Should I quit?
Hey guys, I'm considering giving up on the game. I have never played FPS before this. I'm level 28 in the game but I really struggle to get kills, maybe 1 or 2 but most of the time I get 0. I alrea...
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So kills are fun and important I agree. Another way to judge your combat effectiveness is to calculate your average damage per round. ADR
you can look at your banner badges and see how many matches/rounds you’ve played with that legend also not damage done with that legend.
Damage/matches= ADR
just another metric commonly regarded more important than k/d in team based shooters.
If your having fun keep playing.
@ZeroCool_GA Ran the numbers, my ADR is 63.24. That's pretty bad right? haha
Try CSGO, it just recently went Free to Play, and it's based off of the same game engine (Source) and make sure to set your FOV/Sensitivity to the same as this game and get some practice in.
Also what mouse are you using?
I would suggest getting a larger mousepad and trying 45cm/360 sensitivity for more accuracy.
I use 43cm/360/400dpi/1000hz polling rate and a SteelSeries Rival 310 mouse which has a "flawless" sensor.
Also check to make sure your mouse has a "flawless" sensor.
Another thing to do to practice aiming would be to go buy "AimHero" and "Kovaak's Aim Trainer" you can essentially set it up with Apex Legends or any popular FPS game's FOV and mouse settings to practice and it will be just like you are practicing in THAT game but in Aim Hero or Kovaak's.
So you can train your muscle memory and gain the benefit of having reflex training for flick shots and moving targets that aren't bot like or that don't just move side to side so you can actually practice tracking like you would need in the actual game.
I recently have been practicing with both Aim Hero and Kovaak's and have been purchasing new mice in my quest to increase my aiming accuracy. I went from a Razer Naga 2014 (Laser which is terrible for FPS because of built in acceleration) to the Logitech G502 (Loved it but too heavy even without the weights) to now the Rival 310 (Amazing mouse).
Also make sure your windows sensitivity is on the middle notch with acceleration disabled in the checkbox.
Those are just a few tips that should put you on the right path to getting kills, the rest is up to you! Best of luck.
I'll also try csgo than, along with tf2 and bf1 since I already bought them lol. I'll match all my sensitivity settings among them.
My mouse is the standard cyberpowerpc mouse, which is supposed to be a "gaming" mouse, it has adjustable weights and like ten buttons, yet the driver is microsoft regular. So it looks like I will need to buy a new mouse
Like I mentioned earlier, my mouse pad is 27 cm so I should also upgrade that. I need a rigid mouse pad because my setup requires the mouse pad to extend beyond my desk.
I never heard of AimHero or Kovaak's Aim Trainer but it sounds like that was my solution all along. Lmao
QUESTION: Is there a better / easier way to match my sensitivity settings among separate games, other than aiming at a spot and spinning 360°? I'm going to have to set up these fps games all at once, and that method doesn't seem accurate, it's also a hassle to perform without messing it up several times.
Battle royale is not the best kind of game to practice FPS as a beginner, because actual gun fight time Vs looting and running can be sparse. My advice is buy Titanfall 2, it's currently very cheap, it has the same gun mechanics and when you die you instantly Respawn, there is no looting only constant gun fights, there are even enemy minions in the match that are easy to kill so you won't feel completely useless. If you can't afford it, or simply don't want to, you can play free to play FPS games like Team Fortress 2 to practice.
Now in terms of mouse sensitivity, what sensitivity are you running the game at? What DPI setting is your mouse at? Have you disabled mouse acceleration in Windows mouse settings? Are you wrist aiming or arm aiming?
When I first started playing Apex I was really really bad, hardly getting any kills, usually dying to the first player I ran into. After watching some YouTube videos I realised my DPI was too high. I was running at 1200 but every day would drop it by 200 DPI, I'm now currently at 400 DPI, I've had to buy a bigger mouse pad and I am now using my whole arm to move the mouse instead of just my wrist. It has taken a bit of getting used to but I am now finding it much easier to consistently hit targets now.
When your sensitivity/DPI are high you have much lower room for error.
@MekaDeth555 if you read the posts made by me most of your questions have already been answered. My mouse dpi is not adjustable thus I need to buy a new mouse. Mouse acceleration is turned off. Naturally I wrist aim, however all my practice has been arm aiming as it seems to work better when snapping to targets. I'm able to do it without thinking about it now, I just gotta practice in actual game scenarios.
- Watch some streamers to learn strategies/techniques.
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