Other FPS titles are far easier than overwatch.
So no.
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Kinda? Depends on the FPS - Valorant skillset is literally more compatible with Cs:Go than OW
This isn’t entirely true. There are aspects of Valorant that just aren’t a part of Overwatch at all — like the buy system — that an Overwatch player would have to learn, but there are still skills that transfer.
Game sense and awareness are similar between the two. Positioning, too, though being in a bad position has a lot less forgiveness than Overwatch.
If you’re good at Overwatch hitscan, hitting targets in Valorant will seem, from my experience, laughably easy. The character animations are all stiff, slow, and awkward, and there are mechanics that encourage you to attend still to shoot, so if you’re used to having to work to aim, like the more aim-intensive Overwatch characters, you’ll hit your shots with no issue.
Haha, I feel that decline so hard. As a teenager playing UT99 we’d all have twitch-perfect games, play instagib rifles and it’d be great.
These days my accuracy is terrible!
Due to high ttk it does give you a lot of bad habits the lower the rank you are, but higher rank players wont have much issues i guess cause they iwll be punished easily.
I used to be plat in apex[used to do 1000+ dmg easily], bronze in ow, i have been in to FPS only since apex and ow since nov, after palying ow i have only been playing ow, went back to apex last week had a really tough time adjusting back mainly interms of positioning and awareness[ hardly did 500-660dmg].
Ow hitscan weapons are mostly easier than ones in apex, cs or pubg, plus the enemies get red outlined you hardly miss unlike other games. Positioning also often you run into a enemy for kill, Like mccree is one of those FPSy characters in OW but you often roll into enemy Flashbang and FTH, you cant take such positions in other games.
I personally felt my aim stayed the same if not improved after ow but my positioning skills like use of cover and beeing are seem to have gone down in other games.
Soldier and widow transition slightly better i guess.
I moved from Chivalry and BF4 to OW, I thought I did fine in those games.
I think aim based players in OW generally speaking have really good reaction time and really high accuracy, what makes it hard for OW players in other games is having to learn gunplay mechanics which isn’t really present in OW.
For instance in CSGO or Valorant you really can’t move and shoot at the same time, even a small movement as you pull the trigger will make your shot go somewhere else than where you are aiming.
Lean mechanics, spread patterns, tighter spreads for crouching etc. Once people get used to it their aim from OW should help them a lot.
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I feel like Overwatch players are bad at games in general. I can only speak for myself, but this has so far been the only PvP game where I can compete with above average players.
There’s no way in hell games like Quake/UT are easier than OW.
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I think it depends?
Most masters and higher players are good at FPS games in general. Unless they play something like Moira, Mercy or Winston and never played FPS game in their life hehe
I think Karmack was right. And that ultimately killed both Quake and UT
I play in masters and am pretty good in Battlefront 2.
Haven’t tried any other multiplayer FPS.
Every game has a player base that’s bottom heavy with low and average rank players. If one plays Valorant now you will see players making the same game sense errors they did in Overwatch.
They don’t understanding the win conditions or catching on to the other team’s patters and tend to have poor team work.
A friend of mine bought three accounts in OW to “get out of metal ranks” but could never do it. Yet when I play other FPS games with them, it’s the exact same trash team work in say Apex etc that kept him in the lower ranks in Overwatch.
it’s rarely about one’s aim…
the only difference is Overwatch is way, way more pick up and play friendly than a game like Valorant. Yet a meh player is a meh player in any game. Sort of like how a poor driver is a poor driver in any car they happen to drive.
Ever rent a moving truck with a friend who isn’t a good driver? Oh boy… it’s a white knuckle ride.
Trying to figure out why it matters. Do people playing OW need to be playing other FPS? I came here from JRPGs and didn’t want to touch a shooter again after seeing how recycled they were all getting. I was pleasantly surprised how diverse the gameplay is in OW and that’s what kept me playing all this time. Its you FPS obsessed types that keep trying to dull the game so its interchangeable with every other FPS on the market, which would have made it very forgettable. Learn to appreciate what makes OW stand out and stop looking for sameness where there is none.
I like dragon quest.
Games are generally different; Overwatch is very unique in the sense that it has custom abilities and ideas no other game has developed as efficiently and elegantly as OW. On the other hand, if you’re averaging any lower than 45%, I would say practice your aim before hand.
Games like Valorant and CS are aim intensive. If you don’t got the tools, you can’t compete. It depends on each persons accuracy.
if you think so, you are playing the game wrong lol
not really, it is a different muscle. overwatch requires alot more different muscles than other fps. so it doesnt means you click head you good at the game lol
overwatch players and tf2 players do good on both side from my personal experience 
The other way around for me. I’m good enough at other FPSes. But there’s something about general movement / speed / aiming in OW that sends my “FPS skills” down the drain. I can’t really pinpoint what it is, but Hitscans in particular in this game are horrible, for me. Give me the Sniper in TF2 and I’m pretty solid, give me the Shock Rifle in UT games (mostly was UT99, but also 2004) and I’m also pretty good. In BF1942 I had pretty good aiming as well in general.
I guess it depends on the engine, not sure. Most GldSrc engine games I’ve played I did pretty good as well (Half-Life Deathmatch, Natural Selection). I did pretty good too in TF Classic. I wasn’t bad at all in 1 V 1s in Quake. Then when I moved to more PvE stuff in the MP for Mass Effect 3 I was actually very good with Sniping in general.
So yeah, it’s definitely why for OW I resort to playing (mostly) non-Hitscans (Lucio, Moira, Mercy, Torb, Junkrat, Rein and the likes). The only Hitscan I can sometimes be half-way decent with is Ashe, but that’s mostly because of her Dynamite, otherwise I wouldn’t touch her.
This is pretty true.
The only thing I had to learn when I started playing CSGO was that each weapon has spray.
The MP7 deathmatch days were wild 
As a hitscan main, I would argue I am better at other fps games and bad at Overwatch.
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