I have not found any real guides on youtube, which was pretty surprising. I understand the concept, but no informative videos are released. How do you train yourself to flick shot because I can track, just not flick. Where do you start?
Start in the practice range. Literally just position cursor near a bot, flick and click. Once you get used to that at certain distances, go into custom game and turn on HS only, give the enemy team all Ana bots. Practice there until you get comfortable flicking against small head hit boxes.
Beyond that, flicking all comes down to reading eny movements. For example, if someone is jumping wait until they are at the aprx of the jump to flick, because you’ll know /exactly/ where they will be without any funky last moment changes.
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Thanks! I mastered the practice range because I mean, their head hitbox is a truck lol. Thanks!
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Yeah, PR sucks for decent flick but it gets you into the basics of it. HS only Ana is the next step, imo. Smaller heads, but she’s really predictable in movements even on Hard.
Then it’s just getting used to the unpredictability of real games.
Edit: another thing you can try is find a friend to play Tracer and blink around as you flick at her. Much more difficult but gets you used to rapid target acquisition followed by the flick.
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First, you need to get the muscle memory. Go into the practice range and practice on bots.
Don’t try to track them. Instead, draw an imaginary circle around the target and position your crosshair within that circle. You might start with a 3" diameter, with your target being at the center. Practice the movement of taking the crosshair to the target’s head from various points on the edge of, and inside the circle. Go slow at first, build up speed only when you’re satisfied with your accuracy, and slow down if you miss more than a couple of shots in a row. What you’re doing here is building the muscle memory. As you get faster, you’ll notice that the size of the circle where you can reliably hit shots will get bigger or smaller. It doesn’t really matter how big the circle is, as long as you know it’s size. That circle becomes your “effective flick field™”, and that’s where you want to place your crosshair when you’re lining up for a flickshot against a real player.
ok, now that you know your effective flick field, you need to work on your perception. What this means is recognising opportunities that improve your odds at landing a shot. This means watching for particular enemy actions that make their motion predictable and then shooting when that action happens.
A Simple example of this is when the enemy jumps: After the apex, the enemy cannot control their movement until they hit the ground. This makes their motion predictable and is an ideal time to fire. Nailing flying Junkrats and Winstons will be child’s play once you get some practice here.
You need to make efforts to understand how motion works in Overwatch and how enemies will try to evade your shots.
As you get better at this, you’ll recognise more opportunities with shorter windows and your ability to react to them faster will improve.
When I’m flickshotting, there is always a split second in my head where my vision freezes on a single frame. The enemy’s head is locked into a place on the screen, and that’s where I flick to.
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Thanks for the thought out explanation. I’m sure this is going to help!
The practice range also has targets (other than the bots) that are good for practicing your accuracy. Go to the open area where the bots are just walking around. Look at the cliff. You’ll see a couple of objects on the edge that are actually targets. These have panels on them that swing out when you shoot them so you can see how accurate you were. They’re way better than practicing on the bus-sized critboxes on the bots.
flickshots are a part of every fps game sniper. It’s easier for you to move the mouse an instant before you hit, to the point of target, than to track it with a scope.
What you need, is to have your own sensitivity that works best. And you need to practice muscle memory so you could memorize how much movement results in the required amount of flick for shooting. It’s just practice dude. Long long practice.
This is very informative. Thanks!
Jeez I gotta say, finding this “flick field” helped instantly. I didn’t realize that you had almost your own personal area for things, like sensitivity. I think the problem was that I thought flicks were purely practice, and eventually you could do it from any direction. Thanks!
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You play a ton.
But like you can warm up with the training bots.
Guys this was answered.
Flicking is the only thing I’m actually good at with widow. It just kinda happens. Not too sure you can really “practice” or find anything valuable in a guide.
You know in your head where they are, where they are moving and you just do it.
If I had any advice I would say do the opposite of tracking. Just “be” the bullet and the crosshair lol.
I’m not terribly good at widow, but I do some crazy stuff on occasion, on console at that.
Get your mouse, put your finger against your thumb then simply flick it at the mouse to flick shot. Pretty simple when you get it down.
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Guys this post is answered, i don’t need anymore.
Glad I could help 