My Aim Is Never Stable

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I have never played a game so frustrating when you can’t aim, why do i go from hitting every headshot on Hanzo and Ashe to not even able to shoot a Roadhog thats right in front of me? What is up with this game and its inconsistency.

I’ve played on every platform this game is available on, and I’ve been playing since Beta, and it happens every other day or every day and nothing helps. no matter how much I practice and i can never be consistent.

P.S if you say just get good I’ll just remove your reply, so save your energy.

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Can I ask what your settings are?

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Have you tried
Getting good?

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I experience this all the time. I have no idea why my aim is so inconsistent but I’m either missing every shot or getting 2-3 headshots at once.

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Are you sure it’s always your aim? I’ve had games like that where it seems like my weapon is firing paintballs instead of bullets, and then I see the replay and it shows the enemy was 2m away from where I saw them.

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Consistency regarding aiming generally comes with a few factors :

  • Muscle memory.
  • Play style changes from hero to hero
  • Regular training before and after match.

1 - You really have to try not to destroy your muscle memory and that is one of the hardest parts. You have to be consistent when you play other games or even working in windows/mac/linux. Dont use different mouses if you can and keep the same or almost same senstivity (even not gaming.

2 - Play heroes that are consistent or have same transferable skills. Dont go from widow to reaper then pharah then doomfist then reinhardt. Thats going to be bad if you are already experiencing aiming consistency issues. Focus on being a specialist on a weekly basis on something, hitscans, projectiles, etc.

3 - Make a custom setup for a custom game so you can train and aim with bots. Dont do weird stuff, just Anas and “cant headshot” and maybe 10% more movement speed. Do tracking and then flicks for 5-10 mins. After ending your gaming session, repeat.

Hope this helps. This is not my advice, i must give credit to Surefour and IDDQD since this points belong to their video and damn they DO work :slight_smile:

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I tried that and it didn’t really work at all

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Do you have cold fingers? That’s often a cause of my weakened performance, so I thought I’d ask.

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Nah i know what you mean though, that was definitely me on console though.

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That will only work in case its a “you” issue. If its your PC doing weird stuff and your connection having loss/choke like crazy then yes, disregard my comment.
Its pointless to do all that training if your PC is getting brutal frame drops frecuently or your connection is losing packets like crazy.

Record your own gameplay with the fps/temp stats on top left and watch out for the connection loss icons there.

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That’s probably it then. I main D.Va and like playing widow. D.Va is a close range tracking hero and widow is not. I don’t want to stop playing either though! >_<

I use Deathmatch for aim practice.

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I had the exact same problem.

I’ve been lowering my eDPI trying to find a break even point where I can both Rhein and DPS without having to adjust my muscle memory. I’m old. That memory takes longer to form every day.

Lowering my eDPI (its about…16,000 - 17,000, goal is 8-12k) over the weeks has been helping tremendously.

For me, this is what happens: My team makes space, I get good sight lines, and we squeak out a slight advantage which I can then exploit and snow ball. I crack head shots, and keep them pinned down/scattered. We win.

BUT…if the enemy BREAKS that space and gets in my face its even odds that I will get jittery and start missing shots. At my ranking I’m pretty sure its because of skill level of both me and everyone else. Not all enemies are created equally.

I was on Ashe yesterday. I’m not a spectacular Ashe, but I can hit enough Dynamite shots and lay down enough firepower to counter most bastion cheese that is common at my rankings. In the first round the enemy pulled a Dva to counter me. The Dva wasn’t particularly good, and I’ve been getting dived by Dva for ages now, so I know how to respond. I save coach gun and force her to burn her boosters and then reassert high ground. She has to retreat.

Enemy pulls a tracer. Harasses me and our Zen for days. I can’t make heads or tails of it, I can’t land any shots, and I can’t keep her off the Zen. It was miserable.

Fortunately we were in “snowball” mode, so I just kept dynamite on the payload and kept picking off the healers. The tracer didn’t actually get many kills, so swapped to deal with their stalled offense.

I think once I get my eDPI low enough, and my skill a bit higher, then those jitters will be gone.

This game is ridiculously complex. I really do love it. I just wish Blizz would let us fix some of our own issues rather than trying to make a perfect computer system.

Jayne’s tournament is a good example of that. “What would a ban system look like?” Well, at least now we’ve seen it.

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I don’t get this, it’s normal to rock on some games and to fail on another like…even in Sports, also perhaps you have some latency, who knows?, it’s not something you can have an easy answer or directly say '‘yeah blizzard fault ‘cause they hate me’’.

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It’s just a lot of variance and not having the practise that proplayers have as their muscle memory is very top notch. Sometimes aiming is a lot harder because your main tank OTP decided to go Genji or because you have no supports or because your teammates are soft-throwing and doing flank-suicide stuff so you get focused more. In a lot of high tier games players can predict enemy and ally movement which helps them position and aim much better and consistently, but it becomes much more tedious if your teammates have terrible positioning and movement compared to the opponents.

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It can be the pixel skipping, try to have a high dpi and a low sens in-game.
Example : 15 in game and 1000 Dpi = 4 in game and 3750 Dpi.

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I know I suffer with tremors that get worse with stress and caffeine, and on top of that I get sweaty palms. I’ve started drinking only water when playing and if I’m tired, I just playing something else, and I’m a tank main. For sweaty palms I wear fingerless gloves. They look ridiculous but I’m never going back.

I also dedicate a couple of minutes before every game to warming up and double/triple/etc checking that the sensitivity settings I have are still good. No screen tears, no stutters due to quick 360s, and no misses on static targets. I’ve steadily been lowering my eDPI and getting better at arm aiming rather than relying solely on my wrists, but who knows? Maybe the opposite is true for you.

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Hanzo and Ashe play very differently, Ashe has relative sensitivity on her ADS shots so theres going to be a difference in aiming speed, that being said theres a known Issue with her zoom and some odd hit-registration bugs which haven’t fully been fixed with the last patch.

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I agree with the idea, but thats crazy high. You want your eDPI (sensitivity times DPI) to be somewhere between 3000 and 6000. Any higher and your headshots are luck.

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I always suggest people start at 800 DPI and adjust the in-game sens until they get something comfortable. It will feel horrible/weird at first but after a few days you’ll get used to it and from then on its just building muscle memory.

I personally use 800 DPI / 10 IG Sens.

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Just need to keep the same coefficient (X:cm per 360°) and move on.

You could use 1600DPI and 5 IG Sens. Try that.

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