I’ve been playing on pc for about 7yrs or something and feel aim has never improved naturally by playing games.
Im curious what you have all done that was a very consistent change to improve.
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Aim is a mechanical skill. It only improves so far when you take it casually.
If you do impossibly difficult tasks or play games like Aim Hero to force your improvement, that’s where you’ll find an acceleration.
Good rule of thumb: if it’s easier than the “real deal,” it isn’t practice.
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Personal example, I used to play a fighting MMORPG that lets you boost various stats, and I reached 211% the average attack speed animation.
Long story short, twelve inputs a second is insanely unfair for anyone to play against in a fighting game, and I did not have it down right out of the gate.
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It improves naturally but it works like muscles. You stop the pump you deflate. You don’t play the game 5-8 hours a day and 1-2h of aiming routines - you stagnate.
There’s finding your ideal sensitivity. I believe that it should be a 180 spin=from the middle of the mousepad to the far side. If you can spin more than that, your sensitivity is too high. This would give you the full range of motion AND as low sensitivity as possible for precision.
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It’s a time investment. The game pretty much has to just be what you do in your free time most days.
I have nothing to do outside of work, so I got ridiculously good on controller from dbd, then transferred that to OW, where I played religiously until I got a good accuracy.
Aim Lab, and yes, there will be a chorus of responses to this saying “no aim lab doesn’t work” but it does… if you practice correctly. You have to rid yourself of the mindset that “practice makes perfect” because then you just end up going through the motions over and over… not unlike going to the gym for a year, and never increasing your weights or challenging yourself… that’s the key…
If you don’t challenge yourself you won’t change yourself. Treat it like a musical instrument, the more time you put into it, the more you’ll get out of it… again… only so long as you’re focusing on improving and not patting yourself on the back for simply participating.
Look for tasks or challenges where you’re awful. The kind where you try them and think “wow I’m bad at that, I never want to do that again…” those are the tasks you want to work at so you can plug those skill gaps. Doing so will help improve your aim in areas in which you already excel.
If you’re curious I can provide loads more information, but trust me, it does work.
Its all honestly practice Id say. Some 2700 hrs into overwatch but its been across duff characters with all difc aiming styles.
Its why I ever touched aim training bots in custom games don’t move in ways you can abuse or move as humans do. You bring someone low hp they run to cover. People hug closely or wall jump and stuff. No bot will do that.
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Hence “if it’s easier, it’s not practice.”
Check out Aim Hero or other aim-training games. If you can consistently hit small targets that move more sporadically than players, hitting players becomes a breeze.
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This is good advice. I know when wanting to get good at Melee, I found going into Lightning Mode really helped. Because I found if I can fight at double speed, playing at a normal speed makes it feel like I had all the time in the world to do whatever I wanted!
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You basically have to devote as much time as you would for a skill that’s actually useful, except becoming insanely good at a video game is a massive waste of time, so barely anyone does it.
I would say that practice definitely helps you hone in on flicking. It’s not about what movement the target is doing, it’s about familiarizing yourself with what flicking to the widow in the top left corner of your screen would feel like.
I do think the movement is a good point though. Many people are predictable at least to some degree. Part of any PvP game is the mind game. What will your opponent do next?
Playing KovaaKs and playing with a randomized sens gave me better mouse control.
The number #1 thing that improved my aim was upgrading my PC. Back in 2017-2019 I played on a 30 FPS avg setup in bronze. When I played on a 150 FPS avg setup for some hours in 2019, I went from bronze to platinum. I won every single game from bronze to gold and it was first in gold that I started to lose games.
Here’s my stats on Soldier.
30 FPS avg setup (bronze): 30% weapon accuracy.
150 FPS avg setup (bronze): 70-90% weapon accuracy (went down to 45% in gold/platinum).
This goes to show how much having a good PC affects you rank if you previously played on a potato one. Playing the game more or less does not improve or worsen my aim but I’m just a plat 3 player so maybe playing the game more improves higher ranked players aim.