Possible to be good without playing 1000 hours?

[clok1966]

Have to agree with much of what is said.. Some people do have natural ability, some people have more time then others (and practice does help). TEAM games suprisingly have almost no teamwork.. but I have found get 3-4 guys together on a team and voice.. you will OWN, and i mean in a "your hacking" way.. people will call you all names. Back in the OLD days of Quake/Unreal and its sequels me and a friend had Highspeed connects (when 75% of players did not) and sat in the same room and talked.. pretty much every match we where 1-2.. solo.. we where good, but not great.. paired with voice we where unstoppable.. now days.. I tend to be middle of the pack.. but age has dimmed my reflexes for sure and the "me only" attitude of most players has diminished my love for competing online. I have found WoT a good outlet, far more about skill then reflexes and timing and its a shooter of a sort. Still massive frustration with public game and foolish players but .. if you want you can keep stats (with add ons) that show even if you lose major, your skill compared to rest of players.. can make you feel a bit better when you see you are in the top10% of all players world wide even if your win/lose is not spectacular..

question: so if blops is not the "game" what is the hot FPS multiplayer game right now (legit question) i havent played much but L4D2 in ages online. Think my last heavy played was BF2 (ages ago) and some Blops (very little a year ago).

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

There are ways to train your mouse aiming and reflexes. Special maps, programs, etc. Some people get real hardcore about it. For example:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/151zkz/mouse_training_is_there_anything_im_missing/

Playing a lot helps with muscle memory. A lot of pros will train on DM servers so they can work on skills. They're not there to get a high kdr. They might hop on for a few hours to work on flick shots or controlled sprays. Stuff like that. Dying a lot doesn't matter. It's about improving a certain skill.

Game sense is important as well. Knowing certain angles for shots. Predicting where your enemies are going to be based on death locations. This kid has the game sense to throw his pistol in the air as a fake flash bang. Causes probably the top cs:go awper to hide behind the box for a second to avoid the flash. Gives the kid an opportunity to pick him off.

If it's a team game, good teamwork is going to trump individual skill. Most of the euro teams dominated the cs scene because they're team play was the most important to them, while american teams would try to rely on pure skill. In cs:go you would have a strat caller (in game leader), who would call a strat. everyone buys a specific loadout (grens, guns, nades, etc). Everyone smokes, flashes, rushes, fakes specific areas at specific times. Everything his very specific. On d a guy would be trying to counter moly/flash to give his team enough time to rotate around to retake a bomb site. Takes a lot of practice and you also have to study your opponents to come up with counter strats.

I don't really play hardcore games any more. Mostly casual stuff like simpsons tapped out and candy crush. But if my focus was to be competitive in an online shooter I'd 1) put in a lot of hours to get muscle memory up. 2) get your tech stuff covered. As in config files. script. Tweak mouse settings. 3) training 4) watch videos and read

Alternative, and my current choice would just to have fun and not worry about my kdr. When I played cs there would be plenty of people with horrible kdr but you could tell they were having fun in spite of their score.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I'm slacking my overall accuracy in BF3 has dropped to 23.9%. I blame unlocking all the garbage weapons for that. Either way, that's by far the best accuracy out of anyone in my friends list which is full of some of the best cod2/cod4 players from the glory days of competition. Next best is 20.3% where they are better than me is movement and patience. I have no patience so my movement in game is lacking. I play the game simply by walking around in the open and trying to outshoot everyone which I mostly do. Everyone once in a while I run across that one guy who is patient and baits his teamates to always get me right as I'm reloading.

So, it's not always aim that makes a great player. There are not many players I know of that are more accurate and have better reflexes than I do, but there are lots that have the patience to move well and are better than me because of that.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

This --^

Plus OP in an FPS if you're team sucks (50% are sniper/recon etc) then you will die a lot no matter how good you are, so it may not even be your fault if you go 0-10 one round

Find a more mature group to play with. Just accept that you're an average player, and enjoy the game.

Whatever you do there will always be someone better than you.

^^^
All of these are very valid points. I'm an old gamer and I've long given up worrying about being at the top of any leader board. I try to have fun and that's it.
TF2 is a crazy fun game for this. And if you play a medic your k:d is usually horrible, but if you heal your ass off, you can usually do pretty well on the board.

 

[draknon]

I'd stay away from the more recent COD games. I picked up MW3 last year and hated it becasue the map design made it feel like everywhere you were at was a 5 way intersection. Play some COD4: Modern Warfare. I bet you'll find it to your liking. The map design is very good.

When you find servers that you like, add them to your favorites and keep playing on the same servers. You will start to make friends with the other regulars and will have a much better time.

 

[dpodblood]

This is a pretty good point actually. I played a little bit of MW3 and found this issue as well. I find the issue exists in BLOPS as well, but it's not as much of an issue IMO. A lot of the time when I get killed it's because someone shot be from some hiding spot I didn't even think of.

 

[Nebor]

Having been what I would describe as an above average MW2 and MW3 player, I was shocked out how difficult I found BLOPS2. I can barely figure out where I am before I'm shot with one of the many nearly identical automatic weapons everyone has.

 

[indy2878]

I started playing fps games as "medic" with Battlefield 2142. And over the years I've gotten better by putting in LOTS of time and knowing the maps for MP game types.
I still like keyboard and mouse > contorllers any day of the week of course...
Here are some tips:


1.) Burst fire when long range, mid range to short range hold down the trigger and maybe drop shot if the enemy is next to you.

2.) don't run fast around corners. INstead go around slowly by "peeking" and having your sights up ready to fire at any moment.

3.) Stafe shoot.... Instead of using the mouse or right analog stick to aim while firing the weapon try to use the left, right forward and backward keys while trying to put a drop on your opponents... Just use the mouse (or right analog stick on consoles...) to line up your shots

4.) Use a god headset. Actually, I use a 40mm JVC headphones and this is nowhere near "top quality" and it still does the job for me... I can hear every nook and detail of enemy foot steps and direction of gun shots....

5.) Have fun most importantly and practice! I stress having fun because there's also the single player campaign mode which is just as fun and you can increase the replay value of the game as well....

Anyway, good luck!