Submitted 1 year ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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 feel 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.
This is actually related to real marksmanship technique – you don’t literally want to pull the trigger with your trigger finger, you actually want to squeeze your whole hand, which indirectly results in pulling the trigger but with your hand applying tension in all directions instead of just backwards, reducing overall movement of the weapon during your shot
That is an interesting take, which (also) makes sense – each millimeter matters when you are using a weapon that demands the most precision in order to hit your targets. And multitasking with your “aiming hand” can mean the difference between being able to hit your target or not. Even so while burst firing.
The video is impressive but it’s basically a OSU pro player playing OSU with a gun.
I don’t know if the skill would transfer to a FPS e-sport, though. I wonder how the key mapping would look like with various movement, skills and what not.
Take this with a grain of salt, but a few years ago, I remember a discussion in /r/overwatch where someone said they practice sniping by playing osu.
Oh yes…don’t get me wrong. I think OSU can be a great tool to practice aiming. I’ve seen League of Legends players using it to farm better too.
It’s just that I don’t think one can play a FPS like they play OSU. They have more “dimensions”, I guess.
In my experience, while osu is a good warm up it’s not a substitute for a 3d aim trainer. Unless you are using mcosu with some modifications - using the fps mod and making the circle size smaller, among other things - the aim in osu doesn’t transfer one to one to shooters. While it certainly helps getting the hand movements like the flicks and such ready, 2d just isn’t the same as 3d since you can’t even map the sens to be the same, its kind of impossible actually.
He has a video of him playing Apex Legends: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvezoGUtTTg
Well, I tried this idea with Planetside 2 (Which is a very “messy” game where it can easily use more than 10 hotkeys at a time) and it started to feel “natural” after 30 minutes - 1 hour of gaming. And can’t really give you a key mapping that will work for you “just like that” but try placing your “non-aiming” hand at the keyboard and pay attention to where your finger(s) are and change your shooting hotkey to one of your “non-occupied” fingers are. Then test it for a while, and see if it “feels right”. If it doesn’t, then switch to something else.
As for me, left shift felt more “natural” for me since I use WASD and my left lands exactly to where the left shift is.
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?
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.
Yes. Like left shift instead of left mouse click.
And I honestly don’t know.
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.
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.
What is osu?
A crazy hard (imo) mouse music game, it’s like DDR kinda and helps train your mouse accuracy and speed.
Ah thank you.
Older games used to have this by default. I remember playing Quake II with fire bound to CTRL alongside with mouse look enabled.
So the best way to play would be using Voice Attack and making every FPS into one of these bad boys? 🤔
I’ve no idea. But yeah, it does work wonders.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s pretty common for hardcore FPS gamers to switch their right click (which is usually ADS) from a “press” configuration to a “toggle” configuration, meaning you just click & release to ADS, and then click & release to leave ADS. The idea is that you shouldn’t be constantly pushing down on you mouse while aiming.
Are you talking about remapping your mouse buttons to keyboard buttons? Seems plausible to me.
P.S. ADS means “Aim Down Sights”
GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly.
DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 year ago
FPS players are beasts on their own next level where it comes to binds. They also rebind movement options like jump to mouse wheel and switch WASD to ESDF so there’s more surrounding keys and better pinkie access.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
use vim layout and move with hjkl
Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m crazy and use REFT to move and middle mouse to reload lol
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I play FPS, I bind movement to SDF, jump to A and forward to the right mouse button. That allows me to control aiming and forward movement with one hand and to squeeze the mouse with the whole hand when shooting to avoid jerking. WASD is a silly scheme in any case, I don’t understand why it is a default.