How do you do good in FPS games?

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PrincessFrosty

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1) Practice, a LOT, the people who are really good at these sorts of modern warfare games are those people with literally hundreds or thousands of hours of play under their belts.
2) Learn the game, you need to learn every single game mechanic there is, use them all to your advantage, don't play the sniper or the camper, play everything as and when it suits you our your team
3) Battlefield awareness, good players soak up all available information, who is where on the radar, which flags are being capped and which are friendly, where team mates are relative to you and their movements, when they die etc
4) Adapt your play style quickly and employ counter strategies, if you're being camped by a heli in BF3 then go anti-air, don't rely on others to do it for you as in pub servers that's rare. If there's a shortage of a specific class in the team then switch and help out, what is good for the team is good for you, if the entire team is working together and supportive then your job of killing enemies is easier and your game will improve.
5) Know the maps inside out, if you can't navigate the map backwards without bumping in to things then you don't know the map well enough, you should know where common choke points are, where common camp points are, which route is best to take under a specific conditions, where is safe to retreat to etc.

Mostly it's just practice, if you're observant then you'll pick all of that up naturally over time, just pay attention to everything, you have more resources than just movement and shooting, you can always tell noobs on servers when you run around a corner into a team mate and they shoot at you because they thought you were an enemy, they weren't checking their radar! Use it, use your entire HUD, swap kits when helpful, use everything to your advantage, inventory/attachments/grenades, see a fallen kit then pick that up for 2 seconds throw a health pack or ammo or a sensor then swap back to your kit, use ALL the resources you have I cannot stress that enough, if there's a tank at base or a jeep then use it, don't play in roles like "sniper" or "demo" and ignore stuff outside your class, play to win and use whatever you think helps at the time, only about 1% of players will pick up a fallen kit sniper kit and throw a sensor nade (BFBC2) and then switch back, but you should be because that gives you a temp bonus of seeing all enemies near you, that's a huge benefit, no one ever does it!!
 

videogames101

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Know where the other players are without having to see them first and the game becomes trivial. Radar, map awareness/knowledge, etc.
 

Nebor

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I see you were going to capture Bravo, but then you took a SMAW to the knee.
 

shurato

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I'll add also that honestly...some people just don't have the reflexes or dexterity to be good at FPS games.

Your better off just playing to the best of your ability and trying to have fun. Sure practice makes perfect and all but your not going to be a competitive gamer. Think of it like a sport that you enjoy playing...Your never going to be a pro or even anywhere near that level. Just try to have fun. Play objective type games instead of TDM or FFA where a KDR actually matters.

I have been playing FPS' since the Quake days. At one point I was in a top nationwide clan, etc and have played FPS games consistently since... I now mainly play MW3 but my KDR is only a little over 1. I only play objective game types like Domination. I run around like mad and blast people and get blasted like the good old quake days and rely on twitch reflexes for one on one battles...

Basically I play to how I want to play and I'm having fun doing it. As corny as it sounds the main part is to have fun and ignore the little douchebags ingame who want to talk shit for whatever reason.

Oh and never play a FPS on a console...that's for chumps :)
 

GoStumpy

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Getting to know maps is crucial. I played a 24/7 Metro server for basically two weeks straight, probably 50-100 games in a row on the same map... Now whenever that map comes up in a rotation server, I am one of the top players... Other maps I'm a middle-rank skill level...

I figure, find a map you enjoy, and find a 24/7 version of it, and get to know it reeaaallyyy well, that way you at least have 1 map you're good at :)

Then as time goes on expand!
 

destrekor

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To be fair though, he answered the question perfectly in terms of play style.

You have to run a lot, rarely sit still... and sitting still is often because you spotted an enemy and have a great shot. Often you try to keep things close-to-mid range.
Every time I slip into slow mode, I do terrible.

But that's also the infantry-style play specifically. Other methods of doing well will vary with the approach, such as air or vehicle, or snipers.