How do you get better at aiming in FPS games?

[Knight Siegfried]

I play a lot of Siege, Overwatch and Insurgency but I was wondering if anyone knew of programs that could help improve my aim. I'm currently playing at a 2000 DPI for my mouse and I keep the sensitivity in my games to low, around 25-30%. Thanks as I know it's odd question to ask.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Circle the head of your target. Once you're dialed in you can pull the trigger.

[Shiney Squirrels]

I don't.

I've been playing them for years and I'm forever noob at aiming. Some of us will always be. The whole "Practice" is BS... you either are, or you're not, life's like that.

[Nemmy]

I just pick up any auto gun with high recoil and aim at body or neck

Eventually because of recoil it hits head anyway

[saranacX]

Git gud.

[tok]

just practice
eventually once you see an enemy it'll be second nature to flick to it and start shooting

also make sure you've got a good enough mouse which has high enough inches per second otherwise if your flicks are too fast your mouse will become unresponsive to extremely fast flicks/movements

alsso really important, you need to get in the habit of aiming for the head, pre aiming at headheight and pre aiming around corners that need to be cleared - just so you don't fall into any bad habits

[Pronoun Paladin ☯]

A variety of ways.

First you're going to want to crank up your sensitivity. I keep mine about 70% -75% in most games. You can try to slowly increase you sensitivity until you reach a higher number, but 30% is too low.

After that it just takes practice. Besides just playing the games I'd recommend entering your favor first person shooter and practice aiming at a certain place on the wall. Move the mouse away from that spot, and then try to get good at aiming the mouse to the specific spot. Try to do this as fast as possible but also realizing that accuracy is more important then speed.

Once you get good at moving the mouse away and re-acquiring a target that's not moving. Use that same spot and run around, jumping, spinning around, trying to disorient you as much as possible, and then try to re-acquire that spot.

Also if you're always trying to play the sniper class in those games and not getting better I suggest you try another class. I play Team Fortress 2 (free on steam) and if you want to get better at sniping but suck at sniper you can actually increase your skill by playing other classes like soldier or heavy. Because you're training yourself for the reaction of other players.

[tok]

also to be specific, in 6siege since theyve added the csgo-esque recoil patterns, you'll have to learn how to control each spray pattern for each gun - very much like csgo

in both insurgency games you should keep in kind most of the time 2 bullets or 3 is enough to kill someone, smokes are extremely important to be able to take objectives and that constantly running is bad due to the added time in drawing your gun usually means death

[tok]

The Father ☯님이 먼저 게시:

A variety of ways.

First you're going to want to crank up your sensitivity. I keep mine about 70% -75% in most games. You can try to slowly increase you sensitivity until you reach a higher number, but 30% is too low.

After that it just takes practice. Besides just playing the games I'd recommend entering your favor first person shooter and practice aiming at a certain place on the wall. Move the mouse away from that spot, and then try to get good at aiming the mouse to the specific spot. Try to do this as fast as possible but also realizing that accuracy is more important then speed.

Once you get good at moving the mouse away and re-acquiring a target that's not moving. Use that same spot and run around, jumping, spinning around, trying to disorient you as much as possible, and then try to re-acquire that spot.

Also if you're always trying to play the sniper class in those games and not getting better I suggest you try another class. I play Team Fortress 2 (free on steam) and if you want to get better at sniping but suck at sniper you can actually increase your skill by playing other classes like soldier or heavy. Because you're training yourself for the reaction of other players.

i wouldnt recommend a really high sensitivity,
of course it depends but in most games such as csgo, insurgency and 6siege a person whose used to low sensitivity will have better consistency when it comes to accuracy compared to those who are used to a high sensitivity

in a fps like tf2 and overwatch, high sensitivities dont matter as much

[[FFK3] Trovaa]

I dunno about Overwatch, but doesn't Insurgency have a workshop? If so, there's bound to be aim training maps on there which can really help for any game. Make sure you find the best sensitivity and change it to that in every game you play.
Also, try downloading OSU!, which isn't an FPS game but can help tremendously with reaction time and aim/precision.

[Knee]

In addition to aiming well:

Work smart not hard.
If you could place your crosshairs to where the enemy walks into it, all you need to do is fire.

Obviously it’s hard to do this all the time but this sort of thing is where you need to practice.

Learn the map, study where people like to hide and place your crosshairs accordingly.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

csgo skins help a lot - the more expensive the more accurate

[Emm]

1. Pick up an automatic weapon.
2. Tape down fire button.
3. Throw your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mouse.
4. Profit.

[…]

I don’t. That’s why I always play healslut.

[FINAL_Bₒₛₛ]

Shiney Squirrels님이 먼저 게시:

I don't.

I've been playing them for years and I'm forever noob at aiming. Some of us will always be. The whole "Practice" is BS... you either are, or you're not, life's like that.

That is a flawed argument. Do you realize that there are techniques and exercises to improve the tracking movement and accuracy?

https://www.pcgamer.com/aim-training/

[Noah]

Osu!