"Struggling with Consistency, Need Help" [src]
Consistency is one of the main problems players face when they start getting better. 'How can't I hit a thing today, but yesterday my aim was top-notch?' Counter-Strike is a game about variables, but so is life. Today you might be more tired than yesterday. You might've slept less, or maybe haven't had enough to eat. Generally people don't drink enough water. Keep yourself in good shape outside the game, and you'll definitely see the benefits in-game.
After installing Counter-Strike, most players just fiddle around with their sensitivity setting a bit, find one that feels moderately comfortable and then stick with it, giving it a small nudge now and again. This is all cool and dandy, but many a player tweaks their sensitivity mostly when they're not having a consistent day and their aim feels off. It's a bad practice to have, since now that you've fiddled your sensitivity on a bad day, it'll feel off the next time you have a good one.
When you've found a perfect sensitivity, you need to stick with it through thick and thin. This is the only way to get a consistent aim in the long run. You'll still have bad days and good ones, but the variance in bad and good aiming will deplete, making you a better player overall.
Let's start with my favorite video. I link to this every time I see someone asking about sensitivity, and I've even corrected my own sensitivity with the instructions presented:
If you've never though about how you hold your mouse, this might be the perfect time to do just that, and train to keep it the same way:
How to be consistent? A short answer would be to train daily with the same settings and setup (gear). The longer answer goes something like this:
Warm-up before you play, in-life and in-game. Find your perfect sensitivity and stick with it. Don't do split-second decisions while playing, unless you absolutely have to. Train yourself to do before you think. Where could your enemy be? Where should you go next? With time you will build intuition, gut feeling, where and when to camp, where to check for enemies and thus where to prefire. Constantly aim for the head and keep your crosshair at approximately head level height. Listen. Gather information from step and shooting sounds, and from calls your teammates give.
When not pushing or playing as an entry fragger, do your best to position yourself in places where you can only be seen from one angle ('holding an angle') and constantly check the radar (preferably diving in cover while your eyes are not focusing on the main part of the screen) to see which positions your teammates are keeping, and thus where your enemies could flank you. (Of course when pushing, do your best to have cover near you at all times, and move along pathways that allows the enemy the least amount of flanking angles. More about this in a future post.) Better yet, keep communication flowing with your teammates, thus everyone knows where everyone is, so you don't have to look at your radar as often.
Watch better players do their thing. You will learn a lot by playing the game, but you'll learn ever more by watching the Pros. Follow tournaments, videos on YouTube, read /r/GlobalOffensive/ and check out CS:GO streams on twitch. If you really want to be good at Counter-Strike, you need to live the game.
Hope you learned something, and remember it takes some time to put into practice something you've just learned. Please feel free to leave questions in the comments. Welcome back next time! I'll send you off with a rant about consistency and solo queuing by n0thing:
How to be consistent? A short answer would be to train daily with the same settings and setup (gear). The longer answer goes something like this:
Warm-up before you play, in-life and in-game. Find your perfect sensitivity and stick with it. Don't do split-second decisions while playing, unless you absolutely have to. Train yourself to do before you think. Where could your enemy be? Where should you go next? With time you will build intuition, gut feeling, where and when to camp, where to check for enemies and thus where to prefire. Constantly aim for the head and keep your crosshair at approximately head level height. Listen. Gather information from step and shooting sounds, and from calls your teammates give.
When not pushing or playing as an entry fragger, do your best to position yourself in places where you can only be seen from one angle ('holding an angle') and constantly check the radar (preferably diving in cover while your eyes are not focusing on the main part of the screen) to see which positions your teammates are keeping, and thus where your enemies could flank you. (Of course when pushing, do your best to have cover near you at all times, and move along pathways that allows the enemy the least amount of flanking angles. More about this in a future post.) Better yet, keep communication flowing with your teammates, thus everyone knows where everyone is, so you don't have to look at your radar as often.
Watch better players do their thing. You will learn a lot by playing the game, but you'll learn ever more by watching the Pros. Follow tournaments, videos on YouTube, read /r/GlobalOffensive/ and check out CS:GO streams on twitch. If you really want to be good at Counter-Strike, you need to live the game.
Hope you learned something, and remember it takes some time to put into practice something you've just learned. Please feel free to leave questions in the comments. Welcome back next time! I'll send you off with a rant about consistency and solo queuing by n0thing:
- sb00t (Special thanks to Jebuuh!)
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