numerous as well, and some of them can't be fixed by simply adjusting the settings in the menu. Players are all calling for Infinity Ward to recognize that these changes were made and to rectify the situation for console players.
In the recent update, a deadzone slider was added, and many originally assumed that this was the primary cause of aiming "feeling off" for a number of players. Redditor SpiritualBiskit explains that the deadzone slider should actually help people with stick drift and those that want increased precision from having low deadzone. Instead, they point out a number of stealth changes made to the game over the course of its run that have been negatively affecting players' experience. According to SpiritualBiskit, with each update, the input lag on the game has increased, resulting in 300 to 450 ms higher input lag now than when the game first released. They believe this is due to sloppy coding, but that is not confirmed in any way.
The recent update also changed response curves, so the linear and dynamic settings will now feel differently than they did before. Response curves change the way the controller's inputs affect the results on screen, and many players had to experiment to find which response curve felt best for them. Changing these will clearly make aiming feel off for many, and those players may have to find a different response curve. What this comes down to is that the muscle memory that players have spent time building is now out of wack, and people will start experiencing lower accuracy until they can retrain their brain to fit the new latency and response curves.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players would be more okay with these kinds of changes if they were told about them properly. Patch notes should detail all changes made to the game, only skipping over incredibly minor ones if anything. Some players are even finding hidden attributes on weapon attachments.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Source: SpiritualBiskit/Reddit