Edit: ik this has done before but we’re all different. Also I know aim isn’t everything, I don’t wanna be gold forever cuz I’m bad.
I’m starting this post with settings, even though they prob don’t matter. They’re individual based.
MOST PLAYED HEROES: Moira, Mercy, 76. I play these guys way more than anyone else.
My career profile is public, enjoy.
HS: 60
VS: 60
Aim Assist Str: 100
Window Size: 100 (50 for Ashe and Cass)
Ease in: 100
Smoothing: 0
Ease in: 20
Dual Zone of course
I feel like I’m already old. I just can’t get my fingers or my brain to constantly move and get at my target. Soldier for example, I can hit a strafing person, but a flying pharah or sym is so hard. I just can’t keep his gun on them, I shoot to the side of above them.
Minor adjustments seem really hard for me. In games like Apex, I can still sometimes go “sicko mode” lmao and do tons of micro adjustments. But aiming in Overwatch is so much different from other shooters I’ve played. Less streamlined maybe, kinda twitchy and not smooth enough.
It’s kind of hard to judge without footage, but I would recommend cranking your horizontal and vertical sensitivities to 100, turn speed is important, especially when playing Moira or Rein
I’m not sure if it will help but my senses are
100 horizontal
100 vertical
Aim assist 100
AA window 85
AA ease in 70
Aim smoothing 100
Aim ease in 0
I generally play more tracking characters (soldier, zarya, etc) and a fair bit of Winston And zen around 3600-3800. I hope this helps.
First turn off aim assist. If you a going for precision, it works against you.
Second learn to use left stick to help you aim. This will help you learn to aim while moving.
3rd, after each match use your judgement to determine if you need to increase/decrease sensitivities. This is something that only you can figure out. No guides exist on subjective prefrences.
5th, 6th, 7th…etc.
Practice. Sorry but it’s a learning/muscle memory thing. Even the Ranked 1 player will tell you to grind until you get better. Despite this being a game, it still follows the time tested formula:
You want to get good; pay in blood, sweat and tears. There are no guides to this.
Trying to aim with a controller is like trying to climb a rope with your teeth instead of using your arms. A controller will never be a naturally good fit for “first person” games. All the effort put into improving your controller aiming skills would be much better spent on learning the right input device (keyboard + mouse) for the genre. Even the cheapest $5 office mouse is a 1000 times better fit for a first person shooter than the most expensive controller.
I know that currently Overwatch doesn’t have native KBM support but AFAIK the reason is political not technical (console players explicitly asking for no support).
Technical limitation exits. If you combine that with your physical limitations, you have the case of some people reaching their limit very fast. I have no idea but in my opinion playing an FPS on a console is just… not optimal, and you will feel it that you are limited in your action.
Is that really the case? I have no idea. Just my pure speculation.
It’s like any skill, you can massively improve with practice.
It’s futile comparing kb+m to controller because they’re different, but you can get good with controller compared to other controller users.
Im Playin on console however my aim is not god like its at same lvl like on pc its ok.
The thing is on pc is ez to get better coze of Muscle memory, on console you work with thumbs.
Tho on some Heroes I have differend sence, and aim assist is lower to 30-50% or turn off, for Ana is turn off coze I hate it when I try to hit teammate and enemy just run past somwhere and need to aim again or try shot enemy but teammate run close to me.
It all depends on your preference and comfortable Playin.
Im more in to game sence, not best aim but know what to do and mostly that helps win fights.
Honestly this. Legitimately do not understand PC player’s insistence on seeing a thread clearly marked CONSOLE, reading the post asking how to improve CONTROLLER AIM, and somehow coming to the conclusion that they need to regurgitate irrelevant nonsense about fps not being made for controller usage and to play the game on PC. Despite the fact that one of the best fps games ever, Halo, was made specifically for console, but okay.
Like, nobody asked for your opinion on gaming device. Nobody. OP wants to improve on console, the device of choice they play on, the device they are comfortable using and maybe have used their entire life. Why would you feel the need to offer useless, unsolicited advice about gaming platform?
If you’re a PC player and you see a thread titled “console”, please keep your opinion about PC vs console gaming to yourself. As console players WE ALREADY KNOW that a mouse is a much better precision aiming tool for fps games, we just don’t care because we either prefer playing our games on console, or we have no choice but to play our games on console.
Input devices isn’t a “PC vs console” topic. Consoles supported a wide range of input devices even 2-3 decades ago. More than 20 years ago my friend played Quake 3 on a Dreamcast console with mouse support. I played Time Crisis on PlayStation 1 with a gun controller and car racing games on PlayStation 2 with pedals and force feedback wheel.
I’m a PC player but right now I have left+right handed joysticks (VKB NXT), an xbox controller and a DS4 controller too on my desk and use them in games in which they are comfortable.
When halo was released the console market was large so every developer tried to make their games work on those platforms with the default input devices that were shipped with the consoles. With enough aim assist you can make anything work with a controller but that won’t change the fact that it’s a very suboptimal choice for first person shooters. IMO the reason for the existence of the “controller + FPS” combination isn’t practicality but the economics of gaming markets.
Tracking and hitting pharah consistently can be hard even with a mouse. With a controller you probably need some kind of magic to do the aiming, practice alone might not be enough.
In a competitive PvP environment people use whatever they can to get an advantage so you can’t avoid KBM users. If KBM isn’t natively supported by the platform then someone creates an adapter.
I have learned that while playing it is best to just tap the stick while aiming at people if your playing Soldier and aim assist takes care of the rest. After I moved to PC I learned that you have to focus on the crosshair that means watching the center gap for any immediate change in color that doesn’t match the background of the map. it has also helped me on console.
Yes but for OW there is no other official option except controller, and the op creating a thread asking for advice with controller aiming is not helped at all by your paragraph blasting controller usage for fps. For decades the only option in fps games on console has been controller. Like I get your point but it literally has nothing to do with what the OP was asking. Everybody knows fps with controller is subpar compared to mouse, but that’s not what the topic was about.
Cool story, me too, except I play Overwatch with a controller for movement and a mouse for aiming. Because PC games gives us options whereas console games do not always.
It still is huge, even bigger than it ever was in those days. There are literally AAA games that are still being developed strictly for the console market and only later ported to PC like literally every Rockstar game. Console devs even provide native mouse and keyboard support but for some reason the actual game developers don’t enable this feature in their games. This is honestly mind boggling at this point in gaming history.
This isn’t what we’re talking about. OP wanted to know how to improve their aim on a controller. Like any fine motor skill, it is something that can be improved.
No one is talking about those cheating by using a Xim4, and no one is talking about a different input device, because that’s not the advice OP was asking about.
It was a simple question “how do I get better at using a controller than I am now”