Huks Tutorial: Part1 AIM

[Huk_!!!!]

Huks Guide to Aim Part 1

I thought id throw a series of threads together to help out some players. So here goes my first one.

In this thread we'll be discussing how to improve your aim, But the first step is to make sure u have:

* Got a good mouse, ie mx510, mx518, habu, g5, or 1.1 etc As well as a decent mouse pad, i havent used any hard pads such as icemat. BUt id recommend, a large clothpad, Steelpad qck, dkt megamat, everglide titan etc.

* Turned off your mouse accell either through driver options or cpl Mouse fix, which does it manually. LINK: http://www.gotfrag.com/portal/files/...e46974bb316494

* Run at a solid fps, anything above 60 or 70 should be fine. having lower fps often changes the way ur mouse reacts to your movements.

* Found a sensitivity where u can turn around 180 degrees with 1 or 2 swings. U don't want to turn around with 1 flick because when u actually do get in a firefight if its too high u wont be able to control recoil. So anything between 0.75 and 2.2, on 800dpi and 6/11 windows sens would be suitable. Then it comes down to personal preference if u go higher or lower.


OK, most importantly. Once uve got things set up to suit you how are you gonna acctually do the aiming part?

Things to know. Or at least think about.

* Aim comes from the wrist and fingertips, moving your xhair around the screen comes from your arm (eg turning around). Difference being your fingers, and wrist are fine muscles u have developed from writing and doing small activities for years, and they are best suited for tiny movements. Your arm muscles have been developed for whacking off, playing tennis and beating the wife. So they can really handle the 180's well.

So i tend to hold my mouse close to the edge of my desk, rather then right up high because that sorta restricts my wrist to move around.


That pretty much covers ground knowledge. Now to basics.

I figured that u wanna learn how far your mouse moves with certain movements, u need to learn 180 and 90 degree turns, as well as smaller movements. Mouse control is important if u wanna smash heads.

Here's a little demo i recorded on dust2 just showing a few ways u can practice controlling your mouse. Also doing some of this stuff in warm up or eco rounds can really tune u up for the next few rounds.

http://rapidshare.com/files/8891164/...ctise.rar.html

The next thing u need to learn is playing bots. Lots and lots of bots.

Put this line in your autoexec so that u can play bots regularly, without using console commands so often.

mp_limitteams 0
mp_autoteambalance 0
bot_join_team t
bot_quota 5
bot_difficulty 0

That will start the server with 5 bots joining terrorist.


Maps YAY

Alrite, time to choose what maps. First start on Blood_assault

use your usp, try get the feel for it, get headshots n ****. Do 5 rounds in a row. Or if u dont get bored continue. Then buy a glock and use that for 5 rounds, take note of its accuracy, and how fast u can fire it before it gets un-accurate.
After a few rounds with those pistols use your deagle, get your only aiming for putting your xhair on their heads. You may think its random and un-accurate but the more precise you have that dot on the head, the more times you will find yourself taking down 3 or 4 in a row. (they are only bots )

Then go onto rifles, for ak, try practice moving your aim right onto their head\neck area and drag straight down in one swift movement. Shooting 2 or 3 bullets, then strafe. This will familiarize you with shooting between strafes.
For m4, basically 2 or 3 bullet burst, its best if u can control how many bullets u shoot .

Remember rifles have several different methods of shooting for certain situations, The tap tap, which is a slower spray groups bullets better. The 2 bullet strafe fire, is great for range or moving targets. The spray is for anything u think it'll work on :P

ALRIGHTY, now your an allrounder! Do this once or twice a day for a while. Maybe 5 rounds each gun. Have a look at this demo i just recorded to see what u should be aiming for. Its a bit rough because i had so many programs open while playing.

http://rapidshare.com/files/8893773/Desktop.rar.html

To play a demo open console and type demoui then select the demo name from the list, make sure you have that map in your maps folder or else it wont work.

Well, ull want to practice your aim on other maps for different situations right? Well ive made a few custom maps, but they are pretty much kept secret for now.

Ones i can hand out though are. These. Ill also include a small demo to each of the maps so u can see how to practice on them.


Bloodassault_mini
All_around_aim
InfernoB_beta

http://rapidshare.com/files/8966152/...demos.rar.html

To actually benefit from these maps, ull need to know what to do, u cant just sit behind a box with an awp waiting for them to come around and think ull get good right?

BA mini: Great map, u can practice all guns, and using nades. Either strafe out, and try take as many as u can, or keep peeking in and out shooting 1 each time. Even wait at an angle for the first one to walk into your aimer then strafe out spraying, try to take down 2 or 3 after that.

All around Aim: This is a bit of a dud map, but u can sit in your enclosure as CT, and wait for the T's to get near u and flick your aim onto them when they get into 1 or 3 entrances.

INferno B BETA: Its great for anything, try playing behind a box waiting for them then taking them down from left and right.


Practice Routine

Now basically all thats left is developing a practise routine. Usualy ill get bored some nights and play these maps with mp3's going for a few hours, or maybe just 5 minutes when i come online to warm up.

What ull need to do is develop a time limit, which makes the difference between practicing something, and just warming up on a map.

Lets say for starters, u might want to play bots every day u come online. Find some good music and just shoot away, u might find it frustrating in some cases just dying or missing a few shots consecutivley but in the end it all works out fine.

Things you can do on top of playing bots, is play lots of GA DM #3 War maps
which will basically sharpen you up and increase your skill level on a whole with certain weapons. Ull basicaly want to be killing everything u see, and pretending that situation was in a war and where ud look next etc.

now thats it for this series i hope some of you learn something from it because i spent ages putting this together.

GL HF

[zim]

decent guide hukkyojon, what we used todo in XR was 1st to 1000 in aim_map, no joke LOL.

Personally i still rkn just prac 1.6 in DM and ull come back to source better.

[OZi]

didn't read all but seems like some decent advice. Keep up the good work

edit: read all of it now, +rep to huk! respect to anyone that sacrifices their free time to give back to the community

[Huk_!!!!]

I was going to mention it, but then if i wanted to write a decent guide, id need to explain how to set up 1.6 so u dont get gay'ed by the settings of it. like accel, 60hz, vsync and that ****.

plus it takes some explaining getting 1.6 dm to work with bots, and online is just wierd. GA 1.6 servers dont cut it.

[nuk3]

Originally Posted by Huk_!!!!

and online is just wierd. GA 1.6 servers dont cut it.

Yeah, that and being chased around by speed hackers constantly. 1.6 pub ftl.

[dblstR]

aim at head height, click.

[Havoc]

for those of you who dont want to read it all

get a good mouse

get a good pad

practice half bots half pub, not fully pub.

practice

practice

i never actually play pub, i will only bot / DM / scrim. i cant stand waiting around for nubes to finish, just to spawn and get rushed by some guy with a p90 at long.

[dblstR]

good mouse, good pad, balance between high and low, cpl mousefix, 1.6 dm, bot prac.

[hypah]

nice writeup, thats basically what i do for aim every day

[MacLeod]

anyone want to actually explain "cpl mousefix"

a quick waht it does and should i be using it would be awsome. ty

[nuk3]

Originally Posted by MacLeod

anyone want to actually explain "cpl mousefix"

a quick waht it does and should i be using it would be awsome. ty

3 seconds after googling:

The CPL Mouse Fix allows Windows XP users to counter-act the effects of locked mouse acceleration in Windows XP. This registry file is designed to fix only the problem associated with Windows XP. Use on operating systems other than Windows XP is at the sole risk of the user.

And yes, you should be using it.

[jpeGz]

why not just turn mouse accel off, i don't see a difference

[nuk3]

Originally Posted by jpeGz

why not just turn mouse accel off, i don't see a difference

Read the quote I posted, the keyword there being locked.

[retaliation]

Okay I just installed the mouse fix.

But when I installed it last time it didn't change my shut-down and login screens. Instead of coming up with the ones designed for Windows XP (the button and image based ones) it comes up with the old school Windows 2000 style screens.

Anyone know how to change that back?

[Hybrid]

moved to articles, great stuff mate

[Snook]

wtf ret is that meant to be some joke or what? It doesn't alter anything in windows just the mouse movement :S

[retaliation]

Originally Posted by Snook

wtf ret is that meant to be some joke or what? It doesn't alter anything in windows just the mouse movement :S

Nope. 100% serious. I took a look at the code before I installed it, all it had was desktop/mouse related registry in there. So maybe something in that triggered something in desktop/theme to change.

[Adam_]

Originally Posted by Havoc

get a good pad

practice half bots half pub, not fully pub.

I somehow blurred those two into one sentence and imagined it said "Get a good haircut", SERIOUS!

I can aim, but my ability to control recoil is random. Therefore I'm sticking to pubbing with the MP5 and sequential headshots.

[Havoc]

so many times ive heard that adam

alot of ppl including myself say "yeh my aim is fine" but often its actually not.

dont hide behind the fact you get some headshots in pub, and actually practice bots/DM with USP/colt/AK, and you will notice a heck of alot more consistentness (k is that a word) when playing, and the ability to pick up 2 or 3 frags where before you would have been stuck to get 1 (e.g. your watching the line with a usp behind DD in dust2, they hard rush mid, with usp prac against bots your aim will remain at headheight, and you will get the first 2 or 3 entrys unless you choke badly, before you probably would have killed the first guy and then your aim would of been all over the place and the 2nd guy would of killed you.), and alot more stability when moving your mouse around.

getting used to one sensitivity and one sens only is really important, dont start changing ur sens around coz ur not getting some headshots, stick with one and stick with it!!!

Originally Posted by Adam_

I can aim, but my ability to control recoil is random.

you'll find (and for anyone else having this problem), that this is actually source. Source spray patterns are fairly random, and you'll controll it one time, then reload and spray again and it will go hay-wire, this is why its important to practice DM/pub, to get used to ALL the different recoils (colt = about 3 or 4 different patterns), and then it just becomes a mental thing, you'll be spraying and you will start to feel it go right and you're brain will click "Oh i know this pattern!", and you will control is easier

[shotty tomato]

Originally Posted by hypah

nice writeup, thats basically what i do for aim every day