Getting headshots in Counter-Strike, DOD, COD4 or even TF2 doesn’t
come easy. It takes years of practice, a fast machine capable of
providing smooth game play and finally… skill. Yet, even then, there are
guys who seem to have all of the above and still can’t get consistent
headshots. Here’s why:
The golden concept: What you practice, you get good at. Remember that.
If your idea of practice is to jump on a public server and get as
many kills as fast as possible, then you’re only harming yourself in the
long run. Pubbing does not build skill.
Why?
Because on public servers, you’re matched up against mediocre
players. So even if you miss a lot of your shots, as long as you shoot
first, you’ll usually end up winning the battle.
Unconsciously, you train yourself to shoot first without aiming. That
becomes part of you… even if you don’t want to. If you’re used to
playing with the “shoot first, aim second” because you play on pubs a
lot, then that’s what you’ll AUTOMATICALLY do even in match situations.
As I previously mentioned, what you practice, you get good at… even if it’s something that doesn’t help you.
The solution: Instead of going for as many kills as possible, go for
the highest level of accuracy that you can possibly achieve. Make every
single shot count, and always aim for the head. If you’re playing
Counter-Strike, make sure that every single kill you get is a headshot,
and that you don’t waste a single bullet. When aiming, take as MUCH time
as you need to hit the head, even if it means dying in the process. Concentrate on that, and you’ll be practicing perfection.
After a while, you’ll re-train yourself to automatically aim for the head before shooting. You’ll become a human aimbot. A fair bit of warning, the first time you try this, expect to die.
You’ll be taking a lot more time to aim than usual, so it will throw
your rhythm off and consequently, you won’t get kills that you would of
normally gotten by spraying. However, with practice, the time it takes
to aim will decrease and your headshot percentage will go up.
Eventually, you won’t even have to think of it and you’ll naturally
spend the required time to aim for the head. If you ever find yourself
slipping and start shooting too quickly, make sure you do this exercise
again!
So remember, if you practice shooting quickly, that’s what you’ll do in the match.
If you practice perfection, you’ll be accused of cheating because you got too many headshots! Life’s tough.
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Improve your shooting accuracy in 10 ways.
Accuracy is crucial in FPS,
especially with such a fast gameplay. You will increase your accuracy as
long as you play but here are some tips wich might be very helpful if
you are a beginner but also you can find some intresting tips also if
you are a more experienced player.
Let’s get some more headshots!
1. Change your crosshair settings
Your crosshair is very important. Many players will tell you to
choose the dot and to choose it as small as possible. Unfortunatly the
dot can’t give you feedback about the accuracy of the weapon you are
carrying, especially when you are shooting. Choose instead a crosshair that resizes its arms depending on the current accuracy.
2. Shoot in small bursts
If you use a crosshair that gives you feedback about the current
accuracy you will notice that almost every weapon looses accuracy even
with a very small burst. The longer the burst the less accurate it will
be. Also you have to wait a bit after shooting to let your aim recover
as you will notice by your crosshair.
3. Try Semi-Automatic once in a while
Another training method is to play once in a while with semi-automatic.
This means you will shoot just one bullet every time you click the fire
button. This will make your shoots more accurate but also will force
you to adjust the aim more often, just like when you shoot with the DE
or the Beretta. When you will get back to full Automatic you will
naturally make shorter bursts and you will adjust aim more often and
fundamentally hit more bad guys.
4. Adjust your aim settings
We didn’t covered them up yet but there are a lot of aim settings
that you can set via console and configurations files. If you aren’t
familiar with them just consider sensitivity for now. Try lower the sensitivity as far as you can.
To see how high is your current sensitivity just type \sensitivity in the console.
It will give you back the current value. I used to play with a
drammatically high value and i lowered it a lot. I lowered it about 7 or
8 points less than what I had previously and helped me a lot.
By doing that you will make more wide movements with your mouse to let’s say turn corners and walljumping but you will have more control on both moving and still targets. However a post about aim settings is coming, so don’t worry.
5. Use the almighty Shotgun scatter shot
I can’t tell you how much shotgun helped me to increase my accuracy.
Not with the scattershot itself but with all the other weapons. Why?
Well if you are a beginner with shotgun you will find yourself hitting rarely and being killed a lot. Fail will help you. One of the fastest way to take down a sniper is to rush on him as Tarquin pointed out in his post. If you see somebody rushing on you you will likely pull out your secondary weapon or your sidearm. As we pointed out secondaries are not that accurate and sidearms are quite hard to use. Using
the shotgun will force you to use both secondaries and sidearms a lot and
since they are not so accurate you will adjust your aim more often to
take down some bad guys. Probably this will get you a bad score
but don’t worry. When you will get back to autos you will naturally
have a better aim and also you will learn to use perhaps one of the most
powerful weapons in Urban Terror wich is the Sr-8.
6. Aim at corners and hiding spots
When you walk don’t point your weapon at the floor. Not even right in front of you. You should always point your gun at where you think that enemies will come out:
corners, hiding spots and so on. This is very important since you will
spend less time adjusting your aim to shoot at enemies. This ability
will come along as you get familiar with the maps and as you play.
7. Think about what you are doing
Be councious of what you are doing. When you face an enemy not just shoot but mentally stop for a second and think.
Counciously think: «Ok I’m facing an enemy, I must look for an
headshot/I must shoot at his torso». Aim for the torso or head (better).
Also consider your opponent’s equipment. If you see
that he has helmet and no kevlar just aim for the torso instead of
trying the headshot. If you are getting too much legs shots that means
that you are aiming too low. Being aware of what you are doing will make
you focused. And with better focus comes better aim.
8. Try the Counter-Strike Method
As explained in this post, the Counter-Strike method will help increase your accuracy and creativity.
9. Watch your movements
To avoid bullets often players tend to jump sideways. This might be
helpful but especially when you are out of stamina or you have your legs
bleeding this might be very hard. Try instead to move sideways randomly.
Also depending on your weapon consider moving towards your opponent to
have better shots (for example you have to be at point-blank distance to
deal high damage with the SPAS).
10. Training
Aim is one of those things that will come along with time. If you are very talented (or you have a lot of time to waste
play) you might get this skill very quickly. In other cases it might
take time, but the more you play the more you will increase your
accuracy and skills.
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Three essential skills that you need to pwn the nubs in any FPS:
