Slow down your mouse sensitivity by 0.50, play the game until you get use to it, then slow down your mouse sensitivity by another 0.50. Keep doing that until you feel like your sensitivity is at a balanced place, where you can hit shots consistently, without hindering your movement.
Thereâs a lot of videos and you need to watch as its a broader subject than people first think.
First, are you a flick targeting person mainly, or a tracker? Some people are equally good, Iâm closer to that but not great at either end.
Second, if you canât target an object and move around it with a steady point your almost certainly running a higher sensitivity than you can handle.
Third, train your brain to look for animations that a character is stuck in you can then predict and exploit, like say Doomfists lunges or JRâs mine jumping - easy targets often,
Fourth, learn to predict based on movement - you see Soldier run into a room, he has only two choices - he either comes out the side he went in or the other - move your targeting reticle ahead and wait.
Fifth, practice crosshair discipline while moving, keeping the reticle where you are headed and towards spots people are likely to appear.
Sixth, practice (and I seriously struggle here) with trigger discipline - most of us learn really bad habits starting like just spamming - you cant hit anything but still do some damage and get he occasional kill⌠seems right at the time⌠but later it works against you as you have become a habitual spam shooter⌠learn to hold you shot till you have a shot⌠some pros literally look like their aim is just floating⌠they only shoot when they have a shot.
Seventh, make sure youâre brain is actively trying to aim - so much is happening I think its easy to get distracted and thinking about things rather than aiming. Think back to being a kid and playing dodgeball helps me - âfeelâ the act of aiming and focusing the target and let your brain start predicting. If you feel yourself not doing this, come back to it.
Eighth, accept your limitations on range. Everyone hits targets closer - if you have to close with a target to get a more consistent shot, accept that, and move closer before engaging, make your movement matter first then take the shot.
Ninth, aim for body shots, donât try to go pro and âplink headsâ until your aim is very improved to where you hit your body shots consistently. Only then move on to the harder target of the head.
Tenth, figure out if you are better with hit-scan or projectile. Again, I am pretty equal but not outstanding at either. Some people OTOH are particularly good with one or the other, experiment to find which you are better with.
EDIT: get a good mouse and see if you prefer a claw grip or a palm grip, with a âperfectâ sensor and a good mouse pad. Check this site: Flawless Sensor Mouse List - The perfect mouse
Mouse and pad matter more than people think. Get them then look for exercises to find the right EDPI (effective dpi which equals the in-game sensitivity multiplied by the DPI of your mouse settings. Donât forget poll rate, contrary to what a lot of people say, a poll rate of just 500 is usually all you need, or a 1000. 16,000 is absurd for 99.999% of players.
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Im not a beginner. I know what im mostly doing and ive trained for quite awhile.
I have a good mouse, and I have my good sensitivity, and I know where to place my crosshairs.
But just the biggest problem is prediction. I know it sounds weird but I cant hit A D spammers at all. And im really inconsistent as well.
I do hit shots but I miss the easiest ones sometimes and it frustrates me because I panic when I try to be calm. I guess im just really inconsistent and i dont want to accept the fact that im bad at the gameâŚ
I guess im still getting used to my new PC and mouse and everything
A tip on that - most -A-D-A-D spammer move equidistant back and forth. You have to (and I struggle with this) stop and just aim at one end or the center and let them drift across before firing.
Also, donât bet too hard on yourself missing shots. If you watch montage videos of pros or streamers, they look like they land all shots - they donât. Watch instead a replay of a game at how many missed shots. They miss a lot⌠the difference is the shots they make count and they make plays. What a lot of CS:GO denizens who come to OW and then complain about âskillâ are missing the point that positioning and game sense with your kit is more important than aim skill overall.
Lots of advice already given on mouse settings, so yeah, get the right sensitivity, make sure mouse acceleration is off everywhere.
However, the actual answer:
Practice. Start by slowly panning across your field of view, and clicking when your cross-hair is on the head of a bot. This establishes your muscle memory for distances. When you can do this reliably, while scanning at a moderate speed standing still, then start doing it while strafing. Be sure to practice all the combinations (hero moving right, mouse moving left, hero left mouse right, hero right mouse right, hero right mouse left).
When you can do all of that reliably, if you want, you can explicitly practice flick shots. Go back to standing still, and whip the mouse as fast as you can to the head of the bot, clicking just as you cross their head. Be sure to practice both left and right flicks. Then try it while strafing, again all combinations.
When you can do all of that reliably to training grounds bots itâs time to step up your training environment (or you can start here really, if you just want to start with big-head opponnents) :
PMAJellies Aim Trainer V3 (CODE: XHHRR)
Notice that itâs the INTERACT key (default âFâ) to operate the buttons. Most people try shooting them because thatâs how so many workshop buttons work, but not these. (Which is actually great, accidentally shooting aim trainer buttons always sucks.)
The video shows Zenyatta, but you can use anybody, but squishies are the ones that are actually hard to hit, and also some of the minigames donât work well against large health pools. (Also Sombra turns invisible before her abilities get turned off, so you have to find them with your damage and force them visible first which is maybe not worth it)
Anyway. Every day:
Pick a hero and fill Team 2 with it. Start with big heads and work your way down.
Shoot a bunch of motionless targets until you feel good about it.
Click the âFreezeâ button to un-freeze them and get them moving.
Shoot a bunch of moving targets until you feel good about it (in early days you may want to use body shots for this part).
Play a few rounds of âThreatsâ minigame.
Play a few rounds of âTargetsâ minigame.
After warmed up in the aim-trainer, go and play some Deathmatch (assuming the Arcade has a deathmatch mode that lets you pick your own character that is, which it has happened that it doesnât). Deathmatch gives you practice against live targets, much more intensively than any other mode because itâs constant combat with no down time for silly things like walking from spawn or grouping with your team or posturing for positioning against the other team. I prefer 4v4 because you can focus on sticking with your allies and killing the red guys in a relatively normal way, while FFA is kill-steal simulator. I mean, FFA is still good aim practice but there is a danger of forming bad habits for regular games since the playstyle is so different. Also 4v4 is often just not available, so thereâs that.
Donât forget to play some regular matches too, even if youâre intensively aim-training you donât want to get rusty at other aspects of the full game. I mean, unless you decide you just want to play Deathmatch-only from now on, which would be understandable. It can be pretty fun as your aim gets better.
I do every day ~10minutes (or more) of PMAJellies and 1 (or more) Deathmatches and my aim is steadily improving. Sometimes I do a lot more ⌠trying to get a better score or the same score with a smaller hitbox opponent can keep me in training for awhile, and Deathmatch can just yâknow⌠be fun! (Imagine a game being fun!)
Anyway, start slow, work your way up, keep it up, and good luck!
My sensitivity is good. Mouse acceleration is off.
The workshop is awesome. Thanks so much for this mode. I will try using it a lot. I also use Kovaaks aim trainer on steam to warm up/practice before a comp match (the queue times are long so I have time lmao)
And I live in ffa. It is where I always practice. I always go into custom ffas since some heroes that are painful to deal with are disabled there. (Like mei or moira) I do agree that it does give you some bad habits and its a bit frustrating when someone steals your kill but I usually go in with âIm here for practice, not killsâ sort of mentality to not get angry.
I played Quick Play the most because back in the day i had a very bad setup. Bad laptop, bad mouse and everything. After a long time I finally got a new PC a year ago, a new monitor (144hz) and a good mouse this christmas.
Its a lot getting used to, to go from a crappy laptop which could barely handle 60 fps on lowest settings to a good PC on constant 300 fps with 144 hz monitor (I keep it capped at my hz though because i dont want to overwork my PC for no reason). While I am mid masters at best, I really want to reach GM using DPS mostly. Its been a long dream of mine to become a good widowmaker/dps.
Thanks for the tips and good luck to you too. Breaks are important aswell.
yeah heres a perfect clip of me over flicking.
youtube .com/watch?v=rLSXW7Tg_Uw&feature=youtu.be
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