Hi there. Pretty noob here. Hard stuck in gold/plat for several seasons. Quit for a few years and came back, still pretty stuck. I’m learning more awareness and movement tricks from watching some coaching vods from some high tier plays but where I feel I really struggle is hitscan aiming. More specifically, Widowmaker and McCree. S76 isn’t too terrible for me, I can hit a good bit of my shots, but I struggle really hard with Widow and McCree. More specifically, landing headshots consistently. I always feel like I overaim or underaim with Widowmaker and landing a headshot is purely luck. I’ve played with a lot of settings, mouse DPI, in game DPI, etc etc.
I have a 144hz monitor with adaptive sync if that matters at all, and high end pc so the game is always at max framerates 100% of the time.
Maybe I’m just retarded and have stupid fidgety hands and will never be capable of such? I dunno, any tips or tricks would be appreciated. I fair well playing Pharah, my main, even when the enemy team goes 3 hitscan, I typically still trump their attempt at countering due to good positioning and awareness, but I don’t have to really aim with Pharah, just lead my shots and aim in their general direction lol.
As a console player idk much about settings that could help, but I do wanna ask how the heck one can play Pharah and lead shots but not hitscans idk man just feels kinda backwards, I can’t even land minimal splash as Pharah sometimes but hitscan does feel good
My best advice with Cassidy gameplay-wise is to lead shots like Pharah but smaller
If you’re aiming by basically tracking the target perfectly and flicking to where they’ll be, do that with a smaller flick because there isn’t any travel time
Also if you know someone is gonna come through a doorway in a second, you can try getting your crosshair in position early to get the jump on them
Lastly if you want to improve your tracking keep playing Soldier or try Zarya/Sym. Zarya and Soldier helped me a lot with tracking targets and matching OW movement speed even with sticks. There are also a BUNCH of workshop modes that are aim trainers, many with hero specific challenges
Free for All Deathmatch tends to be pretty good for practicing your aim, since you’re playing against actual players in a game-like environment, and you’re likely to be constantly fighting for almost 10 minutes straight with few if any pauses in between.
That’s assuming you can keep calm as it can be pretty frustrating if you die over and over.
Here’s a few codes, on the off-chance any are useful to you:
XKP4C - this is a bouncy target practice by /u/Shawn_1 7GE4K - this is APM’s anti-Pharmercy practice 38QHB - DragonEngineer’s Heroes Training Facility, good for practising close range combat. I tweaked the normal mode in order to reduce the map list down to the Workshop map that’s just a closed room.
There is a crucial mistake.
You really have to practice good aim (a fact that many here on the forum ignore), but if you constantly change the conditions, you will undo your previous training success. (keyword muscle memory)
Find a setting that works for you (Dpi and Sens.) and then stick with it and yes there will be days where you hit more or less but you will find yourself getting better at it over time.
Fore precision hitscans… a big mousepad (or mousing area) and low sensitivity. Make sure you’re not getting caught up on anything like having your arm dragging on your desk when you aim. Take time to line up your shots and don’t let anxiety pull the trigger for you. While-You-Wait DM is good aim practice.
Understand that sometimes you need to go for headshots, but also that sometimes a string of clean bodyshots is a better value if that’s the shot you can make. Try to avoid low-value hail-mary shots. For heroes like Widow, pre-aiming high traffic corners is vital.
Not correct. A large mouse pad is only necessary for arm aiming. But armaiming is not the ultimate. Pine and Kephrii both count among the best Widowmaker/Hitscan OWL players and both play with wristaim and therefore use a small mousepad and high Edpi
You just need the right hardware for your aim style (right mouse that is suitable for the handle and a mouse pad that is not too small)
Not incorrect. Just about anyone can use the large mousing area and low-sensitivity arm-aim method to achieve precise aim. Far fewer people possess the hand-eye coordination and fine motor control to wrist aim at a comparable level. Once they are satisfied with the large mechanics, they can try moving to small mechanics and see how it feels.
That means, your reaction not fast enough. You just blindly shooting. High rankers place lot of headshots because they actually see where they shooting.
You need to change your diet, do more sports, and focus harder on the game. Landing headshots take focusing power. Make sure your surroundings don’t disturb you - no bright light, background noise etc etc
First thing - settle on a single one and use only it.
Second thing - train. Maybe aim training maps could help, but they wont really help you with the very foundation of aiming - prediction. You shouldnt be trying to catch enemies with crosshair, but rather let them come into it, something like that.
Id say the best training is actual games, where you try to aim at the sweet spots. Youll miss a lot at first, but will adjust with time.
Second and a half - trigger discipline. Push yourself to only shoot when its neccessary. The neccessity cirteria are to be adjusted with time; id advice to start with “shoot only when itll hit”. You will be shooting less, but more shots will land.
Third - play with crosshair and outlines settings. Opting for a different color of crosshair and thinner outlines improved my aim by a good 5%. Try it for yourself, it may work.
You arn’t suppose to try to land headshot consistently, unless you feel you are godly that game.
You are supposed to take headshots when you have time to setup, like pre-positioning your crosshair at head height at a piece of cover or corner, or on a trick shot. (no everything isn’t supposed to be a trickshot.)
Lets put this in context, highground in OW is strong if you headglitch (headbox), and minorly making you hard to get at because of all the vertical mobility. Headglitching makes it so the only part of you the enemy can shoot is your head, while you can shoot most of them.
By trying to hit headshots consistently, you are basically giving the enemy a free headglitch on you since they can shoot all of you, but you whiffing shots only aiming for their head…
Now there are targets like some tanks that are just easy to headshot and you should give a bit more to that, but most of the time you want to aim for the enemies chest, hitting 2 easy bodyshots on mccree is the same as 1 headshot, so if you have lower than 50% headshot accuracy guess what…
For widow, same thing, that 120 bodyshot is way better than missing over and over. Take the setup headshot then lay down reliable dmg.
For things like flicks, practice setting a rhythm, something like of you start the swipe and click you shot shoots a consistent distance from you original position, then you can setup your crosshair at that distance and swipe.
You dont need a large mousepad a lot of players play on 2.0 Sens it allows you to play almost any character.
Tracer your sens is just high enough
But also just low enough to be precise with hitscan you can do 180s with just a wrist flick.
Id actually say having a higher sens in this game is better and having a higher sens if you can stay consistent is always better as you will be able to hit headshots faster since you can react and move your crosshair to the target quicker.
Widowmaker just doesnt do that great because of no movement accel you cannot consistently hit targets that are reacting to you because of movement accel and crouch spam, widow and hanzo are both characters that rely on shooting people unaware
Double shield also makes it hard for widowmaker now is probably the worst season to play widowmaker in the history of overwatch.
This applies to cassidy too but you have more bullets and a higher firerate so it isnt as big as a deal as with widowmaker cassidy is good in most comps so if you want to get better at him I would just say play exclusively cassidy in comp till you feel your good with him and maybe play a bit of widow and do widow while your queing in deathmatch.
Your best time to shoot someone as widow is when they are stuck in an abillity that makes movement predictable like hanzo lunge or when theyre jumping.
Pick a dpi/sensitivity you are comfortable with, and stick with it. Improving your aim lies directly in improving on a single setting.
Between matches, go into arcade or death match and just practice flick shots and tracking shots while you are moving on moving targets. It is something you pick-up over time.
If you are really into it, you need to understand that this requires a lot of dedication. Therefore, if you do not have at least 8 hours a day to play the game, then your results will be far away from what is needed to feel good about aim. However, even spending that amount of time, you need about a year to build appropriate muscle memory with the experience.
Nonetheless, here is what I personally do while in q or warming up before even going in competitive mode.
Workshop codes 48701 - for basic arc tracking for 76 the most - basic level, aim for head. RM4GA - horizontal aiming, medium difficulty bots, can crouch, rapidly changing direction. Press “thank you” bind to become invulnerable. Play any hitscan, press interact button than “h” button to kill self and get into hero change screen. A9FBX - hard strafing and crouching bots, pro level, here you practice mimic strafing or hard flicks and hard tracking. If there are too many bots, here is decreased numbers 03NM9 with the same settings. You will not like that one, but it is mandatory.
To improve, It should be like a job for you. Aim requires consistency, therefore consistent practice. Not watching videos, not afk, only practice between games until loosing consciousness. Be like that for 1 year, and you will see the difference. It is like a Gym. About loosing conc. was a joke, but you definitely have to feel sort of fatigue in your arm and wrist eventually, then do a break.
Also watch Surefour’s aim guides, gonna add some links, let me check.
Here you go, old but still a good theory stuff
Set your mouse DPI to 400 and don’t ask why, it just works better than anything higher. Adjust your in-game sens around that value.
I’d pay real money to see what your aim is and capable of. Sadly I’ve never had such a chance. I’ve been hardstuck in the bottom500, losing IRL income because I can’t move on with my life until I’m at least 501 sr. That’s the bottom 0.01% of anyone to ever install an FPS on their PC. Years and years of this and everyone is always better.
I’ve never dedicated my lifes work for anything to be labelled so badly at it. I work on my aim several times a week and have been FPS gaming for years (almost my whole life). But somehow I just never get to win/climb? Is it rigging? Maybe. Do I have an outstanding winnable lawsuit against this studio? Probably. Could we maybe 1v1 to see the difference? That would be great data science.
idk man just feels kinda backwards, I can’t even land minimal splash as Pharah sometimes but hitscan does feel good
