Porkinator wrote:I would like to know how you practice your hitscan Skittles.
I just run around pipeworks shooting a bots at long distances.
Wait I thought we were suppose to be help Pro not Porky, oh nuuuu now porky wants to pwn me too lol.
Thats ok practice your doing porky with the bots, it gives you time to run and shoot at things, gives u practice time. What I hate about bots in this regard is they are too predictable and will sit there while u head shot them easily. the shock primary works better with this cause you can use it to bounce them and then retarget and hit again, similiar to what you would experience in game against players.
Now while practice vs bots is ok to use for practice time and just gives u time getting use to the lg and shock, I prefer practicing a different way. There are a plether of advice tips people will tell you on hitscan, a majority of people will tell you to lower mouse speed down and mouse smoothing way up. I dont like this simply as a stand alone advice because you still have to get use to that new mouse settings let alone it changes all other aspects of your gameplay such as moving around the map and close range combat. So I only advice doing this when you got ur hitscan down decently and you want to up it even another notch.
Now what I came up with and what seems to work for me is practice vs the wall, yes thats right shoot the way contrary to what other people tell you pork "Way to go pork shoot that wall with those rockets", Im telling you to shoot the wall lol. How this works is pick a spot on the wall (Don't cheat yourself and tell yourself later that, thats the spot I was aiming for if it wasnt). Now this at first seems ez, and it is when your standing still. Now add in strafing back and forth trying to shoot the same spot over and over, pick different spots in different maps and always try to pick a spot close, medium, and long range. Once you have strafing while shooting the same spot over and over down add in wall jumping to that and jump off the wall and doing wall dodges in various forms and try to hit the same spot on the wall over and over. This will be harder because of the angle at which your in the air you will have to adjust your mouse up and down on the screen to get the same spot. Shoot at different points during your flight at the first /middle/ end of the wall dodge. This part and the next part is where it gets the harder part to do. The last bit which I advice because it will give u better up and down angle shooting is pick a map that has a ledge to fall from. Now pick a spot on the wall which is noticeable and shoot at it while falling in the air. Try to shoot at it during different positions during your fall and also try to use shock and hit same spot several times during your fall to improve up /down angling.
You can also add in later on when u got other down is turn around shooting in all the previous aspects I talked about. Thats just simply turning around same time your strafing/wall dodging/falling and trying to hit a spot on the wall behind you.
Don't get discouraged if its hard for you to do it. Dont get too over confident if you hit the same spot with ease either, because this is practice and it will be a bit different in game but this is intended to help you with angling and consitency and gives you practice time with that gun as well.
I myself would actually spend sometimes hours at a time just running through these different drills one day. Then the next day I would run through other drills such as moving around the map and map scanning / tracking. I did this through several different types of drills because its like when your weight lifting, you normally work one type of muscles such as pulling muscles and then the next day working pushing muscles to give the previous type a break. In gaming, working it this way builds it into muscle memory (yes your finger works with muscle memory lol), and you will start doing these things without even thinking about them.
Let me know if something didnt make sense, I have very poor grammar and my use of words to explain myself properly comes hard for me.