I was just watching a few of my highlights just now that I thought were decent, until I looked a bit closer.
It didn’t click at first, but I thought something looked… off
These were the two examples:
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Can you see what is so bizarre?
Every single shot I fire, every god damn one, I take my mouse to the right side of the target (normally by quite some distance), and then flick to the target, not a single shot did I let myself go straight to the target if my cursor was to the left of them. Wasting valuable milliseconds for no actual reason.
What the heck sort of habit is this, and how do I get rid of it? I have a feeling because OW is my first real PC game, I’ve picked up this bad habit without even realising it.
Does anyone else have this issue, or use to and fixed it? If so how do I prevent myself from doing it?
But the thing I don’t like, is that I seem to purposely (without thinking) want to start all my flicks from the right hand side.
I could have my mouse right next to a head on my left hand side slightly, and I will drag away massively to the right just to flick back.
This seems massively counter intuitive, and I don’t know what I would do to prevent it.
I can literally hover over their head and not shoot because I want to flick from the right hand side subconsciously
It’s like I have a phobia of shooting from my left hand side.
My best guess is your right sided flicks are significantly more reliable than your ones from the left, so you have developed this habit to always have your shots coming from your most reliable side.
I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing!
Because you seem to ignore some perfectly viable shots just to go to the side as you say.
i think it’s a movement thing as you are more comfortable strafing a certain direction and counteract that movement with your aim which makes the more accurate.
however flicking is just a muscle memory thing where you are just more confident and feels more comfortable doing in a certain way.
you can practice multiple different flicks if you want.
for example on lijiang garden between the bridges there’s a pillar and you can put your crosshair on the pillar and teach yourself to flick left and right from that point, and you can do this for other spaces aswell if you need to learn to flick up or down etc.
but i am not really an advocate for flicking as for me it’s more of an emergency aim tactic for example if a tracer tries to flank you or something like that.
I always tend to rely on flicking for Widow, I feel like it will be difficult to always remember I need to practice the other side, guess I have to develop a method to force myself to stop going to the right side when there are perfectly good shots I could make from the left.
Is this a common issue? I can’t see any sort of aim guides that address it or how to fix it.
there isn’t much of an issue with it, it’s just practice the other side and you’ll naturally feel more comfortable to do it either way.
think of it like a fighting game and doing a dragon punch move as you usually are better to do it in one direction but you need to do it as equally as good as possible in both directions so you don’t diminish your own execution so you go into training mode and spend hours to practice it, it’s just muscle memory.
right now you are just doing a work around your own flaw, but if you fix your flaw then you’ll stop doing the work around method.
and fixing the flaw is just forced practice that forces you to do it differently until you get it down.
so maybe practice flicking for 60 minutes every session before you start playing if that’s what you want to do, and i think the normal practice range can work for that.
and my tip for the actual practice was to hold the crosshair over a position of cover where targets can come from either the left or right opening where you have to flick either left or right of the cover.
you can check kephriis warm up sessions, or surefour or maybe iostux guides.
It’s likely that when you press your mouse button you flinch your hand a tiny bit, so you’ve subconsciously developed the habit of aiming a bit further to the right of whatever you want to click to compensate. Not necessarily a bad thing as long as you still can click what you’re aiming at.
