Apparently, all you need to do to "git gud" in an online FPS is to reduce hand "stress" while aiming. - eviltoast

Long, short story:

Am bad-to-average FPS gamer, looking to improve. Saw an OSU! gamer flinging its “shots” left and right and tried my best to mimick the experience in an FPS. And it worked significantly – all of my shots felt more “secure”, even with my aiming being rusty beyond belief.

And the “trick” to do this is simply leaving your “aiming hand” to aim (ONLY) while leaving your “non-aiming hand” to shoot and everything else. That’s it.

  • moshtradamus666@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just to see if I got that right: you basically set the fire button key on the keyboard instead of a mouse click and it made it easier to aim? Is this a common technique among pro players?

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      1 year ago

      That makes sense. “Trigger control” is hard so moving the trigger to another hand guarantees you won’t click with too much pressure adding unwanted movement to the mouse.

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      1 year ago

      Yes. Like left shift instead of left mouse click.

      And I honestly don’t know.

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        1 year ago

        i feel like this set up would be best in a game that is very spammy with mouse clicks, say Minecraft 1.8 pvp. i don’t know how those people do it, but given 2 keys to press on my left hand rather than 1 on my mouse, i could maybe stand a chance with the clicks per second.

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          1 year ago

          Indeed. Theres also burst firing, which can get significantly easier/more “natural”. Or when you are an old chap like me who panicks all the time, lessening the effect quite significantly as well.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not common. Most use the default config if shootinh with leftclick.

      Shooting on space or another keyboard key i only saw with arena shooter players and it was single digit amount of people.