Aiming Consistency
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3 Mar 2016, 15:57
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Hello, fellow FPS gamers!
For as long as I've played ET, or any other shooter for that matter, I've had problem with my aim. It's extremely inconsistent. I'm not talking good days and bad days, or even good matches and bad matches. It varies from round to round, and within rounds.
I don't understand why, but sometimes my hand just moves the mouse in the correct place, and my crosshair goes on the opponents head. Other times, no matter how much I will myself to aim well, I'm shooting walls. I see that I'm aiming badly, but when I try to correct it, it just gets worse. In fact it feels like the more I try to aim well, the worse I aim.
During the good times I don't focus on my aim; it just happens instinctively. As soon as I have a few bad duels, I start overthinking it and it's all downhill from there. Until I forget about it and start hitting well again. It varies how long I stay in this rut of bad aiming.
Lately my aim has been mostly on the bad side, and I have trouble getting into a flow state of aiming where it just happens naturally.
Does this sound familiar to any of you? Can you think of a solution? Do you consciously focus on your aim, or is it just natural to you? Have you found any ways to improve your aim, temporarily or permanently? Any other thoughts?
Discuss.
For as long as I've played ET, or any other shooter for that matter, I've had problem with my aim. It's extremely inconsistent. I'm not talking good days and bad days, or even good matches and bad matches. It varies from round to round, and within rounds.
I don't understand why, but sometimes my hand just moves the mouse in the correct place, and my crosshair goes on the opponents head. Other times, no matter how much I will myself to aim well, I'm shooting walls. I see that I'm aiming badly, but when I try to correct it, it just gets worse. In fact it feels like the more I try to aim well, the worse I aim.
During the good times I don't focus on my aim; it just happens instinctively. As soon as I have a few bad duels, I start overthinking it and it's all downhill from there. Until I forget about it and start hitting well again. It varies how long I stay in this rut of bad aiming.
Lately my aim has been mostly on the bad side, and I have trouble getting into a flow state of aiming where it just happens naturally.
Does this sound familiar to any of you? Can you think of a solution? Do you consciously focus on your aim, or is it just natural to you? Have you found any ways to improve your aim, temporarily or permanently? Any other thoughts?
Discuss.
I never think of my aim, i just play and hopes for the best and when in doubt i press my panic button
Maybe I should see what kind of a difference it makes.
Also, I play etpro on a different installation altogether, because of all the crap that builds up in my etmain when I play TJ (not to mention the things that might be considered cheats by CGAC). I've never had pmove_fixed 1 on my frag ET, not that it would make any difference.
Edit: if you think that you've noticed a difference with pmove_fixed, it's the placebo effect.
Like i have now problems on getting it up atleast i try, this is very good feedback u make me think !!!!!
id say dont force yourself to play the game if you dont have enough focus and motivation to maintain decent level of gameplay, i can go from droping a 30-40 kill game @ LEM/supreme to 10 kills on next one because im getting to tired and im not focused anymore
If you see your grip is fine in any way, then:
Changing the sens seems to help temporarily but imo it's better to always use the same sens if you want consistency.
Often bad aim is not the real issue, it's bad reaction times. If you get hit first, your crosshair moves up and it's quite hard to track the other player's movement while you're getting hit. So try to get as many headshots as possible early on. Also sometimes it feels like you're aiming really well and still don't get hits. But that's ET!
Edit: For me trickjumping seems to make my aim worse because I get used to moving the mouse a lot.
But I've also noticed that changing my sensitivity only helps for a while. Let's see how long this lasts. :D
As for the reaction time, Tites's comment seems to support my theory that when I'm playing instinctively and not focusing consciously on every detail, I'm doing better.
I've never felt like I'm aiming really well and still not getting hits.
I would offer you some "advice" but to me it seems kinda pretentious since I'm not much of an aimer myself, so instead I will simply wish you good luck in your endeavors instead. Good luck in your endeavors.
yo what the fuck ppl
it is well known that can trigger a chain reaction, loosing body vitamins and minerals and also causing severe head damage
Try it, I think RIp already told it but it works !
Good luck
EDIT : Try to play jaymod, it works too because hits are pretty nice and you will feel confident with your aim.
Sorry for the shit english :)
My aim is also inconsistent and usually is only affected by my overthinking and frustration (if doing badly)
Things i have tried so far to improve:
-Only look crosshair and like nismo said "focus on it"
-Trying to focus on enemy heads and then just pulling the mouse instinctively to it ASAP
-Fov/Sensitivity change (i dont recommend)
-Trying to use very little mouse movement and use a lot of strafing to aim (worked for 1 day)
-Basic mg tracking :D (nerdy)
-Trying to find "the sweet spot" how to hold mouse for me...
-Thinking too much whether i should move with only wrist or use whole arm or only fingers (lol)
But all in all when u dont think any of this stuff, u aim better :)
BONUS:
http://www.aimbooster.com/
-Some MG track if you feel up for it
-Don't focus on the crosshair so much, focus more on the guy and that its actually on the middle of your screen
-Forget the whole fucking thing, stressing about it makes you just feel like being a lowskilled retarded aimer and it will just make you go deeper with your problem
The biggest advice is to drink some water while playing / before playing w/e makes you feel better
or maybe try to master oldschool tactic: crouching. The idea is to crouch and then hit 3HS to the opponent before he HSes you. No aim needed, just confidence and reflexes.
dont force urself into doing stuff u dont wanna do - go play something else