Re: How do I git gud at aiming?

What platform are you playing on?

8 Replies

TreemanXD
6 years ago
I’m on PS4 @neillkorey
neillkorey
6 years ago
@TreemanXD
What all my friends have done is turn sensitivity down until it is just fast enough to keep up with someone running across your screen at mid range once you get comfortable there you slowly raise sensitivity and when I say slowly I mean this process can take weeks hope this helps but other people say start high and wait for muscle memory to take over but that has never worked for me good luck
Anlbrd
6 years ago
@TreemanXD Identify your weakest part of the aiming process by watching replays of yourself if you really want.

Try and be as brutally critical of yourself as possible. If you're not hitting headshots but hitting bodyshots - you know you have to consciously break your pattern and start aiming higher up than you feel naturally inclined to do.

If you're not hitting body shots establish whether you're accurate but too slow to get there so you die fast, or if you're overshooting when aiming it might be an indicator that your sensitivity is too high.

Get some demos collected and have a watch, if you can't clearly identify the weakest part of your game I'm sure people on the forum will help.
TreemanXD
6 years ago
@Anlbrd @neillkorey thanks 🙂
Jaymore012
6 years ago
Simple tips that veteran shooters like myself tend to forget:
1. Focus more on the players movement than your crossair
2. Move with the player like ur dancing with him
3. Steady stiff thumbs...
As for sensitivity just use default you dont need higher sensitivity to win. Its too muchh of a pain cuz its dif in every game
TreemanXD
6 years ago
@Jaymore012 Thanks🙂
Wingmannedbro
6 years ago
@TreemanXD wrote:
I’m on PS4 @neillkorey
Right out of the gates, the best advice I got by a mile, was to take a little bit of extra time to aim, and try not to cave to the pressure of shooting immediately before your opportunity passes.
Open fire a bit later and hitting is always preferable to blasting someone right away and missing, this obviously applies when you flank someone, of see someone from high ground who is unaware of you.
When having face to face encounters at close range being quick is always better unless you play shotgun.
Another tip that helps when you're new is to aim a little below where you mean to shoot at so the recoil will take you to the target. Aiming at the knees with an R99 will make your reliably hit the upper body without needing the recoil control skills of experienced players.
And last, I recommend using the classic response curve instead of steady, or the others, and probably start at lower sensitivity. 4/4 or 4/3 should be good, and you can later up that to 5/4.
Classic is better than steady, since the acceleration more accurately reflects how far you tilt your right joystick, while steady makes relatively finer adjustments with a little tilt, it accelerates very rapidly past a certain point, which makes it hard to stay on a running target at mid and close range.
I changed my steady back to classic after seeing all the pro controller players using it, and it helped a lot.
MandatoryIDtag
6 years ago
@full951 Hmmm, i think i'll give it a try. I do normally turn off aim assist on any FPS i play as i got sick of my weapons being dragged off a target when another ran across my crosshairs.(COD was evil for this back in the old days)
Only reason i hadnt with apex is the hectic nature of the game, with mobility being such a heavy focus on this i just decided characters like pathfinder and octane would be a real pain to hit haha.