Still not improving on console
I just do not understand. I think 1 year has passed since I made a similar thread, and yeah, I am still as bad as I was back then. Tried different things, different settings, different button layouts...
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First of all there is nothing wrong with you in general.
Two things what I would like to mention.
1 Never ever for get that people have a different pace of learning, some people are fast, some slow, some never learn (I am not talking about you), plus never ever forget that there are people who play this game 8-12 some 16 hours a almost everyday.
I was just like you when I started playing 3 years ago, never played a BR game, didn't understand the concept either, and was utter trash and then, just like you did, downloaded kovaaks, aim labs, watched hundreds of hours of YouTube tutorials, nothing worked, nothing helped, I genuinely felt I got worse.
Then a good friend of mine watched my gameplay and said one thing what changed everything "You don't have bad aim, your not a bad player, the reason why you feel your are worse is because of your mentality"
And we reached number 2. tips:
- Stop telling your self you are trash, why? Because if you keep saying this, you want to prove to your self that you are not, so you stop focusing on the gameplay, and focus on the kills, what happens? tunnel vision, you don't care you just rush because you want to kill that one guy not being aware of your surroundings , you die.
- What happens in the next game? frustration, tension is already built up because you will say to your self "I am trash I couldn't even kill one guy", then when you get in a gun fight and this is really important because you are already frustrated it will horribly affect you aim. you die
- Several games go like this, you keep repeating what you do, and then you just say "I did everything and I am worse" but are you? no.
This is getting a bit long, but trust me I was that guy, lost focus on the actual gameplay and I just kept looking at my kill count what always shown 0, I wanted to kill people to boost my KD, I was tried I always got carried, called trash, noob in chat and so on
But once I stopped, and I treated everything different, not caring how many kills I made, and just focus on the game, play slow, if I died I didn't get upset, and the most important thing
I stopped saying I am trash and every time when I got in to a fight I kept telling my self "I am better then them" instead of saying "I am trash, oh damn I am going to die again" like I did before.
Once I changed my mindset and this is seriously not to be egoistic, but I created a second account in season 8 just to see how far I can go in ranked as a solo starting from scratch, and I reached master, what I would never ever in my life imagined me reaching that level
So just think about it (and sorry for the long post)
- @Renegade_Prime86 <------exactly what he said.
@Renegade_Prime86 Yep 100% experienced that myself. I knew my mindset was trash. I guess I was exhausted from trying everything. I do not know.
@hayhor right right, so... well, going in, I feel not that great. I think I am likely going to die at the first fight. Especially if my teammates decide to hot drop with 4 other squads in the same spot. Of course, things might turn out different. Coming out of it... well, I do not know. I just think about what I could have done differently, Or think about why my aim was bad, as usual.
@DarthValtrex ok so... I happened to record this clip. It is one of the extremely rare footage where I did not completely suck. Still, I am missing too many shots from the Wingman. I am reloading like mad because I want to avoid opening doors at the worst time possible. My thermite throws are trash. And of course my Pathfinder teammate jumped solo to who knows where, leaving me and Ash alone.
- @AcidicSoda44031 There is nothing wrong with your aim in general, but regarding to that, one thing what you need to work on, you are cantering your crosshair to much towards the ground, the problem with that, when you need to react quicker you will need to adjust your thumbstick more towards the target, and you will hit a lot of groin, stomach or lower chest shots, try focusing on cantering it to the middle of the screen
- @AcidicSoda44031 You aren't missing too much with the wingman. Watch pros streaming (live not the best of 15 minutes clips) and you'll see the key to the wingman is spamming shots. As renegade said you look slightly down most of the time so that's costs you some time and that reaction time is critical.
I agree with @Renegade_Prime86 but it's the looking down is not terribly bad.
What happened in that clip is all fairly standard Apex play IMO. It happens to me all the time and I have a KD that's more than double yours. You were landing a decent amount of Wingman shots, which is difficult to do. The wingman is a hard gun to use and landing consistent shots with it is very very very difficult. Even the pros miss a decent amount of shots.
The reloading frequently is something I do. There is nothing wrong with that, the only guns you need to be careful with reloading are the Spitfire, Havoc and Devo, simply because they have long reload times.
It took me a multiple seasons to get good at Apex and get my KD above 1. Lots of things can you push your KD up. Don't be scared to use your walls and abilities. I never saw you use your Walls in that fight and I think you could/should have. I have literally had them save me from death. Every death you can avoid is going to push your KD.
As for shooting down cryptos drone, it's difficult to do. It's a small target that moves fast.@Renegade_Prime86 @hayhor @DarthValtrex regarding the aim, I was using ALC settings in that clip. And it is giving me a bit of a stick drift. That is why it hovers into the ground. I did not do that myself. I am still trying to figure out how to stop it.
