What's the best weapon for someone who's bad at aiming?

[76561199525584583]

I'm currently using the grenade launcher in the medium class. I'm only sub-par with regular guns and the launcher works really well from behind and from a distance. The downside is the speed of the weapon and the range; when someone's up close I'm toast. Does anyone have any recommendations for weapons I should buy? I'm eyeing the shotgun.

[Sn4pFPS]

ak

[TinfoilDurag]

nade launcher is kinda ass.
Have you tried just practicing aiming?

[Laffayette Colgate]

If you're using controller, use the model. Easy to aim. Kills lights in 2 shots or less.

[Fedsmoker]

Run heavy and use flamethrower

[Pizza]

heavy rpg/shotgun

or just light with invisible and swing away with sword

[AV]

Originally posted by TinfoilDurag:

nade launcher is kinda ass.
Have you tried just practicing aiming?

It can go pretty hard at times. Sucks if you have to play around an APS at objective but it has a lot of utility outside of combat. It's not the best in a 1v1 but the splash is solid against teams that cluster up together. Have gotten a fair number of team wipes just by dumping every round into the middle of a group.

[zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain]

if you have bad aim dont buy shotgun (i guess you mean model 1887)
heavy: sledge, flamethrower (both pair up well with mesh shield if you wait for enemies to come into your range or with charge if you want to be more offensive), shotgun thingy
medium: akm (clip size makes up for aim), riot shield (underrated imo lol), DONT pick scar and model 1887 as they require quite precise aiming. 1887 is way more tricky and requires flick shots as cooldown between each shot is noticeable
light: double-barrel shotgun (it doesn't work on any kind of range anyways lol), v9s (spray and pray, my brother, dont even have to ads), m11 (default smg, use up close), sword pairs up unexpectedly well with dash.

[[MD]Fox]

Originally posted by TvHead:

I'm currently using the grenade launcher in the medium class. I'm only sub-par with regular guns and the launcher works really well from behind and from a distance. The downside is the speed of the weapon and the range; when someone's up close I'm toast. Does anyone have any recommendations for weapons I should buy? I'm eyeing the shotgun.

Why are you bad at aiming? Just use a controller and you will have free aimbot.

[Netsa]

Grenade launc- oh you're already using it. Ignore the dude who said it's ass, It's actually really good. At close range, just fire at the ground next to the enemy rather than directly at the enemy, that way you won't take self-damage. It shines the most against groups, a.k.a. Heavy-Medic, since the explosion radius is usually big enough to hit both of them. Every time I see that blue beam, I basically get a free double-kill if I'm holding the grenade launcher. It also easily melts Lights, the one enemy who's hardest to hit if you have bad aim. Its only weaknesses are APSs, like AV said above, and enemies who have the high ground, so avoid being below anyone you're trying to shoot.

Otherwise:
- AKM. Just lean on the trigger, the recoil levels out after a few shots and you can just keep firing.
- Riot Shield also works for obvious reasons, but you're going to have to get really good at closing gaps.
- Landmines and turrets. Get a feel for where people tend to run without looking where they're going, and you're going to get a lot of completely free, no-skill kills. Double Explosive Mine even oneshots Mediums.

On other classes:
- Flamethrower (Heavy). Just wave your mouse, you can't possibly miss. Like Sledgehammer (Heavy), though, you're going to get a little bit better at closing gaps.
- Lewis (Heavy). For the same reason as AKM.
- Grenade launcher (Heavy). Meant to be used from further away, but quite a bit more destructive. Just spam to your heart's content, someone will die eventually.
- Sword (Light) (NOT dagger). Just hold RMB, release, and wave your mouse around, you're bound to hit something.
- XP (Light). Has very little recoil, so just spray n' pray, leave, reload, and pray again.

[Tapewormz]

The best weapon for someone who's bad at aiming is a console. They have aim assist. BUZZINGA!

[76561199525584583]

But I use a controller on Steam. I haven't seen any auto-aiming. I thought that was console exclusive and causing problems, I heard about it on the news.

[Psychoglot]

landmine heavy with c4 barrels and charge will get you kills without aiming

[yocstar]

use controller and the aim assist will do 95% of the aiming for you. just dont forget to left trigger spam to abuse the snap aim assist. Even better if you use software to give yourself a tiny amount of downwards stick drift to keep the rotational aim assist active even when not moving.

If you aren't a controller guy just go download rewasd. Free 7 day trial. It gives you aim assist even using keyboard and mouse. You can also use recoil scripts if you are still having problems.

I don't have any faith in the devs to do anything about it because they silently cranked up the aim assist on launch day so clearly they want it like this.

[Hybernian]

Melee weapons: Katana, Riot Shield and Sledgehammer.