I’ve been starting to try and improve my game mechanics with various heroes, most notably soldier, tracer, and sombra. I’ve been at this for about a month now but it doesn’t feel as though anything has really improved. I’ve been devoting my first 1-2 hours of play to the practice range, bot lobbies, and aim practice lobbies but nothing really seems to be giving any noticable improvement (my tracer acc has actually dropped 3%). Is there anything I’m not doing that I should be doing? Am I doing something wrong or am I just expecting too much for how long I’ve been doing this?
I’m in low diamond (3000-3100) and play mostly genji, mccree, dva, ana, and zarya. My sens is 6 x 1600 (9600edpi).
Any tips would be appreciated ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
Here’s something worth thinking about. It may not be a satisfactory answer, but it’s something I thought of when I wanted to practice aiming.
Even if you are to improve. even if you are to get better at aiming…your rank should rise as a result yeh? At least on average (there’s still all of the troll and throwers and smurfs)? So as you get better with aiming and are able to land more shots…would people not get better at avoiding those shots?
Don’t worry about accuracy stats because you should be spamming often for ult charge.
Look at your damage per 10 minutes stats and how many deaths.
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Agreed. D.Va’s accuracy TANKS when she goes around checking for Sombra. With infinite ammo, sometimes there is no reason not to be shooting if there is a chance of hitting someone.
Depends how much prior experience you have. Many of the really great hitscan players are people that have been playing FPS games their entire lives. 10-15+ years.
The practice range and bot training will actually probably make you worse if you haven’t already developed good habits and are just warming up. Bots in OW and the robots in the PR do not at all move like a normal human would. Their pathing is much more predictable and building muscle memory based on bot movement will likely make you constantly miss human targets.
Otherwise it really just comes down to long term practice. Most hitscan players also have much lower sensitivity. You’d have to find what works for you, but generally very low sens with arm aiming provides better precision.
Also make sure youve reduced your latency as much as possible. Ideally running at the highest possible framerate with a good monitor (144hz+, low latency). Make sure you ahve a decent mouse with a good sensor too that doesn’t have any kind of smoothing.
You’re effectively higher than the vast majority of people who are about to comment lol. Take this to the competitive forum or Reddit.
just play the game 10 hours a day and focus on what you struggle with. rome wasn’t built in a day.
To me your sense is crazy high. 3200 edpi is what I use. I use 5000 edpi for Genji.
Aim is good. Timing and decision making is better.
Specific practice you can play an Ana bot game for a few min, but honestly they move so predictable you won’t miss anyway.
Training range isn’t much use really. The bots are huge and slow.
Join a tryhard aim lobby, start one yourself if you need to. Real people are the best targets. ( that sounds bad )
It just comes with time. Lots of time, not necessarily practice time. Play time.
You’re aim becomes unconscious.
Kind of like playing guitar and singing. Either is hard at first, both together impossible. After a while you could read a book and do it.
Aim is the same way, after you get it down to an almost unconscious reflex you don’t have to put so much thought into it unless you are really focusing on something.
Don’t bother learning tracer at the mo, it’s literally 100s of hours grinding mechanics just to be good on a throw pick lol.
It might not be you, the game and hardware can bottleneck your performance.
Overwatch has built in input lag which can go up over 20ms. You need to search yt for guide vid to get best settings. You need 144hz monitor, low settings to get over 144 frames and optimise to get below 10ms input lag otherwise you just won’t be able to compete with the other dps equally.
Get a mouse that fits your hand look up rocketjumpninja on yt for mouse guide. And always keep gradually lowering your sens until you have it as low as possible for your individual aim style, eventually you will just know what is best for you, everyone is different.
KovaaK’s FPS Aim Trainer helps me.